Blender

a free competitor to Max and Maya

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• Pyblish
  • Pyblish let’s you create content pipelines, and is aimed at VFX & games.
• Blender addon
  • Blender addons can be enabled in File/Preferences, add-ons tab.
• Blender Python
  • Since Blender dynamically adds paths to the Pythonpath, you need to pass custom sys.paths to subprocess when running commands
• learn technical art
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• Blender extensions
  • Blender 4.2+ catches this and triggers extension installation
• BQt
  • BQt enables Qt in Blender
• file browser
  • Blender has a file browser, which is basic and similar to the experience in explorer.
• Blender pip addon
  • A Python module manager for Blender, using pip
    
• unimenu dev notes
  • unimenu Blender teardown doesn’t work correctly, creates 2 menus when re-enabled
  • fix warnings unimenu Blender separator bug
• script marketplaces
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• qt blender addon browser
  • A add-on browser widget, to quickly open Blender add-on folders in explorer.
    https://github.com/hannesdelbeke/qt-addon-browser
  • make a Blender addon to extend the addon preferences.
• Blender doesn’t support editable Python packages
  • You can editable install to the user’s modules folder, but this will fail to import in Blender.
  • pass custom sys.paths to subprocess discovered that Blender doesn’t use site packages much
• Blender print icon names
  • Print all Blender icon names from icon items
• Blender node tools
  • Node tools are an accessible way to expand Blender and customize tools or addons without requiring Python. Similar to Unreal Blueprints but atm more limited.
• Blender custom icons
  • By default Blender only supports icons in the icon items enum
• blender launcher
  • Blender
    environment management
• qt_custom_window
  • all qt-s
    let dev choose if they want them.
    keep it simple to avoid advanced features such as aero breaking in e.g. Unreal or Blender.
• Blender N-Panel
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• animator
  • animation
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• restore last session
  • restore all previously opened tools in Blender or Autodesk Maya
• learn 3d
  • | app | cost | |
    | Blender | Free | |
    | [[Autodesk Maya | Maya]] | Paid |
    | [[Autodesk 3ds Max | Max]] | Paid |
  • | app | cost |
    | Blender | Free |
    | ZBrush | paid |
    | Mudbox | paid |
    | Sculptris | Free |
• Python pip
  • [!example]-
• Unreal plugin to symlink plugins
  • same for max, maya, Blender, …
• Blender Jupyter notebooks
  • Jupyter Notebook and Blender
• Blender con
  • convention about Blender
• Blender file size browser
  • it’d be great if you could see why a blend file is so big in Blender
    a hidden animation
  • Blender saves individual data blocks, which are readable with bpy.data but we can’t get their size.
• Blender geometry nodes
  • The Geometry nodes system is a node editor for Blender to modify the geometry of an object with node-based operations.
• Blender material editor
  • A node editor to create materials in Blender
• Blender user preferences
  • Blender preferences contains settings for Blender
• README
  • Search for something you are interested in, e.g. Blender, Unreal, Maya, Python, gamejam, tool browser
• Serpens 3
  • a node editor for Blender
• UCX generator addon
  • A Blender addon to generate UCX meshes for Unreal convex collision
• common blender errors
  • common Blender errors
  • no QApplication
    https://github.com/readyplayerme/blender-deform-test/issues/1
    #todo move this to its own note, and link in Blender deform test so its private 1way link
    https://github.com/plugget/plugget-qt/blob/main/plugget_qt/__init__.py
• free dcc apps
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• icons in Blender
  • Blender ships with the icon viewer addon
• plugin templates
  • Blender plugin template
• rocketblend
  • believe this has environment management for Blender
• transfer shapes
  • transfer shapes in Blender