Getting Started with Scripting in Python

Abstract: Blender3D is a powerful tool for 3D modeling, animation, rigging, texturing, drawing, vfx, and more -- but what happens when a feature is not available in your respective domain? Good news -- you can create it yourself! In this talk, I will be showing beginners how they can get started creating their first add-on to the Blender3D ecosystem using Python. This talk will show you how to get started with the scripting interface for artists with minimal programming experience, or programmers who want to write tools that integrate into the Blender3D ecosystem. Folks will leave this presentation understanding how to write, package, and find more information to develop awesome scripts where they need!

"Getting Started with Scripting in Python" by Mike Shah --

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[ArtVandelayInc]

Great job of presenting kind of complex stuff in a simple way. Thank you for this!

[madamHermit]

A fantastic intro vid, really manages to get a lot of concepts/tools across to help people figure things out on their own, even if some of the technical details are hand-wavy/swept under the rug.

[skysuraj]

Best teacher. He has a youtube channel also.

[adisage]

Hey Mike,
I have been using Blender Python for a couple of years now, and I was able to learn a lot of new tricks, thanks to your talk!

Quick tip : It's more fun to see things happen than just hear about how it works.
For example : at 32:24, it would've been interesting to see the printed results of the calculated bounding box and match them with the object dimensions.

[pmrowoj]

Great presentation. Thank you for sharing 💪

[naninano]

13:50 'this is integer' - lol why does it have dot in there?

[evanmcarthur]

Mike is a boss I’m still trying to get through this OpenGL videos they are great🙏🏾

[HarvestrX]

Mine doesn't create an accurate bounding box unless I keep the code in to create the cube as well. So I have a cube and a rectangular prism bounding box. If I take out the cube, I get points but they make some intertwined triangles. Also, it is merged with the original object I'm trying to make a bounding box around. I wouldn't recommend this as the intro to Blender Python to ANYONE!

[bakeer]

can You share the code please?, thanks for your great explanation

[rodolflum]

little more direct approach on the presentation would be great, its kind of slow with a few redundant unnecesarry explanation. but great presentation a bit hanging on the end.