Blendflakes

Introduction

This is a simple script that, like pyflakes for python scripts, checks a Blendfile for 'niceness' From our perspective, it does checks that make it easier for people to understand/use each other's library files, and uses/enforces/creates a text description file with the same name, so that we can describe our groups:

libraryfile.blend and libraryfile.txt

errors/warnings are written to libraryfile.err

Installation and Usage

Installation

• Start a new file and go to the User Preferences, select the Addons tab, and click on "Install Addon..." in the lower part of the window.
• Browse to the file blendflakes.py (usually in tubeSVN/lib/python/addons,) select it and hit Enter
• Check the activation box next to the addon, and then press "Save As Default" at the bottom of the window.

Usage

• Open a model file you want to check.
• Press 'w' and select Show Warnings/Errors in library file (you can also use the spacebar search)
• Blender will output all warnings by default, and select offending objects.
• If you use w and want to change options, do so in the last operator region in the toolbar, then press w again (If you use spacebar search you will get a popup anyway)
• warnings are shown in the info area (drag down the header)
• if export is checked, they are saved to libraryfile.err (where libraryfile is the name of your .blend file)
• If you have a lot of warnings you might want to uncheck some of them and tackle them a few at a time.

List of Warnings

Following is a list of the things we check for: