New Addon Gives you a Direct Line to Ton Roosendaal

Bart · April 1, 2014

Are you frustrated that you cannot seem to get hold of a Blender developer? This new Blender Add-on by CodemanX will give you a direct line to Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation and Blender’s Lead developer. Download it here and check how to use it in this useful video by Sebastian König.

What would you like to say to Ton?

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.

21 responses

Paul Maillardet

1 April 2014 at 19:28

:D Nice way to close a gap!! lol

FutureHack
1 April 2014 at 19:37
Very handy add-on. I’ve been explaining my obscure and outlandish 3D content creation needs for over and hour now. ;o)
It reminds me of the Microsoft “We share your pain” project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28FkfJiauk
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qqroach

1 April 2014 at 19:31

I prefer using the music player addon.

pokerface

1 April 2014 at 20:00

Bug report

Title “The brand new addon “Peeping Ton” crashes no 2.70

**System Information**
Ubuntu 13.04, nvidia m425

**Blender Version**

Broken: (example: 2.70.7 19e627c)

**Short description of error**
__init__.py”, line 185, in draw_callback_px
if self.__class__._pointer != context.area.as_pointer():
File “blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64/2.70/scripts/modules/bpy_types.py”, line 580, in __getattribute__
properties = StructRNA.path_resolve(self, “properties”)
ReferenceError: StructRNA of type VIEW3D_OT_peeping_ton has been removed

**Exact steps for others to reproduce the error**
Open blender, install addon from the zip file, activate the addon with the spacebar and typing ton (if not already), right click o ton image, the message error will appear and Ton will crash..(I mean, leave), sometimes you need to right click 3 or 4 times to crash, try in different places of the image.

CoDEmanX
2 April 2014 at 11:01
I’m not sure about the exact cause, but I believe the actual error is the removal of a timer, but the timer object being None. Removing it conditionally (if is not None) should fix it (open the .py file, line 235 where it removes the timer, add a check “if self.__class__._timer is not None:”). There is still a timer issue however – a new timer is apparantely added whenever you call Ton, although the previous one should had been killed.
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