This library was created to read the .blend files that Blender outputs. It includes an HTML "renderer" that shows how to use the library and outputs .blend files into a nice HTML file with various niceties for navigation, so you can puzzle out what each part of the file does and how to use it. More helpfully, it includes a GUI browser created using WinForms that can do the same thing without creating massive HTML files. It's not perfect, and there's still a few things I've left unfinished or haven't fully fleshed out; in this regard the HTML renderer is superior.

I've unloaded the HTML renderer project from the solution and edited it to produce a warning when built in case someone is updating their source code and misses the new, useful browser. For the most part, you shouldn't need to touch it.

Also included is an unfinished XNA driver; this app will open a Blender file with the o key and render all the models inside. It has layer support in normal Blender fashion; press a number key to switch to a layer, use shift + number key to add/remove that layer from the currently active layers, and use alt + number key to target layers 11-20. Although the app can load textures both packed into the .blend file and from disk, I haven't been able to work out how the UV coordinates are ordered so the textures don't display correctly at all. There's a few comments hanging around with todo notes or bug notes. You might want to read those before letting this app loose on your most complex file.

BE WARNED: Use the HTML renderer only on small .blend files. Using it on larger .blend files, even .blend files in the 10MB range, will cause HTML outputs exceeding 200MB. A 1.5MB .blend file (including packed texture) generated a 20MB HTML file (which didn't even include the packed texture data). As such, this tool should be used only as a guide to help figure out how to read .blend files and figure out how to use that data for your own needs. This, of course, only applies to the HTML renderer. The library itself can be used to any purpose.