There you'll see a new panel has been added to the interface. It's the orange square icon in the properties editor. Let's see what we just unleashed in the interface !Ĭreate a new object and go into its properties. A new text datablock should open with a few dozens lines of code.

Within the Text editor go to Templates > Python > UI Panel Simple. If not, there are very good python crash courses available pretty much everywhere on the internet.īlender comes pre-packaged with a host of python templates anyone can get ideas from. It is assumed however that you have a bit of experience in Python programming, or in any other programming language for that matter. It's not supposed to be very advanced, but rather to create a functioning environment for contained scripts and ideas without thinking about scalability. The goal of this page is to help newcomers with a background in architecture or CAD software to rapidly prototype their ideas by making use of the blender API, especially the UI. All articles in the series can be found in the Category:Start_coding This page is part of a series about Starting to code.

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