Blend 2 croquet export objects

>
> Hi
>
> Have an idea it's about export x3d models to croquet and rewerse, trough
> blender.
>
> Background:
> It's some years since I worked with croquet and smalltalk and..
> Used Belender since some time mainly to konvert fileformats to X3D.
>
> Noticed that there are a plugin to blender for exporting models to croquet,
> but need some advices on how to find, use the export-plugin and how to test
> in croquet.
>
> Two examples:
> - make a house in Google skeetchup > blender > croquet.
> - use x3d objects like cars and humanoid ( h-anim ) > blender > corquet.
>
> Main Q are the croquet export plugin to blender.

>
> Hi
>
> Have an idea it's about export x3d models to croquet and rewerse,
> trough blender.
>
> Background:
> It's some years since I worked with croquet and smalltalk and..
> Used Belender since some time mainly to konvert fileformats to X3D.
>
> Noticed that there are a plugin to blender for exporting models to
> croquet, but need some advices on how to find, use the export-plugin
> and how to test in croquet.
>
> Two examples:
> - make a house in Google skeetchup > blender > croquet.
> - use x3d objects like cars and humanoid ( h-anim ) > blender > corquet.
>
> Main Q are the croquet export plugin to blender.

>Hi.
>
>Tanks för the links.
>Will spend some time this week installing croquet and try some X3D models.
>Had a look at the links and saw that croquet
>have the same challanges as x3d, network sync of
>node actions and distributed storage of objects.
>On distr. storage I'm testing Plone/Zope with
>distributed contentDatabase, loadbalancing ,
>proxy and Apache as frontserver. PS. in external
>nodes on X3D you can define multiple URL's.
>On networkprotocol, there are a transition from
>X3D-nodes based on Distributed Interactive
>Protocol ( DIS ) to a more generic Network
>Sensor Node that handles many protocols.
>On scripting most X3D browsers uses Jscript but
>the haptic version of X3D (H3D ) uses python.
>Python are a more powerfull scripting than
>Jscript, used the twisted python-lib to handle
>UDP-protocols for a while. Twisted are event
>driven as X3D. Plone/zope are also based on
>python, BTW noticed that croquetproject are hostd on a plone server.
>Haven't tested Croquet for some years, so I got
>a bit confused as I couldn't find the update
>function - will have a look in the manual.
>
>So why not Croquet, need haptic functions,
>steroscopic wiew, surround sound, more detailed
>objects, GIS defined ground profile and
>connection to simulationengines like mathworks/simulink.
>On the other hand love the support for
>multimedia objects in croquet, it's not the same in X3D.
>
>I can't spend so much time testing importing X3D
>objects into Croquet. And it seems even more
>difficult to export geometical objects from croquet to blender.
>
>BG
>Sven-Erik Tiberg
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Faught [mailto:[hidden email]]
>Sent: den 31 mars 2008 15:32
>To: Sven-Erik Tiberg
>Cc: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: [croquet-dev] Blend 2 croquet export objects
>
>On 3/30/08, Sven-Erik Tiberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Have an idea it's about export x3d models to croquet and rewerse,
> > trough blender.
> >
> > Background:
> > It's some years since I worked with croquet and smalltalk and..
> > Used Belender since some time mainly to konvert fileformats to X3D.
> >
> > Noticed that there are a plugin to blender for exporting models to
> > croquet, but need some advices on how to find, use the export-plugin
> > and how to test in croquet.
> >
> > Two examples:
> > - make a house in Google skeetchup > blender > croquet.
> > - use x3d objects like cars and humanoid ( h-anim ) > blender > corquet.
> >
> > Main Q are the croquet export plugin to blender.
>
>AFAIK there is no Croquet export plugin to
>Blender.  However, there are several ways to
>export Blender objects to file formats that can
>be read in by Croquet.  Take a look at:
>
>http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/FAQs#What_types_of_3D_model_files_can_Croquet_import.3F
>
>http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/WikiSpace:Wish_List#3D_Model_Importers
>
>http://croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Skeletal_Animation_Example
>
>There is an improved OBJ importer in Cobalt, but
>I don't think that it is tied into the menus yet.
>
>I think that Americo's tutorials at
>http://www.dmu.com also refer to an ASE exporter for Blender.
>
>Regards,
>Dave