(The following is an ongoing series of tutorials for my offline builder tool, Prim.Blender. For the tutorial index, click here)
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Prerequisites:
We’ll begin by downloading a copy of Blender from their main page:
Begin by browsing to www.blender.org, as shown above. Go to the download page:
… and download the latest copy of Blender for your OS. If given the option, use the download with the latest version of Python.
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Once the installation completes, you may optionally install Python 2.5.
While this is not required, it is strongly recommended as certain features will require a full installation to work properly. Installing Python will also disable a deliberately irritating warning every time you start Prim.Blender.
To install Python, navigate to www.python.org/download, as shown above. Download the latest copy of Python 2.5 or above to your hard drive and install it:
Note that for some operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Python may already be installed, or may be better obtained from your package manager.
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Downloading and Installing Prim.Blender:
To get a fresh copy of Prim.Blender. navigate to https://sourceforge.net/projects/primdotblender (or just http), as shown:
Select “Download”, followed by “Browse All Files”:
Select “Prim.Blender” from the Package list:
And download the latest release of Prim.Blender:
Unzip the package. You should have something like this:
Navigate to where you unzipped the folder. Double-click “Prim.Blender.blend”. You’ll be presented with a Blender window.
If necessary, Right-Click and choose “Execute Script”:
If you’re presented with this screen, congratulations! You’ve properly installed Prim.Blender.
Now pat yourself on the back, go grab a soda and some chips to reward yourself, and move on to the next tutorial!
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Prerequisites:
We’ll begin by downloading a copy of Blender from their main page:
Begin by browsing to www.blender.org, as shown above. Go to the download page:
… and download the latest copy of Blender for your OS. If given the option, use the download with the latest version of Python.
—-
Once the installation completes, you may optionally install Python 2.5.
While this is not required, it is strongly recommended as certain features will require a full installation to work properly. Installing Python will also disable a deliberately irritating warning every time you start Prim.Blender.
To install Python, navigate to www.python.org/download, as shown above. Download the latest copy of Python 2.5 or above to your hard drive and install it:
Note that for some operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Python may already be installed, or may be better obtained from your package manager.
—-
Downloading and Installing Prim.Blender:
To get a fresh copy of Prim.Blender. navigate to https://sourceforge.net/projects/primdotblender (or just http), as shown:
Select “Download”, followed by “Browse All Files”:
Select “Prim.Blender” from the Package list:
And download the latest release of Prim.Blender:
Unzip the package. You should have something like this:
Navigate to where you unzipped the folder. Double-click “Prim.Blender.blend”. You’ll be presented with a Blender window.
If necessary, Right-Click and choose “Execute Script”:
If you’re presented with this screen, congratulations! You’ve properly installed Prim.Blender.
Now pat yourself on the back, go grab a soda and some chips to reward yourself, and move on to the next tutorial!
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December 7th, 2008 at 10:39 pm Hmmm.. fallen at the first hurdle. I’m trying to install Prim.Blender on OpenSuse 11.0 and getting the following error message when i try to run the programme: KDEInit could not launch ‘pycelstrap’.:Could not find ‘pycelstrap’
Any suggestions as to how to rectify this?
December 7th, 2008 at 10:48 pm Forget it..I had not rtfm .. had I so done, i would have known to ” open the included .blend file in Blender.”
December 9th, 2008 at 5:03 am Thank you so much! I can’t wait to play with it!!!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:10 am Wow. Comments!
Guess I can enable comment tracking now, huh?
April 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm Installation went smoothly. No hickups at all. Have a question though. Do I have to run the prim.blender.blend script everytime I open Blender? I will most likely know the answer in just a moment or two. But thought someone else might have the same question. If the script must be run at each startup of Blender is there a way to make this automatic? This has been great. Thanks so much.
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:51 am Running Python scripts automatically from a file is a new Blender feature. You should be able to save while the script is running, and have it come back up the next time you load up. At least, that seemed to work in my tests.
Sorry for the slow reply speed. Turns out my email support was butchered for comments here. I just fixed it.