I have many files containing different parts of my blender internal material collection. How can I make a script which imports all of them into another blend file?
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$\begingroup$ This is easily possible without python. Do you need to use python? (I'm pretty sure it's possible with python too) Or is a gui solution acceptable? $\endgroup$– gandalf3 ♦May 14, 2014 at 8:56
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$\begingroup$ I would need to do it many times and on many files, and it would go nicely with the script i have already made. i know that you can press Shift+F1 to import from other blend files. It would need to be a python script. $\endgroup$– ArtmoleMay 14, 2014 at 9:56
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There is some archaic way you could do this with bpy.ops.wm.append() but a better way is to work with the api available via bpy.types.BlendDataLibraries.
import bpy
# using a relative path
path = "//file_name.blend"
with bpy.data.libraries.load(path) as (data_from, data_to):
data_to.materials = data_from.materials
As a sanity check or for logging purposes, you can loop through what was appended and see if everything is there as it should be
for mat in data_to.materials:
if mat is not None:
print(mat.name)
As it relates to many files, it should be simple enough to extend the script to also loop through a list of filenames to append materials from. A final note, the materials appended have no users so make sure to stick them somewhere before closing your file.
