Custom Templates

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New Features

• Select the templates you want in the Splash Screen
  From the add-on preferences, you can toggle Splash Screen visibility, for each template.
  Do you have 50 templates but you only want some of them in the Splash? Now you can.
  This information will be imported/exported.

• New operators to process your template(s) file(s) to ensure all external resources have absolute paths (with optional backup)
  This will open the files in background, check if any relative path is present, and, if so, execute Blender's operator File > External Data > Make Paths Absolute and save the file.
  Optionally, you can backup the file before updating it (done only when needed).
  This is available directly from template row (for single template), or for all, from the templates menu, or from File > Defaults > Ensure absolute paths in templates

• Re-Designed templates list in preferences!
  Update name and path, toggle splash screen, ensure absolute paths, remove template, directly from the template row.
  Custom Templates has a new look!

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New Features

• New option: File > New > Start from... (opt-in from preferences)
  Select any .blend file to use as template.
  Optionally, you can add it to the list, on the fly.
• Splash Screen now supports 5+ templates with a submenu

• Minor UI update
  Now use a single checkbox for switching templates in Splash Screen menu.

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New Feature

• Add workspace from your Custom Templates
  Usually, while adding a new workspace, you can choose between the workspaces of the 5 default blender templates.
  Now you can also add workspaces from your Custom Templates!
  Right-click one of your workspaces and look for the Add from Custom Templates menu.
• Minor preferences UI update

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New Features (1.3.0)

• Add templates from folder
  Automatically add the .blend files from a given folder and auto-name them with the clean file name.
  (with optional recursion depth parameter, default 1)
• Clear current templates (with safety confirm)
  Easily remove all the current templates from the add-on preferences menu.
• Auto-naming from the path (when adding from folder, or selecting the path before setting the name)
• Added current number of templates in the add-on preferences
• Update File > Defaults menu with new functions:
  1. Clear current templates
  2. Add from folder functions

Fix (1.3.1)

• Fix file path selector
  Always use absolute path when selecting, even when a .blend file is loaded.

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New Features

• Add templates from folder
  Automatically add the .blend files from a given folder and auto-name them with the clean file name.
  (with optional recursion depth parameter, default 1)
• Clear current templates (with safety confirm)
  Easily remove all the current templates.
• Auto-naming from the path (when adding from folder, or selecting the path before setting the name)
• Added current number of templates in the add-on preferences
• Update File > Defaults menu with new functions:
  1. Clear current templates
  2. Add from folder

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First Official Version

• Used poll function to disable operators instead of hiding them
• Fix preferences persistence issues

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• Fix override splash preference persistence when updating it from splash

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• Fix Splash Screen issue after disabling the add-on
• Remove some info messages
• Fix index access problems in a couple of cases
• Update classes id prefix (shorter and removing build warnings for menus naming)
• Minor UI updates

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Add files permission in manifest (for import/export)

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• Implement Splash Screen 'New File' list override:
  1. Add new preference for Splash Screen Override
  2. Add little menu for switching between Blender's default and Custom Templates list right from the splash screen.
  With more than 5 templates, only the first 5 will be shown in the splash.
  With no custom templates, Blender's default list will always be used.

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• Implement Import/Export functionality (to and from json file)
• Re-organized source code and reduce code length

This update has no impact on previous functionalities

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Swich from zip to blender -c extension built for building the .zip file.
This update does not impact on functionalities

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Update preferences identifier from __name__ to __package__ as documented here

This update does not impact on functionalities

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This is the first official version of the extension.

Current features:

• Add-on preferences with the list of custom templates (each with display name & path)
• The list of Custom Templates is added to the File > New menu
• The add-on functions are added to the File > Defaults menu, which are:
  1. Manage Templates (simple link to the Custom Templates add-on preferences)
  2. Select new custom template (open a popup requesting name and path and add it to the preferences
  3. Use current file as template (open a popup requesting name, and using the path of the current .blend file and add it to the preferences. Note: This function is only visible when a saved .blend file is currently loaded)