Sunday, April 17, 2022

Getting ibus to work for Tamil phonetic input in manjaro


 Install the below packages from the package manager

ibus
m17n-db
ibus-m17n
m17n-lib

Then run ibus-daemon -rdx in the terminal. Then EN icon appears on the the right side of the taskbar. Right click on it and select preferences.


 
 
Then ibus preferences window will appear click on the 3 dots to expand the list of inputs 
 
 
select phonetic(m17n)  
left click on the EN icon then menu appears select Tamil-phonetic(m17n)  the start typing  enjoy

 

 

Saturday, July 10, 2021

.abc batch export and import script Blender

Simple blender python script i wrote to save some time. I hope it will be useful for someone. 

Export selected objects as individual alembic file


import bpy
import os
narray = bpy.context.selected_objects

    ##path to export the selected objects
path = "/home/user/"
print(narray)
for obj in narray:
    bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT')
    sobj = bpy.data.objects[obj.name]
    sobj.select_set(True)
    
       ##remove . and replace it with _
    bname = path+sobj.name.replace(".", "_")+".abc"
    bpy.ops.wm.alembic_export(filepath=bname,selected=True)
    
Import alembic file from a folder

import bpy
import os
	## Folder path to import the files from
directory = "/home/user/"
files = os.listdir(directory)
print(files)
for file in files:
    bpy.ops.wm.alembic_import(filepath= directory+file,as_background_job = False)
    ##select all the objects in the scene
bpy.ops.object.select_all()
  ##join the selected objects
bpy.ops.object.join()
   

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Sculpt wip




Did a character sculpt based on a character concept from internet . Couldn't find the artists name who create the below character


Wednesday, November 7, 2018