AgeImport
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Please read this Notice from Cyan about Age Creation before continuing.
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Importing an Age from Uru to Blender
Make sure that you have the plugin and all necessary software installed before beginning
- You should have Blender 3D, Python 2.4, the Python Imaging Library, and the Python Cryptography Toolkit as well as the PyPRP Plugin itself.
- If the plugin is installed correctly, then you should be able to see "PyPRP" on the import and export menus in Blender.
- Please create a new working directory and copy all of the .prp, .age, and .fni files that you are going to be editing.
For this tutorial, we will be importing Relto (Personal.age)
What to Import
You can import an entire age, by selecting the "Full Age (.age)" option, or only a simple prp file by selecting the "Single prp (.prp)" option.
Importing large Ages (city, Cleft, Er'cana) will take a long time and will slow your computer down. This is because the PyPRP plugin is written in Python, and all script based languages are slow. And Age like Relto will usually take between 5 and 15 minutes to import. You will probably want to save a .blend file once the import is finished so that you don't have to re-import again.
Python Script Errors
The plugin is very sensible and it may easily display an assertion error verifying several flags. If you know Python, just comment the code that fails. Otherwise, take a screenshot of the Blender Console and post it on the Alcugs Forum, where the developers can examine the error.
Directory structure
The PyPRP plugin will create a directory with the same name of the age with several raw objects required to be able to assemble again the age. You can manually modify or delete the objects, allowing some tweaks not yet implemented by the plugin. There is a subdirectory for each page, and each page has a new subdirectory for each prp object type with the objects.
It's important that if you are going to rename an age, or clone an age, please remember to rename/copy the directory that contains all the required raw objects.
How to Import
In Blender, Go File->Import->PyPRP. Select 'Full Age (.age)' on the popup. Using the file selector that appears, click on Personal.age in your working directory.
Look at the Blender Console, you should see a tonne of text scrolling very rapidly. Unless there is an error, this text is just general debug information.
Eventually, you should see a message on the console saying "done in X seconds".
You can now switch over to the main Blender GUI where you should see the Age loaded and ready to edit.
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