I recently had an interest in importing Binary Large Objects, or “BLOB” files into blender, but can’t find an addon that allows it. It turns out, “blob” is a really common word in the Blender community, and it usually has to do with the sculpting tool, or metaballs, or just the idea of modelling actual misshapen lumps. I can’t sort through all these red herrings. So I’m going to ask point-blank. Does anyone know where I can get such an addon?
Can you provide an example of a binary large object?
Does this work?
BreadCrumb_7318349458633297_0.blob (244 Bytes)
It should be just a low-poly sphere. I’m giving you something simple as a proof of concept.
Usually BLOB’s are binary data known or used by the devs of an app and there is no general format for this (even if yours is playing nice and starts win BIN).
They know what they are using… so your BLOB could be everthing… even some data not usable in blender…
… so there could be no single addon to be able to import every possible BLOB…
This is like importing an mp3 into a pure texteditor…
Your file …:
00000000 42 49 4e 64 0f 00 00 00 55 74 01 00 00 78 9c 0b |BINd....Ut...x..|
00000010 ad 7f 5f d5 c0 cd c0 d0 c0 c0 c0 10 db 9a 90 c6 |.._.............|
00000020 e7 91 5f 5a 9c 99 97 3e 03 c8 77 2f b5 df 2b e2 |.._Z...>..w/..+.|
00000030 54 94 9a 98 e2 5c 54 9a 9b 94 00 14 da 13 9c e5 |T....\T.........|
00000040 6d 0c a4 41 ec f5 39 ee c5 40 0a ac f5 4d e5 0d |[email protected]..|
00000050 8e c0 4f 97 98 19 18 a4 c0 72 67 67 d8 27 1e d8 |..O......rgg.'..|
00000060 54 dd b8 82 83 81 c1 2b 72 b7 e2 c7 8b 65 c1 1e |T......+r....e..|
00000070 40 b6 06 10 7b 68 ad 5c ce f2 67 6a 7b fd 05 66 |@...{h.\..gj{..f|
00000080 88 41 ec 33 2f ba 30 40 0d fd 2c ef ef 3d 81 51 |.A.3/.0@..,..=.Q|
00000090 87 11 c4 76 3b fb c9 10 24 ee 01 c4 8a ef 5f 9b |...v;...$....._.|
000000a0 b2 79 30 31 30 5c d0 58 9c d8 f0 75 5f b3 fc 03 |.y010\.X...u_...|
000000b0 46 88 8e b7 cb ac 6a 41 aa 16 00 71 de f2 cb b1 |F.....jA...q....|
000000c0 40 61 86 db 8b 7a 58 19 18 5e 80 4d 49 2d f2 55 |@a...zX..^.MI-.U|
000000d0 86 99 1e e5 f7 d9 1a c4 c6 6b 7b e3 04 ac b6 b3 |.........k{.....|
000000e0 e0 b4 9d 11 cd f6 19 2a 93 80 b6 9f c1 69 3b 00 |.......*.....i;.|
000000f0 ed 77 62 f3 |.wb.|```This is just a misunderstanding on your side. A blob is used as term for a single metaball. You are referring to a container format for general binary data. These dont relate. If you know how the data is structured you may write your own importer though. But I’d rather suggest to have a look for some common interchange formats.