BlenderPocket 2.48a is now available

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 big_caveBlenderPocket is a Blender port dedicated for mobile devices (Phones, PDA, …) having a touch screen, small amount of memory (RAM), a low speed processor (with no floating point unit) and no graphic unit (no hardware acceleration). BlenderPocket is working today on all mobile devices with Windows Mobile 2003 or newer but it should be “easy” to make it work on any other devices. It just got upgraded from 2.42 to 2.48a!

Salvatore Russo wrote:

I updated BlenderPocket (with its website) so that it now match with the current Blender 2.48a version: the sculpt mode is not yet supported but this version should offer a new 3D mobile experience.

Additionally to all additional features added to Blender from the 2.42 to the 2.48 version, you can now assign any Hotkeys to your Hardware Buttons without limitation. There is also now a better dynamic memory allocations and many other improvements were implemented: BlenderPocket should be quicker and a special care was given to stability (still not perfect).

I hope you will have fun with BlenderPocket, bringing Blender to mobile devices (including phones) that have Windows Mobile.

More information can be found on my website.

Happy blending,

Salvatore Russo

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    • http://www.free3dmodels.fleshsoft.eu iulian

      windows,….. but java ?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Blender is written in C; porting it to Java would require a complete re-coding of everything. That doesn’t sound very feasible, does it? :)

    • http://ustherobots.com Sam B.

      Ha! Let’s see the folks at Autodesk do that with Maya or 3ds!

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      This almost makes me want to get a mobile device now. Very cool!

      nice job Salvatore :D

    • myon

      It would be very cool to use this on the iPhone and using the accelerometer for the movement!

    • Bastian

      You rock Salvatore!

    • Andreas

      Would be cool to have that on the Nintendo DS.

    • aws357

      Seconding the iPhone apps. Not that anyone could seriously model… but wonder if there is a game engine inside that people could use to develop 3D games for iPhone for example…

    • http://www.geckoanimation.com Laxy

      iPhone iPhone iPhone!! I’d pay just for the novelty of modelling something whilst on the bus!!!!

    • Mal

      I’m always blown away by what Salvatore has achieved on his own, with just a copy of the Blender source and a will to make something.

      It would be *very* cool to have the GE working on PocketBlender ( even as a completely separate project, ie not integrated with the main PocketBlender app – well, at least not initially :) ).

    • http://russose.free.fr/BlenderPocket/ russose

      Hi,

      For java, it would be really not easy at all ;) Maybe you thing about Android? I cannot imagine that Android will not offer a C/C++ compiler.

      For Iphone, I am not familiar at all with Mac coding…

    • http://www.renderplace.com AntonG
    • zapman

      you should get an OpenPandora openSource handheld and an ARM compatible built of Blender. You would have lots of CPU power and even hardware 3D support :D

      have a look at http://www.openpandora.org ; the preordering is still open until March 12th!

    • TxRx

      Nice one Salvatore! I used this ages ago, most fun and ultimately uber geeky. Can’t wait to see the new version!

    • me

      now if this could just run on zubuntu on my sharp zaurus

    • zapman

      oh yes, for all WindowsMobileUser blenderpocket will be really nice. Good job Salvatore and thx a lot! The more blender the better :D

    • Robert

      Sam B: why on earth would the want to?

      I’d love to see this work on my ipod touch :)

    • Kukanani

      AWESOME

    • http://winduptoyproductions.com Wind Up Toy

      iPhone? iPod touch?

    • http://imbusy.org imbusy

      Cool, but completely useless.

    • http://www.francois-tarlier.com francoist

      yeeaaahhhh let’s do a phone based renderfarm :) !!!
      (I can’t believe the renderer is working :p )

    • Kevin

      @Andreas

      I agree. It would be awesome to use blender on a Nintendo DS; pushing vertices around and sculpt mode with its stylus. Given the price of $129 for one, would be an excellent mobile blender device.

    • me

      @imbusy “Cool, but completely useless.”
      I could do basic sculpting and scene editing on the train.
      For me (and it ran on linux) it would be a god send.

    • aws357

      @ Anton : Well aware of the article, the only thing being that it needs an exporter. It’s not as simple as pressing alt+P (I know… I’m a lazy slob)

      Still, it would be interesting to see how multitouch behave for 3D… because it might be the future, and tinkering with that might give Blender an edge for later ( I don’t know for you, but I feel all fuzzy inside when I think 3D+multitouch screen… )

    • http://thinkmoult.com/ Dion Moult

      This is seriously one of the coolest things I’ve come across today – and that’s saying a lot.

      I will try it out ASAP on my phone.

    • Tomas

      @zapman – I like the openpandora idea but I’m looking at http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
      I think they both use the beagleboard as their base http://beagleboard.org/
      The folks are alwaysinnovating are also taking pre-orders for their touchbook and have been very responsive to my questions about the system. It sounds like they are still working on the actual application set that will ship with it but it looks like something that might be pretty cool if blender ran on it.

    • C60

      I’d love to see this ported to the Nokia Series Webtablet, Any idea how hard that would be? It’s all debian based.

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      great work, now port one for the ds plz, that would be ubercool ;)

    • 3DKing

      Do we need blenderpocket?

    • Ninjachef

      @ Tomas-

      The Touchbook will already be running a build of linux (based on ubuntu, if I remember correctly) so I think we can all look forward to blender on the touchbook, as I can’t think of a version of linux that i’ve used that doesn’t run it.

    • Aden

      Get this in the iPhone app store, stat. I would pay many monies.

      \Render to camera roll would rock so hard.

    • Aden

      Also I can see it now – Blender + multitouch control.

      Man.

      That makes me happy just thinking about it.

    • OboeNerd

      Awesome, something to do on the subway. Although I’d rather spend the money on a laptop rather than a phone capable of doing this…

      Great job, sounds great.

    • Edward

      Modeling on-the-go :) This brings me back to a crazy project I did a while back…a tiny modeler for the Palm

      http://www.memention.com/edward/tinygl/

    • T-Rev

      I’m guessing it doesn’t do fluid simulations right?

    • snuck

      At Sam B. and all the others who think again it’s a Blender invention:
      http://teavuihuang.com/maya/
      Old stuff you see!!

    • Gat

      Its freaking sweet, what can I say!

    • Eel

      Amazing!

      @Bart:

      *cough* http://download.cnet.com/C-To-Java-Converter/3000-2213_4-10080009.html

      but would it still work?

    • jin choung

      iphone/ipod touch!!! with the sculpting it would be a miraculous little app for ipod!

      jin

    • Occulus

      This is just cool. I’ve always eschewed the electronic leashes everyone seems to have these days, but this actually makes me want to go get one.

      A friend of mine has a Treo PocketPC. I’m assuming his OS can run it, and the next time he brings his dock over, I intend to find out.

      Blender in the palm of your hand. Awesome.

    • http://www.renderplace.com AntonG

      aws357,
      I’m more interested how could we use ipod touch ( or iPhone ) with accelerometer/multi-touch capability with the modeling/animation work flow inside the desktop blender via wifi, like some ad-on “nD” wifi mouse/keyboard. All this will be possible to implement with the up-coming 2.5 blender redesign.

      -AntonG

    • jerry

      If someone would port it to the Android platform, then I’d say it would be cooler than cool. But Android is made with Java, right?

    • onnevan

      An ipod touch version would be a dream come true for me.

    • gokudomatic

      really neat, but when my pocket has only 3 buttons and the nav stick, that makes it pretty useless.

    • FunkyWyrm

      WOW!!!

      I heard something about this quite a while ago, but I thought it was just a concept.

      Can’t believe it is working.

      “Cool, but completely useless.”? I’m pretty sure that if you want to make a photo realistic view of a city with millions of polygons, radiance, particles and heavy ray tracing then this is not the way to go ;). But I’d hardly say useless. What about lowpoly game assets creation? Tweaking models on the fly and sketching out quick ideas on the go?

      My next phone is going to be chosen based on specs to suit this application. A friend of mine recently got a phone with 16 Gig memory (on card…), 670MHz processor, touch screen, etc… and GPUs for mobile are on the horizon. Phones now are more than capable of making this application more than usable.

      Much respect for building this, Salvatore.

    • FunkyWyrm

      …as for the lack of buttons, try reading the link to the site, especially relating to hardware buttons, and look at the video that shows manipulation, adding materials to and rendering a cube, and extruding vertices on a Suzanne model. This looks great fun for long train rides or long flights. Modeling up mountains FTW!!!

    • Marmot

      I’d very much like to see this ported to Symbian platform (namely, S60 V3, symbian 9.5) for touchscreen models like the Nokia 5800… it has a big touchscreen, lots of RAM and a pretty fast processor, so I think BP would run just fine on it :)

    • http://uhh omgwtfbbq

      do i pay?

    • Jorge Najera

      The program meets interesting, me gustarìa to prove(try) it and thank you for the unload

    • banor

      Ah, cool. I may not have hardly any use for it (at this time at least,) but it’s cool that Blender is brought even to mobile devices, sweet! I want to see it for the iTouch or iPhone, that would be cool. Don’t have one of those, but it still would be cool. lol. Cheers and a big thanks to all the hard work and endless hours of dedication that went into this project. God bless -b

    • http://gri3fon.com gri3fon

      ported symbian platform would be awesome, like S60 v3 or v5 like for nokia 5800 maybe?

    • studerdoodle

      I use my ipod touch more than ever, and to think that Blender could be on it some day would put that last 15 minutes of free time I had in the dumper! Go Man Go!!!

    • Herbb

      I want blender for s60v3 !! (nokia 5320XM) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • madone

      And how about version for Google Android??

    • Mitchell

      But seriously we need this on java phones. There must be somebody out there without a life that could compile it into a .jad java mobile app. :)

    • Gaurav

      it will be difficult for java
      then why not symbian (s60v5
      when it is already having support for c and python
      having better performance and huge market coverage than WinMo, ppc or any other
      symbian os is having better scope
      i and many nokia users will be pleased to see blender pocket on symbian os

    • Lockwert

      Whoa man…
      It would be great in symbian ^3