s-a/toblender

Use any external text editor with Blender 🐵

ToBlender

Use an external editor with Blender 🐵.

Installation

1. Blender Addon

To make this work you need to install the corresponding addon 2blender. This will start a simple tcp server to manage the synchronisation process. Since this could be a security risk you might want to keep an eye on activation state of the addon when you finished your python development.

2. Console Application

This application is based on Node.js so you need to install it from https://nodejs.org/en/download/.

After that you can install the application with npm install toblender -g. It needs to be global to make it systemwide available.

Demo usage

Commandline arguments

See COMMANDLINE-ARGUMENTS.md for all details.

toblender's Issues

ModuleNotFoundError

Hi, I'd love to give it a shot to your cool package but I've faced already some issues on blender 2.82.7, pls take a look to this little test

Here's the steps i've followed:

• Installed the provided addon on blender 2.82.7
• Restarted blender
• Create script at d:\foo\test.py and run cd d:\foo && toblender --reload test.py (also tried with toblender --reload test.py --watch d:\foo\test.py)
• Got error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\software\blender\blender-2.82a-windows64\2.82\scripts\modules\addon_u
tils.py", line 351, in enable
    mod = __import__(module_name)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'test'

Could you pls advice?

Also... each time it's reloading is making a new client connection

is this intended?

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

I get the following Error when saving the python script:

Connected
  Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3001

Connection closed

when running toblender --watch /blender --reload /blender/blender.py

I am using Ubuntu 22.04, Blender 3.5.1 and toblender 1.0.0