Let’s start by importing bpy (surprise!) and setting up some variables. We have to add a mesh and link it to an object, and then link that object to a scene before we can see any results. The Blender data system makes a distinction between mesh data and objects in the scene. Pro Tip: Save often while working on meshes! You will make Blender crash more than once 🙂 Tutorial Series

For this introduction we’ll skip the 3D and focus on making a simple flat grid instead. I’m assuming you already know some basic Python, and enough Blender to get around. In this series we will be looking at making several primitives and some basic transformations, I’ll also drop some tips along the way to make development easier.

Blender is a great choice for this kind of work since it combines a full blown modeling and animation suite with a powerful (and fairly well documented) Python API. You can create parametric objects that respond to real world settings, generative art, math based shapes or even procedural content for games.

Procedural generation is awesome! In this tutorial series we’ll look at making meshes using Blender’s Python API.Ĭreating meshes programmatically opens many possibilities. Meshes with Python & Blender: The 2D Grid

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