big refactoring and additions

[s-light]

Hello silverslade,

in my last customer project i used blender, your exporter addon and aframe heavily...
and i needed a bunch of chagnes / additions.....

i have refactored most of the code for easier reading / splitted it in multiple files..
(maybe there is some more potential for splitting...)
i used black to format all files.

today i have rebased my changes on your master branch and reimplemented some of the things just on top of my changes..

• reimplement light handling
• reimplement export_single_model
  are not tested yet...

i hope that someone finds this additons usefulle - and maybe you accept this very big pullrequest...
(i know it is not the smothest way to just request such a big change... - in the first place it was just a quick - i have to get it working for the project.... )

sunny greetings
stefan

[s-light]

on addition:
currently i have tested it with blender 3.1. beta -
and also with the 3.1-vtree branch of the gltf exporter..

i hope that i find some time this week to test with blender 3.0.
now tested and working on official blender 3.1.0.

[SanctumVenture]

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\llill\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.1\scripts\addons\aframe_blender_exporter-dev_rebase\__init__.py", line 507, in execute
    return my_exporter.export()
  File "C:\Users\llill\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.1\scripts\addons\aframe_blender_exporter-dev_rebase\export_aframe\__init__.py", line 1095, in export
    self.export_single_model()
  File "C:\Users\llill\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.1\scripts\addons\aframe_blender_exporter-dev_rebase\export_aframe\__init__.py", line 803, in export_single_model
    filename = os.path.join(constants.DEST_RES, constants.PATH_ASSETS, "MainMesh")
AttributeError: module 'aframe_blender_exporter-dev_rebase.constants' has no attribute 'DEST_RES'

location: <unknown location>:-1

Error activating export single GLTF model.
os: Windows 11
Blender version: 3.1

[s-light]

thanks for reporting - i will have a look.

[SanctumVenture]

fixed on: 8b3c8eb

[s-light]

thanks @SanctumVenture for fixing.

i just improved / added relative-path handling..
and with this fixed also the default Enviroment Texture handling
and tested all this in the current official 3.1.0 version.

please report here or as issue if there are other things that do not work!

[silverslade]

Hi s-light,
thanks for the Pull Request.
I think this is a huge refactoring, I've tried to install your version into Blender 3.0.0 but it fails to install.
There are too many updates since the last release version.

Drop me a line to manage how to merge your updates.

[s-light]

hi Alessandro,

thanks for trying - i only tested it in the currently official Blender 3.1.0 -
i personally think it is fine to define 3.1.0 as the minimum version.
it brings some great improvements in the gltf exporter...

do you think support for 3.0.0 is essential?
than i will try to tweak this..

[kylebakerio]

Bump on this, would love to see this merged.

[kylebakerio]

btw, though, stable on Pop OS (and therefore same or earlier on Debian and Ubuntu) is blender 3.0, not 3.1. Still, if this was a thing, I'd consider building 3.1 from src.

[kylebakerio]

As it is, the repo has fallen enough out of date that it's going to not be worth using if something isn't done--sounds like for better or worse, this is probably the way to go.

It's such a cool project, it would be a shame for it to just die.