For the genuinely confused.
I have an obsession with timelines, which honestly may be bordering on manic and unhealthy. A 3D timeline has been on my back-burner for months because while I have written a function that auto-creates materials in Python, I had not yet mastered the art of applying image textures to those materials.
That’s today’s project.
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Animated textures in Blender is a thing! Immediately after finding that out, I set out to script a grid crawler texture in Processing. Because no one in their right mind would want to draw that by hand.
A Bit Of Everything has a post with the logic for a static grid, but somehow getting an animated version ate 3 hours of my life. All in all, it took about 12 tries. What I love about Processing is that even bad guesses can have pleasing results.
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Scenes with custom textures always seem to turn out better for me, but they’re hellish to make. I’ve spent hours in GIMP hand-drawing patterns, carefully testing out layers to get effects. It’s a hassle.
However, I’m learning to automate more of that sort of thing with Processing. What’s really nice about that is you can get a texture that changes subtly every time you run the script if you use the Random function to assign coordinates, weights, and transparency values.
This week is not a Python breakdown week. It’s just the code because my brain is still recovering from Scheme tutorials. And I really wanted to make a functional (or semi-functional) batch UV layout exporter. The script below does a blanket Smart UV Project for all selected objects and stashes the resultant UV layouts into a specified folder.
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