Serpens 3 - Visual Scripting Addon Creator

by Joshua Knauber in Addons

Item Rating

This item has an average rating of 5 from 56 ratings by the community.

95%

Frank Hilton
about 2 years ago

Before I begin my review, you need to understand why this add-on is really great for me. Back in Jan 2019 I had a major stroke. I lost all my freelance clients and can no longer work. I have neuropathy in my hands so I look for add-ons that will drastically cut back on my hand/mouse use. I currently can only use a drawing tablet to replace my mouse. So, now I only do Blender as a hobby. Anyways (to shorten the story).

I made an addon called "Quick Tasks" back before my stroke, doing it all by code. However, after the stroke (pain in hands) I could not do a lot of typing in reasonable time. So, I went looking for an addon that I could make "Quick Tasks" over again, but it was simpler to use.

I found PME, and that worked okay at the start, but had its quirks and limitations. But, I decide to find something else as the dev stopped working on it and it hasn't been updated for several years now. In come Serpens!!!

It is a node based system to develop addons. It took me a while to get use to node-based converting from code. Things work a little differently. But, once I got used to the things I wanted to do, I re-developed my "Quick Tasks" addon. This addon save me multitudes of clicking in the Blender interface. I was about to bring function in Blender that was 3-4 clicks deep to 1 or 2 clicks.

The only issues I found with Serpens is the constant crashing of Blender and not being able to use UNDO a lot. I guess its a Blender/memory thing and Serpens can't do anything about it.

Anyways, I really like Serpens and would recommend it to anybody, even if its just to make your tasks easier.

Bruno Renan de Souza
about 2 years ago

simply perfect!

dubCUT
about 2 years ago

Well thought out, Good support and Community on Discord! Opens up so much possibilities, just amazing!

Spencer Shade
about 2 years ago

2 year Blender user haven't had this much fun on the program in a while. With the help of available recourses and active Discord I published my first addon after about 2 months with no programming experience. To say this addon is impressive feels like an understatement.

stevenlstarr
about 2 years ago

The documentation is terrible, with almost no pictures of example node setups. You will spends hours trying to figure out how to do basic things or begging people on discord for help. Serpens is a excellent example of an addon that needs to be forked by the community.

Joshua Knauber

about 2 years ago

Hey, could you elaborate on that? There are videos on YouTube to get you started with the basics. From there the documentation has tons of details on the different aspects of Serpens.
It didn't seem like you spent too much time on discord asking for questions, I only saw one that hadn't been answered by the community after a short while. Please reach out to me directly if something like this is the case and you need more help.

Mish
over 2 years ago

Very cool addon, great communication from Dev!

Sean Piercy
over 2 years ago

Easily one of the best Blender add-ons out there. I'll be learning it fluently over the next year or so and using it daily I'm sure. Visual scripting is so much easier than programming by hand. Really looking forward to creating some add-ons using it. The documentation is good as well, but what really helps is the excellent (updated) YouTube tutorials that help you learn how to use it. The fact that I could go on YouTube and find up-to-date "intro to" videos (that were just released a couple of months ago) that fully explain everything makes the add-on worth every penny. Couldn't recommend this one any higher and I'm really looking forward to using it! Thanks for all your hard work on it.

Anderson Carlos Vieira de Souza
over 2 years ago

This addons is amazing!

Joshua Knauber

over 2 years ago

Hey, that's great to hear! Did you mean to give it three stars then? If not it would be great if you could reach out to tell us about any issues you're having.