VDM brush baker #104580

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Joseph Eagar merged 10 commits from robin.hohni/blender-addons:vdm-brush-baker into main 2023-05-12 15:42:12 +02:00
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@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ def get_output_path(filename):
class PT_VDMBaker(bpy.types.Panel): class PT_VDMBaker(bpy.types.Panel):
"""
The main panel of the add-on which contains a button to create a sculpting plane and a button to bake the vector displacement map.
It also has settings for name (image, texture and brush at once), resolution, compression and color depth.
"""
bl_label = 'VDM Brush Baker' bl_label = 'VDM Brush Baker'
bl_idname = 'Editor_PT_LayoutPanel' bl_idname = 'Editor_PT_LayoutPanel'
bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D' bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D'
@ -140,6 +144,10 @@ def get_new_brush_name():
class create_sculpt_plane(bpy.types.Operator): class create_sculpt_plane(bpy.types.Operator):
"""
Creates a grid with 128 vertices per side plus two multires subdivisions.
It uses 'Preserve corners' so further subdivisions can be made while the corners of the grid stay pointy.
"""
bl_idname = 'sculptplane.create' bl_idname = 'sculptplane.create'
bl_label = 'Create sculpting plane' bl_label = 'Create sculpting plane'
bl_description = 'Creates a plane with a multires modifier to sculpt on' bl_description = 'Creates a plane with a multires modifier to sculpt on'
@ -160,6 +168,9 @@ class create_sculpt_plane(bpy.types.Operator):
class create_vdm_brush(bpy.types.Operator): class create_vdm_brush(bpy.types.Operator):
"""
This operator will bake a vector displacement map from the active object and create a texture and brush datablock.
"""
bl_idname = 'vdmbrush.create' bl_idname = 'vdmbrush.create'
bl_label = 'Create vdm brush from plane' bl_label = 'Create vdm brush from plane'
bl_description = 'Creates a vector displacement map from your sculpture and creates a brush with it' bl_description = 'Creates a vector displacement map from your sculpture and creates a brush with it'
@ -281,7 +292,7 @@ class create_vdm_brush(bpy.types.Operator):
vdm_plane.data.materials.clear() vdm_plane.data.materials.clear()
bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='SCULPT') bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='SCULPT') # Needs to be in sculpt mode to set 'AREA_PLANE' mapping on new brush.
# Texture # Texture
vdm_texture: bpy.types.Texture = None vdm_texture: bpy.types.Texture = None

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@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ import bpy
def get_vdm_bake_material(): def get_vdm_bake_material():
"""Creates a material that is used to bake the displacement from a plane against its UVs.
Returns:
material: Baking material
"""
material_name = 'VDM_baking_material' material_name = 'VDM_baking_material'
if material_name not in bpy.data.materials: if material_name not in bpy.data.materials:
new_material = bpy.data.materials.new(name=material_name) new_material = bpy.data.materials.new(name=material_name)