3D Programming for Beginners Using Python and Blender 2.8, Tutorial

[@Olav3D]

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[@NicoMoessmer]

why i should use coding in blender i mean its such a great menu and software and i dont realy need this...i think

[@DaviSilveira]

That "info" panel just made my day!!!! Blender blends my passions for coding, 3D design and film making! Keep on spinning!

[@arthatamayusuf8848]

try this book. www.amazon.com/Learning-Blender-Python-Beginners-Understanding-ebook/dp/B07SL5VDCJ

[@NeonCipher]

This scripting series is going to be awesome! Thank you so much!

[@LUchesi]

I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to draw value from learning to code blender scripts, but by 3:33 you made me realize that I could fairly easily populate a city-scape or something like clouds and maybe with a tweak fog. Like, just changing out the mesh and the axes then adjusting aesthetically after populating. That's days of work saved on the first example you showed me... nice job.

[@RomanticNightDreamer]

just saw this on reddit, and i have to say, i tried in the past to learn blender but i put it on the backburner because i started learning python but now i can do both. thank you for this push, i knew you could use python to automate blender but i had no idea how & where to start. Now i cant wait to get me some free time & test it with my Collatz conjecture script i wrote recently i hope you'll make more of these.

[@aliensoup2420]

I'm not into 2.8 yet, but in 2.79 you can copy/paste a line from the Info window to the text editor. That way you don't have to type the entire line of code. Click each line in the info window you want to copy to add to the selection for entire blocks of code, or re-click a selected line to deselect it. Then just cmd-C to copy, and cmd-V to paste into the text editor. It also works to or from the Python console. Thanks for your detailed and concise tutorials.

[@Olav3D]

Thanks. Yes, you can also copy-paste from the info window in 2.8 too.

[@harryboteler5332]

Your tutorials will provide an excellent journey into Python Scripting for a total, somewhat reticent beginner like me. Many thanks

[@keifferbuckles8976]

So glad you're doing these! I have coding experience in Java and Javascript but I don't know python or how to do it in blender.

[@FitGlamLifestyle]

i have legit no knowdlge of scripting, - but my question is. - blender 2.8 does it only use python script, or can people also use c# im just wondering what to learn, and if i am waisting time learning C# if i only should use python for this. - .- sorry for the comment, but i am a noob when it comes to coding, and what software does what i have no idea.-

[@FreedomRower]

with c# use Unity and make the assets in blender for it

[@ns3aforyou724]

I watch you since of a week, you are very successful in teaching and explination blender. Pleasssee if you would, we need a playlist of tutorials in 2d animation blender

[@rsoulinternet]

A nice introduction. One thing to add: By default it's left-click select in Blender 2.8

[@ShutterAuthority]

Great tutorial Olav! I already feel more intelligent haha

[@Olav3D]

I`m glad to get a comment from you guys :)

[@criddycriddy]

Brilliant and clear teaching new sub great work

[@silverman1438]

Thank u 🙏🏻 for this intresting tutorial

[@travisbrooks1760]

Really cool that you made an updated version.. Much love from ya brotha from anotha motha n California

[@gayalkuruppu9387]

Superb video sir!

[@ratneshkeshari6785]

Thanks a ton for this excellent tutorial.... wanted to add a bit , m using blender 2.8 and I am able to copy script lines from info and directly paste on python editor.

[@Wren206]

Thanks, Olav! Great tutorial and very informative for beginners and intermediate learners as well!

[@QRCoal]

This would be great if you could see what is being written. As I could not see what was being written it was no use to me. Is it possible to get a text file of what you wrote in the text editor.

[@elizabethhamilton1166]

Easy to follow. I have never scripted in Python so I appreciate the quality of your tutorial.

[@accba236]

a Good tutorial one that let me more than like!

[@satori1312]

I like your tutorials because they are very useful. You are doing a great job here!

[@RedstoneFTW]

hey love this! one annoying request... could you up to 4k or increase the text size? Its a little hard to read at this size/res

[@Olav3D]

Yes, I will probably increase the text size next time. :)

[@ArnaudMEURET]

Of course! Because shooting in 4k just because the text is too small is not a waste of resources at all.

[@lime1453]

Thank you very much!

[@Anderson21G]

This is pretty cool, there's so much you can do with Blender.

[@BrianSheppard]

Fantastic video!

[@YIMOX]

amazing, i seeit all i wanna learn it all XD

[@FredLarsonK1FL]

Been looking for a tutorial on scripting. And for 2.8! Thanks

[@eggyrepublic]

So essentially, the 3D animation interface is just a very high level scripting language. Imaging making an animation just by using a Python script

[@yuanruichen2564]

Coding is like manufacturing and packages/libraries are just lathes and moldings

[@andrebullitt7212]

This is Great! Thanks alot.

[@chstk858]

Helped so much for my 3d project thanks!

[@KaletheQuick]

This is really good. I'm a pro python dev, and do 3d art with blender, but the scripting in blender always appeared kind of unapproachable for some reason. Thanks for demystifying it!

[@lazaredurand6675]

The command " bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(location=0,0,0))" does not work for me it answer me the error: " File "", line 1 bpy.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(location=0,0,0)) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax"

[@juancarlosaguirre892]

thanks for your video!

[@yuraamirov7893]

nice one . thanks !

[@fearcry]

Learn a lot, thank you for sharing Olav :)

[@Iwantsome_maura]

This is awesome thank you!

[@saideep025]

hi. Thanks for the informative video. If I want to generate the monkeys of different random sizes and no two monkeys are touching each other how can I do it?

[@ofeyofey]

Great tutorial Where can I get the code? Thanks

[@dendriloquist]

Thank you soooo much! we need more python - blender tutorials/courses. you explain it very well . please do not hesitate to make more ;)

[@mickyboy159]

Very simple!

[@rubenayla]

Very very well explained thanks

[@ryaneastwood6561]

how do you make sure the subdivision modifier only affects monkeys? or does it affect every shape that is put down? It does not reference any particular shape, not even the monkeys themselves, so what if you wanted to change only a few monkeys and not all of them?

[@WickedTwitches]

Your pc is insane. How do you render so quick

[@Olav3D]

Editing haha

[@nomr6788]

Which language should I learn for game development ?😵

Superb!

[@LeChat01234]

Awesome! Thank you so much!

[@kruger]

Great tutorial!

[@BLOODCHROMEDESIGN]

Nice, look forward to getting stuck in

[@Ianuarius]

Thank you for the tut!

[@taesiri]

That was cooool!

[@LukePettit3dArtist]

Many of the other things you did, needed to be scripted, for example, how to select only the mesh objects and not cameras or lights. There must be several ways to do the selection by, similar attributes, or as meshes, mustn't there!? Looking forward to more python Blender scripting.

[@calogiga]

Waouww ! Very very interesting !!!!!! Thanks !

[@kevinwetter4406]

Very nice tutorial series! Thumbs up! You used 500 monkeys and had quiet some calculation time. I tried a 1000 simple cubes and blender had trouble rendering them in the viewport. Is there a way to make this script more efficient? Like if I only generate a new mesh within an object instead of generating a whole new object every iteration? Would this help? And if so, is there a way to only add a mesh within an object?

[@SenoClub]

Olaff, you are cool!

[@12lcaldwell]

I tried to run the script but I got an error message in the info box that says "Python script failed, check the message in the system console" but I don't know how to do that on my macbook. Any suggestions?

[@theterrorengine5779]

Did you check the script to make sure there is no errors?

[@12lcaldwell]

I double checked there were no errors and simplified it to just be print(6*7) To test output, but I can’t find where the output displays since it says to check the system console. Where do I find that on a Mac?

[@fmenezes6272]

thanks so much for this =D .... i can make just one request ?! next codes could you make the script i little more big for we can see better ?

[@Olav3D]

Yup.

[@RougeTheWicked]

I've tried with "0.0.0" as well. I'm thinking it's the brackets I've inserted but then again, that's what I see between "add" and "location" and after the "(0.0.0)"

[@erik....]

@@RougeTheWicked It's not brackets, it's simple parantheses because it's a function. Maybe you should learn some basic Python too.

[@RougeTheWicked]

@@erik.... Thank you. I appreciate your sharing of knowledge.

[@AidenDe1]

@@RougeTheWicked the location thing at the start is (0,0,0)) important double bracket ending I took so long to see it in the video

[@himanshushekhar4590]

Can we assemble CT scan images using Blender?

[@petarpetrov5548]

Wow, you have one powerful machine, my laptop will choke on 10 monkeys with that setup :D

[@DRAVIASTUDIO]

Thanks thanks Man Awesome

[@deelveshbunjun7674]

instant subscribe!

[@carrapaz3645]

this is so ducking powerfull

[@isaacdobson8760]

can someone tell me what this means for I in range(0,number):

[@azulamazigh2789]

thanks man. more pleaaaaaaaaaase!.

[@nibblyproductions8196]

13:16 best thing i've ever seen

[@Olav3D]

Haha ;)

[@hamedmotealle1110]

Thank you so much Would you please put the code somewhere for download?

[@chainonsmanquants1630]

Thank you

[@ask_usb]

import bpy from random import randint number = 600 for i in range (0, number): x=randint(-30,30) y=randint(-30,30) z=randint(-30,30) bby.ops.mesh.primitive_monkey_add(location=(x,y,z))

[@ccb4911]

thanks for teaching us

[@dr.psprojects9591]

Cant see the code. Need to enlarge the type please.

[@DavidRisnik]

very good your tutorial, I already subscribed to your channel, congratulations. Now I have a doubt. Blender text is not accepting the division of my keyboard, nor the question mark. In normal text editors - this key types normal. Could you tell me why? Thanks hugs

[@nv3796]

how to read an existing 2D image (specially .svg) from computer disc and start playing with it to add effects ?

[@OSKESIS]

Ooooolove 3d

[@nigelpallatt]

Using colours in your script makes it hard to see, can you please use another more visible colour? Thanks, ps: love the tut's

[@linolafettatnet]

Thanks for taking your time to do a very basic introduction course. Much appreciated. I guess the "i" in "for i in range" means simply integer in range? Other than that it was all understandable :)

[@ClayonTutorials]

Actually, the "i" is just the name of the variable to store the current value of the for loop. The "range" creates a sequence of integers, starting at 0 (or a specified number) and ending at the specified value. For example, range(10) creates [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Technically, the range function is a generator, which is an iterator whose elements aren't all stored in memory at once. What that basically means is that instead of having a list, like above, and then iterating over each element, we can "create" each element as we iterate, so we save memory, especially if we have a succinct formula to produce a complex pattern that we want (or if we have large chunks of data that we'd like to process sequentially).

[@jmisc]

let's say I have a sphere, how do I add one type of primitives orthogonal to one side, and another different primitives to the other side? Please help.

[@VVLGANESHK]

How can I get android IMU data to blender to control camera in blender? The IMU apps have been provided python code

[@virtuous_pixel]

Does anyone else find it slightly odd that a primitive 'type' is not passed as the parameter to a primitive_add() function.. but instead each primitive has its own corresponding factory(?) function. If anyone has a reason for why this is that would be brilliant.. thanks!

[@lisapoirier5147]

Hi, thanks a lot for your tutorial. I'm new in Blender and I'm trying to write a python script in order to color and give a material (eg: transparent BSDF) to my object. Do you have any idea how to do it ? It could help a lot

[@fantakaba7201]

did you use python 2 or python 3?

[@KAYAPOGAN]

Hi Olav, do you know where or if exists people or a group inside the Blender community that has an interest to develop new programs using Blender, Python, etc?

[@Olav3D]

Facebook groups

[@KAYAPOGAN]

@@Olav3D Thank you

[@stuffystuff1661]

Hello is there any oducmentation on the functions that I can use in blender using python?

[@neilmarshall5087]

Start Blender: Help - Python API reference.

[@koaoi9172]

why is it telling me theres an error when i try to run the python code?

[@koaoi9172]

because i’m a dumbass

[@sunainabhamra7755]

@@koaoi9172 :') It's alright to make errors! You only learn if you're making errors.

[@connorguymon3523]

suggestion make what you write way bigger I could not see it at all.

[@3dportableinc64]

when exporting an object to 3dsmax, I had a vertex position in each frame of the animation. I tried to do it in Blender but the coordinate does not change. How to do it in Blender?

[@tomschuelke7955]

very nice.. i am a about to lern blender for privat (have been using 3ds max professionaly for years... ) but more important my son wants to learn programming... he´s 14 years old.. but doesnt know how to start... and phyton, is very well used, and dooing stuff like this, would be great to instantly get results, which is good for a start in programming.. isnt it.. great..

[@mickyboy159]

You really need to increase the size of your font! It's so tiny I can't read it without straining my poor eyes!

[@elizabethhamilton1166]

Are you a member of the Blender dev group?

[@carrapaz3645]

does exist any other software that can do this?

[@UlrichThümmler]

Maya in mel, 3ds max in lua and python, houdini in python, cinema4d in python, zbrush in ZScript, XSI in jscript, python etc.

[@carrapaz3645]

@@UlrichThümmler thanks for your answer, good to Know!

[@ieatscookies9852]

do you have to download bpy

[@serenityrahn5656]

bpy is built-in to blender. in your script window, just type "import bpy". run the script, should be no error messages such as ERR: bpy not found

[@cybercomputerized2074]

Can't read the code. It's too small.

[@debajyotimajumder2656]

after running with 600 monkeys, I thought my laptop crashed. Luckily it did not.

[@113no.digharparkandapara5]

to do cose make banla

[@Necropiet]

I'm getting Bob Ross vibes

[@rickay77]

12:43 theres no "display mode" in my blender, and why are u using that huge project for a tutorial??? i takes so long to do it all

[@spaderkungskuk]

Unwatchable due to zoom level / font size.

[@omri1324]

3 levels subsurf on 500 monkeys.. is this a how to crash you computer tutorial? lol. great tutorials tho. thanks!

[@matrat57]

if only i could read the script...

[@CR-qc9sl]

Your text in the editor is very small. Why don't you go to view-sidebar-font size to make the text clearly visible for us learners? Now the tutorial is a torture.

[@darksidegamers9876]

i typed 10 crore my blender is not responding