Blendomatic helps you to automated exporting content (models, baked textures etc) from your blend files. It can be configured to be part of the asset pipeline of your game or other media project. Blendomatic provides some common operations on blend files and you can modify them or provide custom operations required by your project. Here is an example how blenomatic exports objects from all blend files in one folder:
blendomatic.py export --format 3DS --filenames "test_models/*.blend"TODO
At the heart of blendomatic are operations. Operations which are useful for most projects come together with blendomatic:
- export
Exports one or more objects from a blend file into a file format of your choice.
- baking
Bakes various properties like lighting, normal map etcetera onto a texture and stores this texture in a format of your choice.
The easiest way to use blendomatic is to provide all configuration via the command line. Some command line options are common, no matter which operation you select. A required parameter is the --input-files which allows you to select one blend file or multiple using * as wildcard as Input. The selected operation will then be executed for each blend matching the input-files list.
Often you want to run one operation for all files in your asset folder and even though the same operation is executed, some parameters might differ for each blend file. For example, for some blend files you just want to export one object while for others you wanto export multiple objects in one file.
to allow a more fine grained customization than possible on the command line, you can create a blendomatic file which has the same name as your blend file, but uses . blendomatic as file ending. So a blend file monkey.blend would get a blendomatic file named monkey.blendomatic in the same folder. This files will be automatically picked up by blendomatic and set all the parameters of the selected operation. Here is a simple example of a blendomatic file which specifies some parameters for the export and bake operations.
Blendomatic will automatically check if the output files for a bake and export operation already exist and not execute the operation of they do. This speeds up the asset creation of projects significantly. If you still want blendomatic to execute all operations, you can use the --force-operations (to be implemented)