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Multiple people working on a single image sounds ridiculous indeed, but 
with 3D, it's a different story. Especially if you use Blender to create 
game environments, multiple working working on the map is really a use 
case. Since Blender isn't designed to stream 3d content, a sharing 
feature should be kept simple. So how about a button to update linked 
library objects? That way, one could sort of work on the same scene.

Am 26.04.2013 10:27, schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> Hi,
>
> Oh - yeah I was interpreting it as similar to how we setup pipelines in a studio. Where you keep the .blends individually owned, and link in data.
>
> Work on the same .blend scene together is a specification that would right go deep into the core of Blender's design. I wouldn't recommend to try this, nor do I think it would become a succesful project with the current state of Blender.
>
> The issue of efficient data sharing for projects is really something you can handle on a meta level, and not try to do it on vertex/objects level or on tools.
>
> Take GIMP for example. It sounds fun to have 2 people do operations on 1 image, but if this is useful? In practice, ownership of such data is really not a limitation.
>
> That goes for character rigs, models, environments, props, etc. Easy to design a data structure based on .blends being managed by individuals.
>
> -Ton-
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
> On 26 Apr, 2013, at 1:22, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Moisés Bonilla <neodivert at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> First of all, thanks for the quick response.
>>>
>>> Ton Roosendaal: That idea about the "normalized" file IO sounds good. Do
>>> you think that maybe I could start thinking about the case when two people
>>> starts with a empty scene and each one sends to the other simple commands
>>> (Create cube at ..., Rotate object ..., etc)?
>>
>> I think Ton misunderstood what you were proposing? Handling network
>> paths is quite different from realtime sharing.
>>
>>> And no, although summer of code sounds interesting, I would prefer to "take
>>> it easy" for now :). Anyway, I should start by proposing the project in the
>>> wiki, isn't it?
>>
>> Yes, you can add make a wiki page about the project.
>>
>> But note that there's a reason Verse was never finished and
>> integrated. If it's a research project where you create a proof of
>> concept then it can work, but to make this ready for production use is
>> problematic. That's because there are many different data structures
>> and editing operations in Blender, and they weren't designed with this
>> kind of thing in mind. It's quite possible to make it work for a small
>> subset of those, but supporting this across Blender in a way that's
>> reliable and maintainable probably requires a major redesign of
>> Blender internals.
>>
>> Brecht.
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