Description
This is an addon for Blender 3.1+ (it might work with 2.8+ but has not been tested) that enables loading of file sequences. The addon comes bundled together with meshio which enables the loading of geometric data from a multitude of file formats.
All data is loaded just-in-time when the Blender frame changes, in order to avoid excessive memory consumption. By default, the addon is able to load vertices, lines, triangles and quads. It is also able to automatically extract triangle and quad surface meshes from tetrahedral and hexahedral volume meshes. Scalar and vector attributes on vertices are also imported for visualization purposes.
Basic usage
This video shows the basic usage of this addon, i.e. how to load and render a simple sequence of particle data
Affected Blender Settings
This addon will change the value of Preferences->Save & Load ->Default To ->Relative Paths to false. Default value is true. For information can be found here.
This addon will also modify the sys.path variable of Blender python environment, by inserting the path of the addon itself. This makes it possible to use the bundled libraries.
Dependencies
name |
link |
license |
description |
|---|---|---|---|
meshio |
MIT |
Loading mesh data |
|
fileseq |
MIT |
Detection of file sequences |
|
rich |
MIT |
dependency of meshio |
|
python-future |
MIT |
dependency of fileseq |
License
MIT License
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