Passing Custom Property from Blender to V3D Scene?

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2018-02-04 at 3:45 am #1916

jem
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I am looking for a method to pass custom metadata about an object from the Blender file to the Verge3D scene. A method like this could be used to embed data such as the price, weight or other physical attributes of a real-world object in its 3D representation. I did not see an easy way to do this.

The V3D Object3D base class does contain an object called .userData that can store custom JSON data about the 3D object. I can populate this data programmatically, but I cannot set it from Blender.

Is there any way to achieve what I am looking for in the current build of Verge3D (1.05)? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Jem

Jeremy Wernick

2018-02-05 at 12:56 pm #1923

Yuri Kovelenov
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Hi Jem,

User-defined data can be exported and accessed as follows:

1. Create and set a property in Blender
2. Select Export Extras in the export options (on the left toolbox) upon exporting to glTF
3. Then your property should appear in .userData
var obj = v3dApp.scene.getObjectByName(“Cube”);
obj.userData.myprop // e.g. 123

We should definitely describe this in the manual.

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2018-02-05 at 2:55 pm #1931

jem
Customer

I just tested the technique that you described. It works perfectly! This feature is excellent and useful.
Thanks,
Jem

Jeremy Wernick

2018-02-06 at 7:15 am #1944

Yuri Kovelenov
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you’re welcome! :)

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