[Opensim-users] Blender as an Opensim client for scene editing

[Mike Dickson]

Very cool.  Extra cool when the realextend support is fully integrated
into OpenSim.  The SL client is sort of your "renderer" for the scene in
context.  And a nice use of the OGP protocol stuff.  Very paper worthy
IMO.

Mike

On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 20:44 +0000, Toni Alatalo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a very early minimal experiment so nothing usable yet, but 
> perhaps an interesting idea for users and I'm interested in getting 
> feedback on the idea. Blender as a client using LibOMV, a two way live 
> connection between Blender and Opensim .. you can move a prim in a 
> viewer and it moves in Blender(*), or move an object in Blender and it 
> moves immediately on the sim so the same movement is visible for other 
> viewers too.
> 
> A screenshot and more info, and the blend with the setup and source, at 
> http://playsign.fi/engine/BlenderOMV . Was planning to take a video, but 
> fraps captures only a single window and didn't have time anymore to test 
> other tools, so just a still now which is a bit boring.
> 
> Had thought for a long time whether this would work, so was happy to be 
> able to test it a bit today :) .. dunno if anything actually useful 
> could be made like this, perhaps, at least for basic scene editing 
> (placing objects with nicer tools). We'll be probably thinking about 
> this and other ways to integrate with Blender, perhaps on the viewer 
> side, when work on Realxtend continues in August (in July the team is on 
> holiday).
> 
> ~Toni
> 
> (*) On Blender side the change shows only after you activate the window 
> triggering a redraw, a well known limitation of old Blender for network 
> synching. This will be fixed with the upcoming 2.5 version with the 
> rewritten internal event system, later this year. From Blender to 
> Opensim the sync is immediate, shows at the same time in Hippo as you 
> move the mouse in Blender.
> 
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