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Blender Tools

Skewer provides tools to work with Blender for scene creation and conversion.

Blender to Skewer

Export Blender scenes to Skewer JSON format.

Reference

  1. Open Blender with your scene loaded
  2. Go to the Scripting tab
  3. Open scripts/blender/blender_to_skewer/blender_export.py
  4. Run the script

The script exports a layered scene:

output_dir/
├── scene.json          # Manifest: camera + layers reference
├── layer.json          # Materials + graph + render options
├── objects/            # Per-mesh OBJ files
└── images/             # Output directory for renders

to the same directory where the .blend file is saved.

Skewer to Blender

Convert Skewer JSON scenes back to Blender .blend files.

Reference

<path-to-blender>/blender --background --python scripts/blender/skewer_to_blend/convert.py -- <scene.json> [output.blend]

Example:

/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender \
  --background \
  --python scripts/blender/skewer_to_blend/convert.py \
  -- data/scenes/panda-0001.json

This creates panda-0001.blend in the current directory.

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