OBJECTIVE: We would try to see how Python works in the Blender Game Engine
MATERIALS: Blender Python Engine, Python API manual, Professor Baker
METHODS:
Open up Blender, instead of logic editor go to Python Console
Go to blender.org and under Education and Help open Python AP1 2.6
Listen to Baker as he goes through the basics of Python
RESULTS:
I didn’t get to try much stuff out but I learnt that:
Variables are nouns. Functions are verbs
Get is more like the input
Return type is more like the output,
Not all inputs have an output, deal with it.
Python itself is the controller.
There are various ways of tweaking the performance of the game from setting the frames per second to…. something else I can’t remember right now.
DISCUSSION: Again I didn’t get to do much but I’m somewhat optimistic about learning Python, I hope I can grasp the language and use it to animate in Blender.
