[HN Gopher] The mystery of the blend file format (2009)
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       The mystery of the blend file format (2009)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-07-02 12:16 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | edflsafoiewq wrote:
       | By far the easiest way to work with .blend files is to shell out
       | to Blender, let it open the file for you, and use Blender's
       | Python API to get whatever you need.                 blender -b
       | your_file.blend -P python_script.py
       | 
       | Besides not having to parse the file yourself, there's lots of
       | stuff (like "where is this object on frame X") that can't be read
       | from .blend alone but need the actual algorithms Blender uses, so
       | it's easiest to just reuse Blender itself.
       | 
       | The downside is the Python API breaks all the time.
        
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