Introducing carraMeL 2005-05-16 - By nospam
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Bonjour,
I am happy to release carraMeL, a new "plug-in" for Carrara 1,x upward.
carraMeL is released under a free, open-source license.
carraMeL is not a plug-in in the true sense.
It is a Php (4,x and 5,x) script that turn a .car file into a .xml
one, and vice-versa.
The script takes as input an url to a .car or a .xml file, and
carraMeLize it (or decarraMeLize it). The result can be coppied and
pasted in a blank .xml (or .car) file.
The resulting .xml file can be parsed with xml softwares.
This gives quick access to any subcomponent of the file and advanced
navigation features such as hidding/displaying complete portions of
the file using the ordinary behaviours of xml softwares.
Also, this ease development of "external plug-ins" to Carrara that
would manipulate the xmlized .car file instead of working inside the
SDK, bringing freedom of choice regarding the programming language,
lower memory impact*, and batch possibilities on many files at once.
An example of such an ideal programm would be an "external plug-in" that
would take all objects of a scene and return them with randomized
size, or upside-down ...
carraMeL itself is a good example of an "external plug-in" to Carrara.
This script was developped as a kind of "proof of concept".
The php script (encoding and decoding altogether) is a mere 81 lines
long and was developped in 4 hours.
The resulting .xml file is only 25 % bigger than the original .car
file.
This demonstrate that Eovia should (IMHO) replace the native .car file
syntax by a moderner .xml format.
The "plug-in" can be accessed here :
http://www.floconsdepaques.com/pressbook/tutoriaux/tuts.php
(see : tutorial # 12)
OT : I take the opportunity of this release to announce that thanks to
the help of the well known Harvey White (the most courteous people on
Hearth), who corrected the English translation, the PHP 5 Mandelbrot
Machine is now available in the Shakespear language (see absolute
bottom of the tuts page).
Note :
* while PHP 5 brings new XML DOM features that could have been
exploited to create carraMeL, these features have a drawback : the
whole XML tree has to be loaded in memory. This is not compatible with
the ordinary Php configurations where the allocated memory is limited
somehow. I thus decided for an "on the flow" process. Consequently, the memory
footprint of carraMeL is ridiculous (a few kbytes) and constant,
whatever the size of the .car file (a Gb or more if you like !).
--
Cordialement / Sincerly yours,
Fran?ois
Flocons de P?ques
Infographie 2D et 3D - Cr��ation web - Services informatiques
www.floconsdepaques.com
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Pi��ces jointes / Post-Joint : <none>.
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