[Bf-python] The game engine

[Willian Padovani Germano]

Hi,

We discussed a little about the game engine (Sunday's irc meeting).  It was
decided that bugfixes and additions will be accepted, but by now on
tuhoppu2, from what was said.

Since no work will be done in the bf-blender game engine (until its old
collision lib SOLID gets open-sourced), it'll be trivial to patch the
official release for the grand game engine enabled one, when it comes out.

About the way to integrate bpython and the game engine, Hos (I guess)
pointed at an old www.blender.org python forum post, where original NaN
programmers comment about python and the game engine.

It seems the main reason for not letting both work in the same Interpreter
instance was because of persistence of variables (the pre 2.28 bpython
didn't clean the global dictionary, vars were just kept there).  They didn't
want name clashes between normal scripts and game scripts, with variables
defined with the same names.

Now we have a better method being implemented, every script will get a clean
dict to work with, so we much probably can put bpython and game engine
modules in the same modules table and have both accessible together.  If
this works, game scripts get access to all bpython modules, of course.  I'm
almost finished with the Registry mod, after that we can know for sure.

It was also mentioned that the game engine people should interact/approach
the python group for python-related matters, but also get its own team
formed.

Personally, I think the most important thing right now is that interested
people study the code and write about their findings, to build / share
knowledge about it.

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Willian, wgermano at ig.com.br