On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Knapp <magick.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Knapp <magick.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As a normal hobby users, the biggest risk that I see is downloading a >> blend from the net and opening it. This is not something we are likely >> to give up. So, warning or not, what good is it? I need some way to >> know if the file is good or bad. I don't see an answer. I would say a >> good third of the users or more download blends for learning at least >> and often for producing their own stuff. > > What might be much more useful is a program that load a blend and tell > me what it might do. For example, does it run scripts, does it have > crazy large data sets? If it runs scripts then it should be able to > show me them. It should look at the data sizes that the blend will use > and make guesses if it is too large. Naturally it should only open the > blend as data and not as blender would. > -- > Douglas E Knapp
Such a tool isn't so hard to write, see this python module which loads up blend files without using blender. http://blender-aid.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/blendfile.py _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
