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https://github.com/linas/blender_api_msgs

ROS node for blender_api
https://github.com/linas/blender_api_msgs

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ROS node for blender_api

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/linas/blender_api_msgs
Owner: linas
License: bsd-3-clause
Created: 2014-12-12T18:45:40.000Z (about 10 years ago)
Default Branch: master
Last Pushed: 2017-11-30T05:55:21.000Z (about 7 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-10-20T10:31:21.323Z (2 months ago)
Language: Python
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Size: 63.5 KB
Stars: 0
Watchers: 3
Forks: 10
Open Issues: 0
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE

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blender_api_msgs
================

ROS interface controlling the head+body `blender_api` rig.

## Design goals
* Avoids adding ROS code to the blender_api python module
* Eliminates the need for other ROS nodes from having to import
the blender_api python module.

## Installation
```
$ cd your_catkin_workspace/src
$ git clone https://github.com/hansonrobotics/blender_api_msgs.git
$ pip3 install -t ../devel/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ ./blender_api_msgs
$ cd ../
$ catkin build
```
The the above uses several hacks which may be painful to discover and
diagnose. These are:

* Neither `catkin_make` nor `catkin build` currently support
`entry_points` in `setup.py`. To be more precise, it is actually
`catkin_pkg.python_setup` that does not support `entry_points`, and
thus ordinary python setup is used, instead of the catkinized version.

* Next, `pip3 install` defaults to an install path in the root file
system. To work around this, an explicit install path must be
specified with the `-t` flag.

* You might think that the correct catkin install path would be
in python3.4 not python2.7 but you would be wrong: when sourcing
`devel/setup.sh`, only the 2.7 path is added to `PYTHONPATH`.

## Usage
Start blender from the `/blender_api` project. If this package was
installed with pip or setuptools, `blender_api` should discover it
automatically.

Blender can be started with the **autostart script**:
```
blender -y Sophia.blend -P autostart.py
```
or it can be started manually, by pressing the **Start Command
Listener** button.