Monthly Archives: August 2007

Here’s a great tip from the BlenderWiki: If you create a text in Blender called pydrivers.py, any functions or variables you define there will be available (under the p namespace) from a pydriver that’s controlling an IPO channel. Great for keeping those pydrivers concise!

I wish I could ‘bake’ IPO channels that are being driven by a python script, so that I could see them visually and tweak them by hand. Barring that, just being able to preview it visually would be nice.

I wish I could add new, arbitrary attributes to things in Blender, then associate an IPO curve with them. That’s something I really miss from Maya. That, and the ability to plug in crazy shit from one channel to another. Like using the color value from a texture to drive the position of an object [...]