Blender Documentation Volume II - Reference Guide: Last modified March 29 2004 S68
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The Blender.Types submodule

This module is a dictionary of Blender Python types, for type checking.

Example:

 import Blender
 from Blender import Types, Object, NMesh, Camera, Lamp
 #
 objs = Object.Get() # a list of all objects in the current scene
 for o in objs:
   print
   print o, type(o)
   data = o.getData()
   print type(data)
   if type(data) == Types.NMeshType:
     if len(data.verts):
       print "its vertices are obviously of type:", type(data.verts[0])
     print "and its faces:", Types.NMFaceType
   elif type(data) == Types.CameraType:
     print "It's a Camera."
   elif type(data) == Types.LampType:
     print "Let there be light!"

Variable Summary
	`ArmatureType` - Blender Armature.
	`BoneType` - Blender Bone.
	`bufferType` - Blender buffer.
	`ButtonType` - Blender Button.
	`CameraType` - Blender Camera.
	`constantType` - Blender constant.
	`CurveType` - Blender Curve.
	`ImageType` - Blender Image.
	`IpoType` - Blender Ipo.
	`LampType` - Blender Lamp.
	`MaterialType` - Blender Material.
	`MetaballType` - Blender Metaball.
	`NMColType` - Blender NMCol.
	`NMeshType` - Blender NMesh.
	`NMFaceType` - Blender NMFace.
	`NMVertType` - Blender NMVert.
	`ObjectType` - Blender Object.
	`rgbTupleType` - Blender rgbTuple.
	`SceneType` - A Blender Scene.
	`TextType` - Blender Text.
	`vectorType` - Blender vector.

Variable Details

ArmatureType

Blender Armature. The "skeleton", for animating and deforming objects.

BoneType

Blender Bone. Bones are, obviously, the "pieces" of an Armature.

bufferType

Blender buffer. A contiguous piece of storage, used in BGL.

ButtonType

Blender Button. One of the Draw widgets.

CameraType

Blender Camera.

constantType

Blender constant. A constant dictionary.

CurveType

Blender Curve.

ImageType

Blender Image.

IpoType

Blender Ipo.

LampType

Blender Lamp.

MaterialType

Blender Material.

MetaballType

Blender Metaball.

NMColType

Blender NMCol. A mesh rgba colour.

NMeshType

Blender NMesh. The mesh structure.

NMFaceType

Blender NMFace. A mesh face, with one (a point), two (an edge), three (a triangular face) or four (a quad face) vertices.

NMVertType

Blender NMVert. A mesh vertex.

ObjectType

Blender Object. The base object, linked to its specific data at its .data member variable.

rgbTupleType

Blender rgbTuple. A (red, green, blue) triplet.

SceneType

A Blender Scene. Container of all other objects.

TextType

Blender Text.

vectorType

Blender vector. Used in NMesh.

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