Documentation:Getting and installing BlenderTools - Revision history

Rib: Show where addons are typically found on OSX

2018-08-22T12:19:33Z

Show where addons are typically found on OSX

Robitron at 03:23, 10 February 2018

2018-02-10T03:23:35Z

Rib: don't use camel case in example of what the directories should look like since the zip file has lowercase directory names

2017-09-04T15:59:14Z

don't use camel case in example of what the directories should look like since the zip file has lowercase directory names

Rib: Explicitly steer the reader away from using Blender's 'Install from File...' and clarify that only the subdirectories should be kept; after making both these mistakes more than once and seeing reports of other's hitting the same problems on stackexchange

2017-09-04T15:43:15Z

Explicitly steer the reader away from using Blender's 'Install from File...' and clarify that only the subdirectories should be kept; after making both these mistakes more than once and seeing reports of other's hitting the same problems on stackexchange

Joepal at 11:54, 24 May 2016

2016-05-24T11:54:47Z

Joepal at 11:53, 24 May 2016

2016-05-24T11:53:47Z

Joepal: Created page with "The Blendertools package is available on the download page:!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK! The cu..."

2016-05-20T11:09:16Z

Created page with "The Blendertools package is available on the download page:!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK! The cu..."

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The Blendertools package is available on the download page:!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK!
The current version is 1.0.0, designed to work with MakeHuman 1.0.0 and with Blender 2.69. It's a zip package of four folders:
* MakeTarget
* MakeClothes
* MakeWalk
* mhx_importer
To install the addons, these subfolders must first be copied to a location where Blender can find it. Depending on the operating system being used, the addons destination directory where Blender will look for user-defined add-ons, is
* Windows 7: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.6x\scripts\addons
* Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.6x\scripts\addons
* Vista: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\%blenderversion%\scripts\addons (this is valid at least for blender 2.69)
* Linux: /home/$user/.blender/$version/scripts/addons
Note that the AppData folder in Windows 7 and the .blender folder in Linux are hidden folders. The location may also be different depending on your choices for setting up your operating system and Blender. For more information see the Blender documentation.
To enable the MH addons, in Blender open the User Preferences window from the File > User Preferences menu, and go to the Addons tab. The Blendertools addons are located in the MakeHuman category. Enable them by checking the box in the upper-right corner, next to the running man symbol. If you want Blendertools to start every time Blender is restarted, press the "Save User Settings" button.
!IMAGE!Pictures/mhx-pref.png!/IMAGE!

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 * Windows 7 and later: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\%your blender version%\scripts\addons
 * Linux: /home/%username%/.blender/%version%/scripts/addons
 The directories should look something like:

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 </nowiki>
-(you might need to create the '%version%/scripts' and '%version%/scripts/addons' directories if they don't already exist)
+'''(you might need to create the '%version%/scripts' and '%version%/scripts/addons' directories if they don't already exist)'''
 ''Note: that the AppData folder in Windows 7 and the .blender folder in Linux are hidden folders. The location may also be different depending on your choices for setting up your operating system and Blender. For more information see the Blender documentation.''

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 The directories should look something like:
   <nowiki>
-/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/MakeTarget/
+/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/maketarget/
-/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/MakeClothes/
+/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/makeclothes/
-/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/MakeWalk/
+/path/to/%version%/scripts/addons/makewalk/
 </nowiki>

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 * MakeWalk (used for BVH animation)
-To install the addons, these subfolders must first be copied to a location where Blender can find it. Depending on the operating system being used, the addons destination directory where Blender will look for user-defined add-ons, is
+To install the addons, these '''subfolders''' must first be copied to a location where Blender can find it. Depending on the operating system being used, the addons destination directory where Blender will look for user-defined add-ons, is:
 * Windows 7 and later: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\%your blender version%\scripts\addons
 * Linux: /home/%username%/.blender/%version%/scripts/addons
-Note that the AppData folder in Windows 7 and the .blender folder in Linux are hidden folders. The location may also be different depending on your choices for setting up your operating system and Blender. For more information see the Blender documentation.
+The directories should look something like:
 To enable the MH addons, in Blender open the User Preferences window from the File > User Preferences menu, and go to the Addons tab. The Blendertools addons are located in the MakeHuman category. Enable them by checking the box in the upper-right corner, next to the running man symbol.   If you want Blendertools to start every time Blender is restarted, press the "Save User Settings" button.

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 * MakeClothes (used to create clothes, hair, proxies and other mesh items usable in MH)
 * MakeWalk (used for BVH animation)
 To install the addons, these subfolders must first be copied to a location where Blender can find it. Depending on the operating system being used, the addons destination directory where Blender will look for user-defined add-ons, is
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 To enable the MH addons, in Blender open the User Preferences window from the File > User Preferences menu, and go to the Addons tab. The Blendertools addons are located in the MakeHuman category. Enable them by checking the box in the upper-right corner, next to the running man symbol.   If you want Blendertools to start every time Blender is restarted, press the "Save User Settings" button.

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-The Blendertools package is available on the download page:!LINK!http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html -- http://www.makehuman.org/content/download.html!/LINK!
+The most up to date BlenderTools package (for 1.1.0) is available here: http://download.tuxfamily.org/makehuman/releases/1.1.0/blendertools-1.1.0-all.zip
-The current version is 1.0.0, designed to work with MakeHuman 1.0.0 and with Blender 2.69. It's a zip package of four folders:
-* MakeTarget
+BlenderTools roughly follows the releases of MakeHuman. So while it might work to use another version, it is probably better to upgrade BlenderTools whenever you upgrade MakeHuman.
 * MakeClothes
-* MakeWalk
+BlenderTools should work with any modern version of Blender.
-* mhx_importer
 To install the addons, these subfolders must first be copied to a location where Blender can find it. Depending on the operating system being used, the addons destination directory where Blender will look for user-defined add-ons, is
-* Windows 7: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.6x\scripts\addons
-* Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.6x\scripts\addons
+* Windows 7 and later: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\%your blender version%\scripts\addons
-* Vista: C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\%blenderversion%\scripts\addons (this is valid at least for blender 2.69)
+* Linux: /home/%username%/.blender/%version%/scripts/addons
-* Linux: /home/$user/.blender/$version/scripts/addons
 Note that the AppData folder in Windows 7 and the .blender folder in Linux are hidden folders. The location may also be different depending on your choices for setting up your operating system and Blender. For more information see the Blender documentation.
 To enable the MH addons, in Blender open the User Preferences window from the File > User Preferences menu, and go to the Addons tab. The Blendertools addons are located in the MakeHuman category. Enable them by checking the box in the upper-right corner, next to the running man symbol.   If you want Blendertools to start every time Blender is restarted, press the "Save User Settings" button.
   !IMAGE!Pictures/mhx-pref.png!/IMAGE!