[Edu-sig] Panda3D + Blender on Edubuntu

[francois schnell]

Nice, I need to give Panda 3D a try on my Breezy.

Also for those who haven't checked lately Blender web site, the "Open
Source" Orange Project (short animation released under Creative Commons
-BY)  looks nice:
http://orange.blender.org/

Kirby (カービィ ), your incredible, you're everywhere  ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_(Nintendo)

francois

On 10/05/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Per this blog post, I've got Panda3D running on Edubuntu:
> http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2006/05/edubuntu.html
>
> Blender was already a part of the default installation.  However, on
> this Compaq Deskpro, I'm noticing a lot of graphical anomolies around
> menu highlighting and other controls.
>
> Blender, you may recall, distinguishes itself by defining all
> controlling widgets (of which it has many) internally to the OpenGL
> interface, i.e. there's no sense of a frame different from the canvas
> (Panda3D by contrast, uses the Tk-based Python Megawidgets classes for
> controls).
>
> It'd be useful to have Blender stay in the picture, from a Panda-user
> viewpoint, as from what I've gleaned from the docs, Blender is one of
> the best platforms for creating new action figures for Panda.  There's
> a file format they have in common, given an included conversion
> utility.
>
> Kirby
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