[Bf-funboard] Blend viewer.

[Knapp]

Campbell, I looked at the CLI for blender and did not see any commands to
set up the full screen etc that would need to be set at startup in the
viewer mode. Is there a resource for these commands or are they not there?

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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