Blender deform test

author: Daniel-Ionut Rancea

This tool can be used to test animations on skinned avatars in Blender.

Install

This repo can be installed either as a Blender add-on, or through PIP.

Blender add-on (recommended)

Installing as a Blender add-on

• gives the option to disable this tool
• adds a menu button to launch the window

Instructions:

• download latest
• install as a blender add-on, by extracting the whole folder in your blender addons folder
• enable the add-on in blender
• PIP install the dependencies from requirements.txt

PIP

Installing through PIP

• installs the tool as a Python module
• no option to disable, which means it won't accidentally be disabled
• auto installs the dependencies
• no menu button, but can be launched from the python console

Instructions:

• PIP install the module from github

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/readyplayerme/rpm-blender-deform-test

How to use

Open the tool

1. Click 'Window' menu button on topbar
2. Click 'Deformation-Test-Window' button to open the tool

Use the tool

	1. Open this documentation 2. Import animations from a .BLEND file 3. Select an animation to play 4. Slider to move through the animation 5. Slider to control animation playback speed 6. Enable Skeleton see-through (X-Ray)

You can play the animation by pressing the play button in the timeline view or pressing spacebar (Blender's default shortcut)