<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Extending Blender</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Sequence Editor Plugins" HREF="x10364.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Python Scripting" HREF="c10379.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="part" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Blender Documentation Volume I - User Guide: Last modified April 29 2004 S68</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x10364.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c10379.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="PART" ><A NAME="part_extending" ></A ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" >VI. Extending Blender</H1 ><DIV CLASS="PARTINTRO" ><A NAME="AEN10376" ></A ><P > Unlike many programs you may be familiar with, Blender is not monolithic and static. You can extend its functionalities without having to modify the source and recompile. </P ><P > There are two ways of extending Blender: Python scripting and Binary Plugins. The former method being the preferred and most widely used. This Part will describe both. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c10379.html" >Python Scripting</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c10609.html" >Blender's Plugins System</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x10364.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c10379.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Sequence Editor Plugins</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Python Scripting</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >