Overview

Motivation

The primary motivation behind the BDK (Blender Development Kit) is to provide level artists a stable, feature-rich alternative to the Unreal SDK for creating maps for Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45. There were two overarching reasons for doing so:

• The Unreal SDK is woefully unstable, having fallen victim to the deficiencies in it's initial construction and software rot that made the program almost unusable as a creative tool on modern machines.
• A complete lack of higher-order procedural tools meant that every aspect of a level must be painstaking and laboriously hand-crafted (i.e., instead of defining a road as a spline, roads need to be hand-painted and hand-sculpted).

BDK Add-on

The BDK add-on is the Blender add-on that provides virtually all of the BDK functionality. It can be installed into Blender like any other add-on.