create-blender-project

A command line tool to create a new blender project with common directories.

Project language: English

Description

create-blender-project is a tool accessible via the command line / terminal.

It creates a new blender project with the following directories:

• assets
• blend-files
• render-output
• results

The directory blend-files will contain a blank blender file with the name of the project: <projectName>.blend
The tool also sets the directoy render-output as the default render output directory of the newly created blender file.

Parameters

The command has one (optional) parameter: Project name.
If the parameter is not specified, the terminal will ask for a project name.

Use create-blender-project

Run

1. Download the source code of the project (as a .zip file or via git clone).
2. Make sure the create-blender-project file is flagged as executable, if not run $ chmod +x create-blender-project
3. Open a new terminal window and navigate to the directory in which you want to create a new blender project (using cd)
4. Run $ /path/to/file/create-blender-project <Optional parameter: Project name>

Install (Make accessible in terminal)

If you want to install create-blender-project and make the command accessible in the terminal, copy the create-blender-project file to the following directory: /usr/local/bin/

Now you can access it without specifing the location of the file, like this: $ create-blender-project <Optional parameter: Project name>.