Blender 2.57 Objective-C Export Script
A few days ago, the Blender Foundation put out the first release candidate of Blender 2.5. This release unexpectedly broke compatibility with most existing 2.5 python scripts, including my Objective-C header Export Script.
Which was great timing, since I needed to use the script today. I could've just gone back to an older version of Blender, but decided instead to re-write the script to work. I just added to GitHub, the new 2.57 compatible version of the export script. This version is back to being an add-on that you can add through the User Preferences.
I've also added a few options that you can select when exporting (they're on the left side of the file selection screen, underneath the volumes and recently visited locations). You can see the new options in the following screen grab:
The first option lets you specify whether modifiers are applied before exporting the mesh. If you uncheck this, the script will strip the modifiers before exporting, otherwise, it will apply them to the mesh before exporting.
The second option will rotate the object 90� along the X axis, which converts the object from Blender's Z-up coordinate space to OpenGL's Y-up coordinate space. I've made this the default, but I could foresee situations where people would want to skip the conversion.
The final option will move the export the object using its world space coordinates rather than exporting it using object space coordinates. This option will, for example, preserve relative distance between multiple objects exported from the same file into different headers. Or, to put it another way, objects exported will normally have use their coordinates as they relate to the object's origin, regardless of where the object is in the Blender scene. If this is checked, the vertex coordinates will be exported relative to the scene's origin.
NB: There was a problem with the triangulation code in the version posted earlier. If you're having problems, pull again from GitHub.
Which was great timing, since I needed to use the script today. I could've just gone back to an older version of Blender, but decided instead to re-write the script to work. I just added to GitHub, the new 2.57 compatible version of the export script. This version is back to being an add-on that you can add through the User Preferences.
I've also added a few options that you can select when exporting (they're on the left side of the file selection screen, underneath the volumes and recently visited locations). You can see the new options in the following screen grab:
The first option lets you specify whether modifiers are applied before exporting the mesh. If you uncheck this, the script will strip the modifiers before exporting, otherwise, it will apply them to the mesh before exporting.
The second option will rotate the object 90� along the X axis, which converts the object from Blender's Z-up coordinate space to OpenGL's Y-up coordinate space. I've made this the default, but I could foresee situations where people would want to skip the conversion.
The final option will move the export the object using its world space coordinates rather than exporting it using object space coordinates. This option will, for example, preserve relative distance between multiple objects exported from the same file into different headers. Or, to put it another way, objects exported will normally have use their coordinates as they relate to the object's origin, regardless of where the object is in the Blender scene. If this is checked, the vertex coordinates will be exported relative to the scene's origin.
NB: There was a problem with the triangulation code in the version posted earlier. If you're having problems, pull again from GitHub.
Category Article 3D, Blender, Open Source, OpenGL ES
