Custom Blender Button/Panel: How-To (Add-Ons Basics)
Want to streamline your Blender workflow? You'll want to start programming your own panels and buttons. You can do that using Blender Add-Ons. This tutorial will give you everything you need to get started.
All code for this video is in the blog post: https://github.com/pagekey/education/blob/main/173-Blender-Plugins/README.md
Timestamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:27 Overview
- 1:10 PageKey: Take Back Tech
- 2:16 Background: Running Arbitrary Code in Blender
- 3:05 Background: Blender Operator Basics
- 5:39 Panels: Hello World
- 6:53 Panels: Adding a Button
- 7:49 Panels: Space, Region, Context
- 9:12 Panels: Adding a Panel to View 3D
- 10:39 Panels: Adding a Panel to Video Sequencer
- 11:24 Add-Ons: Rewriting the Script as an Add-On
- 12:40 Add-Ons: Installing the Custom Add-On
- 13:40 Next Steps
- 14:04 That's it!