Overview
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Extend the possibilities in Blender with Python scripting. Learn how to script common animation tasks, customize the interface, and even build add-ons to sell to other users.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should already know
- Using the exercise files
- Set up Blender and the console window
- Use the Python console and script editor
- Importing and exploring bpy
- What's a Blender operator
- What's a Blender property
- Developer tooltips and the info window
- Diving further into context and data
- ✓Challenge: Create a simple script
- ✓Solution: Create a simple script
- Write scripts and use templates
- Great coders steal
- Auto running scripts
- How to use and avoid the text editor
- Panels and menus introduction
- Panel structure
- Draw elements
- Using the built-in templates, dissect example panel
- Append to existing panels
- Example menu structure
- ✓Challenge: Create a panel layout
- ✓Solution: Create a panel layout
- What's an add-on?
- What our add-on will do
- Building the add-on framework
- Creating an operator framework
- Creating redo-last properties
- Appending to a menu
- Fnishing and publishing your add-on
- ✓Challenge: Create another operator
- ✓Solution: Create another operator
- Next steps
