Open archibate opened 4 years ago
Why didn't I see this when I made that video ( ̄ェ ̄;)
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rt4y1S7PJ
I made this video without the knowledge of this taichi_blend
thing (; ̄д ̄)
I should have included this in that video ( ̄ェ ̄;)
My method in that video was to make use of the pip
that comes with Blender instead of downloading another version of pip
online.
For taichi_elements
, I simply extracted the blender
folder and the engine
folder, put engine
in blender
, zip the blender
folder and rename it to "taichi_elements", and now this zip file can already be installed using the standard blender-addon way.
I still think my method is useful though. If people want the latest version, they still need to do it manually. My method is simpler than the method described in taichi elements' README.md
nevertheless.
The traditional addon installation manner for Blender is via ZIP files instead of PyPI.
I recently succeed to deploy taichi_blend as a ZIP file, without using
pip
, which make the installation easier and less error-prone.I use the following command for creating a ZIP archive that contains all the requried dependencies:
The content of
Taichi-Blend
is:And the content of
bundle.py
is:So, maybe we can apply the same to taichi_elements by:
and release the generated
Taichi-Elements.zip
?The only difficulty is that different OS use different
taichi_core.so
, we may have 3 buildbots forTaichi-Elements-linux.zip
,Taichi-Elements-win.zip
,Taichi-Elements-osx.zip
.