[Bf-gamedev] Using blender timeline features

[Owen Alanzo Hogarth]

Can you point me to where's the implementation of blenderplayer?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Owen Alanzo Hogarth <gurenchan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sybren
>
> I had no idea about BGE but after your last email I did some research and
> it looks pretty amazing. The platform support seems a bit lacking though
> but that gave me an idea.
>
> There's SDL which supports a wide range of platforms, mobile and desktop
> alike. Could I say create a scene, export that blend file and use SDL to
> control it? I would prefer to avoid rebuilding the wheel and if loading
> those .blend files and controlling them through SDL proves something that's
> performant enough then I would prefer to take that route.
>
> P.S.
> I don't use unity I would like to stick it out with open source software
> and tools. I don't mind putting in the development time to get this working.
>
> Where is the blender player? I'll take a look around and see if I can get
> it to work.
>
> Best,
> Owen
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Owen,
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 06:35:57PM +0800, Owen Alanzo Hogarth wrote:
>> > Blender has the timeline feature where you can animate an object and
>> > play it back using the timeline. In the game engine I wouldn't need
>> > to be able to edit the bones and their attributes but I would like
>> > to be able to get their position rotations, angle, scale etc.
>> >
>> > Let's say that I author a 2 second animation in blender where I
>> > translate, rotate and scale a cube. Blender stores all this data
>> > somewhere so that when I press the play button it can recreate the
>> > animation in blender engine.
>> >
>> > What if I could export that data as say json for example, then load
>> > that data into a game engine and play the animation in engine.
>>
>> That's a long way around. You can create Actions in Blender. Drag the
>> Blend file into Unity, or start the Blender Game Engine, and those
>> actions are directly available. There is no need to save to JSON,
>> depending on which game engine you want to use. For some engines that
>> don't directly load Blend files, there are exporter addons specific to
>> that engine, or to file formats that are widely supported.
>>
>> Of course, if you want to export to JSON just for the experience of
>> accessing data from Blender and writing it to a file, that's a whole
>> different story. In that case, check out the
>> bpy.types.Object.animation_data property [1], and what you can find
>> from there.
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_74_release/bpy.types.Object.html#bpy.types.Object.animation_data
>>
>> --
>> Sybren A. Stüvel
>>
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>>
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