Developer Tools

Diagnostics and developer tools

Frame By Plane 7.1.18 puts production-facing checks in Project Health and keeps the native Blender regression suite in the source repository.

Project Health

Use Project Health to inspect managed layers, effects, compositor packages, missing media and project state. Copy the diagnostic report before opening a technical issue; it is designed to provide actionable state without uploading the .blend file.

Native Blender 5.2 validation

Release qualification covers:

• extension manifest and platform archive validation;
• background regression tests;
• interactive Viewport redraw and Preferences reload tests;
• add-on registration and reload;
• save and reopen persistence;
• Grease Pencil native effect ownership and duplicate repair;
• compositor graph snapshots, rollback and fail-closed Safe Repair;
• package CRC, static parsing and reproducible build hashes.

Run the repository suite with frame_by_plane/tests/run_blender_lts.py and Blender 5.2. Experimental tests may change and are not part of the stable artist workflow.

Before reporting a technical issue

1. Reproduce the problem in a small scene or factory-startup file.
2. Run Project Health and copy the relevant diagnostic report.
3. Include exact Blender, Frame By Plane, operating-system and CPU versions.
4. Remove private or copyrighted assets before uploading a test file.