Build and install the addon

Build from source

  1. Clone the project to download both project and dependencies

git clone https://github.com/InteractiveComputerGraphics/blender-sequence-loader.git  --recurse-submodules

  1. Build the installable .zip file by simply running the following command. This should produce a file called blender_sequence_loader_{date}.zip, where {date} is replaced with todays date. No other dependency other than standard python3 libraries are needed to build the addon.

python3 build_addon.py

Download from release page

Or you can simply download the latest .zip file from the releases page.

Install the zip file

You can check the official Blender documentation here for installing and enabling addons.

For developers

If you want to develop this addon, using soft link (on Linux/macOS) / Symlinks (on Windows) can be very helpful.

*-nix Users

Once you have cloned the project, go to the root directory of this addon, you can create symlink as follows

ln -s extern/meshio/src/meshio meshio
ln -s extern/rich/rich/ rich
ln -s extern/fileseq/src/fileseq fileseq
ln -s extern/python-future/src/future/ future

Then create a soft link to link from the blender addon directory1 to the directory where you download and unzip the files. For example this could look like this on MacOS,

ln -s ~/Downloads/blender-sequence-loader ~/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.1/scripts/addons/blender-sequence-loader-dev

Windows Users

You can use mklink to do the same things as *-nix users. 2

1

By default, {USER}/scripts/addons, {USER}: Location of configuration files (typically in the user’s home directory).

2

You will need either administrator permission, or developer mode.