Live 3D Stream from Blender to Browser

Bart · February 10, 2012

From the Pyppet blog: Hart has created a connection between Blender and his (local) webrowser.

Hart writes:

For streaming the data the only real option is Websockets, and the best Python3 library for Websockets I could find is Websockify by Joel Martin. I was a bit confused at first by the code in Websockify, because it includes some extra scripts for running TCP proxies and rebinding ports (written in C). However, the only file required from Websockify is “websocket.py” which is pure python and requires no compiled modules. To get Websockify working inside Blender I only had to overload the start_server method not to use Multiprocessing.

Link

Pyppet – WebGL Streaming

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

20 responses

3dcreator Pl

10 February 2012 at 15:13

amazing!

Karlis Stigis

10 February 2012 at 15:16

Well, good. You could make this as system to show model to clients.. talk or chat simultaniously.. nice for designing interiors or mabe even charachters.

Alexander Kasper

10 February 2012 at 15:48

Too awesome to be true! :)

Christian Krupa

10 February 2012 at 16:02

Amazing just watched this over 3g on my phone! Be great to show clients when working remotely :)

TheElwolf

10 February 2012 at 16:58

Hey Great script.

This is Linux only right?!! Ubuntu 10.11 should be ok right :)

Also is there a tut explaining how to install Puppet+Blender and linking it to the browser? Or is it just experimental for now?

The Elwolf

Anders Ryding

10 February 2012 at 19:06

That’s very cool. Realtime tutorials with chat and everything could maybe possible with that!

Wray Bowling

10 February 2012 at 19:41

Hold on hold on hold on… Let me pick my jaw up off the floor……

…there we go…

WHAT???!

Bart Veldhuizen
10 February 2012 at 21:09
That made me laugh. Thanks :)
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Anonymous

10 February 2012 at 21:09

That is pretty cool, can see some serious opportunities for something like this :)

Blendiac

10 February 2012 at 21:57

Blender Game Engine / Onlive style mashups! Heck yeah!!! :D (only 1/2 joking)

Rish

11 February 2012 at 00:36

Imagine getting a look on an entire complex project by having every participant stream their work into one tiled feed.
(as an outsider, or as lead artist or something) Like a guard room with camera feeds lol. This is one of the coolest posts in a long time, and that’s saying something

brett

11 February 2012 at 01:11

@a75e1d40d7628d63d5a224319a661c6b:disqus this is Linux only at the moment, But MediaCrackers is working on an OSX port now and he will provide releases for Linux64bit and OSX on Graphicall soon. Tutorials coming soon.

I have started a donations page, this project needs your support now!
http://pyppet.blogspot.com/2012/02/fund-pyppet2.html

Daniel M. Basso
11 February 2012 at 15:16
I’ve just made my donation. Great work guys!
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TheElwolf
13 February 2012 at 21:57
Thanks
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Rui Paulo Sanguinheira Diogo

11 February 2012 at 22:00

*LOL*I was thinking about something like that few days ago and there it is! What a coincidence! Very, very impressive!

Erik Smith

12 February 2012 at 00:48

Be still my Suzanne… wait.. I mean hea… Forget it.

That was honestly one of the most interesting developments I have seen lately. Though, I would probably never be able to send a direct video feed anywhere with my internet I could see this as an interactive preview for sure. I’d probably keep it on my other monitor while working. Now just to get around to re-learning everything about Blender since so much has changed since I quit.Quite Amazing.