Blender Foundation to Create Open Movie, Open Game 100
Eloquence writes "The Blender Foundation, which maintains the open source 3D tool Blender, has announced two new projects, codenamed Peach and Apricot. Project Peach will be a new open source movie, following in the footsteps of last year's Elephants Dream project (which was initially codenamed Orange). Apricot, on the other hand, will use Blender in conjunction with open source 3D framework Crystal Space to create an open game, thereby showcasing both technologies."
should be good (Score:4, Interesting)
This will be interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
Not the Blender game engine? (Score:5, Interesting)
It's too bad they're not using Blender's own game engine. Blender has an integrated 3D animation system and game engine.
The trouble with the Blender game engine is that it doesn't scale well. The Blender game engine can be used "without programming", but what that really means is that you have to draw connection diagrams with hundreds or thousands of connections. Then you get to debug the wiring. For a non-trivial game, it's painfully difficult to debug.
It's an occasional fantasy of programmers that wiring visually functional blocks together is easier than programming. Engineers who wire up real hardware know better. That's why we have VHDL.
Fortunately, you can extend the Blender game engine in Python. Unfortunately, it's CPython, which is 60x slower than C. This isn't a hit you can afford in most games.
Open Source Movie? (Score:3, Interesting)
Whats the plot? (Score:3, Interesting)
Why not Ogre instead of Crystal Space? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ogre3D [orge3d.org]
It looks like Ogre is at least as fully featured, and has some commercial games being developed on it right now.
By the way, this is a legitimate question -- I'm not a developer using either suite so I'm kind of curious if people out there have used both or if there was some rationale for the choice of one or the other.
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Movie project (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:This will be interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
Greetings,
Re:This will be interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
I'll have to argue about the "Pixar quality animation" part, though. There's some seriously weak animation in Elephant's Dream (not all of it, just some) and you won't see that in a Pixar film.
Re:Movie project (Score:2, Interesting)
it's not something that would require any trippy visuals, and has a strong story already. they can focus on details, as mentioned in other posts, to convey emotions to the viewer.
well, that'd be my suggestion.
Re:This will be interesting (Score:3, Interesting)
As far as a tech demo, elephant's dream was a massive success. That clip generated an overwhelmingly positive response, increasing blender's profile and triggering developer interest. It is no surprise that they are doing another.