Topic: Blender Python 3.x scripts

Hi feh and welcome to the forums

As far as I know none of the few active graphic developers have been using these scripts for many years, so they are indeed very outdated. Perhaps they work with the exact blender+python versions mentioned in the wiki, but any other versions… unlikely.

That wiki page is also not being kept up to date. Everyone actually uses their own individual workflow which is not documented anywhere. For example I do the work of rotating, masking etc in Blender manually and use the Java tool in graphics/tools/ to handle scaling and spritesheet generation. Those python scripts were used by the designers of most of the older models, who are not active any more.

So essentially there is no reliable standard way of processing Blender models into game-usable images. If I may ask what you're intending to use the scripts for perhaps I can help further

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I'd still recommend using the templates because they provide the recommended light and shadow directions and camera position. Most of our graphics use the settings found in the template files. (Some don't, e.g. the standing stones, resulting in mixed shadow directions in the game.)
But you can of course create a new model without the templates and arrange all of those freely if you prefer it – even at 4× zoom, the small scale of the in-game graphics means that smaller deviations usually won't be visible in the result.

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