DeleD Community Edition

[chronozphere]

tpascal explained one way of getting the source. You need to click "develop" to make some new options appear. Then click "Code" -> "SVN Browse". Then you'll see a "Download GNU tarball" link.

I used an SVN client called "tortoiseSVN" to get the source. You can install that.
It will add a few items to your explorer's context menu. Make a new directory called "DeleD source" or something and right click -> SVN checkout. Now use the following URL:

https://deled.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/deled

and hit OK. This will download the sources into your "working directory" you just made.

Using an SVN client is a better option when you (eventually) want to contribute to the project. It let's you commit changes to the repository and do all kinds of other stuff I have still to learn.

[trucker2000]

Thanks. I used svn to get it.
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[chronozphere]

Yay.. just compiled the source.

[G_Freeman]

First of all thank you for DeleD and thank you for going open source, it's definitely the right thing to do an a great opportunity to the community! I'm just starting out with DeleD but I find it the most intuitive 3D modeling tool I have used so far and am very happy with it!

I must say however that I believe, as others have pointed out before, that it could be useful if the source were available in another language that is better known and more widely used throughout the open source community, e.g. C++ or Java. Java applications also have the advantage of being cross-platform (mostly). So I think that a port to another language could be useful, although I realize porting alone will require a huge effort.

How would the original authors feel about the creation of such a fork project?

[Paul-Jan]

We would of course not oppose such an effort, but you have to realize we are a bit of pascal lovers (the Del in delgine is for Delphi) so we wouldn't get overly enthousiastic either. We are conciously trying to get an open source pascal project off the ground here. For those who want to contribute to an open source modeler written in C++, there is always the Blender project.

Then again, open source is about ´open´, so knock yourself out! We could get a little race going to see which project makes the most progress...

[Starnick]

Eh, a java port probably wouldn't be a good idea. While JOGL and LWJGL are out there for the openGL rendering, having all the plugins working with the port would most likely be pretty difficult task (JNI and all).

I'd rather see straight up C++ (which can be pretty portable), or C# just for faster/easier development.

And this is coming from a guy who rather likes java too

[G_Freeman]

Thanks Paul-Jan for the open/liberal/competitive spirit!

Starnick, valid point regarding those plugins. Although I think it would be doable with JNI, there will still be the issue that DLL's only work under Windows (natively at least). Didn't think about that (didn't put much thought in it all together, just brainstorming a little).

Ideally, I believe that the functionality of useful plugins should be integrated into the main app when they too become open source (hopefully soon enough). Is there a point in having a plugin infrastructure when everyone wanting to extend DeleD can also simply access the source code? This also has the benefit of not being restricted to only import/export functionality.

[Starnick]

[themartian]

[Nocturn]

[oliebol]