Installation issue fos Mac OS?
| Project: | Primstar - Blender Scripts for Second Life Sculpties |
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Component: | Add Mesh |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Domino Marama |
| Status: | needs work |
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Description
Having trouble getting the scripts intalled. I opened the zip, secelcted and dragged them into the appropriate directory in Explorer; they are all visible in that directory, but when I open Blender/Add/Mesh, there are only Empty Mesh and Torus; Sculpt Mesh, while in the directory with the other two, isn't appearing in my Blender options. Could you please give me some advice?
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#1
Having trouble getting the scripts intalled. I opened the zip, secelcted and dragged them into the appropriate directory in Explorer; they are all visible in that directory, but when I open Blender/Add/Mesh, there are only Empty Mesh and Torus; Sculpt Mesh, while in the directory with the other two, isn't appearing in my Blender options. Could you please give me some advice?
#2
Uhm, ok, I have got 5.0 installed and working perfectly. Did you read: http://dominodesigns.info/manuals/primstar/install ? You mentioned "Explorer" so it could be any ms windows version, anyway... I believe you didn't define your Blender "scripts default directory" at the user preferences menu pointing where the 5.0 version scripts are. Also the zip file comes with a "read.txt" file which explains as well how to install them.
As Domino explains if in ms windows, depending the version, it could be in:
But this varies depending your Blender installation.
Hope it helps!
#3
Also Keira Wells and Gaia Clary both have videos on installation. Let me know when you get it going so I can close this issue :)
http://dominodesigns.info/node/55
http://dominodesigns.info/node/43
You'll be glad to hear that easier installation is one of the features in 0.9.x ;)
#4
Hello, followed the primstar installation as you recommended. Unfortunately, i encountered python script errors and to check console " message" as i was baking my second life sculptie. I am operating on a OS 10.5.8, Blender and Python all updated. Looking allover the place for the Blender console so I might be able to run it from Terminal? Hoping you could help me out. thank you so much.
#5
Primstar versions 0.9.2 and 0.9.3 had a problem with Python 2.5 which is fixed in 0.9.4 - this showed as a Python error on baking. Installs with Python 2.6 worked, so it was primarily Mac users that got this error.
#6
#8
i can't seem to be able to make it work though i downloaded python and blender... still there is no folder /.blender in Blender folder, so no scripts folder as well
is it possible to have a more detailed installation procedure, where i can make it work and have the import export sculpties on my menu
thanks
#9
Those who can't find the .blender folder in Mac OS to install the scripts please read this post at blender.org, hope that helps.
Briefly:
"The scripts folder is within a hidden folder inside of the blender.app package."
Path: blender.app/Contents/MacOs/.blender/scripts/
#10
I have tried all this, but I still can't find the .blender folder on my mac. Maybe there was no such folder created during the installation? I have OSX 10.6.1
I can find the path- blender.app/Contents/MacOs/ manually by right clicking the app and choose show contents of the package. But the MacOs folder doesn't contain a .blender folder, only an EXEC file with blender app.
#11
Have you tried setting a user scripts directory in preferences and installing there instead? The videos mentioned in an earlier reply show how to do this. The 0.9.x series will only work in a user scripts directory, so if you do this now you'll be ready to upgrade when those are ready.
#12
I have found the scripts folder by prompting Finder to show all folders. There is a command to use in Terminal for that.
#13
Wow, new to mac here, that took forever. For anyone who needs to know, the terminal commands are as follows and must be entered in two lines. defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder When you want to hide them again; defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder
#14
Ok, I have found the hidden directories and inserted the primstar folder. Blender now shows option of importing Second Life Sculptie but when I select it, it brings up file directory and is asking for a file to import? The instruction say to click build at this point but I don't see that option.
Also, if I just try to add mesh: There is a Sculptie Mesh there to add but next step under UV/Image Editor gives "Sculptie Bake Error: No current Image". I am assuming this is not working properly because the previous step did not work? Any help out there as I am new to Macs. Thanks in advance
#15
If you find the answer, please let me know! I also installed primstar only to find no build button when I followed the instructions.
#16
Have you tried Jass-2 for mac ? And do you find the same issue there too ? What exact version of the operating system are you running ?
#17
I just tried Jass like you suggested, but the only Mac version I found was Intel. Our computer is using Mac OSX 10.4.11 NOT the Intel version.
Thank you for the suggestion though, it helps me with my other computer!
#18
Hi! I hear this is great stuff, but like others here, I'm sorry to report I'm having trouble getting it to work. This is particularly frustrating, since I heard Blender sculpts work better in SL, than Maya ones (the quality of the Maya ones have been disappointing, so I thought I'd try Blender).
Anyway, on to the issue. I'm using Mac OS 10.5.8. I had to remove the latest Python to go back to the original 2.5.1 version. I've installed Blender 2.49b. I've got the primstar folder in the /.blender/scripts folder. Import shows Second Life Sculpty and Mesh shows Sculpt Mesh. But if I choose either of these, I get: Error! Python script error: check console. Now the funny thing is that the console only shows a bunch of blue text that begins, "Type your code and hit 'Enter' to get it executed," and ends with, "Using existing console_autoexec.py in scripts dir
Then there's white text that says:
import bpy
import Blender
from blender import 8
Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!
Here's the text for my Blender System info:
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details).
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