[X3D-Ecosystem] Status of the Constortium BlenderX3DSupport github project

[John Carlson]

Thanks for the helpful note, Vince.

Note that I will continue to develop my blender loader @

https://github.com/coderextreme/X3DJSONLD/blob/master/blend/localfinal.py

And an exporter @

https://github.com/coderextreme/BlenderX3DSupport/tree/main/io_scene_x3dv/blender/exp


These will be able to load and export X3D nodes by using Blender objects of
EMPTY type when something is not compatible with Blender.  I don’t
currently have an attribute solution, but I’ve heard metadata is possible.

These are not intended to be interoperable with other formats like glTF,
but anything might be possible.

Normal Blender users should be able to use the Blender extension,
io_scene_x3d.

I don’t know what will happen to my work on the io_scene_x3d addon at this
point.

Since X3D is more about applications (sensors) and less about modeling (no
interactivity), a new approach is needed.  As glTF and maybe Blender get
more interactivity extensions in their file formats, we will see what
happens.

Back in the old days, Blender supported game development.

John

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 8:10 AM Vincent Marchetti via X3D-Ecosystem <
x3d-ecosystem at web3d.org> wrote:

> I have made a edit to the readme file of the consortium BlenderX3DSupport
> project at https://github.com/Web3DConsortium/BlenderX3DSupport
>
> ---------
>
> With the deployment of the Blender Extensions platform in May 2024 and the
> reorganization of the Blender Foundations open source code repositories,
> this repository, with was forked from
> https://github.com/blender/blender-addons , is no longer useful for
> development in collaboration with the larger Blender community.
>
> Those users who have forked from this repository should evaluate whether
> they wih to continue to base their work on this repository. A pull-request
> to this repository will not be compatible with being passed on to the
> Blender codebase.
>
> The positive news is that the X3D import and export code from this
> repository is now maintained at
> https://projects.blender.org/extensions/io_scene_x3d
>
> ---------
>
> I will add that the maintainer of the X3D project in the new Extensions
> platform welcomes our contribution and has been responsive to pull requests.
>
> Vince Marchetti
>
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