Python: How to Bulk Load Image Textures in Blender

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.

Blender: How to Loop an Image Sequence into Textures

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 […]

Processing: How to Randomize Textures

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 […]

Python: How to Export All the UV Layouts in Blender

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 […]