Bassam Kurdali writes praise about Blender-aid, 'a tool that helps you manage Blender productions'.
Bassam writes:
I’m a huge fan of Blenderaid, a great way to manage your blender projects. You run a small server that is capable of crunching through your project, finding all objects, dependencies, etc., then point your browser to it and get a graphical overview. You can look at individual files, see the names of objects/materials/etc., rename them, view dependencies, fix broken links, and now check and update SVN status etc. etc., all from the comfort of your browser window.
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I like the idea of blender-aid but it definitely looking forward to some improvements.
For a tool that's dealing with a lot of data, it's workflow is pretty fail, as in you need to do each action one by one usually and that even requires several clicks.
I so read the title of that as "Blender Drinking Age"...
I interpreted the title as a Jim Jones reference. So I thought "oh this can't be good!"
I downloaded the Python 2.6 version, tried to run server.pyc from a command prompt, and I get "Bad magic number in .pyc file"
What does this mean?
DreadKnight, I don't think Blenderaid is 'finished' but the foundations are pretty impressive. the developers are extremely nice and responsive to people actually using it / wanting to use it in production. I also haven't delved yet into how 'scriptable' it is - I'm guessing quite a bit, so it might gain in value when integrating/ customising to specific workflows.
IMO the 'amazing' part is already done (being able to parse giant trees of blenderfiles and accurately find data/ names/ dependencies and give the ability to fix them) The next step is no less important, but it doesn't represent nearly the same hurdle, I think. An interface for easy batching , etc. would be cool. I'm not 100% sure but I think phatch is using the library blenderaid uses to parse blend files and do batch work... so in a limited way it's already been done ;)
same problem than Terrachild and nobody can help on the forum ! what's that mean ?
when to find some help ? can we get help ?
"Bad Magic numbers" means you are using a different version of Python than the one used to create the pyc.
Python is crossplataform but not cross version.
(if they don't specify that in their website I would try with Python 3.1)
Okay then, can I install multiple Python versions on my computer at the same time?
@Terrachild- Yes, I think several versions of Python can coexist at the same time.