PyPRP for Blender 2.56 or later

[J'Kla]

Do we have a version of PyPRP that will export an age from Blender 2.56 or later?

[diafero]

We have pyprp2, but IIRC the last state was that all it an export is basic geometry.

[Lontahv]

Diafero, things have developed quite a bit since you last looked.

PyPRP2 export currently supports the following:
geometry
physicals including kickables (static triangle and sphere only)
textures (multiple-layer as well as single-layer)
alpha vertex paint
spawnpoints
dynamic lighting (with automatic vert-color light-baking) (only supports Lamp type lights)

PyPRP2 import supports:
male and female avatar armatures

This is a rather old picture but it shows off some of the features:
Note: the following images are probably re-posts but I'll post them here for convenience.

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And when it comes to the light-baking:

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[Chacal]

The Fiberglass Age!

[Jojon]

...
PyPRP2 import supports:
male and female avatar armatures
...

!!!

Ooook... I know it may well be that I, as a non-dev, should probably keep my hands off, for now, but still...

So, the PyPRP2 folder goes into the /scripts/addons/ and the config in /scripts/, or something? (apparently not quite, because I can't activate the listed add-on, it seems...)


BTW: This user's first impression of the 2.50+ GUI style - OMG cluttered! :P
I guess one gets used to it. :)

[Lontahv]

Jojon: The folder goes into AddOns, the config goes into your user folder (under Windows 7 this would be "C:\Users\<your username>"). You'll also need to compile the texture compression thing and stick the executable and the required dlls into a folder that you set in the config file. In theory, you shouldn't need the texture compression tool if you don't plan to export any textures. The main thing is getting the config in the user folder and configuring the paths inside the config to real places.

[Jojon]

Thanks, Lon!

Hmm... LibPlasma stuff in scripts/modules/ apparently...

... but now there are complaints about Python 2.6 versus 3.1 conflicts...
I think I may let this rest for now... :P

[Lontahv]

You must set up and build PyHSPlasma for python 3. You should put all the HSPlasma stuff into the blender install's root directory (the one that contains the executable).

[diafero]

That's awesome, Lohntahv and sorry for the misinformation.

[tachzusamm]

I think I got it up to this point as well.

... but now there are complaints about Python 2.6 versus 3.1 conflicts...

Same here.

You must set up and build PyHSPlasma for python 3.

Now I'm lost. How to build PyHSPlasma? Any advice?

(Or is there an already fitting PyHSPlasma.pyd available, somewhere?)


EDIT: Nevermind, figured that out and got libHSPlasma dlls (win32 release) + PyHSPlasma.pyd compiled with GMake + Visual Studio 2008 Express.

Then I tried to put the .pyd into Blender\2.57\scripts\modules or Blender\2.57\python\lib, but in either case it reports:

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(In English something like: DLL load failed: The specified module was not found)

I have put HSPlasma.dll and zlib1.dll in the Blender executables folder, like the readme told, but that does not seem to be the whole story.
So, where should the DLLs go? Or am I missing another DLL?