blendate

Blender add-on for pre-rendered 3D graphics on Playdate

Currently in Early Access

Also available on Blender Market/Superhive (soon)

• Installation
• Overview
• Tutorials
  • Rendering single image
  • Rendering rotations
  • Rendering animations
  • Rendering rotating animations
    
  • Rendering cutscenes
    
  • Using custom dithering patterns

TLDR

In Blender: Object/armature -> N -> Blendate -> Configure -> Render

In Lua:

import("blendate") 
bd = Blendate("metadata.json") 
local anim = bd:loadRotation("images/car") 
local anim2 = bd:loadAnimation("images/man", "idle")

Demo

Example Spritesheets

Purchasing this add-on includes rights to use generated sprites/animations in commercial projects.

If you have any issues or feature requests please let me know :)