Comments on: 'The mystery of the blend' – the Blender file-format explained

By: pima

pima — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:49:56 +0000

many thanks !!

By: DiThi

DiThi — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:25:28 +0000

The formant hasn't been documented apart from blender's source code because the usual way of dealing with those files is using blender with a script which exports the data to a different format. If you want to do a program which manupulates .blend files, I think using blender as a batch tool is the easiest way.

By: ysvry

ysvry — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:09:51 +0000

intresting work thx.

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:41:44 +0000

I'm impressed that the blender programmers could maintain so long the project without a clear written spec of the file format. What would happen if one of them get shot by a truck? or worse, get hired by an ultra-proprietary company (where even his soul won't rest in peace)?

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:50:15 +0000

yeah, and nw for the first time, .blend compatibility might be broken with 2.5 :'(

oh well, one can always run 2.49 and 2.50. :)

By: Jeroen Bakker

Jeroen Bakker — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:11:32 +0000

HI, thank you all for your remarks! Hope it's helpful.

By: marijn

marijn — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:10:55 +0000

the article was also in "BlenderArt Magazine Issue #21, Look What I Can DO!".

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:39:24 +0000

Nice! At the moment, when I need to automate extracting information from blend files, I work through Blender's python API, because I'm daunted by the file format. With this as a guide, I can imagine cutting out the middle man. Thanks Jeroen!

By: Agile

Agile — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:32:53 +0000

It is well demanded resource, I too searched for documentation on blender files.

By: Agile

Agile — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:31:36 +0000

@ Bart "formed demo coder" or "former"?

Demoscene is one of European achievements!