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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Currently I am working on enhancing my space tree addon and I want to link or append particle settings from a bundled library.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Now bpy.data.libraries.load() works fine but the objects returned in by the context manager do NOT expose a particles attribute so I am forced to link the object with the associated particle system and get the particlesettings as side effect. This is not so desirable because I have no need for the object itself. (see code below)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Am I missing something here/could this be done more elegantly or is not having a .particles attribute an omission in the API perhaps?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thnx,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- Michel (varkenvarken).</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>def load_particlesettings(library, object_name, settings):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> beforep = set(m.name for m in bpy.data.particles)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> before = set(m.name for m in bpy.data.objects)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> with bpy.data.libraries.load(library) as (data_from, data_to):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> data_to.objects = [m for m in data_from.objects if m == object_name]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> afterp = set(m.name for m in bpy.data.particles)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> after = set(m.name for m in bpy.data.objects)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> new = after - before<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> if len(new) != 1:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> raise ValueError("While loading object %s from library %s %d objects were found (%s) instead of just 1"%(<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> object_name,library,len(new),str(new)))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> new = afterp - beforep<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> if len(new) != 1:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> raise ValueError("While loading particle setting %s from object %s in library %s %d objects were found (%s) instead of just 1"%(settings,object_name,library,len(new),str(new)))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> return bpy.data.particles[new.pop()]<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>