Reply To: [ENDED] BC1-1808 – August 2018 Class Homepage – Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender 2.8
Kent thanks such “Getting Started with Python in Blender” class would be so great, before of anything expressing to everyone that no programming knowledge is needed.
@smurfmier1985 Miranda yes basically Python is much closer to the average users (even to beginners) than someone would think, for example look at this – grab the top of your screen and add a cube to Blender, you will see all the Python code behind of that action and so which you can investigate and build in to your own code:
Anyway just a short hint yet to bring the topic even closer, so as showed in the before example, you can paste any Python code to the Python Console in Blender. Although that works great, writing Python code in that console is not too user friendly, programmers that is why edit their code in some text editor like Notepad++ (it is a free program with even portable version from link https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ ):
The code is much more readable/beautiful like that, then you can save your file with .py extension and in Blender you can open such ready codes in Text Editor window, let me show it analogically with the original 25 cubes demo:
You can see that there is no any rocket science in the basics, although it is so powerful that surely rockets can be built through that 🙂