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Revision as of 12:58, 1 January 2014
Contents
Introduction
On occasion, it may be useful to import ages (made by Cyan or others) into Blender from PRP or AGE files. Importing an age allows a new Writer to become familiar with how an age is constructed before it is exported into Uru. It may also be useful to retired Writers who have deleted (a) BLEND file(s) for their age and wish to continue development of that age. PyPRP's import feature prevents such a writer from having to rebuild that age from scratch.
Age import has not supported since before the release of GoW-PyPRP 1.5.0.
Information
The PyPRP Age Importer is the most up-to-date stable version of PyPRP that allows importing functionality. It is a consistently updated version of PyPRP for the express purpose of importing ages into blender. It is a modified version of GoW-PyPRP 1.3.0 and thus should only be used for importing ages into Blender, rather than creating them.
Note : The Age Importer requires Blender 2.45; it will not work with later versions. (Having different versions of Blender on a same computer is not a problem; just install them in different folders). Blender 2.45 for Windows can be downloaded here. Other OS versions can be found here.
Before Getting Started
Before getting started importing your ages, it is recommended that you install a separate installation of Blender. Following the release of 1.4.0 of GoW-PyPRP, PyPRP was drastically re-engineered. This involved the creation of new scripts, and as such the PyPRP Age Importer will not replace the new scripts in your existing Blender installation. This will cause interference between the importer, and the current version of GoW-PyPRP.
An alternative is to create two folders, one for the importer, and one for GoW-PyPRP. You would then copy the existing python scripts from the importer, into the folder associated with the importer. Then repeat the process for the GoW-PyPRP scripts, into the folder associated with it. When you want to import an age into blender, simply delete the GoW-PyPRP scripts from the scripts folder of blender, and place the importer's scripts into that folder. Then import your age and save in a blend file. Then delete the importer's scripts from Blender's script folder and replace with the GoW-PYPRP scripts.
The Future of the Importer
Developers are hard at work on the release of PyPRP 2.x, that will make this version obsolete, until then this importer can serve the community as a decent importer of ages.
Download Link
Additionally stuff (for Python 2.5):
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