{"id":715,"date":"2009-02-11T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-02-11T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T03:00:45","slug":"panda3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/panda3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Panda3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started learning <a href=\"http:\/\/panda3d.org\/\">Panda3D<\/a>, the game engine behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disney.co.uk\/toontown\/main.html\">Disney&#8217;s Toontown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/piratesonline.com\">Pirates of the Caribbean Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I made a picture to commemorate this occasion:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/panda3d1.png?resize=460%2C485\" alt=\"panda3d\" title=\"panda3d\" width=\"460\" height=\"485\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-716\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been following Panda3D for a while, but never really gave it that much attention. I became more interested after reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/2027\/postmortem_disney_onlines_.php\">Toon Town post-mortem onm Gamasutra<\/a>, epecially since they attributed a lot of their success to switching their scripting languages to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\">Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My initial thoughts are that it&#8217;s a fairly intuitive game engine for Python programmers. There&#8217;s no real toolset to speak of, but this isn&#8217;t necessarily a bad thing. It looks like the intended workflow is based on utilising existing tools (eg. 3D Studio, Photoshop) and small exporters or converter scripts. Which makes sense; no point trying to make artists learn new tools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more thoughts as I get more experience with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started learning Panda3D, the game engine behind Disney&#8217;s Toontown and Pirates of the Caribbean Online. I made a picture to commemorate this occasion: I&#8217;ve been following Panda3D for a while, but never really gave it that much attention. I became more interested after reading the Toon Town post-mortem onm Gamasutra, epecially since they attributed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/02\/11\/panda3d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panda3D&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saLsRH-panda3d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}