[Bf-funboard] Blend viewer.

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Sat Jun 20 08:35:36 CEST 2015


Yes, I see no problem at all with just using blender as the viewer in
Dolphin. I will see if I can get that working. I really have no idea how
but I bet I can.
Thanks!

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:46 PM, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/19/15 05:18, Knapp wrote:
> >> > Is there a Blend viewer that can be linked to Dolphin (KDE Linux) or
> >> other
> >> > file browsers so we can view blends? If not, would it be hard to
> write?
> >> >
> >> There is a plugin to preview .blends in dolphin already:
> >> kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=146380
> >>
> >> --
> >> -gandalf3
> >>
> >
> > Yes, I know and use that, but the thumbnail is way to small but that has
> > been talked about before.
> > What I meant here is a 3d viewer.
>
> In the 90's there was in fact a blend file viewer (Ton mentioned
> recently, not sure it was released?).
>
> The viewer would end up having to be a stripped down version of
> Blender (to load libraries, node trees, GLSL shaders, modifiers
> etc...) It would basically end up being Blender without the
> game-engine, addons or an interface.
>
> Its not especially hard to do this, (though it would take some time to
> setup), the problem is more that its a hassle to maintain longer term,
> and a reasonable amount of work just for the slight convenience of
> viewing Blend files in a different kind of window.
>
> Blender loads fairly fast, just make a wrapper script that loads a
> blend file without any UI & only-render view-port option enabled.
> Functionally this is nearly the same as a Blend-file viewer.
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