In another discussion about using .blend files for this type of thing, the big size of .blend files came up, which can be easily 400 kb even with a single cube in it. This is because it also saves the user interface and some other things which aren't needed here. For a library.blend with many datablocks in it the overhead doesn't matter as much, but if there are many files or some online material library it could be useful.
I did a little experiment to see how small you could get a .blend file with a single datablock in it. By stripping all datablocks except some specified types, stripping unused DNA data, and using gzip compression, we can store a simple node material in 4.4 kb. Note 4 kb is the minimum file size on many file systems. Script strip_blend.py: http://www.pasteall.org/43203/python Example terminal output: http://www.pasteall.org/43212 http://www.pasteall.org/43211 Brecht. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
