About

A blender-2.80 plugin that manages a camera rig, as well as batch converting the rendered output to DC6 file format.

Prerequisites

Before installing this addon, you need to install pip with Blender's bundled python.

First, open blender and go to the scripting work area. In the python shell type the following:

import sys
sys.exec_prefix

Inside of the directory it prints there will be a bin folder. inside of that is where the python binary is. You need to download the get_pip.py script (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) and run it with blender's python.

NOTE: Windows users need to open an administrator command prompt to install pip and Pillow. If you install Blender somewhere in your home folder this may not be the case.

Install

Clone this directory and compress to a .zip file. Now, run Blender and go to Preferences >> Add-ons >> Install and select the .zip you just made.

Usage

Currently, the DC6 controls are only available in the main 3D View (you may need to click an object first...).

When you open the panel, click Enable Rig to create the camera rig. The output width/height set the resolution of the render.

The palette you select from the palette list is what rthe endered images will be remapped to.

Exporting animation will render each direction for each animation frame. 16 directions @ 48 frames crashed diablo when i tried.

Exporting single frame will render each direction for the currently selected frame

Scene Setup

Do the following: * Remove all existing cameras * Enable the camera rig * Go to the Output properites and enable Stereoscopy, set Multi-View and disable the left and right views * Go to World properties, set the background color to black (rgb 0,0,0) * In the Render properties, set the rendering engine to Cycles (you may not need to do this, but I did it...)

Examples

Before running the examples, make sure to install the add-on first. You can skip the scene setup if you start with one of the example files.

CAVEATS

The add-on is very experimental (buggy), so here are some shortcomings i'm aware of...

• exporting a single frame hasn't been well tested and will likely fail
• changing the camera rig properties will completely destroy the camera rig.
• if you accidentally put objects into the camera rig collection, they will be deleted when you change the rig settings
• Currently, the encoding always considers index 0 as the transparency index during dc6 encoding (i need to add controls in the ui for this)