For some reason Blender import doesn’t support FBX models that are serialized to text. As a workaround the model can be changed to binary FBX model and imported to Blender. At least I am able to use Autodesk FBX 2013.3 Converter even I don’t have any other Autodesk software installed. Other option that might work … Read more
Use import instead of the open menu item. Menus: File->import->Wavefront (obj)
Blender uses OpenGL to draw all of its user interface. (Personally I’m a fan!)
You can also execute the following code in the python console to execute an external script without opening it up in the text editor: filename = “/full/path/to/myscript.py” exec(compile(open(filename).read(), filename, ‘exec’)) The above code comes from the following link: Blender – Tips and Tricks
The code below creates a “VR panorama” (a series of pictures of an object, from different perspectives around it). I ended up with this algorithm: create or load an object you are going to take pictures of (the subject) scale it and add some nice lighting (so that the object is visible from directions you … Read more
The consensus seems to be that you should accomplish such rotations using quaternions. See this for the api: http://www.blender.org/documentation/249PythonDoc/Mathutils.Quaternion-class.html See this for an introduction to the maths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_formalisms_in_three_dimensions#Quaternions