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Can I get some feedback on a pretty sick addon I made?

Whatup blender.community ,

I just finished developing a pretty sweet blender addon that lets you save a whole bunch of time on your creative process by linking Blender to Thangs to get sick meshes/models for blender.

Installation takes just 2 minutes, instructions are here: Blender Market OR Github link .

Good design takes a LONG time. My hypothesis is that bootstrapping the initial mesh design (via search for 13M models) may save blender designers considerable time.

Thangs .com has a search index with nearly 13M meshes, and my goal is to open that index to blender users, in-app (while respecting the content owner's license).

Other details Re: privacy, paid services:

  • The add-on itself requires no login
  • Thangs and the add-on are free
  • It captures no identifying user data (just a beacon event to let me know someone installed)

Known issues:

  • User experience is limited by client extensibility, in many ways, for a search use case
  • Users still need to manually download and import the 3D mesh itself - I can work around this, but I need to ensure the original content owner's use license is properly displayed
  • .blend support is WIP

Potential future plans:

  • Direct import, vs forcing the user to open the web app
  • Similar to Thangs Sync, functionality to automatically backup all versions (optionally, user opt-in only) to private, free, cloud based 3D Git (Thangs Workspace, aka Git for Geometry)
  • Ability to suggest mesh auto-complete using Thangs 3D search capabilities

Hopefully you guys take a second to check it out!

Feedback is super important to me - if you think of a way to make it better, add a feature/issue request here !

randyhucker
31 Aug 2022

2 Comments

randyhucker Author

Thanks to everyone liking this, again, if you want to give any feedback, please do! I'd love to make the addon better as quickly as possible :) Link to give feedback: HERE

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randyhucker Author

After some feedback, planning on adding:

  • models
  • textured models ( with mats )
  • rigged models
  • rigged and animated models
  • shaders
  • geonodes
  • postpro nodes
  • action strips
  • physics setups
  • and maybe also addons^^

Hopefully that's intriguing enough!