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Add support for Blender's `use_all_linked_data_direct` experimental option. This is a workaround for an issue with BAT, for which a quick solution is required by the Blender Studio (production crunch). Flamenco writes the `.flamenco.blend` file with `preferences.experimental.use_all_linked_data_direct` set to `True`, so that BAT has an easier time finding linked assets.
Flamenco 3 Blender add-on
Setting up development environment
~/workspace/blender-git/build_linux/bin/3.1/python/bin/python3.9 -m venv --upgrade-deps venv
. ./venv/bin/activate
pip install poetry
poetry install
Generating the OpenAPI client
- Make sure Java is installed (so
java --versionshows something sensible). - In the root directory of the repository, run
make generate-py
Type annotations and lazy imports
This add-on tries to only load Python packages from wheel files when necessary. Loading things from wheels is tricky, as they basically pollute the sys.modules dictionary and thus can "leak" to other add-ons. This can cause conflicts when, for example, another add-on is using a different version of the same package.
The result is that sometimes there are some strange hoops to jump through. The most obvious one is for type annotations. This is why you'll see code like:
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from .bat_interface import _PackThread
else:
_PackThread = object
This makes it possible to declare a function with def func() -> _PackThread, without having to load bat_interface immediately at import time.