Panda3D Utils v1.6

Panda Utils is a set of Python scripts meant to help various projects running on the game engine Panda3D. It includes tools for manual use, as well as a full-fledged asset importing pipeline. It also includes an implementation of Egg Syntax Tree, which can be used programmatically in some scenarios.

Installation

• Install Python 3.9 or above
• pip install panda_utils
• This package includes a number of optional dependencies:
  • pip install panda_utils[imagery] to enable the Downscale module
  • pip install panda_utils[autopath] to automatically download P3D
  • pip install panda_utils[runnable] to enable the CLI runner
    • Requires a settings file to be used that way, see: config_example.ini in this repository
  • pip install panda_utils[pipeline] to enable the Pipeline runner
    • Requires Blender to be in the system PATH to run
  • pip install panda_utils[composer] to use the Composer tool used for Pipeline automation
    • Requires pipeline and has the same requirements for Blender
  • pip install panda_utils[everything] to include all of the above

Some of the features

• Automated asset pipeline, allowing to build BAM model files from input FBX or BLEND models adding optimizations and modifying them on the fly
• A tool to easily rescale and palettize all images in a folder
• Bam2Egg converter that does not suck
• A tool to export toon model and fix most issues arising from that
• Fast and flexible implementation of the Egg Syntax Tree

Documentation

See here: Documentation