For those playing along at home: try changing the value of 1 for the Z location of the monkeys to X^Y. This (partial) tetrix or Sierpinski tetrahedron might enthuse the easily distracted. That's the bitwise XOR operator in action by the way, for powers you want something like X**Y. The result looks a lot less spectacular though.

now it's  bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(size=0.2, location=(x, y, 1)) instead of radius

Hmmm, should have rendered your shirts with filmic :D #Joking

If anyone has trouble finding the object(id) listing in the manual, as described in the video, it is here https://docs.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_master/bpy.types.Object.html

Perhaps this should be renamed "If you want to make 9 monkeys first create 600 monkeys!" :D

For some reason version 2.8 beta does not include the .hide method. :(

When I try to run the script, it keeps giving me an error that 'continue not in loop' Why is that?

Thank you for including Slides and Video for this presentation

I often return here to check something out, and the slides allow for fantastic speed to check the content at a glance. And the video is equally good because I can get a solid exploration of the concepts.

Hello, Seems like the code from these tutorials is not supported in 2.8 Is it planned to update the content?

the ctrl + space doesn't seem to work. Maybe something changed for 2.9? It seems to be TAB in console but in the text editor it just has text previously typed. Is it meant to work in text editor? Because trying to find the syntax in console then copying it into text editor is becoming very tedious.

Why is this not updated for 2.9?

The course is being interesting so far, but its not as friendly as it could be for non mathematically intuitive persons, this is to say to an artist that has low mathematical intuitive understanding some of the more math infused explanations will just go over ones head, the part where I started to not quite get things is when idx was introduced, I understood that the x = idx % 25 and y = idx // 25 are lines that distribute the 600 monkeys on the x and y axis at a constant spacing, but how that work mathematically I don't quite get, and the explanation of how that works was done in just a couple of fairly heavy mathematically infused lines of dialogue, the result is that for people like me the explanation did not served its purpose, but a person that has a more mathematically inclined mind tho, what you said must be alright tho. Another thing I think would be nice to have is to to have the files you initial start the project with available so the student does not has to guess as what the setup is on the lesson, its not a critical thing, as you can infer that watching the video, but it would be a nice thing to have, maybe I missed that tho, if you can download the project files for each lesson somewhere let me know.

Okay some of the code does not work in 2.92. I hade to change the line

Hello I'm having trouble running the scripts in blender 2.92. I'm sure the api has changed  and i was wondering in the examples what changed. The line I'm having rpoblems with is     bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(radius=0.2, location=(x, y, 1))

Code changed a bit for Blender 2.8 so this is my solution. Hope it will help someone who is stuck. import bpy

bpy.ops.object.select_all(False) for allObjects in bpy.context.scene.objects:     if allObjects.hide_set(True):         continue     if 'Cube' not in allObjects.name:         continue     allObjects.select_set(True)     allObjects.hide_set(False)

I believe Blender 3.0 code for 600 tiny monkey in rows of 25 is a little different  from the video.

3.0: "size" is used instead of "radius"

https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.ops.mesh.html?highlight=primitive_monkey_add#bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add

import bpy

for idx in range(600):

x = idx % 25

y = idx // 25

bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(size=0.2, location=(x, y, 1))

Try it with the z location of the monkeys set to x*y.

Quick question, when doing the monkey script, Blender would run the script while I was typing in the 'location' part? I did not hit run script. Is that a bug or a feature? Fun side effect, I was able to delete all the monkeys by using the select hidden script (modified).

On tutorial 3 and have no clue on what i'm doing. Is there like a lesson for the slow on here? lol

My understanding of this is a bit flawed, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how you can put anything in place of "ob" and it will return all of the objects in bpy.context.selected_objects. Are you assigning each object to "ob" with bpy.context.selected_objects?

Hello,

The code described in this video is not compatible with Blender 2.8. I've tried to make it work but there's something I am not doing right.

I hope the rest of the videos will work fine.

I'm not ok with the last two lines and there's something I'm not understanding in this page. Below is what I did (indentation not working)

Any help will be welcome.

import bpy
bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT')
for ob in bpy.context.scene.objects:
    if ob.hide_viewport:
        continue

    if '.00' not in ob.name:
        continue

    ob.select_set(True)
    ob.hide_viewport = False