Blender 2.5 Introduction to Python Scripting Displaying 'Hello World' Tutorial

[CatBoarVikingRainGod]

Thanks for the tutorial. It's hard to do anything in Blender without some direction. I was looking at the available commands and I found that you could do all that in one line.

bpy.data.curves['Text'].body = 'Hello World'

I am wondering if I could keyframe these changes somehow.

[ianscott888]

@CatBoarVikingRainGod I have found that if you want to use Python in anything other than 'batch' mode, you have to use the Blender game engine.

[TheWaynelds]

I need to learn this because im doing 2D animation similar to southparks "replacement animation" style. I've been informed that i need a script to make this work (Where i switch out a front facing head for a side facing head) I found an old "replacer" script, but it doesnt seem to work in 2.57 and i also need to modify it to act on the objects that make up my characters body part names. Ugh, i wish Blender would just add Set Driven Keys like Maya has and would make this a shit load easier.

[Defuseninja001]

Thanks

[chmiki2000]

Thank you, I needed a "getting started" video to motivate myself and this is perfect :)

[starcatstudios]

Great tutorial

[starcatstudios]

Great tutorial

[GengoNoTabi]

I am not ready to start using python directly, but it was cool to have it introduced so clearly. I would like to see Blenders video editor broke down this concisely.

[ianscott888]

@GengoNoTabi I will be doing a tutorial on the video editor in the nearish future, hopefully before the end of June

[GengoNoTabi]

@GengoNoTabi Excellent!