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create‑blender‑project

create‑blender‑project

Project LanguageEnglish
StatusCompleted
TypeTerminal application
Programming Language
Bash

create‑blender‑project

A command line tool to create a new blender project with common directories.

Description

create-blender-project is a tool accessible via the command line / terminal.
It creates a new blender project with the following directories:
  1. -
    assets
  2. -
    blend-files
  3. -
    render-output
  4. -
    results
The directory blend-files will contain a blank blender file with the name of the project: <projectName>.blend. The tool also sets the directory render-output as the default render output directory of the newly created blender file.

Parameters

The command has one (optional) parameter: project name. If the parameter is not specified, the terminal will ask for a project name.

Use create-blender-project

Run

  1. 1.
    Download the source code of the project (as a .zip file or via git clone).
  2. 2.
    Make sure the create-blender-project file is flagged as executable, if not run $ chmod +x create-blender-project
  3. 3.
    Open a new terminal window and navigate to the directory in which you want to create a new blender project (using cd)
  4. 4.
    Run $ /path/to/file/create-blender-project <Optional parameter: Project name>

Install (Make accessible in terminal)

If you want to install create-blender-project and make the command accessible anywhere in the terminal, copy the create-blender-project file to the following directory: /usr/local/bin/
Now you can access it without specifying the location of the file, like this: $ create-blender-project <Optional parameter: Project name>.