from Kevin Morgan (forTe)
imports images as quads in the 3D view
made some changes
- images that fail to import give an error popup rather then a script error
- extension input is only shown for batch directory importing
- extension comparison is now case insensitive
- importing images from "/" failed, (bug in Blender.sys.dirname), use os.path.dirname since os is needed for batch import in other places.
- disable Esc for quitting because escaping from the file selector would quit the script too.
Minor changes are...
- default size is smaller then it was but still too big IMHO, presets are huge.
- deselect all objects and make the new bolt active
- place the new bolt at the 3D cursor location
even though the format allows materials and textures to be written separately the textures wont load right in maya or 3dsmax unless each texture has its own material.
- when the attribute check function failed it didnt set an error raising a SystemError instead
- Rasterizer.getMaterialMode would never return KX_BLENDER_MULTITEX_MATERIAL
- PropertySensor value attribute checking function was always returning a fail.
- Vertex Self Shadow python script didnt update for meshes with modifiers.
There is a problem importing 3ds files where I cant find a way to check if the transforms are applied to the vertex locations or not.
Since 2.44 I made the importer assume they were not since you can manually remove transformations, but not reverse.
Nevertheless most 3ds files have the matrix applied, better not give a bad import by default.
Did some research and other 3ds importers (lib3ds for eg), have the same problem and just assume the transformations applied.
3dsMax imports both correctly so there must be a way to tell but I could not link it to the 3ds version or other mesh options.
Added an option to workaround this problem in rare cases where its needed.
- KX_GameObject.cpp & KX_Scene.cpp, clear the dict before removing the reference in case there is a circular reference.
- added DWG support, adapted Stani Michiels idea for binding an extern DXF-DWG-converter
The external DXF-DWG converter "dconvertcon.exe" 355kb comes from openDesignAlliance www.opendwg.org, is free, but not opensource, not GPL-compatible (can not be bundled with commercial programs), so must be downloaded and installed in Blender script folder by user. It is a DOS console application, can be started in background mode, works on Windows, and in Wine on Linux and OSX. Version 1.0 (2002) supports conversion between DXF<->DWG for autocad release: 2.5, 2.6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 2000, 2002.
This patch solves some major problems of the svg script :
- reading of the inkscape svg format
- parsing of the scientific numbers
- redundant arc data in the same path for only one command "a"
- blending of curves after several files import and at the end a more correct management of the current point.
- Scripts Help Browser: error parsing doc info wrapped in triple single quotes, like done in the 3ds importer. Thanks Jean-Michel (jms) for informing me about it.
- visualizing data, rendering scenes automatically and character rendering on a server.
This example script shows how you can run blender in background mode, parse arguments from the command line to generate a simple scene and render/save it.
Campbell Barton
Remigiusz Fiedler
Ken Hughes
Brecht Van Lommel
gsr b3d
Joseph Eagar
Tamito Kajiyama
Willian Padovani Germano
