Unlock Blender's Full Potential - Custom Operators
In our last video, we built some custom UI elements, injecting a panel with a button into various parts of the Blender UI. The only problem was that we could only use built-in handlers for the button handler.
In this video, we show how to add ANY functionality you can think of to that button in the form of a Blender Operator.
Blog post with full code: https://github.com/pagekey/education/tree/main/174-Blender-Operators
Timestamps:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:35 Overview
- 1:20 PageKey: Take Back Tech
- 2:46 Project 1, Step 1: Just the Script
- 3:27 Project 1, Step 2: Define, Register Operator
- 4:16 Project 1, Step 3: Add Operator to Panel
- 5:02 Project 1, Step 4: Make it an add-on
- 6:16 Project 2: VSE Text Adder
- 6:45 Project 2, Step 1: Basic Script
- 7:41 Project 2, Step 2: Operator
- 8:15 Project 2, Step 3: Panel
- 8:45 Project 2, Step 4: Add-On
- 9:35 Next Steps
- 9:58 Outro
- 10:27 OUTTAKES!