Side notes, howtos and random bits of information related to Julien Deswaef's projects https://w.xuv.be/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:49:29 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://w.xuv.be/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg https://w.xuv.be/ https://w.xuv.be/workshops/blender/interface?rev=1434900032&do=diff Basic modeling in Blender using the interface The interface Opening a fresh Blender, you have 5 panels (from left to right, top to bottom): * Info panel With basic menus, interface layout menu, scene menu, render engine selection and some infos about the project anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 21 Jun 2015 15:20:32 +0000 https://w.xuv.be/workshops/blender/loading_external_libraries?rev=1434836418&do=diff Loading external libraries An example where we are going to use the requests library and the xml.etree library to pull some content from the NYTimes website and display it in Blender. The finished script will look something like this: import bpy import requests from xml.etree import ElementTree as ElTree from math import pi as PI # A function to draw some text def addText( t, loc, rot=(PI/2, 0, 0) ): bpy.ops.object.text_add( enter_editmode=True, location = loc, rotation = rot ) … anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:40:18 +0000 https://w.xuv.be/workshops/blender/modeling_script?rev=1434836164&do=diff Modeling script We will go in details over the script pasted here: import bpy # Get first selected object ob = bpy.context.active_object # Get the faces of the selected object faces = ob.data.polygons bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode = 'EDIT') bpy.ops.mesh.select_all(action = 'DESELECT') bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode = 'OBJECT') print(len(faces)) for i in range(len(faces)): face = faces[i] face.select = True bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode = 'EDIT') bpy.ops.mesh.extrude_region_mo… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:36:04 +0000 https://w.xuv.be/workshops/blender/python_basics?rev=1434835787&do=diff Python basics Variables Python variables are very easy to set up and very flexible. a = 10 print(a) # 10 a = 2.5 print(a) # 2.5 a += a print(a) # 5.0 a = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ] print( a[2] ) # 3 len(a) # 5 a = "hello" a += " world" print(a) # hello world len(a) # 11 print(a[10]) # d anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:29:47 +0000 https://w.xuv.be/workshops/blender/python_tools_in_blender?rev=1434821238&do=diff Python tools in Blender The Scripting layout Blender has a handy “Scripting” layout ready for you, with * Info panel expanded to see what Python commands are being called when manipulating the interface * Text editor to write your scripts anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 20 Jun 2015 17:27:18 +0000