Hi everyone! I’m new to Panda3D but I’m excited to contribute to this awesome engine. Here’s my first contribution.
I’ve created a new Blender (3.x+) addon that adds a .BAM export option. It uses Moguri’s blend2bam tool as a backend. My addon is unrelated to the previous older Blender 2.7x addon that already exists.
Download and installation instructions are on GitHub
This is a really nice addition to the Panda3D ecosystem – thank you for making it! Having already used the exporter myself straight from the GitHub .zip file (installed via Blender add-ons), I can say that the install process is painless, and it is fantastic to see a “Panda3D (.bam)” export option in the Blender Export menu.
There is a known issue on the blend2bam side, where multiple textures connected to the BSDF Principled Node will not be converted. As Moguri explained earlier today:
blend2bam currently expects a single ORM map and cannot leverage the texture packing provided by the glTF exporter. This is mostly due to being originally built for a much older gltf exporter that pre-dates the current one. It’s a long standing todo, and I might have to drop 2.7x support to fix it.
I am personally looking forward to an update to blend2bam which might allow a more regular translation of the BSDF textures. Just want to get ahead of any comments here regarding this being lacking in the “Blender BAM Exporter”.
Ah, that sounds like an excellent tool to have! Thank you very much for making–and for contributing–this! 