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Blender 3D
Blender add-on development – manifest file
Starting with Blender 4.5, the developers fundamentally changed the approach to developing Blender add-ons. Now – Extensions, rather than Add-ons. The old add-on format still works correctly, and if you don’t intend to publish your add-ons in the official Blender Extensions library, you don’t need to change anything. However, if you want your add-ons to be supported by Blender in the future, it’s a good idea to make some changes now. One such improvement is the creation of a manifest file.
.toml file on Patreon
Creating procedural pine tree branch in Blender using Geometry Nodes
Creating procedural pine tree branch in Blender using Geometry Nodes by Ryan King Art.
Blender add-on “EEVEE Materials Override” v. 1.3.3
Blender add-on “EEVEE Materials Override” updated to v. 1.3.3.
- Fixed issues for compatibility with Blender 5.1.
- Tested with Blender 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1
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Changes in node tree creation for compositor in Blender 5.0
In Blender 4.5 and earlier, the compositor only supported one node tree per scene. To initialize it in the compositor, we had to on the “Use Nodes” checkbox in the area header. The node tree was created automatically and immediately connected to the scene. Starting with Blender 5.0, the developers introduced the ability to create multiple node tree variants for the compositor. The method for creating node trees in the compositor has also changed.
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Creating procedural black leather material in Blender
Creating procedural black leather material in Blender by Ryan King Art.
Blender add-on “Neoner” v. 1.1.7
Getting an on-screen bounding box for an object in Blender
For calculating simplified interactions between objects, bounding boxes are typically used—parallelepipeds whose volume completely encloses the entire mesh geometry. Because such a box has and uses only six points for calculations, unlike the mesh itself, which can have millions of points, all calculations are very fast. Every object has a built-in bounding box, and its display can be enabled in the mesh’s parameters. This bounding box operates in 3D scene space, but there could be some cases when we need to control object interactions in 2D screen space. There are no pre-calculated bounding boxes for the viewport, but we can get one ourselves using the Blender Python API.
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