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Re: Blender LDraw support
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Date: 
Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:14:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Yann Vernier wrote:
I hope this isn't off topic for this list. I've begun writing some scripts
for Blender to import (and eventually export) LDraw DAT files.

Script location (currently 5KB):
  http://donkey.dyndns.org/~yann/datimport.py

Python.  Cool! :D

Unsupported features:
   MPD Easy enough to implement, but I haven't done it.
   Colours Somewhat trickier. Currently no material assignments are done.
   Model types Eventually should identify pieces vs primitives, and not
merge submodels. Pieces should be merged for models, but not
if loaded individually for piece editing.
   Pre-converted libraries (relatively easy to do using scenes)
   Exporting I'll have to write this, too. Don't expect automated
detection of primitives, but references will work.

Any comments?

I'm not a Blender user.  Yet.

I would like MPD support if/when I start using Blender and your script.



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  Re: Blender LDraw support
 
(...) Well, I'm a bit further along now. No MPD support yet, but it'll be easy to add. It now supports hierarchical loading with piece recognition, loading even the Masakari model in a tolerable amount of time. In the process I noticed not all parts (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Blender LDraw support
 
I hope this isn't off topic for this list. I've begun writing some scripts for Blender to import (and eventually export) LDraw DAT files. Cropped screenshot of result (pieces 105, 10 and 73057): (URL) location (currently 5KB): (2 URLs) features: (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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