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A quick and easy, lightly-featured exporter for the .egg file format used by the Panda3D game engine/framework. Using this add-on does not require installation of Panda3D.
Once you have enabled the add-on, just select "egg (panda3d)" from file-export. Before exporting, be sure to adjust the imageDir variable. this should be the directory your textures will be in relative to the model directory as specified in your config file. All geometry will be exported. In the future, I might make it so this is more intelligent.
Multi-texturing is not yet supported. The only texture applied to exported geometry is the first one specified per node-based material.
##CollisionShapes and other custom-property enabled nodes omUlete now has support for exporting collision shapes, and I have plans to at least add support for sequence nodes in the future. you can make an object and it's children a collision shape by adding a custom property with one of the following names (with any capitalization): 'collisionbox' 'collisionplane' 'collisionpolygon' 'collisionpolyset' 'collisionsphere' 'collisioninvsphere' 'collisiontube'
omUlete is built in a way that can only generated animated objects in an egg file by first iterating through non-armature objects, and saving those that have a armature deformation for later. I'd love to fix this so an armature without geometry could be exported, but that would require that the whole plugin be more or less rewritten from scratch.
I swear this is blender's fault. Normally blender stores loops in a counterclockwise order, which is what we need and expect. however, sometimes it just... doesn't. Ultimately fixing this would involve way more time and bloat. For now, try (scaling by -1 if your mesh is symmetrical and) applying all scale transformations before recalculating the normals. You can also/try instead recalculating the normals in the opposite direction. However, note that this is just a hacky way to swap the vertex order. Lighting will be the opposite of what it's supposed to be! *gulp* If all fails, don't forget that you're dealing with egg files and that you can manually edit the exported product. However, this means you'll have to make the edit on every export, so be careful.
This is because a panda3d character (That's the name of the class responsible for animation behind the actor class) expects that the origin of all geometry distorted by a skeleton to be the same as that of the skeleton itself. (note: the origin of a skeleton in an egg file is really just the offset of all the top-level bones).
I considered making it so that the origin of deformed mesh is auto-adjusted to match that of any armature deforming it, but I realized that it's important for some modelers to know specifically where that origin is, so I didn't add that feature.
In fact, all you have to do to ensure that animation is in-fact getting exported correctly is to find the top of the animated character in the exported egg file and change <Dart> {Structured} to <Dart> {1} and the animation should look entirely as intended!
Fixed a crash when exporting mesh with no uv layers changed version number to be more consistent with github version's
This extension requests the following permission:
save exported egg files
You're setting files permission wrong.
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line shouldn't be deleted above files line
Are you sure you can legally use screenshot from that software in thumbnail? I would advise not to do that anyway, at least not show name of the software and just show objects in empty scene.
You can remove "Installation" part in description. All add-ons from extensions platform install same way, there is no need to clarify anything, it will just confuse users.
I've tried to fix the manifest, and while panda3d ( and pview, the program showing the scene in p3d) are open source and public, I've cropped the featured image to hide aspects of my desktop and all title bars for clarity. I've also changed omUlete's icon from a copy of the panda3d logo to a hastily made generic logo, to be safe.
Thanks
uploaded new version: Add-on "omUlete" v0.97.1
updated description, icon
Hey everyone,
Just a heads-up about a recent change regarding the licensing of add-ons on the Blender extension platform. Moving forward, all add-ons will need to be released under the GNU/GPL 3.0 license (SPDX:GPL-3.0-or-later). This is mainly to keep things simple and consistent across the board.
Previously, we accepted various licenses as long as they were compatible with Blender’s distribution. However, to avoid any confusion and streamline the process, all add-ons using the bpy API should now be presented as GPL 3 (the same license the Blender bundle is distributed). Regardless of whether the original code was under GPL 2, or something else like MIT or ZLIB.
Existing add-ons versions won't be affected. However, new updates will need to comply to the revised requirements.
Thanks for understanding, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
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