Python Scripts – BlenderNation

2021 In Review

Mario Hawat — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 16:55:39 +0000

The second year of the second decade of the second millennium is coming to an end, and Blender and its community have never looked better. In a world battered by unending crises and disappointments, Blender once again stands as a model of open-source endeavour, reaching millions and empowering them with the freedom to create. This [...]

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Surface Follow Script is now available

Rich Colburn — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:25:51 +0000

This script by Rich Colburn is going to change the way you think about cloth simulation and other animated deformed surfaces. At the 2016 Blender Conference I showed a script that lets you bind an object to the surface of another object. It's great for attaching accessories to already-rigged characters or any other situation where [...]

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Spaceship Generator

Bart — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:00:25 +0000

This Python script by Michael Davies will create spaceships with a lot of greeble for you. Check it out:

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Script: Network rendering for single frames

mahlon — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:00:06 +0000

Mahlon writes: I've seen various suggestions to split a single frame render across a farm of machines, but no completed "out of the box" examples or solutions. This script is one. I hope the blender community finds it useful. Blender users have been experimenting with all sorts of interesting ways to speed up render times [...]

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Creative Imagery with Blender-2-G'MIC

StarfallRobles — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:05:41 +0000

This connection to the G'MIC imaging processing framework adds a ton of processing options to the Sequence Editor. StarfallRobles writes: G'MIC is a sophisticated open-source framework for image processing. It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize image assets with over 460 different effects. Among these is a command-line interface, the popular G'MIC Plugin for [...]

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Always use the latest nightly build with BlenderUpdater

Community Reporter — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:47:56 +0000

Are you living on the edge? The nightly build contains the latest functionality and bug fixes, but may introduce some new unexpected problems too. With BlenderUpdater, you will always use the latest version. Tobias Kummer writes: Hey there! I wrote a tool to quickly update Blender to the latest nightly build. It's written in Python, [...]

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Development: Cleaning up Node Trees

Bart — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:06:35 +0000

Juha Wiiala is testing a Python script for cleaning/re-arranging node trees. Check out his video and get his code from GitHub. In combination with Auto-Offset, the Blender node editor is becoming quite a comfortable editor!

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Distributed single frame render for Blender Cycles

Community Reporter — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 15:15:22 +0000

This script will help you speed up rendering of a single frame by having multiple computers render parts of it. skororu writes: There seem to be plenty of options for the distributed rendering of animations, but far fewer options for sharing the task of rendering a single frame amongst local machines (and none that worked [...]

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Using Ps4 Controller in the Blender Game Engine (download)

Community Reporter — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:30:23 +0000

Dennis Haupt offers a .blend file that shows how to read our a PS4 controller using Python. This Blend File is a example on how to setup a Playstation 4 Controller with only one Python Script. The Script controls all Buttons, the Hat and the Analog Stick input, also the sensibility of the Analog Stick [...]

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AsyncIO inside Blender

Community Reporter — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:30:03 +0000

Andreas Klostermann demonstrates how to create threaded networking connectivity in Blender. My favorite feature: he's pulling BlenderNation headlines into Blender and shows them in 3D. I wouldn't mind having a fancy version of that as my startup .blend! %^) Anyone? Andreas Klostermann writes: Up to now, network programming in blender has been a nightmare and [...]

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