Kevin Yeandel’s Random Access Memory

I wanted a glass floor between two datacentres so I could see the servers in the room below also. I put a slight red tint in the glass for effect. The greens sphere and blue cube are sticking out from behind the slice of glass. Theres a rock thing in front of the glass. A lamp shines from above which is casting a shadow on a screen behind.

Warning to newbies:

Make sure to show the outliner and refresh when you have run the code. Can be a pain in the backside trying to apply materials etc. to objects. The outliner shows whats going on.

import Blender
import math
from math import *
import Blender

from Blender import NMesh, Material

myCube = Blender.Object.Get(‘Cube’) #default cube, might as well use it. I resized it to make it more like a pain of glass

me=NMesh.GetRaw(‘Cube’)

“”"
diffuseColor 0.9324847 0.94625 0.9620039
ambientIntensity 0.1666667
specularColor 1.2298402 1.2298402 1.2298402
emissiveColor 0.0 0.0 0.0
shininess 0.7050781
transparency 0.8981037

“”"
#Set up materials
me.materials = [] # remove any exisiting materials (just for clarification)

mat_glassfloors=Material.New(‘glass’)
mat_glassfloors.setRGBCol(0.46,0,0) # dash of red
mat_glassfloors.setAlpha(0.3) # mat.alpha = 0.3 — almost transparent
mat_glassfloors.mode |= Material.Modes.ZTRANSP
me.addMaterial(mat_glassfloors)

me.update()
Blender.Redraw()

Where farm1 is a Blender object , a tuple is like an array of typed data

WLH = farm1.getSize()
print “WLH = ” , WLH  # here we can see the list of reals
print “X is ” , XYZ[0]   # which are returned in order x,y,z
x = – WLH[0] / 0.2
y = – WLH[1] / 0.2

Where farm1 is an instance of a blender object and the object name begins with the string ’seso’, farm1 is made the parent of all the objects

obs = [ob for ob in scn.objects if ob.name[0:4] == ’seso’]
scn.objects.selected = obs
for ob in obs:

print ob.name
farm1.makeParent(obs)

Two basic functions to create a camera and lamp

def newCamera():

cam = Blender.Camera.New(‘ortho’) # make ortho camera data object
ob = scn.objects.new(cam) # make a new object in this scene using the camera data
ob.setLocation (0.0, -5.0, 10.0) # position the object in the scene

def newLamp():

lamp = Blender.Lamp.New(‘Spot’)
ob = scn.objects.new(lamp)
ob.setLocation (0.0,-4.0,15)