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Blender Script to Extract Collection children with type of Collection instances into new Collection and categorized as individual object
import bpy
# Name of the main collection
main_collection_name = "MainCollection"
new_collection_name = "NewCollection"
# Get the main collection by name
main_collection = bpy.data.collections.get(main_collection_name)
if main_collection:
# Create a new collection for the extracted objects
new_collection = bpy.data.collections.new(new_collection_name)
bpy.context.scene.collection.children.link(new_collection)
# Iterate through all objects in the main collection
for obj in main_collection.objects:
# Check if the object is an instance (type 'COLLECTION')
if obj.instance_type == 'COLLECTION':
# Iterate through linked objects in the instance
for linked_obj in obj.instance_collection.objects:
# Duplicate the object and link it to the new collection
new_obj = linked_obj.copy()
# new_obj.matrix_world = obj.matrix_world.copy()
new_obj.location = obj.location.copy() + linked_obj.location.copy()
new_obj.scale = obj.scale.copy() * new_obj.scale.copy()
euler_new = linked_obj.rotation_euler.copy()
euler_new.x = linked_obj.rotation_euler.copy().x + obj.rotation_euler.copy().x
euler_new.y = linked_obj.rotation_euler.copy().y + obj.rotation_euler.copy().y
euler_new.z = linked_obj.rotation_euler.copy().z + obj.rotation_euler.copy().z
new_obj.rotation_euler = euler_new.copy()
new_collection.objects.link(new_obj)
# Clear the selection to avoid selecting objects in the new collection
bpy.ops.object.select_all(action='DESELECT')
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