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:

Default Data Name

Data not Named(default name) The Object Data (e.g. Mesh or Curve) has a default name like Cube, Cone, Armature, (note not the object name)

Action

Change the object data names, preferebly to match their Objects. You can use the outliner, the properties editor, python console or an AddOn to do this. If Select was checked, the offending objects will be selected.

Out of Sync Data Name

Data Name not equal Object Name The object data and object names do not match; i.e. Cube with the mesh Sphere; the script is smart enough to deal with multi-user data differently.

Group Unrecorded

Groups not in text file Their is a group in the Blend file that is not in the description file