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!

[@MikeShah]

Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed! 🙂

[@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.

[@MikeShah]

Thank you! Yes, I hope this gets folks started :)

[@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.

[@MikeShah]

Cheers! Agreed -- at some point I hope to chop this talk into smaller more interactive lessons and continue to expand on these lessons.

[@adisage]

@@MikeShah that'll be awesome!

[@evanmcarthur478]

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

[@MikeShah]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@naninano8813]

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

[@MikeShah]

Good catch -- indeed a floating point value representing number of seconds passed. I think I'm use to some APIs returning a 'long' representing some unit of time that has passed as an integer 😅

[@CGPython]

Oh! This is awesome!! Thanks Mike!

[@MikeShah]

Cheers!

[@rodolflum3444]

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.

[@MikeShah]

Noted! I'd like to do a follow up talk (i.e. Day 2 of scripting) or otherwise I'll post more videos on my channel over time.

[@bakeer2018]

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

[@justinmedeiros7988]

He references the GIT where it is available