Blender Kitsu: Replace Render Preset with Generic Script Runner #174

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Nick Alberelli · 2023-12-05T16:34:15+01:00

Nick Alberelli commented

2023-12-05 16:34:15 +01:00

From @eyecandy

hey! how hard would it be to turn the "render preset" functionality into a more generic script runner in the kitsu addon?
The Idea is:
you still point it to a script directory within the SVN
each .py file is still its own contained macro
have some way of categorizing them into different submenus
So e.g. we could create utility scripts that can be sorted into a nice little menu, grouped by shading, rendering, modeling, object management
I have a bunch of utility scripts that I'm currently loading into a couple of files... having them already all loaded and executable at the press of a button could greatly speed up our workflow...
(this is the function i'm mentioning. it runs generic blender python snippets, but is currently only available in the lighting task

I checked and the preset scripts are already using a main() function and bl_label so it's mainly about making it available outside of a specific task type and including categorisation.
and it uses bl_label and bl_category for the sorting
The menu could be similar to the add menus all over blender. I dont think it has to work for a very complicated category structure. One level would be enough

From @eyecandy hey! how hard would it be to turn the "render preset" functionality into a more generic script runner in the kitsu addon? The Idea is: you still point it to a script directory within the SVN each .py file is still its own contained macro have some way of categorizing them into different submenus So e.g. we could create utility scripts that can be sorted into a nice little menu, grouped by shading, rendering, modeling, object management I have a bunch of utility scripts that I'm currently loading into a couple of files... having them already all loaded and executable at the press of a button could greatly speed up our workflow... (this is the function i'm mentioning. it runs generic blender python snippets, but is currently only available in the lighting task ![image](/attachments/88441bb6-db10-499e-aca4-0abcb6706d25) I checked and the preset scripts are already using a main() function and bl_label so it's mainly about making it available outside of a specific task type and including categorisation. and it uses bl_label and bl_category for the sorting The menu could be similar to the add menus all over blender. I dont think it has to work for a very complicated category structure. One level would be enough ![image](/attachments/6477cf35-942d-476f-aad3-8badc92dcf2b)

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