* Sun lamp type export (known as parallel lights in povray)
* Native support for blenders metaballs, currently exports
- ball and ellipsoid types
- radius, stiffness
- ellipsoid xyz scale
- negative elements
- single material (like blender)
Renamed rna props.
elem.sizex -> size_x
mball.last_selected_element -> mball.active_element
minor changes to UI scripts.
- All of this is in python and easy to change.
- each panel class has a set() of compatible engines.
- this set is checked for the poll function
- external engines can add themselves to this panels compatible engines
eg.
buttons_world.WORLD_PT_mist.COMPAT_ENGINES.add('POVRAY_RENDER')
I tried doing this by subclassing each panel and replacing only the poll function to reference 'POVRAY_RENDER' but it became fairly complicated and meant registering many of the same panels under different names.
Added mist support to povray.
Supports...
- camera/lamp/mesh object types
- meshes with modifiers applied, normals/uv/vertex colors
- materials, reflection, transparency
- spot/area/point lamps, samples, raytrace options
- scene render size, AA setting
Details...
- Doesn't need any 3rd party modules.
- Runs povray from the subprocess module, updating the image from a TARGA.
- Currently no UI panels or support for custom settings.
This could be used as an example for other scripts.
- simplified C operator API bpy.__ops__ since its wrapped by python now.
- needs the class to have an __idname__ rather then __name__ (like menus, headers)
- convert python names "console.exec" into blender names "CONSOLE_OT_exec" when registering (store the blender name as class.__idname_bl__, users scripters wont notice)
- bpy.props.props ???, removed
Note's
* exports the mesh without modifiers or transformations applied
* supports UV's vertex colors
* no support for normals yet (missing from data api)
* registers an operator called EXPORT_OT_ply
* no file selector yet. can only fun from python currently
bpy.ops.EXPORT_OT_ply(filename="/tmp/test.ply")
* removed double lookups on the vertex dict, build face verts to write allong the way.
