What hapened to Extrusion?

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Hi there,

just wanted to draw some pipes, or even a whole network of pipes using extrusion on a curve and then noticed there isn’t something like that. But I read again and again that it was available in jME2. Am I just blind or is that feature gone? Right now I workaround it by constructing the network with cylinders and spheres, but it would be awesome if extrusion was available again.

Thanks for clearing the matter up.

Cheers,
Gem

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Are you doing some sort of 3D modeling from within JME? If so, then just use Blender as that is what is designed for – in which case this may be useful.

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I think it’s procedurally generated pipes. jME is perfect for procedural worlds. :chimpanzee_smile:

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blender is not the best choice for me, since networks must be created automatically in realtime. But I found a workaround. I create pipes from Spheres and Cylinders right now procedurally.

Cheers,
Gem

PS: still interested if this Extrusion function from JME is still there somewhere?

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No. JME3 does not try to be a modeling package. JME2 included everything and the kitchen sink, etc. and was hard to maintain. I guess if more people had needed this then there would have been a plugin written… but since there isn’t then I guess it was probably ok that we removed it.

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Would be cool to have jME run in tandem with Blender.
What I would like even more would be a tandem with MakeHuman.

Since Blender has had its own game engine for several years now - jME might become obsolete one day (at least for people who don’t mind using Python). There was already in 2012 a person who asked me “why not use Blender directly - it has its own game engine now”. Their game engine has many advanced features, I’ve seen some cool things like walking robots that have a sensor below each foot to scan for terrain and stairs.

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Blender Game Engine requires applications that are developed with it to be released under the GPL. See here:
https://www.blender.org/manual/game_engine/licensing.html

Not everyone wants to release the source code of their application, and so those people will not be using Blender Game Engine.

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True. And since it’s viral, we cannot expect that to change to LGPL or something similar. Phew… :chimpanzee_closedlaugh: Thanks for pointing that out. :chimpanzee_smile:

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That’s off topic :wink:

Anyways, thanks for clearing the stuff up. Thats all I wanted to know.

Cheers,
Gem