[Bf-committers] Settings and preferences out of blend format

[Ruslan Merkulov]

Yes, this would be a major step forward in terms of usability. It
doesn't seem to make too much sense for the settings to include a
scene(s) along with it. We can already save and load interaction
settings independently, which is pretty cool. Hope you guys will move
in this direction, when time permits of course.

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No problem per se, but we already have a format that's compact, backward and frontward compatible, and that already has a fast parser and generator.
>
> It's just the easiest solution at first, other formats can come later.
>
> Martin
>
> --- On Wed, 5/19/10, malefico <malefico at licuadorastudio.com> wrote:
>
>> From: malefico <malefico at licuadorastudio.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Settings and preferences out of blend format
>> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Received: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 9:42 PM
>> I use to work with Cinelerra which
>> uses XML file to dump all data. As
>> David pointed out, it is very handy to debug-clean
>> corrupted data. Is
>> there a problem with text files ?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> malefico.
>>
>>
>> David Silverman wrote:
>> > Working in a production environment, it was always
>> nice to be able to drop a
>> > text file into a prefs folder for custom hotkeys,
>> settings etc. when moving
>> > to a different work station, especially when a
>> computer went down or was
>> > working on a simulation.
>> >
>> > A step up would be to allow more than one preference
>> file and let the user
>> > choose which to load, i think this is in the works
>> already?
>> >
>> > Going a little further, it would be nice to be able to
>> export any data
>> > structure to text. Corrupt files were a major problem
>> with large scenes, but
>> > because often forgot to save enough versions of our
>> progress, we saved out
>> > to an ascii format, we could scroll through the data
>> and delete weird stuff
>> > and get it working or copy important pieces into a new
>> file, especially if
>> > there was something broken about the file that never
>> let you open it in the
>> > program like. Files were a little bigger, but big hard
>> drives are cheaper
>> > than lost time in general. Procedural objects just
>> saved their settings, and
>> > non procedural items like meshes looked something like
>> this:
>> >
>> > mesh object and name
>> > mesh data
>> > vertex 1 x y z
>> > vertex 2 x y z
>> >
>> >
>> >>
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