Script to generate syntax highlighted Text Objects from Text Editor content

zeffii · September 26, 2012, 4:18pm

This script uses pygments (I can not help you install this). It relies on a monospace typeface, in this instance SourceCodePro by Adobe (An Open Source font family). The settings aren’t fully tweaked for generic use, but if you kind of know what you’re doing it won’t be a problem to get a lot more from it.

Each text unit is a unique object, so can be keyframed. The script generates materials automatically for cycles. You can adjust the material_library to your liking.

That’s it. Enjoy.

https://gist.github.com/3804046 (as an addon, details in 3rd post)

zeffii · September 27, 2012, 4:50am

standing conditions:

None that i know of.

zeffii · September 28, 2012, 11:25am

now as an addon, Makes new Panel in Text Editor called Syntax Objects, with a button Make Text Objects it will turn the currently active text in Text Editor into syntax highlighted 2d Text 0bjects in the 3dview.

Download, place in addons, addons_contrib, or addons_extern.

this code snippet will output all current materials, so if you modify the default theme and want to use it in the future you can overwrite that dictionary in the script.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/zeffii/3806899

tweak your materials.py

import bpy

pymat = bpy.data.materials

print('material_library = {')
for idx, i in enumerate(pymat):
    name = i.name
    node = i.node_tree.nodes['Diffuse BSDF']
    color = node.inputs[0].default_value[:]
    color = tuple(round(j, 4) for j in color)

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zeffii · September 30, 2012, 10:49am

modified the default theme

Atom · September 30, 2012, 1:53pm

So what is this pygments?
The script crashes because I do not have that module.

zeffii · September 30, 2012, 3:58pm

http://pygments.org/ unzip, then something like

python3.2 setup.py install