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Any interest in scripting languages for ZBrush other than ZScript?

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#1

Once the ZBrush SDK is available, one thing I’m interested in doing (if I have the time, and if it is possible) is coming up with Python bindings, to permit Python to be used as a scripting language for ZScript. I am curious as to how much interest there would be in this–particularly if users feel that ZScript is limiting in any way; particularly if you find you’d like to build more complex scripts, but have difficulty in doing so in ZScript.

Python (www.python.org) is a popular, modern, object oriented scripting language, and is suitable for building large applications or libraries, as well as smaller scripts. It offers many features which (IMHO) would make it significantly easier to build large scripts in ZBrush, as opposed to ZScript; though, to be honest, I don’t yet know ZScript well enough to attempt anything large in it. However, I’m very aware of the semantic features both languages offer.

Thanks,
Ken McDonald

#2

Python is a great language.
Integration of Python within Zbrush should not be a great difficult (technically), but i am waiting to develop DLL with the new SDK…(you can integrate Python ;)).

cameyo

#3

Python = Basic Language + Logo + POO :cool:
Pilou

#4

Python options would be a nice thing.

#5

Python is a great little language. Very clean.

I took a look at boost.org’s python integration stuff a couple of weeks ago. I think it would be a pretty simple thing to plug it in.

#6

Hello,

PERL might not be so bad either. I’ve used it for obj file manipulation before. Seems like it could work well with Zbrush. I see Luxology’s Modo modeler can use PERL as a scripting language, among others like LUA.