Allows you to import keyboard layouts into blender and render them in 3d
Courtesy of /u/jacopods
Courtesy of /u/zzubnik
Courtesy of /u/zzubnik
Courtesy of @kirpal
Please open a pull request if you'd like to add more examples
- Download the zip (releases)
- Open Blender
- Go to File > User Preferences (
Ctrl + Alt + U
) - Select the "Add-ons" tab.
- Click
Install from File...
at the bottom of the panel - Select the zip archive that you downloaded and click
Install from File…
at the top right - Check the checkbox next to
Import-Export: Import: KLE Raw JSON format (.json)
- Click
Save User Settings
and close the preferences window - Now the addon is ready to use
- Open Blender
- Go to File > Import > KLE Raw Data (.json)
- Select the “keyboard-layout.json” that you downloaded from Keyboard Layout Editor and click
Import KLE Raw JSON
at the top right - All Done!
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Add the following line to the object at the beginning (the one with "backcolor" in it):
"led" : [RED, GREEN, BLUE, BRIGHTNESS]
(you may need to add a comma to the line above)- RED, GREEN, and BLUE are out of 255, and BRIGHTNESS is from 0 to 1
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To make the keycap legends backlit, make the legend color the same as whatever color you made the LEDs
A basic scene for blender can be found in this gist. Open the scene in blender before importing. Please note that lighting, camera and render setup will most probably require some tweaking to fit with your specific layout.
@zslane on Deskthority for the SA models
@Kaporkle on Geekhack for the DSA models
@wilderjds for implementing SA support
- Add support for ISO enter
- Add key labels
- Add more key profiles (DSA, SA and DCS are done)
- Add support for fonts (Google Fonts only)
- Add support for glyphs
- Add legend alignment
- Add front legend support