Custom Templates

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New Features

• Template Icons!
  Since Blender 5 default templates has dedicated icons now.
  So, as suggested here by @NicCrimson, now you are also free to assign any icon to your templates.

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  A new icon picker, featuring ~1000 blender icons, provides a search filter and a default short selection of likely-suitable icons. By default, "File New" icon will be used for every template.
  In the Extra section of preferences, you may hide icons at all.

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  Note: the list of icons features the latest list. Blender 4 will be skipping recent (v5) icons in the full list of the picker.

• Quick button to open any template file (from preferences)
  Managing your templates, you may find yourself wanting to open some template's file.
  Now using the pencil button you can easily open any template file, in the current Blender instance (just like doing File > Open).

• Blender 5 splash screen list now support length of 6
  Now there are 6 templates, so the splash screen is now longer.
  From now on, depending on your Blender major version, the splash screen will display the correct amount of templates, to better fit in the latest UI.
  As since v1.5.0, you still can have virtually infinite more templates in the splash screen. A sub-menu will appear as the last element, if you exceed said limit.

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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.

Changelog

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