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Sybren Stüvel
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Introduction & copy-pasting

After introducing himself and this training course, Sybren shows how to start scripting Blender.

  • Introduction
  • Computers are stupid
  • Using the Python console
  • Copying stuff from Blender's user interface
  • Changing properties of objects
  • Sources of information

Links from the video

  • Blender's Python API documentation. This link is for daily builds, so it may be for a newer version of Blender than you're currently using. If you want the documentation for your version of Blender, go to Help → Python API Reference in Blender itself.
  • Python Standard Library. Here you can find lots of information about Python itself.

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Andy Cuccaro
Andy Cuccaro
June 29th, 2023

Hi, I'm just going to start watching this series and I was wondering if is there a way to download the slides? I haven't found any link other than for downloading the video and its subtitles.

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Aug. 1st, 2023

@Andy Cuccaro I don't think I put the slides as downloads anywhere. Poke me on Blender Chat, I'm fairly certain I can dig them up somewhere.

Patrick R Roza
Patrick R Roza
April 24th, 2022

Great series and would like to your vscode integation with blender. Maybe some bender python file structure.I want to write scripts that use other 3rd party modules and output to blender for visuals ( web scrap data then blender to give visuals). Also using python to create node configurations.  These are things that could make a new training series.

Troy Carpenter
Troy Carpenter
Dec. 7th, 2021

It seems in more recent versions of blender when you hover over something and press control-c you are copying that fields value and not the the python path. Is there a new hotkey?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Jan. 4th, 2022

@Troy Carpenter for editable fields, use ctrl+shift+c to get the data path.

Jim Conrad
Jim Conrad
April 14th, 2021

Autocomplete hotkey is TAB in Blender 2.8+

Ludwig Heijden
Ludwig Heijden
Dec. 24th, 2020

You made me buy a cloud account. Grrrrrr Sybren!

(thank you)

Julian Darley
Julian Darley
Nov. 5th, 2020

at 6.17, in the Help Menu one can see an Operator Cheat Sheet. clicking on it seems to do nothing, but in fact, a text file has been created and it can be viewed by selecting it in the Text Editor window under the text dropdown (see the text doc icon). if you keep clicking it (as i did before discovering what was happening), you will create more and more copies of the cheat sheet.

Julian Darley
Julian Darley
Nov. 5th, 2020

at 4.20: auto-completion now uses tab rather than control space (in B2.90 - not sure about B2.8)

Julian Darley
Julian Darley
Nov. 5th, 2020

at around 4 minutes, manipulating the scale: is it correct that scale multiplication is always done with respect to the original object? in other words, with this example command bpy.data.objects['Cube'].scale = (0.5, 0.3, 0.2) will it always make the cube the same size, rather than shrinking it from whatever size it is at the moment of executing the command?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
June 3rd, 2021

@Julian Darley Yup, the scale is always relative to the original size of the object.

jamesrossbond
jamesrossbond
Nov. 4th, 2020

I have blender 2.9.01. is this course something I can do with it?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
June 3rd, 2021

@jamesrossbond Of course! Apart from a few minor things, Blender still works the same.

Jenae Renee Jordan
Jenae Renee Jordan
Sept. 16th, 2020

Thank you so very much for this course, Mr. Stuvel.

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Sept. 16th, 2020

Very nice indeed. Especially copying from Blender into the search of (Api)the documemtation, is what I did not know , a feature I will use probably a lot.

And congratulations Sybren to your way to giving lessons: Introduction what you will talk about, the talk, AND a recapulation of what has been shown. Great!

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Neil Brown
Neil Brown
May 7th, 2020

Using Blender version 2.82 out of the box the python code doesn't show, I had to tick Python Tooltips in menu Edit > Preferences > Interface

dangnhattoan
dangnhattoan
May 18th, 2020

*@Neil Brown* Thanks.

Marjorie Chan
Marjorie Chan
Feb. 9th, 2020

For those using it for 2.81, UV Sphere now uses the radius key instead of size

bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_uv_sphere_add(radius=0.1, location=(1, 1, 1))

Luis Felipe Peredo Noguez
Luis Felipe Peredo Noguez
Feb. 11th, 2021

@mclifeisagame Thank you

Yule Mayevsky
Yule Mayevsky
Jan. 12th, 2020

i am copying exactly like you. and i get an IndentationError: unexpected indent

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Sept. 27th, 2020

*@Yule Mayevsky* Python is whitespace-sensitive, so make sure that the indentation is correct and that you're not mixing tabs and spaces.

李杰
李杰
Nov. 26th, 2019

great!!!

Arnar Ómarsson
Arnar Ómarsson
March 8th, 2019

Should all of this (and the rest of this course) apply to Blender 2.8 Beta (2019-03-03)? Or should I wait for the official release?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
March 12th, 2019

*@Arnar Ómarsson* Much of these techniques will work on 2.8 beta, but there have been significant API changes. With that link you should be able to get quite far, though. Soon I'll start preparing to update things for Blender 2.80; not sure in which form or when that will be available on the Cloud though.

Björn Strandberg
Björn Strandberg
Nov. 21st, 2018

I get this error:

>>> bpy.data.objects("Cube").location.x Traceback (most recent call last): File "<blender_console>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'bpy_prop_collection' object is not callable

>>> bpy.data.objects("Cube").location[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<blender_console>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'bpy_prop_collection' object is not callable

what am i missing? Blender 2.79b MAC

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Nov. 22nd, 2018

@Björn Strandberg: You're writing a function call objects(...) instead of trying to index a collection objects[...] -- note the use of parentheses for the former, and brackets for the latter.

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Björn Strandberg
Björn Strandberg
Nov. 25th, 2018

Thanks a bunch!@Sybren A. Stüvel:

Gemma María Rull
Gemma María Rull
Nov. 9th, 2018

Great!

PlumpMath
PlumpMath
Feb. 3rd, 2018

Transcript please. (no subtitle)

Pete Robie
Pete Robie
Dec. 23rd, 2017

Hi Sybren. I've been trying to create a selection box with a file browser and I've had no luck as of yet. I know it's a little more advanced, but would you mind pointing me in the right direction?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Dec. 24th, 2017

@Pete Robie: The importance here is to think from the data perspective, and not from the GUI perspective. If you want to have a file selector, the property to store the selected file should have subtype='FILE_PATH'. Blender will draw an appropriate interface for you then.

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Pete Robie
Pete Robie
Dec. 24th, 2017

@Sybren A. Stüvel: Thank you.

Konrad Welz
Konrad Welz
Oct. 8th, 2017

This is so excellent! Great delivery and graphics. Already worth my monthly subscription. More tutorials like this are always welcome. Thank you.

LUKE MORGANE GABIN EWENN
LUKE MORGANE GABIN EWENN
Aug. 29th, 2017

I just love this series of video. It's just technical enough not to be boring and still the examples are simple enough to be understandable. Great job. I'm already using all that in my latest project. I'm Done with monkey business !

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Aug. 29th, 2017

@luke.video: Thanks!

Jimmy Gunawan
Jimmy Gunawan
Aug. 22nd, 2017

Copy paste while hovering on command is handy indeed. Cool~

Johan Tri Handoyo
Johan Tri Handoyo
Aug. 21st, 2017

copy and paste doesn't work for me. I'm using Blender 2.78c 64 bit in Ubuntu 16.04. Any idea why?

Sybren Stüvel
Sybren Stüvel
Aug. 22nd, 2017

@johantri: What are you doing exactly? Which buttons are you pressing? Where is your mouse cursor when you press them?

Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego
Luciano A. Muñoz Sessarego
Aug. 21st, 2017

Really great, i also love that you put the slides!, it makes easy to go back and check stuff for reference!, good job sir!

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