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Import SWF animation as a Texture?
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Import SWF animation as a Texture?
How hard could it be to code a plugin (or hardcode it into Blender) with which you can specify a SWF file you want to load allowing you to use the animation as a texture for an object? Just wondering... (I'm not asking for you to code it, although that would be neat, I'm just considering the possibilities )
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Well, I don't know how that app opens flash... The thing is, I think it would be interesting to be able to import a vector animation as a texture (for placing 2d sprites) and render them seamlessly with the 3d environment, this I think could come specially handy because the vector graphic will be small in size and LIKE we all know, there wouldn't be a size limitation... Hmmm... maybe I should start learing to code plug-ins for blender...
How hard can it actually be?
How hard can it actually be?
Depending on the kind of SWF making a reader can be either a little difficult or incredibly difficult. If you were to specify that the SWF to be used as texture has to be a keyframed animation, wth no actions, probably readig them is feasible. However, the SWF format isn't a simple format per se. SWF animations are actually interpreted by a virutal machine, and can be dynamically controlled by their scripting language. In any case the content of SWF files is mostly vectors (though you can have bitmaps in them as well, both JPG and PNG compressed, just to make life easier) and writing a reader for them isn't quite the easiest task. It's little wonder that while the file format is public the code for the browser plugin isn't