Blender Asset Tracer, a.k.a. BAT🦇, is the replacement of BAM and blender-file.
BAT🦇 can be used to list all dependencies of a blend file, such as linked blend files, textures, Alembic files, and caches. Furthermore, it can
be used to create a BAT Pack, which contains the blend file and its dependencies.
Git repository: https://developer.blender.org/source/blender-asset-tracer/
Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/blender-asset-tracer/
The initial design choices are described in T54125.
A new generation of Flamenco (version 3.0) is in development (in the main branch at https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/F/), so all issues with Flamenco version 2 or older will be archived.
Can confirm, sounds like a TODO to me.
As a note for this, I would think any solution to have some sort of gate the user has to accept/agree to, since caches can be quite large and potentially exponentially increase pack times. Often times we will have VDBs pre-packed if they don't change to decrease upload times.
Thanks for the work @Ethan Simon (razed) ! I've just released BAT v1.8 so that everybody can enjoy the new feature :)
I did a ton of research into unittests and played with a few examples on my own projects, but I haven't quite been able to figure out what I'm actually meant to be testing here in regards to "packing write-protected files" and I don't believe ill be able figure out that portion in a reasonable time-frame and without learning the most of the relevant codebase. Maybe someone else can finish what I've started here eventually. Thanks for taking a look y'all :)
Used copyfile in both instances of file copying.
Hah, good memory!
@Sybren A. Stüvel (sybren) : we actually talked about this in chat a looooong time ago (and I didnt do my homework of actually submitting this :/)
https://blender.chat/channel/flamenco?msg=su6uyvD5GpqLEwdQ6
Committed as rBAST8a06bf590350: Add optional support for ZStandard compression with some testing polish in rBASTc61d5ee7ab00: Skip ZStandard tests if the module is not installed.
That does indeed solve things - thanks very much, Alaska. In case this catches others out, could I suggest that a similar message be added to the Asset Tracer window in its default state?
See here for some extra information: T87658: Remove Asset Browser from experimental features and rB62cb5c5c4aac: Enable Asset Browser by default for poses, rest stays experimental
This might be intentional. The asset browser has been shifted to "experimental features" and as such a lot of the functionality available in previous builds of Blender has been hidden unless the experimental feature is enabled. To enable this feature, follow these steps:
This should be fixed in rBASTe4bf2e8e35a8: Improved path handling.
This is related to D6676.