Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-04 Thread Rafael Ortis
Hi Mike, That's very good news I'm sending a patch for your branch that makes SpaceNav works in Linux using the opensource api. I had to modify the cmake files to include the libspnav but I don't know if i made it right. I also noticed that only rotations is available now and but the original

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-02 Thread Rafael Ortis
I have read about it in some forum but I didn't find it on Blender GSoC pages. Where can i find Matts work? 2011/1/1 Tom M letter...@gmail.com: Didn't matts student work on 3dconnexxion as part of GSoC? Not sure what stage that part of his project achieved but it might be worth looking at.

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-02 Thread M.G. Kishalmi
GSoC log of Mike Erwin (Matts student) - http://www.invisible-cow.com/blender/soc/index.html soc-2010-merwin branch - https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/soc-2010-merwin/ cheers, mario On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Rafael Ortis rsor...@gmail.com wrote: I have read about

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-02 Thread Rafael Ortis
Thanks! From the svn logs he made very good progress. He commented there that his ndof implementation is working in Windows and Mac but in my Linux it did not worked :( And based on the part of the code I saw, I think that his work is going to be much more clean than my patch :D When his work is

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-02 Thread Mike Erwin
Hi all, here's an update for the SpaceNav work I did over the summer. Hopefully this will help with future development. From the svn logs he made very good progress. He commented there that his ndof implementation is working in Windows and Mac but in my Linux it did not worked :( Yeah, sorry

[Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Rafael Ortis
I am working on a patch to restore 3d Connexion ndof feature in blender 2.5. My patch is based on the 2.49b version and right now i have been able to restore only the original mode. The other limitation is that blender will only seek for the 3DxNdofBlender.plug in the current installation folder

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, Good news! 1) That's Ok for now, but mark it with /* XXX hack */ to point at that this is potentially wip stuff. Making a struct would be nice too, probably each float has a real meaning, that makes the code readable. 2) If aligning fails, always add variables with a name like pad. In

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, OH; forgot for point 1) Just make it point to an allocated struct, that way things don't get saved in files. -Ton- Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.orgwww.blender.org Blender Institute

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Rafael Ortis
Thanks Ton, Do you mean an dynamically allocated struct? I will try to make the modifications. :D Rafael Ortis 2011/1/1 Ton Roosendaal t...@blender.org: Hi, OH; forgot for point 1) Just make it point to an allocated struct, that way things don't get saved in files. -Ton-

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, Yep, a nice struct, and a pointer in wmWindow. Make sure the pointer is correctly freed, NULLed on copy and NULLed in readfile.c -Ton- Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.orgwww.blender.org Blender

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Swaney
Also worth noting is the open source SpaceNav project. They have a drop-in replacement for the 3dconnexion driver that also supports a non-proprietary protocol. Looks interesting. http://spacenav.sourceforge.net/ -- Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Rafael Ortis
Yes this is interesting! I have installed this drivers but in my initial tests the rotations/translations was a little bit uncontrollable. But I will test with this driver them again. att Rafael Ortis 2011/1/1 Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net: Also worth noting is the open source SpaceNav

Re: [Bf-committers] 3D Connexion ndof support in blender 2.5

2011-01-01 Thread Tom M
Didn't matts student work on 3dconnexxion as part of GSoC? Not sure what stage that part of his project achieved but it might be worth looking at. LetterRip On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Rafael Ortis rsor...@gmail.com wrote: Yes this is interesting! I have installed this drivers but in my