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Workflow: classic

The workflow goes as follows (once you got your Bevy code setup)

create & register all your components you want to be able to set from the Blender side (this is basic Bevy, no specific work needed)

Component creation

Create an object / collection (for reuse) in Blender
Go to object properties => add a property, and add your component data
- unit structs, enums, and more complex strucs / components are all supported, (if the fields are basic data types at least, have not tried more complex ones yet, but should also work)
  - for structs with no params (unit structs): use a STRING property & an empty value
  - for structs with params: use a RON representation of your fields (see below)
  - for tupple strucs you can use any of the built in Blender custom property types: Strings, Booleans, floats, Vectors, etc
  In rust:
  
  (the Rust struct for these components for reference is here )
  
  In rust:
  
  (the Rust struct for this component for reference is here )
  
  There is an other examples of using various Component types: Enums, Tupple structs, strucs with fields etc here, even colors, Vecs (arrays), Vec2, Vec3 etc are all supported
for collections & their instances:
- I usually create a library scene with nested collections
  - the leaf collections are the assets you use in your level
  - add an empty called xxxx_components
  - add the components as explained in the previous part
- In the Level/world itself, just create an instance of the collection (standard Blender, ie Shift+A -> collection instance -> pick the collection)

Exporting to gltf

export your level as a glb/gltf file :
- using Blender's default gltf exporter !!IMPORTANT you need to check the following:
  - custom properties
  - cameras & lights if you want a complete level (as in this example)
- or much better, using gltf_auto_export

Now use your gltf files in Bevy

load it in Bevy (see the various examples for this)
you should see the components attached to your entities in Bevy

note: you get a warning if there are any unregistered components in your gltf file (they get ignored) you will get a warning per entity