Import script as stand-alone application...?

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I tried posting in the General forum (https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54546), but maybe this is a better place for it…?

I would like to use a script (maybe in combination with the game engine ?) to make a stand-alone application which includes a user dialog for selecting and showing 3di files, almost like the Wavefront OBJ importer script, only that instead it should be a stand-alone application, and for 3di files.

Any idea if this would be possible at all…? I’ve had a brief look at Campbel’s Wavefront OBJ importer script, and hopefully I’ll be able to make a similar one for the 3di format after studying Python for a while. The 3di textures are upside-down and contained inside the 3di files themselves, so maybe this will be a problem…? Other than that, the 3di files contain usual stuff like vertex coordinates, normals, faces, uv coordinates, etc.

Thanks in advance for your input… :slight_smile:

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Ok, so I take it the stand-alone thingy isn’t possible, then…? Would be nice to get it confirmed, though… Anybody…? Maybe stripping everything not needed away from the Blender source would work, but I presume that would be a very difficult task… :frowning:

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you should be able to do it just fine, you could do it a couple of ways,

have a .bat file that tells blender to run your python script on load, have scriptlink that runs on load, etc. or do it via the game engine.

LetterRip

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Thx for your reply, LetterRip, but the two first ways wouldn’t be stand-alone, would they? I’ll try to find more information about the game engine, then, but I believe I’ve read somewhere in here that there’s not too much documentation around for it. Any good links to suggest…?

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you can package it a number of ways what is a ‘standalone’ - it is really a rather meaningless concept - you can rename blender to whatever you like and replace the startup screen if you so desire, with a bit of effort. Your python script can completely intercept any API calls and you can configure the interface to be completely inaccessible (Ie see what makehuman did.)

LetterRip

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Here is a reference for the game kit

http://download.blender.org/documentation/NaN_docs/BlenderGameReference/

or you can order one from the blender store,

LetterRip

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Thx again, I’ll enter ‘study mode’ for a while now… :wink:

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yah, i’d just make the application be a specifically configured Blender, that launches the script at startup (you can that with a command line option, or with the onLoad scriptlink) and only shows the script ui (perhaps you can do that with commandline options too, or with a right kind of blend). that’s a standalone for you :slight_smile:

Blender is so small as a whole that probably you don’t need to take anything away from it… dunno if there is some big part that could be easily removed if needed.

~Toni