Add blender support to godot4

[croxis]

GD4's blender importer requires blender to be installed.

[Calinou]

The process is likely similar to the Android setup:

• Download Blender from https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/blender/release/Blender3.5/blender-3.5.1-linux-x64.tar.xz and extract it within the container.
• Edit editor_settings-4.tres to specify the Blender path: filesystem/import/blender/blender3_path = "/path/to/blender/folder".

[croxis]

Is there a specific reason for using focal?

[Calinou]

Is there a specific reason for using focal?

I think it's mostly for legacy reasons, as we don't self-compile export templates (so we don't need to be running old Linux to compile binaries that are compatible with old Linux distributions).

That said, we don't recommend using distribution-provided Blender, as it's often outdated and may be modified in undesirable ways. Blender upstream themselves advises downloading Blender from the official source instead.

[lunarlabs]

You'll also need to get xz-utils in order to extract Blender, it looks like?

edit: Here's what I came up with for the import-assets job:

  stage: import-assets
  script:
    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends xz-utils
    - wget -nv https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/blender/release/Blender3.6/blender-3.6.0-linux-x64.tar.xz 
    - tar -xf blender-3.6.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
    - cd blender-3.6.0-linux-x64
    - pwd | sed 's/^/filesystem\/import\/blender\/blender3_path = \"/;s/$/"/' >> ~/.config/godot/editor_settings-4.tres
    - cd ..
    - godot -v -e --quit --headless

[croxis]

Correct. My next issue is that the blend file (or it's conversation) isn't being included in the pck. I'm not familiar enough with Godot to figure out what the problem is.

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[arnaudvergnet]

Hello, would you be open for contributions for a docker image pre-configured to use Blender ? Or at least a readme section with an example job to set up blender with the existing image.

[lunarlabs]

I could probably do a readme, sure.