Working config for Linear Blend

configs/chanmod_linearblend.cfg

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<configuration>
+    <!-- Make nicer names for UI Display -->
+    <atom type="CommandHelp">
+        <hash type="Item" key="py.chanmod.linearblend@en_US">
+            <atom type="UserName">Linear Blend</atom>
+            <hash type="Channel" key="inputA">
+                <atom type="UserName">Input A</atom>
+                <atom type="Desc">First input to blend</atom>
+            </hash>
+            <hash type="Channel" key="inputB">
+                <atom type="UserName">Input B</atom>
+                <atom type="Desc">Second input to blend</atom>
+            </hash>
+            <hash type="Channel" key="blend">
+                <atom type="UserName">Blend Amount</atom>
+                <atom type="Desc">Zero blends fully to Input A while 100% goes fully to B</atom>
+            </hash>
+            <hash type="Channel" key="output">
+                <atom type="UserName">Output</atom>
+                <atom type="Desc">The resulting value of blending between A and B</atom>
+            </hash>
+        </hash>
+    </atom>
+
+    <atom type="Filters">
+        <hash type="Preset" key="py.chanmod.linearblend:filterPreset">
+            <atom type="Name">Linear Blend</atom>
+            <atom type="Description"></atom>
+            <atom type="Category">ProceduralItem:filterCat</atom>
+            <atom type="Enable">1</atom>
+            <list type="Node">1 .group 0 &quot;&quot;</list>
+            <list type="Node">1 itemtype 0 1 &quot;py.chanmod.linearblend&quot;</list>
+            <list type="Node">-1 .endgroup </list>
+        </hash>
+    </atom>
+
+    <atom type="Attributes">
+        <hash type="Sheet" key="py.chanmod.linearblend:sheet">
+            <atom type="Label">Linear Blend</atom>
+            <atom type="Filter">py.chanmod.linearblend:filterPreset</atom>
+
+            <hash type="InCategory" key="itemprops:general#head">
+                <atom type="Ordinal">128</atom>
+            </hash>
+
+            <!-- Makes a collapsible group -->
+            <list type="Control" val="div ">
+                <atom type="Label">Linear Blend</atom>
+                <atom type="Alignment">full</atom>
+            </list>
+
+            <!-- Add commands to UI to expose channels to users inside this sheet, -->
+            <list type="Control" val="cmd item.channel py.chanmod.linearblend$inputA ?"/>
+            <list type="Control" val="cmd item.channel py.chanmod.linearblend$inputB ?"/>
+            <list type="Control" val="cmd item.channel py.chanmod.linearblend$blend ?"/>
+        </hash>
+    </atom>
+
+    <!-- Put the Channel Modifier item into the category python -->
+    <atom type="Categories">
+        <hash type="Category" key="ChannelModifiers">
+            <hash type="C" key="py.chanmod.linearblend">python</hash>
+        </hash>
+    </atom>
+
+</configuration>

index.cfg

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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<!-- The kit name is an internal name (alphanumeric and underscore only, starting with a letter),
+and must be globally unique. -->
 <configuration kit="pysamples" version="0.1">
     <import></import>
     <import>lxserv</import>
+    <import>configs</import>
 
     <!-- Absolute import of config -->
-    <import>lxserv/package/view3d_overlay/overlay_safe_area.cfg</import>
+    <!-- Well would just be swell if that actually worked... -->
+    <!-- <import>kit_pysamples:lxserv\package\channel_modifiers</import> -->
+    <!-- <import>lxserv/package/view3d_overlay/overlay_safe_area.cfg</import> -->
+
+    <!-- Define a nicer name for the python category -->
+    <atom type="Messages">
+        <hash type="Table" key="ChannelModifiers:category.en_US">
+            <hash type="T" key="python">Python</hash>
+        </hash>
+    </atom>
 
 </configuration>

lxserv/channel_modifiers/README.md

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+# Channel Modifiers
+
+## Linear Blend
+
+A python channel modifier version from the SDK samples cmLinearBlend
+
+### Config
+
+To make plug-ins more user friendly Modo expects us to define plenty of things through config files.
+
+See full config for linear blend [here](..\..\configs\chanmod_linearblend.cfg)