[Bf-committers] Burster web player plugin

[Todor Imreorov]

It is interesting, there have been other attempts at this.
Html5/webgl is going to kill all these plugins since it runs out of the
box. Most users are lazy or unwilling to install browser plugins.

Blender can already publish games to html5 that run without the need of any
browser plugins.

blend4web is doing quite well:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?333214-Blend4Web-a-3D-web-framework-for-Blender-artists&highlight=logic+bricks

also BDX:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?345001-BDX-Potential-blender-engine-with-mobile-and-HTML5-export&highlight=logic+bricks

They are implemented as blender addons, but have the advantage of being
extremely portable. BDX especially is built upon a very nice and well
supported open source game engine - that can run in the browser, mobile
devices and most operating systems.

If you look at their threads, the biggest missing feature they both have is
logic bricks. People who are used to BGE mostly reqest the addition of
logic bricks support to those engines.
Logic bricks however seems very tightly connected with BGE.

There was a suggestion to add to blender a visual programming framework
that is better than logic bricks, and mostly of all is easy to get access
to by external game engine add ons (like BDX and blend4web)
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?333214-Blend4Web-a-3D-web-framework-for-Blender-artists&p=2829393&viewfull=1#post2829393

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?323905-Logic-bricks-vs-C2-event-sheet-vs-Nodes-vis-programming-framework-for-BDX-B4web-etc&p=2834673&viewfull=1#post2834673

It is interesting to see where this goes :)

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This company explored 3d-on-the-web business, using the Blender game
> engine player embedded in browser.
> http://geta3d.com/
>
> They're wrapping up their business. But they share their code with
> everyone:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/theburster3d/
>
> Please feel invited to check it out or try it. Even though web plugins are
> of declining relevance (html5 and webgl take over), it's still a very
> powerful concept to have a blend file play directly in browsers.
>
> The asked me to consider if Blender Foundation would pick it up as an
> official project on blender.org.
> My reply was that for such decisions I need feedback from current
> contributors and evidence of activity people would invest in it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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