Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:47 pm
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Is there a specification (or any fragments of a specification) for the .blend fileformat available somewhere? I'm interested to implement a loader for Java 3D (and for my own project). The loader-sources itself are planned to be published.
Blender would be perfect to be supported by it directly because it is available for different platforms too.
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 6:47 pm
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.blend files are plain memory dumps
There might be some info in the developer section and on the 'Project' server...
Stefano
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2003 7:00 pm
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Thx. I couldn't find anything until now.
But also if they are memory dumps, they must be structured in a defined way (containing all transformations, grouping information, objects, material definitions, lights etc.). So I think they are in every case more than only "plain"

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Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 9:23 am
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Its everything but plain.
It's got it's own description of how the fileformat is, this makes it (unlike most fileformats) forward compatible.
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