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Delete vertices one by one, when using the 'Add Mesh: Extra Objects' addon to plot points
I am using the 'Add Mesh: Extra Objects' addon in Blender to plot points at specified coordinates. Each point is added to a mesh of points instead of being a separate object. My goal is to implement a ...
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Minimal object add-on UI with sub-meshes and Redo
I finally have this working UI, after exploring many rabbit-holes, so wanted to share it in the hope of improving its performance.
Follow-up to this question.
The key goal is to preserve the 'redo' ...
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Select and join specific objects into one in python
I'm making a plugin to extract meshes from a game.
Actually, it extracts well the vertices and indicies/faces of each mesh.
Blender version: 3.2.0
Addon target: <...
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How to bundle 3D meshes and assets with an addon
I am thinking about adding 3D objects to my addon, and implementing an "add object" interface that allows a few simple, limited geometrical transformations (like scale width and height).
I ...
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Getting crazy about activating/deactivating objects with python on a blender add on
Working on my add on, and I'm slightly getting mad because I have things that gave different results and should not....
So I have scripts, in scripts, in scripts. When I execute 2 levels on blender, ...
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Why does 'bpy.context.object' return 'None' when accessed by an operator in a panel?
I wanted to switch between Display modes with hot keys.
And I decided to write my own operator for this and create a small add-on to be able to start using hot keys and switch between these modes.
The ...
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How to update Blender's naming index thing (.001, .002, etc.) after joining objects
I've been trying to reuse certain parts of code as functions in my bpy scripts. But that means that the same bmesh will be created as 'my_bmesh.001' the next time I run that function. To deal with ...
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Creating a python script that will add objects in fixed time intervals
I want to create a python script that will add objects at a fixed time intervals. So for example, when I run my script, I want to add a cube, and 1 second later I want to add another cube at a ...
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Python Join Same Name function
I'm getting this error and am not quite sure how to fix it
Please see below for my code....
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Custom property hops{}
Blender 2.78c adds an object custom property hops{} which is labeled "API Defin" - can't be edited, won't stay deleted, can't find docs on it. Anyone know what it is and if it's documented somewhere?
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Create object using operator (bpy.types.Operator)
I faced the situation when I have to create an object using an operator. However, documentation says that operators "can’t pass data such as objects, meshes or materials to operate on (operators use ...
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Ellipse Construction Advice
I'm working on a add-on for Blender, and part of this add-on requires me to calculate the position verts along the arc of an ellipse. At the moment, I'm using the { ...
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How to have a boundary box around a whole group instance?
Enabling bounds display on a group instance draws bounding boxes for each individual object:
How to have a boundary box around the entire group instance? Via python or not. It seems to possible, this ...
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How to create properties for new object types
I try to create some properties for custom primitives in property group classes and I want to access them from an operator in another .py file to create primitives, ...
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Update StringProperty on object selection change?
I have a StringProperty that I want to show the name of the selected object. Currently, I update the property by invoking an operator manually from a panel. However,...
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