Blender Tools

The Blender repository has a tools/ directory with various scripts that are not needed for building Blender but that developers may find useful.

• Utility scripts for running checks on code for style, spelling.
• Utility scripts for code-base analysis, creating credits for eg.
• Configurations for 3rd party applications, IDEs.
• Any tools we develop specifically for working with Blender.

Overview

• check_source/check_spelling.py: spell checker (Depends on enchant Python module)
• config/ide: style configuration for QtCreator and Eclipse
• utils/make_cursor_gui.py: simple paint program to create pixmap cursors for wm_cursors.c
• utils/make_gl_stipple_from_xpm.py: Converter from 32x32 XPM images to a GL-Stipple array, typically for glutil.c
• utils_maintenance/blender_update_themes.py: run to add new fields into existing XML themes
• utils_maintenance/trailing_space_clean.py: Strip trailing space and BOM (byte-order-mark) of source files maintained by in our repo