[Bf-committers] Script Xtras (proposal)

[Vilem Novak]

I think this is a great idea, 
just some ideas:
-somehow there should be resolved grouping of such scripts, so that more at once get loaded, could be solved with categorisation.
-these groups would possibly have similar subdirectories like the main blender scripts - ops, io, ui,...(think big! :))
-possibly, when switching such group on, it could 'override' default ui, if ui scripts with same names are found.
  - Why? because if you think about special uses, you can soon think about customizing the ui which is common. 
Then you can specially tweak blender for any task imaginable, distribute such modifications with the main software(huge advantage against the 'find it on the forum' model), satisfy much more users,...
I have personally thought about a special tweak of the ui for 2d animation, which would enable faster setup for 2.5d or pure 2d animations, and add some macro tools. WIth such organisation of the ui, this would be potentially distributable with blender.(did you notice how many 2d movies are done with blender?)
cheers,
Vilem


> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
> Od: Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com>
> Předmět: Re: [Bf-committers] Script Xtras (proposal)
> Datum: 13.2.2010 20:09:04
> ----------------------------------------
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > One of the reasons I thaught of this is Colin was asking if the durian
> > scripts we have would make it into blender.
> > We added some scripts in a shared script dir, its interesting that
> > mostly only 1-2 of the of the team members needs them, so for example
> > Colin uses some utilities for camera naming, camera switch renders,
> > camera rigs Cessen wrote. Soenka/JS/Ben have a script for scattering
> > stones, Soenka for setting lamp-buffer resolutions.
> > So even in a small team it would be nice for them to be able to
> > enable/disable certain tools.
> 
> Well they aren't really 'specialized' scripts - in that pretty much
> every small film team will need similar scripts - they aren't
> specialized if they will pretty much always be needed in every
> reasonably efficient pipeline.
> 
> That said I think your proposal is a good idea.
> 
> LetterRip
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