Blender Python Scripting



Blender 2.8 Tutorial, learn python scripting (for beginners)In this video we will be taking a look at a basic introduction to Blender Python for beginners. I am trying to render and save multiple images through python script in blender. I know how to render and save the image through the Blender GUI but I want to do it all through my script since I am using a set of nested loops and need to save multiple images. I am able to render the image and I guess save the image with the output being successful. This tutorial is an introduction to scripting and it shows how to write scripts that use Blender’s powerful features. The tutorial starts by showing how to u.

The Python Console is typically used for typing in snippets and for testing to get immediate feedback, but can also have entire scripts pasted into it. Scripts can also run from the command line with Blender but to learn scripting in Blender this isn’t essential. This is a follow-up to a primer on creative coding in Blender, and so will presume a certain level of familiarity with creative coding in Python. Those who prefer to learn scripting from videos may instead enjoy Tamir Lousky’s Generating, automating and processing 3D graphics with Blender’s python API. This tutorial was written with Blender.

Blender Scripting Examples

After several months of work, the course I authored on Lynda.com has finally released! It contains over 2 hours of training to bring up any blender users to speed with python scripting. Course description:
Make Blender better by harnessing the power of Python. Whether you’re an artist or a developer, scripting is a great selling point to add to your resume. […] These techniques will take your Blender skills to the next level and help you enter an exciting new world of Python programming.
Blender scripting api

Topics include:

Blender
  • Controlling Blender with code
  • Exploring the bpy library
  • Creating Blender operators and properties
  • Writing scripts
  • Auto running scripts
  • Drawing interface elements such as panels and menus
  • Building a custom add-on

The first several courses are free for anyone to view, so be sure to check them out.

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Import-Export SuiteIO-Menu.zip (for v2.32)
This suite of Python modules enables Blender to read and write ten 3D file formats. It allows radiosity solutions to be exported to trueSpace, Wings3D, VideoScape, Nendo, and LightWave.

It was formerly called the Radiosity Import Export Suite mainly because it was developed to import/export vertex-colored meshes using my own custom file format (*.radio), and because I wanted to know how vertex colors and meshes were stored. But now UV support and other formats have been added (see the table below).

Blender Python Scripting

Includes some nice sample objects IO-Examples.zip to get you started: cornell-box.radio, hand.radio, plane.radio, sphere.radio, torus-knot.radio, and lumpy-torus.radio.

Blender Python Scripting Animation

Format

I/O

UV

VCOL

Application

*.mesh

R/W

R/W

_

LightFlow

*.ndo

R/W

_

W

Nendo

*.cob

R/W

R/W

W

trueSpace

*.scn

R

R

_

trueSpace

*.obj

W

_

_

VideoScape

*.radio

R/W

_

R/W

Radio

*.lwo

R/W

W

W

LightWave

*.raw

R/W

_

_

Raw Triangle

*.off

R/W

_

_

DEC Object

*.wings

R/W

_

W

Wings3D

Blender Python Examples

For Blender 2.28
Extract IO-Suite2.zip to a directory on your pythonpath (or your BlenderDir), then run the contents of IO-Suite1.zip to import or export. Most of the new work is in the lightwave module (matererial indices, vertex colors, materials, specular highlights, etc.).