Java .Blend File Viewer

Debug Blender Model Files and Understand its Structure

0.0.13

GPL v3

11-Dec-2022

Holger Machens

This application displays the content of a .blend file in terms of data structures and associated source code documentation. It helps to analyse the data of a Blender 3D model, in order to understand its structure. It uses a Java .Blend DNA API to access the data (included in download).

Features

Available

Display of File Header

Header attributes which are displayed: File location, byte order, address width and version.

Listing of Struct Types

The DNA of a file is read, all struct types are listed and associated documentation can be reviewed.

Listing of Blocks

All blocks of a file are listed, each block in a file can be displayed with all header attributes and available documentation.

Display of Library Content

View its actual data in terms of data structures and their values.

Type Casting of Pointers

Data, referenced by void pointers can be statically casted to proper types (see folder typecasts).

Planned

Documentation Editing

Allow editing of the displayed source code documentation.

Manual Type Casting

A lot of data is referenced by void pointers. Users may want to cast these to proper struct types manually.

Download

• source code (all dependencies included)
• github (download dependencies there)

Licensing

This work is published under GPL v3.0.