On Fri, April 26, 2013 2:02 am, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi, > > Within our own roadmap there's the idea to add a new dedicated library for > all file reading (and write), to formalize it with a "BPath" handle (a > struct which can be in our data for all paths too), which solves and > cleans issues we have now with paths in general (Windows vs posix file > names), relative paths, remapping of paths, with network drives on > Windows, or shortcuts as used in Windows and OSX. > > Once that's in place and stable, extending it to network access is > possible too. However, it would need to solve security issues well then > too. > > If you like to approach this project with as a target to get a patch or > work accepted for a release, you best first come with a good design > proposal. Just get an account on our wiki.blender.org for it? > > Good ways to discuss it would be our irc channel irc.freenode.net > #blendercoders. Note everyone's quite busy now with a lot of students > trying to get reviews for summer of code! At first I thought you also > meant to do that? See frontpage blender.org. >
I am approaching this idea focusing on JACK as the server model. I am intending to use iqm as the initial open source data format. http://jackaudio.org http://lee.fov120.com/iqm/ Maybe there is some common ground? > Regards, > > -Ton- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org > Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands > > On 25 Apr, 2013, at 17:47, Moisés Bonilla wrote: > >> Good afternoon >> >> I'm about to start my final project for Computer Engineering. During a >> brainstorming, I had the idea of giving Blender the ability to share >> data >> over the network, so that people could work on the same scene in real >> time. >> Investigating about it, I found out Verse Server and I thought "well, >> it's >> already done". But searching on the webpage and Blender forums, it seems >> that Verse is a dead project. >> >> So I wanted to ask you: Is there any other project currently in >> development >> / use for 3d data sharing in Blender? >> >> If there's no such a project, I would like to start working on it during >> this summer. Do I have to do any "formality", or simply fork the project >> and start coding (roughly speaking)? >> >> Thanks. >> -- >> Moisés J. Bonilla Caraballo >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers