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 !
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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
After some feedback, planning on adding:
Hopefully that's intriguing enough!