External Python script

Coding Python Support
#1

Didn’t know if this belongs here or in the bge section, but this is what I’m trying to find out.

I am wanting to use a script saved in my own home directory instead of using blenders text editor. I want to use it in a controller logic brick as a module. I’ve tried putting the path to the script into the logic brick, but that didn’t work.

I’ve also tried putting the directory I want in the user prefs under Python Scripts, but still didn’t work. I googled around, maybe not enough, but everything I find is about executing external scripts. I don’t want to execute it, but have the logic controller hook it and use it from there.

#2

Have you tried this one? Putting scripts here let’s you use "import yourmodule in any blender script.
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.68\scripts\startup

#3

If you’re on linux/mac you can make a symbolic link from ~/.config/blender/2.69/scripts/startup to where the file/module is.

#4

I did get it to work, well kinda. I put the script directly in the folder containing the .blend file and that works. Now if I make a folder in the same dir and put the script in there, I can’t figure out the syntax for the controller.

I am on Linux, and if I make a sym link wont that mess up if I export the project as a standalone executable and run it on another machine?

#5

Yes, that would mess it up.

I haven’t done much with the game engine, but I suggest using modules.

myblend.blend
mygamestuff/
    __init__.py
    foo.py
    bar.py

in init.py put this

from . import foo, bar

and in your scripts you can do

from mygamestuff import foo
   foo.somethingInFooDotPy()
#6

I figured it out. Turns out there is no way to have a sub directory and call scripts from within it from the logic bricks. It does work when the scripts are in the same directory as the .blend file is in. I could use the module way as suggested by GreenJello, but for now I’ll keep it all in the same dir. Once I get everything going, I might wrap everything up in module form for everyone. But till then, tis solved.