This is a developers guide on how to extend MB-Lab.

Developer Tools

IDE

Any text editor will work really but there are some tools that make it easier

• VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ use the Blender Development Extension, follow tutorial here

• Stani's Python Editor - https://sourceforge.net/projects/spe/ (Old but still useful)

Branches

There are two main branches, 'master' and 'dev'.

The 'master' branch is meant to be the release version of MB-Lab.

The dev branch is the working developmental version of MB-Lab and is not meant for production use, it can contain buggy or incomplete code.

We are going to adopt the git-flow development method, which git is well suited for. The current development method is more trunk based. More to come

MB-Lab Developer Tools

These scripts were created by Noizirom to copy data from Blender and write it out to JSON for MB-Lab

https://github.com/animate1978/MBLAB_DevTools

Blender

It is highly recommended to download daily builds of Blender (or build it yourself if that suits your workflow), this will hopefully ensure that MB-Lab will be "stable" with Blender as it continues to be developed.

Blender 2.90+ Beta Daily Builds

https://builder.blender.org/download/

It is highly recommended that you run Blender with the --debug operator

Blender Developers Portal

https://developer.blender.org/

Documentation

Blender API - https://docs.blender.org/api/master/