What to export from Blender 2.93? And a bit of constructive criticism on the manual page

[Thaumaturge]

A little while ago I put together a quick-reference thread to this end:

Exporting from Blender: A Quick-Reference

This thread, and in particular this first post, is intended to act as a quick-reference for those seeking to export models from Blender. Note that it is not intended as a tutorial–only a guide to some of the options available for exportation, and some of the considerations incurred by each. Further, I personally am not familiar with all options here at time of writing, and so there may be some errors in the below. Please do correct me as called for! Full instructions, guides, or tutorials may …

@vijace3

It is 2021, a command line tool to convert your assets is not a good first impression either.

I do agree that a command-line tool is not ideal. There is the argument that Panda is a somewhat command-line oriented engine (see the build system), but I do think that it’s not great for first-time users.

@vijace3

There’s no mention what glTF supports. I realize that format is not Panda specific, but some info would be appreciated since we have to guess what glTF features Panda supports. Does it support skeletons and skeletal animations?

I can at least answer that glTF supports skeletal animation, indeed, from what I’ve seen of it.

Overall, there has been a bit of discussion around these matters of late, I believe. My feeling is that we’re in a bit of a transitional period: YABEE, once the standard tool, and a pretty mature and stable one, has fallen away with changes in Blender. GLTF support has entered–but yet has a few issues.