It enables minimalistic [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) (gltf) centric workflow for Bevy, ie defining entites & their components
inside Blender using Blender's objects **custom properties**.
Aka "Blender as editor for Bevy"
It also allows you to setup 'blueprints' in Blender by using collections (the recomended way to go most of the time), or directly on single use objects .
## Features
* Useful if you want to use Blender (or any editor allowing to export gltf with configurable gltf_extras) as your Editor
* no plugin or extra tools needed in Blender (but I provide a [little Blender add-on](./tools/gltf_auto_export/README.md) to auto-export to gltf on save (and more !) if you want !)
* now also with a nice UI tool to add & edit Bevy components in [Blender](./tools/bevy_components/README.md)
- [bevy_gltf_components](./crates/bevy_gltf_components/) This crate allows you to define components direclty inside gltf files and instanciate/inject the components on the Bevy side.
- [bevy_gltf_blueprints](./crates/bevy_gltf_blueprints/) This crate adds the ability to define Blueprints/Prefabs for Bevy inside gltf files and spawn them in Bevy. With the ability to override and add components when spawning, efficient "level" loading etc
- [bevy_gltf_save_load](./crates/bevy_gltf_save_load/) This crate adds the ability to save & load your game state in a relatively simple way, by leveraging the blueprint functionality of
bevy_gltf_blueprints to only save a minimal subset of dynamic data, seperating dynamic & static parts of levels etc.
The examples for the crate are [here](./examples/bevy_gltf_save_load/)
> Note: this uses ```bevy_gltf_blueprints``` under the hood
- [bevy_registry_export](./crates/bevy_registry_export/) This crate adds the ability to export your project's Bevy registry to json, in order to be able to generate custom component UIs on the Blender side in the Blender [bevy_components](./tools/bevy_components/README.md) add-on
- for convenience I also added a [Blender addon](./tools/gltf_auto_export/README.md) that automatically exports your level/world from Blender to gltf whenever you save your Blend file
- it also supports automatical exports of collections as [Gltf blueprints](./crates/bevy_gltf_blueprints/README.md) & more !
* [basic](./examples/bevy_gltf_blueprints/basic/) more advanced example : use of ```bevy_gltf_blueprints``` to spawn a level and then populate it with entities coming from different gltf files, live (at runtime) spawning of entities etc
* [animation](./examples/bevy_gltf_blueprints/animation/) how to use and trigger animations from gltf files (a feature of ```bevy_gltf_blueprints```)
- I have a number of other tools/ code helpers that I have not yet included here, because they need cleanup/ might make this example too complex
## Credits
- somebody I cannot recall helped me originally with the gltf loading tracker in the Bevy Discord, so thanks ! And if it was you, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due :)
