Questions tagged [python]
Python is an object-oriented programming language. In Blender, it is used as a general purpose scripting language and to create add-ons to extend Blender's functionality.
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How to add copy of an object from a controller without Logic Brick being present?
I mean without controller being connected to Edit Object > Add Object Brick. Furthermore, I need to add that object at a specific location, instead of putting it ...
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How to change contrast in a popup window?
I want to use a popup window to indicate some failure in our Addon. However i noticed that the default theme does not create enough contrast between background and text color:
I found where in the ...
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Python call of import image as plane
I am building a simple python script that creates a plane with an image (image as plane addon). I call blender by the command line :
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How to create vertex transition from one mesh to another using shapekeys
I have two objects imported from photogramometry scans. They have at most few milions of vertices and are triangulated. I would like to produce a mesh with added shapekey which could show morph from ...
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How do I get bookmarks to appear in 'fileselect' panel?
I'm a newbie to both Blender and Python so I'm not sure of the terms I use.
I have a number of button events that bring up the file select panel using
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Is there a python api for texture painting?
Is there a means to script texture painting (cloning) in blender. I will have three uv maps, one for front , one for side and one the unwrapped mesh. I want to clone texture from the front and the ...
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How to export tangent data from blender with python [duplicate]
I an trying to implement normal mapping in opengl es for which i need the per vertex tangent data. Is there some means to get that from python blender api
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How to take a screenshot of blender from within another thread in Python?
I am desperately trying to stream Blender's UI over HTTP:
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How do I get sIBL GUI to work on Mac OS X?
I downloaded the sIBL GUI, and it works as a standalone perfectly. I watched a tutorial on how to use it in Blender at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o198WjOBtIE -- but in User Prefs when I attempt ...
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Access Audio Strips Sample data in Python for a Cross-Correlation
I want to perform an Audio Cross-Correlation in Blender (like with numpy.correlate) to align two Audio Strips. But I can't figure out how to access the Sample Data of an Audio Strip inside Blenders ...
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Automatic reuse same-property materials
I have many objects created by importing some .wrl files and joining several meshes toghether. The result is a set of blender objects, each with a long list of ...
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Deleting a face, if there are two ore more holes in a circumference with a defined radius at a defined angle
This is a very specific question:
I created a plane. On it there are some faces deleted. I want blender to check every other, not deleted face, if there is in a specific circumference (red) at a ...
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Why do scripts work when run from text editor but fail when run as an add-on
for example auto smooth set angle value fails when pie is run as an add-on
but it works when run from the text editor
this makes no sense to me or I cannot figure out what is wrong.
here is a link ...
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How to add modifier to multiple objects via pie menu?
So here is my current pie menu. It works quite well but only on one object sadly.
What would be the best way to design a poll function so that based on what modifier type I select in the pie it will ...
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Is it possible to decide where menu is drawn next to pie button?
I would like the menu to showup left to the pie button and not right. Is that possible?
pie.menu("edge.menu2", text="Edge Menu")
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Having trouble with multiple animations triggered by key presses in the game engine
I have very little Python knowledge and I'm trying to get a character to play one animation when the A key is pressed, a different animation when the D key is pressed, a different animation when the W ...
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When calling a Pie is it possible to do multiple LMB licks before it goes away?
for example when you include a menu with multiple options in a pie and you want to click two. After each LMB click the pie goes away, so you have to call the pie menu twice.
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Calling a function on duplicating
I am wondering if it is possible to call a Python function inside a Blender when an object with a name that starts with foo_ gets duplicated? Thanks in advance.
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Why does Redo.Last command not work after executing a modeling command via Py script?
I noticed that when you write an operator lets say to extrude or crease an edge
and as the last step add the code for calling the F6 Redo.Last command, everything will be executed and work besides the ...
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Move 3D cursor via current active object?
You cannot really drag the 3D cursor or snap it in Blender which is not ideal.
So I thought one could do this:
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Scripting - Import, save, delete - Loop
I'm trying to create a python script in Blender, here are the steps I want to follow:
I have an existing scene where I want to import a specific .blend file from ...
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Can't see any indication in the 3D view , when changing mesh properties from python console [duplicate]
Im using blender 2.75 in windows , i try to change the default cube model simple property data.edge[0].bevel_weight to 1.0
but i don't see any bevel change in the ...
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Reading and set the material content of a .blend
My object is saved in .blend file with the material "mat1". I apply another material for my object (without my Register file). Now I want with python, apply the material "original" (assigned in the ....
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Issue with running blender player over ssh
I have a blender simulation which uses Blender Render and Blender Game Engine. I execute the following script(Renderer.py) from a python file(simulation.py) using "./blender -b compress.blend --python ...
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Blender UI freezes for a few seconds after changing my custom drop-down
I've written a script that adds a dropdown to the 3D view sidebar. When I change the value in the dropdown, the Blender UI freezes for a few seconds and I can't click on anything. What am I doing ...
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Blender Game Engine: Order of vertices in a mesh
I have built some kind of random shape generator which in realtime alters the shape of a cube with 60 vertices.
However I've noticed that the vertices aren't in any specific order (or are they?) so ...
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Creation of Navigation mesh object dynamically
I have a grid and at run time my application determines certain path on the grid. As shown in the image. When the path is calculated, I have list of center of all the cells, for example starting from '...
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Load vertex animation
I have a vertex animation in text form (deserialized unreal vertMesh). It is a series of units: frame # 0 (vertex#0, Vertex#1 , Vertex#2 .. Vertex#N), frame # 1 (vertex#0, Vertex#1 , Vertex#2 .. ...
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How to merge two meshes together, automatically fill all holes and remove intersecting faces
I am writing a procedural mesh generator for modern low poly planets in python.
The addon works like that:
At first a mesh is created (cube, uvsphere, icosphere, ...). For continent creation a ...
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stitching image slices together with python or compositor
Hi I'm creating 3d panoramic spherical renders and as far as i can tell 2.75 doesn't really support that out of the box. So I found the work around is animating the camera and creating 360, 12px ...
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uv mapping moving images on a mesh with dynamic distortion correction in python
I have a series of images I want to project on to a mesh as a "movie" using a script. There is distortion that I need to compensate. I can provide a list of pixel coordinates that map to some vertices,...
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How to calculate rotation value of 2 connected edges corner?
I can take 2 edges bisector angle value with middle = (theta1+theta2)/2, but I don't know how to calculate rotation value that direction is always outwards from the corner.
I need rotation value for ...
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blender python plugin error
Can some one help me with my blender ftp code, It runs fine in the text edit but when it turn it into a plugin and run it there is an error with ...
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change the sscene before deleting an object
How can I perform some actions before deleting an object.
If I have an object that has a relation with some other objects in the scene. and the object was selected in the screen then deleted.
How ...
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Custom UIList, nothing happens when double clicking list item to change name [duplicate]
I am trying to use template_list with custom items but I cannot make them change values on double click. I want to change 'name' property the same way I can rename items in other lists (with double ...
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collision bounds with python?
I have a plane and I want to set its collision bounds programmatically (I have some other objects in my scene and I want it to act as a floor). How do I do this? Couldn't really find anything ...
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Get agent to move using commands stored in separate file? [duplicate]
I have a script that allows a cube to be moved using WASD. I'd like to avoid having to use actual keyboard input for that and thought about creating a separate file with commands like "Wkey" and such. ...
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How can I draw in the 3D view with Python?
I want to write a script for blender, and I wonder how can I draw something using python in the 3D view? Like lines or triangles? I mean something like debug drawing.
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How to make an operator to access custom screen, scene, brushes, etc
I want to make an operator (to put in a menu) to be able to select custom scenes, screens, brushes, etc. I look in the info panel when I switch to one, but Blender doesn't display how it switches to ...
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How to change a python script which was distributed via blender?
I am having some problems with Smart UV Project (Smart UV project creates overlapping uv-coordinates).
The wiki says that Smart UV Project searches seams and uses them to unwrap the mesh (https://www....
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Drawing relationship lines in the view between 2 objects via Python - possible?
If there are 2 objects in the scene, one has a custom property with the name of another object, is it possible to draw a colored solid or dotted line between those two in 3D/ortho view ?
Looks like ...
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How to create a moving HUD?
I didn't know how to title this, but there is an effect video games generally have that I would like to achieve. If you have, for example, a turret in your vision, a healthbar will appear on it. if ...
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Blender game: get face orientation (stacking blocks)
I have a cube and I want to spawn another cube right on top of it. (it should work for other shapes like a pyramid, too). The tricky part is, that the first cube (or pyramid) moves randomly around.
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call exporter with python
I see that it's possible to call a basic exporter, like fbx, with a command like:
bpy.ops.export_scene.fbx(...)
But, what if I want to use any of the other ...
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Game Engine - Getting depth map
Would someone let me know how I can get the depth map for each frame of my rendered animation? By depth map, I mean an image that shows the distance of each point on objects from the camera.
It seems ...
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Shortened properties in GE?
For some of my properties, the numbers would sometimes read something like 0.1231231230938..., which basically is absurd. Is there a way to duplicate this property ...
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Q: Remove materials using same image? (Python?)
I've ripped a model from within an emulator. It creates an .OBJ that has hundreds of materials using the same image with different names
[Material1(image1.png.001, image1.png.002); Material2(image1....
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Blender Game Engine, python inserting a cube at coordinates [duplicate]
First of all I am a BIG noob at blender but not at python. I want to maker some python games so I thought that blender would be great for this.
I am half way through making my simple game where you ...
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Printing items too many times?
I am starting to have a lot of scripts going on at the same time, most of which go on every tick and print on every tick. When I go to the console to see what is going on, I see a ton of items ...
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