PyPRP Age Importer
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Introduction
Useful to new Writers, is to import Cyan ages, as well as other user ages, into Blender. This allows a new Writer to get familiar with how an age is constructed before it is exported into Uru. It is also useful to 'old' Writers, who may, on occasion, delete a blend file for their age. Without importation, the loss of data from this, can often set a writer back months, as they would again have to start from scratch on that age.
Starting with the release of GoW-PyPRP 1.5.0, importing of ages by PyPRP was no longer a functionality of the plugin.
Information
The PyPRP Age Importer is the most up to date stable version of PyPRP that allows importing functionality. It is a consistently updated version of PyPRP for the express purpose of importing ages into blender. It is a modified version of GoW-PyPRP 1.3.0 and thus should only be used for importing ages into Blender, rather than creating them. The Age Importer requires Blender 2.45.
Before Getting Started
Before getting started importing your ages, it is recommended that you install a separate installation of Blender. Following the release of 1.4.0 of GoW-PyPRP, PyPRP was drastically re-engineered. This involved the creation of new scripts, and as such the PyPRP Age Importer will not replace the new scripts in your existing Blender installation. This will cause interference between the importer, and the current version of GoW-PyPRP.
An alternative is to create two folders, one for the importer, and one for GoW-PyPRP. You would then copy the existing python scripts from the importer, into the folder associated with the importer. Then repeat the process for the GoW-PyPRP scripts, into the folder associated with it. When you want to import an age into blender, simply delete the GoW-PyPRP scripts from the scripts folder of blender, and place the importer's scripts into that folder. Then import your age and save in a blend file. Then delete the importer's scripts from Blender's script folder and replace with the GoW-PYPRP scripts.
The Future of the Importer
Developers are hard at work on the release of PyPRP 2.x, that will make this version obsolete, until then this importer can serve the community as a decent importer of ages.