If in doubt, please get in touch. As a rule of thumb I'm fine with anyone using these spaceships in commercial works, but I am less okay with people selling the spaceship models directly for commercial gain. Use common sense.

Creative Commons Attribution By 3.0 does allow selling the model itself

I can't seem to get this to work using blender v2.83.0. I am installing and it isn't showing any errors, but then I can't see Spaceship from the Add Mesh menu. Not sure if I should downgrade blender to get this to work?

There is an error on line #18 of init.py. from add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator import spaceship_generator This needs to be changed to from . import spaceship_generator

Windows 7x64 Blender 2.77

How to reproduce:

1. Download https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator/archive/master.zip
2. «Install from File...»
3. Enable addon

Am I an idiot, or how do I get a generated ship to render like the pictures in the Readme? I run the default render settings, and the ships just look kind of flat, and the hull panels texture is almost invisible.

Seed: walnut! Min. Hull Segments: 3 Max. Hull Segments: 6 Create Asymmetry: OFF Min. Asymmetry Segments: 1 Max. Asymmetry Segments: 5 Create Face Detail: ON Allow Horizontal Symmetry: ON Allow Vertical Symmetry: OFF Apply Bevel Modifier: ON Assign Materials: ON

Now render it or display it in Material mode. Blender will hang.

The error I am getting is this:

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wulfalpha/.config/blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/__init__.py", line 43, in execute
    spaceship_generator.generate_spaceship(
  File "/home/wulfalpha/.config/blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 669, in generate_spaceship
    add_surface_antenna_to_face(bm, face)
  File "/home/wulfalpha/.config/blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 341, in add_surface_antenna_to_face
    result = bmesh.ops.create_cone(bm,
TypeError: create_cone: keyword "segments" expected an int, not float

location: <unknown location>:-1

I have tried a couple of the fixes i have seen here and sadly none of them seems to work. It looks like a type casting issue to me but I can't see where the problem actually is because I'm not familiar enough with python or the code itself. Any help would be great

Hi, thank you for the script !

Blender 2.8 changed some core functions. It is certainly too soon to adapt the script now, as some changes are not completely settled, nor documented, yet (stable release in forseen in 2019 Q3 I think)

Anyway, I did some minor changes to run it in Blender 2.8, without materials. https://github.com/vincent/SpaceshipGenerator

The code is absolutely not polished - hence no pr yet - but can be useful if you just want to try it in 2.8.

Cheers

Hi a1studmuffin,

Sorry to contact you like this by creating an issue (do not know how to do so otherwise).

I have purchased many tools to help me in my Sci Fi assets to sell. I am very interested in this plugin to create the basis for my spaceships assets. Meaning, I do not want to sell the results of this plugins directly. Rather, I would like to build upon the generated spaceships using my different tools to create polished and customized ones to sell.

Is this OK?

Regards

Not and issue as such but could you provide a few examples of the different parameters you can pass to the generate_spaceship function?

What, for example, did you pass through to make the extreme ships?

Hi @a1studmuffin, nice plugin, but i have found some typos in your code. In init.py file the function call should be:

spaceship_generator.generate_spaceship(
  self.random_seed,
  self.num_hull_segments_min,
  self.num_hull_segments_max,
  self.create_asymmetry_segments,
  self.num_asymmetry_segments_min,
  self.num_asymmetry_segments_max,
  self.create_face_detail,
  self.allow_horizontal_symmetry,
  self.allow_vertical_symmetry,
  self.apply_bevel_modifier,
  self.assign_materials
)

Now arguments num_hull_segments_min and num_hull_segments_max are not passed, and assign_materials also.

Would it be possible to add a trivial GUI such as via pygobject, as well as means to generate different spaceships via blender from the commandline, to then display these as-is?

That way the user could select the model that may be most appropriate such as for a game that makes use of spaceships, a bit like context free grammar works (example for what I mean can be seen at the cfdg gallery: https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/search.php?t=new&num=25)

Obviously this suggestion "works" only if the required work is not too enormous, so perhaps the first step would be to have a way for the SpaceshipGenerator to batch-generate different models via the commandline, and then when that works plug in a minimal GUI that shows these different results as-is via that app).

Report: Error Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/enda/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add mesh SpaceshipGenerator/init.py",line 43, in execute spaceship generator.generate spaceship( File "/Users/enda/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add mesh SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship generator.py", line 669, in generate spaceship add surface antenna to face(bm, face) File "/Users/enda/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.1/scripts/addons/add mesh SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship generator.py", line 341, in add surface antenna to face result = bmesh.ops.create cone(bm, TypeError: create cone: keyword "segments" expected an int, not float location: :-1

I had also to change following lines/commands in spaceship_generator.py to work again in Blender 3.1: bmesh.ops.create_icosphere - now needs parameter radius instead of diameter - line 310 bmesh.ops.create.cone - radius1, radius2 instead of diameter1, diameter2 - lines 200,232,245,,258,272,282,291,341,354,372,380 tip: use find&replace (worked for me)

Hope this helps Thomas

bpy.ops.object.origin_set(type='ORIGIN_CENTER_OF_MASS', center='MEDIAN')
bpy.ops.mesh.generate_spaceship()
Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kenorb/.config/blender/2.93/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/__init__.py", line 43, in execute
    spaceship_generator.generate_spaceship(
  File "/home/kenorb/.config/blender/2.93/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 724, in generate_spaceship
    materials = create_materials()
  File "/home/kenorb/.config/blender/2.93/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 458, in create_materials
    set_hull_mat_basics(mat, hull_base_color, hull_normal_map)
  File "/home/kenorb/.config/blender/2.93/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 436, in set_hull_mat_basics
    return add_hull_normal_map(mat, hull_normal_map)
  File "/home/kenorb/.config/blender/2.93/scripts/addons/add_mesh_SpaceshipGenerator/spaceship_generator.py", line 419, in add_hull_normal_map
    teximage_node.image.colorspace_settings.name = 'Raw'
TypeError: bpy_struct: item.attr = val: enum "Raw" not found in ('Linear', 'sRGB')

location: <unknown location>:-1

• Blender v2.93.3 on Ubuntu.

Hello, spaceship generator - which I find AMUSING! - did not work anymore on my Blender 3.1: being a programmer I was able to reaad the log (it's an int - float conversion error) and managed to fix it in this way:

• in spaceship_generator.py on line 340 simply substituted num_segments = uniform(3, 6) with num_segments = int( uniform(3, 6) ) Now it works again! Hope this is useful to other people. Thanks again for this beautiful piece of software! Sincerely, Giorgio