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Plugget Qt Blender addon
A Blender add-on that adds plugget qt to the menu: Window/Plugget Qt Manager
, and offers an easy installer for plugget in Blender
<br> Dark ui is auto applied in Blender due to the qt stylesheet
Use
- type in the search box and press enter to search packages on the web
- click list to see all installed packages
- select a version in the dropdown, and click install, to install that version
- click uninstall to uninstall a package
Installation
Blender install script (recommended)
- open the script editor & run this code
# ===================== install plugget =================================
from pip._vendor import requests
import zipfile
import os
import io
import shutil
import tempfile
import bpy
from pathlib import Path
import sys
def download_github_repo(repo_url, extract_to):
# Construct the URL to the zip file
if repo_url.endswith('/'):
repo_url = repo_url[:-1]
zip_url = f"{repo_url}/archive/refs/heads/main.zip"
# Send a request to the URL
response = requests.get(zip_url)
if response.status_code == 200:
print(f"Successfully downloaded {zip_url}")
else:
print(f"Failed to download {zip_url}")
return
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:
# Extract the content of the zip file to the temporary directory
with zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(response.content)) as zip_file:
zip_file.extractall(path=temp_dir)
print(f"Repository extracted to temporary directory {temp_dir}")
extracted_folder_name = os.path.join(temp_dir, "plugget-main")
plugget_folder_path = os.path.join(extracted_folder_name, "plugget")
# Move 'plugget' directory to the final destination
final_destination_path = os.path.join(extract_to, "plugget")
if os.path.exists(final_destination_path):
shutil.rmtree(final_destination_path) # Remove if exists
else:
# create parent folder if it doesn't exist
Path(final_destination_path).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
shutil.move(plugget_folder_path, extract_to)
print(f"Moved 'plugget' to {final_destination_path}")
# add to path, since some apps dont do this by default
sys.path.append(extract_to)
default_target_path = str(Path(str(bpy.utils.script_path_user())) / "modules")
repo_url = "https://github.com/plugget/plugget"
try:
import plugget
except ImportError:
download_github_repo(repo_url, default_target_path)
# ===================== install dependencies =================================
import plugget._utils
plugget._utils.install_plugget_dependencies(app="blender")
# ===================== install plugget addon =================================
plugget.install("bqt")
plugget.install("plugget-qt-addon")
Blender install file (recommended)
- Download installer-blender-2.93.blend
- Open this Blend file
- On startup, blender ask if you want to run the script in the blend file, click
allow
. - This will install plugget qt addon and dependencies automatically
- If all goes well it will install and open plugget-qt when finished.
You can also run the script yourself instead:
- copy the code from the installer.py
- in Blender, go to the scripting tab, click new script, paste the copied code
- run the script. This installs & enables the addon, and opens the Qt Window at the end.
Plugget install
If you already have plugget installed, you can plugget-install this addon by name plugget-qt-addon
import plugget
plugget.install("plugget-qt-addon")
Manual install
- Download and extract this repo.
- Add the
plugget_qt_addon
folder (notplugget-qt-addon
⚠️) to your add-ons folder# - Ensure you have the dependencies installed.
There's a button in the add-on's preferences to install theplugget-qt
dependency. - Enable the addon, it should now show in your Blender menu
Window/Plugget Qt Manager
local editable install
Great for development.
- Install the add-on without dependencies to addon folder
pip install --target "%appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.2\scripts\addons" --editable "path/to/repo" --no-dependencies --no-user
- Install the plugget-qt pip dependency to the modules folder
pip install plugget-qt -target "%appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.2\scripts\modules" --no-user
- start blender, and on every startup you need to add the modules path to site packages.
import site, os
blender_scripts_path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "AppData", "Roaming", "Blender Foundation", "Blender", "3.2", "scripts", "addons") # Windows OS example
site.addsitedir(blender_scripts_path)
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requirements
- plugget qt ofcourse
- (may i suggest bqt)
custom menu
The add-on launches plugget_qt like this:
import plugget_qt
plugget_qt.show()
If you already have an add-on or script, to manage your menu and tools, you can skip this add-on and launch the widget with above code. (I recommend the menu manager unimenu)
support
- PRs and bugreports are welcome
- If this tool is helpfull, you can ⭐ star it on the github page, just click the ⭐ star button in the top-right of this page.