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Find out how to Install and setup the Blender plugin for REDkit.

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Blender Plugin is located here: your drive:\REDkit 3 folder\bin\tools\BlenderPlugin\ and the Python code is located in the same directory.

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Installation

Open Blender. Open Preferences (from the Edit menu).

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While in Preferences, open the Add-ons tab

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Browse for the blender_re_animations_plugin.zip plugin.

Here’s how to do it step-by-step:

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As we mentioned, you can find it here: your drive:\REDkit 3 folder\bin\tools\BlenderPlugin\.

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The Plugin on the first run should install all the dependencies automatically

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A script responsible for this

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can be found in the install_dependecies.py file. In case of a ModuleNotFoundError, please try to restart Blender.

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titleOptional: Manual installation of dependencies

If the install_dependecies.py script did not install the dependencies automatically for some reason, then you need to install the dependencies manually.

The most important dependencies for the Python plugin can be installed with these commands:

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<Blender's python.exe> -m pip install h5py
<Blender's python.exe> -m pip install numpy
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Blender has its own python exe instance with custom dependencies, and it is usually located in: <Blender root location>\python\bin\python.exe

Next steps?

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Preferences

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After installing the plugin, you will notice in the preferences that it now allows for a new context menu item

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: Show adding animation on current animation context menu element - which is used to add a new animation on top of the current animation. It is disallowed by default.

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