Attached Link: PT2 6/24/2011

  I've posted the first collection of scripts that contains an exporter now.  It's working very well at the moment.  It needs more testing (that's were you come in) and I'll be looking at making improvements where possible.

Check out the latest news: PT2 Blog

• Unzip in the Blender Addon folder.. then enable from the User Pref / Addon menu
• Prop Exporter shows up as a panel under object properties.
• Set Each output folder (Geometries/Textures/Props).  The script stores each folder and remembers them when you restart blender.
• Create an object - Save Prop.
• Create Multiple Objects, select multiple objects - Save Prop
• The active object name determines the Prop Name.
• Create / Assign materials to faces
• The only Material Setting stored at the moment is the Color Value
• Add Textures, set to image, load or create images.
• ALL Images must be packed - to be saved as the Prop Textures.  An error will generate if not (I'm researching how to do this automatically.. but have been unsucessful so far)
• Saves textures enabled and used for Color, Alpha, Normal and Mirror.
• Saves Last Render as Thumbnail image (You'll want to do it at 91 x 91 pixels)

The thumbnails work for Poser but not Daz Studio for some reason.. I'll be researching that further when I can.

I'm aware of something I left out of the current Prop importer.. I'll be going back and fixing that soon.  A section that imports multiple external .obj files. 

 

Try it out.  It's really nice to be able to create a prop with just one click.

It's still a work in progress.  Just wanted to get this out so people could try it before I went away for the weekend.

SAVE YOUR BLEND FILE BEFORE YOU EXPORT!

Occasionally, blender would clear images generated within Blender when you try to export, so save your blend file first.  Not sure if this still happens.

I haven't checked it on another machine yet, so bare with me if there's some technical issues.

 

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