Re: Blender & Cygwin

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@gimp.org>]

Jan Ekholm wrote:
> For a coder it's way out
> of the question to spend so much time with Blender as it would require
> before you can even churn out a textured cube...
Well, that's obviously not quite true because there are plenty
of coders who can model with Blender. :)

> The ideal is of course to know someone that knows Blender well and can
> create those nice models. Then the royal pain of actually getting those
> models into the application in a sane way is left to the coder. :)
Yeah, that's a thorny one.  I wrote a library for my 'day job'
that exposes a relatively sane C API for loading models (etc) from
.blend files.  I'd quite like to release it under a MIT/X11
kinda license -- dunno if anyone's interested (I'm not sure right
now whether the lib really belongs to me or to my business).  It's
still a bit rough (IIRC there are endian issues, and it just calls
abort() on any sanity errors), but it'll get released some time
before too long, I'm sure.

--Adam
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