Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: napari-blender-bridge
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Transfer surface layers between Napari and Blender
Home-page: https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-blender-bridge
Author: Robert Haase
Author-email: robert.haase@tu-dresden.de
License: GNU GPL v3.0
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Framework :: napari
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Image Processing
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
Requires-Python: >=3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE

# napari-blender-bridge



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Transfer surface layers between Napari and Blender. This plugin is young and has just limited functionality. Contributions are welcome.





![img.png](https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-blender-bridge/raw/main/docs/easter.gif)



## Usage



This plugin has its own submenu with all functionality under `Tools > Blender`. You can start up Blender, send a surface layer to Blender, retrieve all meshes back as one surface layer and shut down Blender.



## Installation instructions



* Download and install [Blender 3.5](https://www.blender.org/download/). 

* Start Blender and click the menu `Edit > Preferences`. Activate `Developer extras`.



![img.png](https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-blender-bridge/raw/main/docs/blender_preferences.png)



* It is recommended to run this plugin in a conda environment together with [devbio-napari](https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/devbio-napari), 

[vedo](https://vedo.embl.es/) and [napari-process-points-and-surfaces](https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-process-points-and-surfaces).

To install these, please run these commands line-by-line:

```

mamba create --name napari-blender-env python=3.9 devbio-napari vedo -c conda-forge

mamba activate napari-blender-env

pip install napari-process-points-and-surfaces napari-blender-bridge

```



## Similar and related plugins



There are other plugins for working with surface meshes:

* [napari-stress](https://github.com/campaslab/napari-stress)

* [napari-pymeshlab](https://github.com/zacsimile/napari-pymeshlab)

* [napari-process-points-and-surfaces](https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-process-points-and-surfaces)



## Contributing



Contributions are very welcome. Tests can be run with [tox], please ensure

the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.



## License



Distributed under the terms of the [GNU GPL v3.0] license,

"napari-blender-bridge" is free and open source software



## Issues



If you encounter any problems, please [file an issue] along with a detailed description.



[napari]: https://github.com/napari/napari

[Cookiecutter]: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

[@napari]: https://github.com/napari

[MIT]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

[BSD-3]: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

[GNU GPL v3.0]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

[GNU LGPL v3.0]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt

[Apache Software License 2.0]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

[Mozilla Public License 2.0]: https://www.mozilla.org/media/MPL/2.0/index.txt

[cookiecutter-napari-plugin]: https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/cookiecutter-napari-assistant-plugin

[file an issue]: https://github.com/haesleinhuepf/napari-blender-bridge/issues

[napari]: https://github.com/napari/napari

[tox]: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

[pip]: https://pypi.org/project/pip/

[PyPI]: https://pypi.org/

