I’m leaning towards the opinion that I must be at error here, because there’s no way it can be this complicated to create an application template.
Is there a menu option somewhere that i’m missing called ‘save as application template’?
I’ve tried saving a startup.blend file into the scripts/startup/bl_app_templates_system/my_template_name/, and i’ve also place an init.py file, zipped them up into startup.zip and then installed via the blender menu to the left of the file menu.
import bpy
from bpy.app.handlers import persistent
@persistent
def load_handler(dummy):
pass
def register():
bpy.app.handlers.load_factory_startup_post.append(load_handler)
def unregister():
bpy.app.handlers.load_factory_startup_post.remove(load_handler)
This adds the new item to the file/new menu, but clicking on it just opens the factory startup file instead of my startup.blend.
Perhaps something to do with the fact that I’m using a zip version of blender rather than the installed version? I do have both on the system, but there is no scripts/startup/bl_app_templates_system/ folder in the app data/roaming folder, so I’m just using the zip location as it’s the zip version of blender i’m using anyway.