On Dec 16, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Ali Kämäräinen wrote:
Nice presentation Toni! Hopefully stirred some new interested in realXtend
and Tundra.
Thanks. And it certainly did! Was fun later that afternoon and also during the
conference dinner in the evening, people came wondering if their scenes would
work.
They had they laptops and we just got the blends over with a mem stick, opened
them in my laptop in Blender, pressed blender2ogre/rex's world update button,
and saw it working ok there in Ogre :) .. and we could then use Tundra's EC
editor etc to put SkyX in etc.
One person had exactly that need: he needed a good realtime sky vis thing.
Otherwise he was happy already with the Blender GE.
Other is a French robots lab where they currently already use the Blender GE to
simulate environments for robot AI. The AI doesn't know whether it is in RL or
just in simulation. They have need for networked things now, so reX-Tundra is
interesting. We encountered only one prob: the still missing inverse kinetics.
But that's a story on it's own.
And one person had nice laser scans, from the Acropolis in Greece actually - we
tested it with the raw data, it ran fine (25fps in blender and 50 in
tundra-ogre). 700k faces iirc. He had also the cleaned-up optimized ones, but
was interesting to see that heavy one. That took a bit of work, eventually I
just disabled raycasting alltogether .. as it always crashed in the somehow
invalid mesh data. Was a bit tricky to use when couldn't use mouse to select
objects for editing, or use the 3d gizmo, but basically ok using scenestruct to
find them etc :p But was fun to hack that after the dinner in the restaurant
(film museum, actually). A couple of guys watched it from the start, the gdb
debugging, so then got a tour of the codebase as i made the hack :p
Ali Kämäräinen
~Toni
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