How To Use Blender Addons
Once the file is on drive you can install it as you would for an add on downloaded online.
How to use blender addons. If you are new to blender and want to learn about the basics of add ons. To install the blender text as an add on you will first have to save it on drive. The installation is pretty straight forward. The f2 addon extends on its behavior by adding three functions. Select the add ons tab at the top of the user preferences window then select install from file at the bottom of the window.
Under file select user preferences. Then you browse to the zip file you just downloaded and press install. Create an empty directory in a location of your choice e g. Open the preferences add ons install and select the file. In this tutorial i will teach you how to export new parts for spore using sporemodder blender addons.
Like other addons download the zip file and in blender you go to edit preferences addons install. The blender f2 addon is a quite simple addon that extends the functionality of the f key in blender. This addon brings parametric modeling and animation to life. Add a subdirectory under my scripts called addons it must have this name for blender to recognize it. All the files used to create this video and it s thumbnail can be downloaded here.
Be sure to use the link there. By default this is possible through blender via constraints and python coding but this addon makes it intuitive and easy to use. This is released under a creative commons attribution 4 0 international cc by 4 0 licence meaning you are able to re use and remix it even for commercial addons as long as you credit me. I ve been wanting a feature much like houdini where you can input node values and have them drive object properties. There is a testbuild for blender 2 80 available here.
They just help us do it faster or in bulk. By default the f key is a quite unintuitive tool to use. Select the right file type. In this article i write about how to install troubleshooting and managing add ons as well as a list with the 30 add ons that i personally use the most. Open the file tab of the user preferences.