Primary Goals¶
Is an offline only application. (The only internet used is when you use pip.)
Minimal required dependencies. (All you need to run this package is Python.)
Can be customized to use different packages. (See the list below for supported packages.)
Free. No cost for use, distributions, plugins, maintenece, support.
Offline Only¶
The only internet you need is when you install with pip.
Privacy and Internet access¶
Celestine respects your privacy, no registration is needed, no connection to the internet is made if you decide to install and use Celestine. Celestine does not need internet to function properly.
Some add-ons bundled with Celestine may access the internet for additional services. These add-ons are not enabled on installing Celestine. These add-ons are not required to be enabled for proper functioning of the software, nor will any Celestine function ask for enabling such add-ons.
Add-ons that require internet will ask a user explicit permission to use internet while or after enabling the add-on.
Note: this applies to the official version provided via GitHub. We always recommend you to use the official releases.
Your Artwork¶
What you create with Celestine is your sole property. All your artwork – images or movie files – including the .blend files and other data files Celestine can write, is free for you to use as you like.
That means that Celestine can be used commercially by artists, by studios to make animation films or VFX, by game artists to work on commercial games, by scientists for research, and by students in educational institutions.
Celestine’s license guarantees you this freedom. Nobody is ever permitted to take it away, in contrast to trial or “educational” versions of commercial software that will forbid your work in commercial situations.
No Required Dependencies¶
The goal is that this will run without any external dependencies. Which means you can just download the source code and it will just work. However, this uses a Graphical User Interface, and Python does not (always) come with a Graphical User Interface. In this case, it will run, but it will not do much or be very easy to use. This is a problem.
The solution is to make it appear as if this runs without any external dependencies. There are a lot of Graphical User Interfaces out there, and odds are the user has at least one of them installed. So, all I need to do is to support all the major ones and I can achieve the goal.
Free¶
Free from ads, promotions, sales, spyware, keyloggers, prorietary content. No begging for likes, subscribes, popularity, donations, patrions.
I will never ask for money for this project. So if you see someone claiming you need to pay money, it is a scam.
I very much like the model Blender uses. So I just copy and pasted what they said here and will adjust the wording later.
The Software
Blender is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL, or “free software”).
This license grants people a number of freedoms:
You are free to use Blender, for any purpose You are free to distribute Blender You can study how Blender works and change it You can distribute changed versions of Blender
The GPL strictly aims at protecting these freedoms, requiring everyone to share their modifications when they also share the software in public. That aspect is commonly referred to as Copyleft.
The Blender Foundation and its projects on blender.org are committed to preserving Blender as free software. License details
The source code we develop at blender.org is default being licensed as GNU GPL Version 2 or later. Some modules we make are using more permissive licenses, though, for example, the Blender Cycles rendering engine is available as Apache 2.0.
Blender also uses many modules or libraries from other projects. For example, Python uses the Python License; Bullet uses the Zlib License; Libmv uses the MIT License; and OSL, a BSD License.
All the components that together make Blender are compatible under the newer GNU GPL Version 3. That is also the license to use for any distribution of Blender binaries. Your Artwork
What you create with Blender is your sole property. All your artwork – images or movie files – including the .blend files and other data files Blender can write, is free for you to use as you like.
That means that Blender can be used commercially by artists, by studios to make animation films or VFX, by game artists to work on commercial games, by scientists for research, and by students in educational institutions.
Blender’s GNU GPL license guarantees you this freedom. Nobody is ever permitted to take it away, in contrast to trial or “educational” versions of commercial software that will forbid your work in commercial situations. Privacy and Internet access
Blender respects your privacy, no registration is needed, no connection to the internet is made if you decide to install and use Blender. Blender does not need internet to function properly.
Some add-ons bundled with Blender may access the internet for additional services. These add-ons are not enabled on installing Blender. These add-ons are not required to be enabled for proper functioning of the software, nor will any Blender function ask for enabling such add-ons.
Add-ons that require internet will ask a user explicit permission to use internet while or after enabling the add-on.
Note: this applies to the official version provided via blender.org. We always recommend you to use the official releases.
Custom Install¶
Choose which packages to use.
Swap packages
Has no required dependencies. (All you need to run this package is Python.)
Can be customized to use different packages. (See the list below for supported packages.)
Secondary goals: - Advanced tag searching. (Most websites have really lousy topic filters.)
What this is not: - This is not a photo editor. - This is not a photo downloader. - This is not a mobile application.