It works with Blender !! (important question for 3D C. team)

graphinc · Post by **graphinc** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:08 pm

hello,

we were talking about 3D Connexion devices on a french blender forums and someone compiled a patch for blender (found here http://projects.blender.org/tracker/ind ... 9&atid=127 ) and he gives the compiled patch free to download :
http://lecocqguillaume.chez-alice.fr/te ... f_test.zip

simply download Blender 2.42, unzip the two files in the .zip archive and put it in the Blender 's folder.
It works like a charm (you can change the overall speed for translations and rotations in the blender preferences )

Now, the question : if we want future official versions of blender to work with 3D connexion devices, the use of the SDK must be GPL compliant. Is there anyway to do something like that ? There are always more and more Blender users and I'm sure a lot of them would buy a 3D device if it works with their favorite program.

Cédric - ced@graphinc.com

znissan · Post by **znissan** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:01 pm

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

It always is exciting and well-received news to the 3Dconnexion team when we hear of outside developments such as this. We applaud the interest and the effort to provide a solution for Blender.

We will conduct an evaluation ourselves after the first of the year. Stay tuned.

Ziva Nissan
3Dconnexion, Inc.

graphinc · Post by **graphinc** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:29 am

thank you for the answer. It's really nice to see that you're really listening to the community. Since yesterday, we talk a lot about the 3D navigator on the french blender 's forums. I just hope it will be possible one day to add the 3D device compatibility in the opensource official Blender release and so a lot of users will be able to use very intuitive and professionnal devices like yours.

best regards

Cédric - ced@graphinc.com