There are new videos available in the video series on Blender add-on developments for beginners:
It is completely free and has a GitHub repository with code .
In this module we will build an add-on that installs application handlers that will send an email once a tender job has finished.
The first video will focus on application handlers, the second one the layout of user preferences to configure things like recipient and email server while the third is about the actual mail code. The fourth video will then tie this all together in a functional add-on. We end with a video that is decidedly not strictly beginner level where we cover creating presets in the user preferences, something that is a bit more involved than adding presets to operators.
The serie is for beginner add-on developers, but it is still coding of course, so you need to know a bit of Python already. I have tried to keep the Python code simple and readable, and we avoid nerdy stuff as much as possible.
The videos demonstrate how to build working add-ons from scratch. They are not necessarily very useful in and of themselves, but they show all kinds of relevant concepts and building blocks that are needed in any add-on, and that can be used in your own add-ons. By the end of the first module you should already be able to create an add-on that creates a functional menu item that performs an action on the active object. And even better, you will see that this requires only a few lines of code because Blender's Python API is very well thought out and very powerful: everything you can do as a user can be done in Python as well (and more!), and links to relevant parts of the docs are provided in the video descriptions.
If you like the series and can afford it, consider leaving me a tip on Ko-Fi. Feedback and suggestions are just as welcome, so leave any remarks or ideas in the video comments and/or create an issue in the repository. The idea is to use this feedback to create more videos in the future.
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