Tip: Add Ons Manager

by Jonathan Williamson

In this quick Blender 2.5 video tip we demostrate the new Add Ons system in Blender 2.5 for managing and running scripts. This new system makes using external scripts a breeze and is already bundled with numerous excellent scripts that can great improve your workflow experience.

Note: this tip was producded using Blender 2.5 revision 28305 from http://graphicall.org

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14 Responses to “Tip: Add Ons Manager”
  1. MorMot
    Posts: 2

    Cool! When i can dowload it?
    Blender come better with each day :)

    (sorry for my english)

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 11:18 am
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    • jonathanwilliamson
      Posts: 1415

      You can download testing builds anytime by going to http://graphicall.org

      Any of the newer builds will include the add ons.

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       Apr 20, 2010 at 11:53 am
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      • MorMot
        Posts: 2

        Thanks a lot!
        I was amazing when found last version on macos 64bit…

        this guys are crazy! Thanks for all!

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         Apr 20, 2010 at 1:26 pm
  2. richard w
    Posts: 49

    Very useful tip. Thank you.
    I’ll be making use of the dynamic menu in the future.

    Just to note: the video and audio is choppy when streamed from Vimeo.
    This issue exists, for me at least, in both Windows(XP) and Ubuntu (9.10).

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 11:56 am
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  3. comeinandburn
    Posts: 51

    Awesome tip Jonathan!

    these add-ons will come in very useful. If you wouldn’t have mentioned this latest build I wouldn’t have realized what great functionality had been added.

    Great job by the developers!!!!!!

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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  4. Rob
    Posts: 5

    Cool. Thanks Jonathan for explaining. How useful!

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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  5. Tobey
    Posts: 98

    Great stuff, a plug-in like architecture for python scripts will surely make this more user-friendly. Can you also select and install multiple add-ons at once in the above mentioned release?

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 4:06 pm
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  6. MeshWeaver
    Posts: 37

    woah, that is so cool! i’ve never used extensions before, but i think that will now change…

    also left a comment on Vimeo :D

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     Apr 20, 2010 at 6:09 pm
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  7. meta-androcto
    Posts: 1

    hi, thanks for the sweet tutorial.
    much appreciated.

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     Apr 21, 2010 at 2:22 am
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  8. starclopsofish
    Posts: 4

    Awesome! Bringing back the spacebar menu is very much appreciated- big thanks to whoever scripted this.

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     Apr 22, 2010 at 8:30 am
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  9. Heho
    Posts: 4

    Just by the way: What are those artifacts in 3D view?? and how do I get rid of those

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     Apr 24, 2010 at 11:32 am
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  10. Mathew Silva
    Posts: 2

    HI Jonathan Williamson id like to ask if it were possible,for you to make a tutorial about ARRAYS SKETCHING??
    HOW TO INSTAL and use!..Its an amazing tool..i think everyone would like to learn about it!…

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     May 9, 2010 at 9:05 am
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  11. Chris
    Posts: 7

    I do the Add-Ons I want and set it to default, but when I go in again the Add-Ons are completely gone and when I look in the User Preferences it’s blank. What do I do?

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     May 12, 2010 at 8:43 pm
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  12. zac
    Posts: 4

    i would open up the menu and blender crashes?

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     Sep 23, 2010 at 9:46 pm
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