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yep, that poster is wrong. That was the situation in blender 2.49 but in 2.5, a full python installation is bundled.

Oh, i'm not sure what you exactly need for that, but it's basically just a full installation (minus some extra test/example files) of python 3.1.

If depends what info you have available:
* You can render out a world XYZ pass by making a renderlayer with a custom material with blend textures mapped to global x/y/z
* Or if you have access to the camera matrix, you can probably reconstruct it using that and the pixel Z depth.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Py/API/Intro

http://www.blender.org/documentation/250PythonDoc/

No. The event system is already re-coded in blender 2.5. However it doesn't support spacenavigator yet, and adding support is more complicated than just editing ghost_types.h .

that's correct.

Spacenavigator support will need to be re-coded for 2.5's new event system.

Shouldn't be too difficult, and there might possibly be a gsoc project to do this, but it's not done yet.

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Hi, probably your best bet is to go for an open format that supports animation such as COLLADA (it's xml and widespread). It probably wouldn't be too difficult to simply export a camera object with animation.

Hi, you'll also need to add it to the relevant python ui file, in release/scripts/ui/

see here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Blend ... neProperty

Have you tried the 'morph target' in the OBJ importer? it's meant to keep vertex order, but I suppose that won't help if the maya OBJ export reorders vertex indices...

Yep, this is a real limitation in Blender's UI - you can't get realtime updates from UI controls. You'll notice that no other sliders update in realtime either, only when you let go of the mouse. This is something that hopefully will get fixed in 2.5.

hi, you might get a bit better response on the artist forum - blenderartists.org.

cheers

I don't have time to look at the file at the moment, but a 1 frame lag is usually caused by a loop in dependencies (i.e. A is dependent on B is dependent on C is dependent on A). See if there are any warnings about this in the console, you may have to re-organise your rig setup.

Blender's particle system is pre-calculated and it's not possible to manipulate particles on the fly. What you could try however, is using vertices of a mesh. You can then assign it a halo material, or dupliverts which should give similar results to a particle system in practice.