Better Point Cloud and Curves support (#57)

* better support for Point Clouds and Curves

* update docs

* ruff format

* only suport >=4.5

* don't test blender <4.5

* remove _inv

* update .gitignore

* remove generated api docs files

* Update .gitignore

* cleanup

* remove bpy from dependencies

* doc for self.data

* bump uv.lock

Author: BradyAJohnston

.github/workflows/test-in-blender.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
             max-parallel: 4
             fail-fast: false
             matrix:
-              version: ["4.2", "4.3", "4.4", "4.5", "daily"]
+              version: ["4.5", "daily"]
               os: [macos-14, ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
         steps:
             - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
             max-parallel: 4
             fail-fast: false
             matrix:
-              version: [4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5]
+              version: [4.5]
               os: [macos-latest, windows-latest, ubuntu-latest]
         steps:
             - uses: actions/checkout@v4

.gitignore

@@ -12,3 +12,6 @@
 *.quarto_ipynb
 /docs/api
 /build
+.DS_Store
+/docs/_inv
+docs/objects.txt

databpy/__init__.py

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 from .object import (
     ObjectTracker,
     BlenderObject,
+    BOB,
     create_object,
     create_bob,
+    create_mesh_object,
+    create_curves_object,
+    create_pointcloud_object,
     LinkedObjectError,
     bdo,
 )
@@ -32,8 +36,12 @@
 __all__ = [
     "ObjectTracker",
     "BlenderObject",
+    "BOB",
     "create_object",
     "create_bob",
+    "create_mesh_object",
+    "create_curves_object",
+    "create_pointcloud_object",
     "LinkedObjectError",
     "bdo",
     "import_vdb",

databpy/attribute.py

@@ -695,9 +695,16 @@ def store_named_attribute(
     # is the case For now we will set a single vert to it's own position, which triggers a
     # proper refresh of the object data.
     try:
-        obj.data.vertices[0].co = obj.data.vertices[0].co  # type: ignore
+        obj_data.vertices[0].co = obj.data.vertices[0].co  # type: ignore
     except AttributeError:
-        obj.data.update()  # type: ignore
+        # For non-mesh objects (Curves, PointCloud), try update() if it exists
+        try:
+            obj_data.attributes["position"].data[0].vector = (
+                obj_data.attributes["position"].data[0].vector
+            )
+        except AttributeError:
+            if hasattr(obj.data, "update"):
+                obj_data.update()  # type: ignore
 
     return attribute