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Title: Unleash Your Inner Blender Wizard: Creating a Custom Plugin with Python (No Sorcery Degree Required!)

Zahit Erdem Güzel
4 min readDec 16, 2024

Title: Unleash Your Inner Blender Wizard: Creating a Custom Plugin with Python (No Sorcery Degree Required!)

Picture this: You’ve spent hours, read: eons, tweaking your Blender projects, clicking the same buttons over and over again, muttering to yourself, “There has to be a better way.” Well, my friend, there is — a magical place where you get to create your own custom Blender plugins using Python. Think of it like crafting your digital wand that summons Blender spells. Abracadabra! Let’s dive in.

Why Create a Blender Plugin?

Because you are tired of living a life of inefficiency! The Blender plugins, or addons for the fancy folk, let you automate tasks, create your own tools, and — let’s face it — look like some kind of a tech wizard in front of your friends.

Python is Blender’s go-to language for writing addons. If you can spell def, you are halfway there. Plus, it is surprisingly fun to see your code come to life in a 3D application.

Step 1: Setting Up Your Workspace (a.k.a. The Potion Lab)

Before writing a single line of code, make sure you’ve prepared your tools:

  1. Blender is installed

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Zahit Erdem Güzel
Zahit Erdem Güzel

Written by Zahit Erdem Güzel

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