blender-setup.md

Blender Installation and Setup

• Download Blender https://www.blender.org/download/

Linux

• this will download a file with a name similar to blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2
• double-click to unzip via GUI, or bunzip2 /path/to/blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2
• set path as variable export BLENDER=/path/to/blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64
• create symlink sudo ln -s ${BLENDER}/blender /usr/bin/blender
• from the command line, type blender to open

Mac OS

• install via .dmg

Windows

• TBD

Install Python Packages for Blender

Blender 2.8 uses a bundled Python/PIP package located in the installed blender local folder.

Before installing new Python packages, remove the old version of Numpy distributed by Blender.

• cd ${BLENDER_PATH}
• mkdir ${BLENDER_PATH}/python_libs_deprecated
• mv ${BLENDER_PATH}/2.8/python/lib/python3.7/site-packages/numpy/ ${BLENDER_PATH}/python_libs_deprecated/

Then, install PIP for Blender

• navigate to Blender's python directory cd ${BLENDER}/2.8.python/bin
• install PIP by running ./python3.7m ../lib/python3.7/ensurepip
• install requirements.txt ./pip3.7 install -r vframe_synthetic/cli/requirements_blender.txt