On 13/9/14 20:11, Enrico Schwass wrote:
Hi
another option could be the verse protocol. There was a plugin for
Maya and Blender to do realtime rendering. Dont know if there is some
automatic Swig-like wrapper for smalltalk but FFI might work.
There is Wig like wrapper for Pharo done by ronie salgado.
Stef
http://youtu.be/c_D2YJSNj8I
Almost a decade ago I did some ruby bindings by hand. It was working
out of the box
Bye
Enno
Am 13.09.2014 um 16:11 schrieb kilon alios <[email protected]
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" I am curious. You mean rendering Bitmap from blender, for later use
in Pharo UI? "
yes exactly. Blender can render in all popular graphics files, most
used are png. Animation frames can be rendered each frame in its own
file.
So basically its a lot like the average games out there.
"I will suggest bare bone Morphic mainly, then Athens when you need
vectorial drawing."
ok
"For iStoa I decided to go purely Morphic, I have a lot of bitmap.
Bitmap source is SVG, then converted to PNG, overscaled for
production use. Then from iStoa, depending on the application window
extent, the bitmap are downscaled accordingly, I am pretty satisfied
by the result."
I fail to understand how your bitmap source is SVG for me bitmap is a
raster graphic format svg is procedural graphic format. Two opposite
things.
"Sure. The downpoint, you will depend on one additional layer."
dependency is not an issue. Afterall the graphic files themselves
will be far bigger download even more so if the GUI becomes very large.
"Nice. What will be the expected outcomes of such API, I am not sure
to understand and I am curious."
Well Blender besides creating 3d objects (which can be used as 2d
objects too) it can also create 3d unrendable objects. That means
that objects produce no graphics and have the role of placeholders or
helpers, for example when you want an emitter of light or emitter of
a physical power like gravity or wind. Those are called dummy objects
and I could use them to give characteristics to the graphics , for
example I could use a dummy to define the are of influence of a mouse
click , or what type of event the bitmap will respond to. That means
you wont have to import the graphics manually to pharo and create a
separate morph for each bitmap and then set the events but rather
press a button in blender and then Ephestos will import then bitmaps
to pharo , set the events and create the morphs automagically.
So basically you will be using Blender as a GUI designer.
"Use fuel to store the state of your application objects."
ah nice so fuel is a good candidate.
I will also take a look at Dr Geo and Phratch , both apps have custom
GUIs and use only Morphic (Dr Geo using Athens for the geometry
primitives) .
