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Blender 2.49 Scripting

By Michel J. Anders
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  1. Extending Blender with Python
    • Extending Blender with Python
    • The Blender API
    • Exploring built-in modules, the help() function
    • Getting familiar with the built-in editor
    • First steps: Hello world
    • Don't get confused, stay objective
    • Adding different types of object from a script
    • Summary
    • Creating and Editing Objects
    • Creepy crawlies—a GUI to configure objects
    • Transforming mesh topology
    • Dazzle your boss—bar charts in Blender style
    • Weird faces—selecting and editing faces in meshes
    • Selecting warped (non-planar) quads
    • Selecting ultra sharp faces
    • Selecting vertices with many edges
    • Selecting poles
    • Determining the volume of a mesh
    • Determining the centre of mass of a mesh
    • Growing sunflowers—parenting and grouping objects
    • Summary
    • Vertex Groups and Materials
    • Vertex groups
    • Modifiers
    • Bones
    • Materials
    • Summary
    • Pydrivers and Constraints
    • Getting to grips with animated properties
    • Difference between drivers and constraints
    • Programming with constraints
    • Programming with IPOs
    • PyDrivers
    • PyConstraints
    • Setting the time—one to rule them all
    • Internal combustion—correlating complex changes
    • Adding simple constraints
    • Defining complex constraints
    • Summary
    • Acting on Frame Changes
    • Animating the visibility of objects
    • Countdown—animating a timer with script links
    • I'll keep an eye on you
    • Revisiting mesh—making an impression
    • Summary
    • Shape Keys, IPOs, and Poses
    • A touchy subject—defining an IPO from scratch
    • A lot to swallow—defining poses
    • Get down with the beat—syncing shape keys to sound
    • Summary
    • Creating Custom Shaders and Textures with Pynodes
    • The basics
    • Regular tilings
    • Raindrops—animated Pynodes
    • Wuthering heights—a slope-dependent material
    • Soap bubbles—a view-dependent shader
    • Summary
    • Rendering and Image Manipulation
    • A different view—combining multiple camera angles
    • Now, strip—creating a film strip from an animation
    • Rendering billboards
    • Generating CAPTCHA challenges
    • Summary
    • Expanding your Toolset
    • To the Web and beyond—publish a finished render with FTP
    • Spring cleaning—archive unused images
    • Extending the editor—searching with regular expressions
    • Extending the editor—interacting with Subversion
    • The need for speed—using Psyco
    • Summary
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