テンプレート:Release Notes/2.43/Python/Scripts

For detailed informations

	FYI
	Browse the online cvs repository

To read details about changes to any of the scripts mentioned below, please visit this link and click on the script's filename:

The scripts folder in Blender's online cvs repository

New Scripts

Click project from face: The 3 clicks to map from a face.

Follow Active Quads: road as a quad strip, using Loop Average mode to remove texture distortion.

Help: ID Property Browser by Joe Eagar

Browse the new ID properties.

Export: MDD exporter by Bill L. Nieuwendorp

Export animated mesh to MDD vertex keyframe file.

Import: MDD importer by Bill L. Nieuwendorp

Import MDD to Mesh RVKs.

Import: DXF Importer by Ed Blake

Import Drawing eXchange Format (.dxf) files.

Mesh: Solidify Selection by Campbell Barton

Makes the mesh solid by creating a second skin.

Object: Cookie Cut from View by Campbell Barton

Cut from the view axis, (Sel Meshes (only edges) into other meshes with faces).

Object: Randomize Loc Size Rot by Campbell Barton

Randomize the selected objects location, size and rotation.

UVCalculation: Click project from face by Campbell Barton

3 Clicks to project uvs onto selected faces.

UVCalculation: Follow Active (quads) by Campbell Barton

Follow from active quads.

UVCalculation: UVs from unselected adjacent by Campbell Barton

Assign UVs to selected faces from surrounding unselected faces.

VertexPaint: Copy from Material by Campbell Barton

Write material diffuse color as vertex colors. Insert non-formatted text here

Improvements and bug fixes

UV Export: user interface.

Most bundled scripts have been updated.

In general, improvements include better stability, usability and error handling, speed or at least updates to follow our guidelines and use newer API resources.

In particular, many import and export scripts have been improved.

Import / Export

3ds import / export
ac3d import / export
bvh import
collada 1.4 import / export (physics, mesh skinning and armature support)
collada export
DirectX8 import / export
flt filewalker
flt import / export
iv export
lightwave import / export
md2 import / export
obj import / export
off import / export
paths import (svg part)
ply import
raw import
save theme
slp import
truespace import / export
videoscape export
vrml97 export
x3d import / export
xfig export
xsi export

Others

animation trajectory
armature simetry
axis copy
bevel center
blender lip synchro
console
Consolidate into one image was "image auto layout, renamed to"
doc browser
envelope assign
envelope symmetry
faceselect same weights
hotkeys
image edit
image find paths
image auto layout
image billboard
mesh boneweight copy
mesh cleanup
mesh edges 2 curves
mesh mirror tool
mesh poly reduce
mesh skin
obdatacopier
object apply def
object batch name edit
radiosity import / export
uv from adjacent
uvcopy
widgetwizard
rename object by block
rvk1 to rvk2
vertexpaint selfshadow ao
unweld
uv archimap
uv export
weightpaint clean
weightpaint envelope assign
weightpaint gradient
weightpaint grow shrink
weightpaint normalize

Naturally this is an ongoing and very needed effort and we'd like to give a special mention this time to Campbell Barton (ideasman42), for his extensive work testing and updating the bundled scripts.

Removed

For this release some scripts have been removed. As always, reasons for this decision can be any of:

New features added to Blender itself make this script unnecessary.
There's another (somehow preferred) script with the same functionality.
The script is buggy or needs improvements, but there is nobody mantaining it.

Mesh: Mirror Bone Weights (mirror_bone_weights.py)
Mesh: Bbrush (mesh_bbrush.py)
UV: Relax selected UVs (uv_relax.py)
Mesh: Triangles to Quads (mesh_tri2quad.py)
Export: Cal3D (blender2cal3d.py)
Export: Nendo (nendo_export.py)
Import: Nendo (nendo_import.py)
Import: kmz (google earth) (kmz_ImportWithMesh.py)
UV: UV Texture Baker (tex2uvbaker.py)
Mesh: Knife Tool (knife.py)
Animation: Empties to Armature (animation_empties2armature.py)
UV: UV painter (uvpaint.py)
Mesh: Dispaint (disp_paint.py)

Projects

Manual

We're starting the Blender Scripts Manual in this very wiki. Right now there are only a few examples there. With time we expect to have online documentation for all bundled scripts, at least.

Our goal is to produce good quality material: readable, detailed and well illustrated. Volunteers always welcomed.

Blender Scripts Manual
Thread about improving scripts, where we discussed this project, too.

Catalog

Throughout the years hundreds (maybe thousands) of useful, interesting, amusing scripts have been written for Blender. Many of them have been available online, in sites and forums, for a while, but eventually became unmantained, unknown to most users, hard to find or even were lost.

Brendon Murphy (Meta-Androcto) began the extensive task of collecting Blender Python scripts to preserve them, to let other users find what they want and to help making those that don't work with current Blender releases be updated, if possible (*).

(*) It's not hard for a Python coder to update an old script, usually it's even trivial. The issue is licensing, actually. If we don't have permission from the original author, we can't do it. But at the very least, knowing about an old useful script and its features can be enough for an author to create something new out of it.

Some months ago Brendon was invited to expand on this work officially and for that he created the Scripts Catalog in Blender's wiki and has been updating it since then, with many entries already added. Future plans include better structuring of the data, helper scripts to handle it and, naturally, more scripts cataloged.

Scripts Catalog

Installer

Levi Schooley (reD_Fox) started researching and working on a script that can become our bundled installer, the user-friendly way to install scripts in Blender. Here's the official thread in the Python & Plugins forum at Blender Artists, with links to the script in its current state and preliminary documentation:

Installer's thread

Thanks

As always, thanks to the script authors for creating and updating their scripts. Thanks also to users reporting problems and suggesting new features. We also welcome new volunteers, like Brendon and Levi, working in new projects to raise the bar on Blender scripts and scripting. Last but not least, thanks to all programmers adding features to Blender and making them available to the Blender Python API.