I’m just curious if somebody has ever used the game engine to display textual internet data. I’ve got an idea for a project, but I don’t even know what all you can do with this.
If you’ve ever done a web feed of live data or rss feed data displayed on screen, I’d love to see an example. I don’t know if python ais involved, I assume so. But being able to animate it, scroll it or change the font could be cool to see with real data updating every hour or so.
I’ve got way too many ideas than I have skills to implement them.
If you can whip something up, I’d love to see it. I’d hope I could read what’s going on in there.
If you’d like a suggestion, I think I’ll say, put the blendernation headlines in a feed or something like that. Or pick your favorite website. If there is a refresh involved, then I’d do it every hour. But be as simple as you like. I’d love to see anything like that.
I wonder, if when it’s created with the script, it could be animated like with an alpha fade in, then fade out, then move to the next story.
Ok, I’ll explain how I’m going to do it, download the RSS python module, and import the data like that. Then set the contents of a text box to that. It’s really simple.
OK here’s the reader version 0.1, this only prints the top story in the console. I’m now working on displaying real time text, the cool thing is everytime you open it up it will display it. This could be awesome, you could make special effects, a 3d rss reader! Wil cool animations and 3d text!! If you’re not sure I will help you, it’d be cool to see a usefull application made with blender.
To use this you MUST have python 2.5.2 installed. Then go to: http://www.feedparser.org/ and hit download… download the featured one, now unzip it to C:\Python25\Lib
Now run the blend and open the console are check out the top story on Blendernation.
OK here is the complete file, god if you’re using this I’d better get some full credit, lol. I bascially made you an entire reader. I’m newer coding another effing RSS reader!!!