[Bf-funboard] Strong Node-Based architecture

[Matt Ebb]

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On 14 Jul 2004, at 12:12 AM, Konrad Haenel wrote:

>  A GUI that enables link creation by dragging lines from object to 
> object is obviously the ideal way to handel these node-based systems. 
> Thoug I'm not really certain about it I think that the Blender-Core 
> would allow for a fair amount of this functionality. It is 
> object-oriented after all, isn't it? I just wish the GUI'd allow to 
> harvest more of it.

 From what I understand, although the internals of Blender work on an 
object-oriented system, it's not set up at all for a node-based 
workflow. The OOPS in Blender is more about linking the datablocks 
(texture to a material to an object), not about a flow of information 
between them. As a  big fan of Shake, I know how incredibly powerful 
and useful a node-based workflow can be, but as far as I know, it's not 
a feasible topic for the Blender 2.X architecture.

Matt

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On 14 Jul 2004, at 12:12 AM, Konrad Haenel wrote:


<excerpt> A GUI that enables link creation by dragging lines from
object to object is obviously the ideal way to handel these node-based
systems. Thoug I'm not really certain about it I think that the
Blender-Core would allow for a fair amount of this functionality. It
is object-oriented after all, isn't it? I just wish the GUI'd allow to
harvest more of it.

</excerpt>

>From what I understand, although the internals of Blender work on an
object-oriented system, it's not set up at all for a node-based
workflow. The OOPS in Blender is more about linking the datablocks
(texture to a material to an object), not about a flow of information
between them. As a  big fan of Shake, I know how incredibly powerful
and useful a node-based workflow can be, but as far as I know, it's
not a feasible topic for the Blender 2.X architecture.


Matt


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