HOW-TO: Set up the Blender plugin

Installation

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

Through Blender’s Edit->Preferences, inside the Add-ons tab you need to click on Install... and browse for the blender_re_animations_plugin.zip plugin.

Here’s how to do it step-by-step:

The Plugin on the first run should install all the dependencies automatically, the script responsible for this is inside the install_dependecies.py file. In case of a ModuleNotFoundError, please try to restart Blender.

Optional: 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:

<Blender's python.exe> -m pip install h5py
<Blender's python.exe> -m pip install numpy

Blender has its own python exe instance with custom dependencies, and it is usually located in: <Blender root location>\python\bin\python.exe

Plugin Settings

The plugin has an option for allowing a new context menu item, which is used to add a new animation on top of the current animation. It is disallowed by default.