Re: simple 3d modeler

[Gregor Mückl <GregorMueckl@xxxxxx>]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 11:33, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> Incidentally, is there any interest in a C library which
> extracts all sorts of data (including, of course, meshes) from
> .blend files?  I wrote such a thing a year or two ago for the
> various (upcoming :)) www.steambird.com games and always intended
> to release it, though Blender's Python API got good enough in the
> meantime to make it somewhat redundant unless you want to grab
> a data structure that the Python API doesn't expose (or you
> don't like Python :) ).
>

I've maintained one as part of blend2cs a while ago. That program is still 
maintained by the Crystal Space devs. The project page is at 
http://projects.blender.org/projects/blend2cs. I strongly suggest that you 
base a lib for parsing blend files either on that dna parser from blend2cs, 
which is tested very well or on the original blender sources. Everything else 
is purely insane and almost impossible to get right because .blend files are 
data dumps right out of blenders memory along with a description of the data 
structures that particular version of blender uses.

> --Adam

Regards,
Gregor