You're reading from Python Scripting in Blender Extend the power of Blender using Python to create objects, animations, and effective add-ons

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234229

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Blender

Concepts

3D Game Development

Author (1):

Paolo Acampora

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Python

2. Chapter 1: Python’s Integration with Blender FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Python Entities and API

4. Chapter 3: Creating Your Add-Ons

5. Chapter 4: Exploring Object Transformations

6. Chapter 5: Designing Graphical Interfaces

7. Part 2: Interactive Tools and Animation

8. Chapter 6: Structuring Our Code and Add-Ons

9. Chapter 7: The Animation System

10. Chapter 8: Animation Modifiers

11. Chapter 9: Animation Drivers

12. Chapter 10: Advanced and Modal Operators

13. Part 3: Delivering Output

14. Chapter 11: Object Modifiers

15. Chapter 12: Rendering and Shaders

16. Index

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Appendix

Part 2: Interactive Tools and Animation

This section explains how to write add-ons as folders rather than single files, interact with the animation system, and write modal operators that wait for user input. By the end of this section, you will be able to write advanced, interactive tools.

Chapter 6, Structuring Our Code and Add-Ons

This chapter explains how to write and distribute addons containing multiple files in a folder.

Here’s a summary of the topics discussed in the chapter.

The relationship between modules, packages, and add-ons

While a single .py file is a Python module, a folder containing .py files is a Python package. Packages contain a file named __init__.py. If our package is an add-on, this file must contain the bl_info dictionary.