Development

How to Get Started

• Developers: information for new Blender developers.
• Scripters: how to contribute addons scripts and plugins.
• Translators: help translate Blender into your language.
• Designers: help design Blender’s features and user interface
• Users: find out what’s happening, test latest builds and provide feedback.

See the Developer Documentation for more information about the development process, code documentation, how to build Blender and more.

Python Scripting

Blender uses the Python programming language for its scripting API.

The Blender Python API is based on Python 3. It is integrated deeply, used for writing addons, generating user interface layouts, and import and export of many file formats. It covers all user-accessible data and functionality.

Ongoing Activities

• Roadmap and Projects – development reports
• Developer Blog – code, design, plans, features.
• Download Daily Builds – for testing new features
• Daily Build Release Notes – for new features

Report Bugs, Submit Code

Development infrastructure for bug reporting, Blender developers and other contributors.

• Blender code repositories
• Report and solve bugs
• Contribute and review code
• See what’s going on right now

Contacting Developers

• Meet with coders and users IRC, #blendercoders – Meet blender people on FreeNode-IRC
• Mailing lists – Main communication for Blender projects.
• Module Teams – Find responsibles for Blender Modules
• Developer meetings every Sunday, @ 2pm UTC  in #blendercoders.

Google Summer of Code

Blender regularly participates in Google’s Summer of Code grants program for students.

If you’d like to get involved, check Google’s site for schedules and details, or check on the results of previous years.