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@matej : I already tried with previous versions of Blender and Exporter, without better result. I wrote already this yesterday, but my posts have not been recorded... weird.


@big_jimmy :

Good luck with your own export problem...

Thank you. I have no more idea...

I'll have to wait for Lionel's come back...

hey yoyoz, look what i found:

maximum respect:
->...special thanks to..

http://www.artdds.com/projects/fruitmotive-2/


Hey RS/QTOY --->we need the tight blender integration asap.
hire this guy:)

Hi guys,

I'd just like to make some clarification on why there's no integrated plugin for Blender at the moment:

- full integration at binary level (like for 3DS) is not possible thanks to GPL licensing of Blender (yes, I wrote 'thanks'). Trying to challenge the licensing would be a very rude and risky approach. Not only I will of course not do it, but I would support people who would enforce respect of the GPL.

- light integration with shared memory or TCP/IP communications between a GPL addon and closed-source extra piece of binary linked to RS libraries is not possible because of RS licensing of the SDK

Although option #2 would offer less performance (and should stay with python for transferring geometry as maintaining a Blender fork is very complicated), there's nice stuff that could be done around it and that's just RS decision to let it happen or not. Things like walk-through animation of static scenes would become trivial with a single data transfer. Other features might be achievable too, but I cannot say until I can see what the SDK offers.

Cheers,
Lionel

Hi,

Please keep us informed about this topic! thank you!