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Installation instructions for Blender 2.80

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  • 2019-05-28 at 11:16 pm #15065
    scalare
    Customer

    I’ve been trying to debug an issue described in this post: https://www.soft8soft.com/topic/weird-issue-with-shadows-and-hovering/

    So far, to update verge3d and/or Blender, what I have been doing, because I’m using Blender 2.80 (and there is no need to install it), was to download the latest versions, and just replace them, renaming the previous versions folders (or removing them). Since the Blender preferences file apparently was being saved into some global location, when I replaced Blender, it would just read the preferences, and find verge3d from the previously saved location. Same thing happened if I replaced verge3d, as long as I re-used the same folder name / location.

    But because of the weird issue mentioned at the top, I thought of doing a clean installation this time, in case something had changed that was causing the outline effect not to work correctly. So I REMOVED verge3d from the preferences in the add-ons, and then removed the location in the scripts field.

    Then I downloaded the latest version of blender (May 28th.). Opened it, and noticed that some things had changed in the preferences dialog box. “Files” section has been changed with “File Paths”. But the scripts field was still there, so I selected verge3D folder following the instructions. Saved and closed Blender. Opened it again, then went to preferences / Add-ons, and to my surprise, verge3D does not show at all in the list (it used to be the last item in it). It looks like the latest Blender 2.80 version has changed something that makes the current verge3d version (2.12.4) not to be recognized as an add-on? Either that, or I’m missing something very basic :wacko:

    Please help! Thank you!

    2019-05-29 at 7:48 am #15066
    Alexander Kovelenov
    Staff

    Hi,
    we checked and the addon seems to be working just fine. Can you send us a screenshot with addon preferences?

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    2019-05-29 at 2:38 pm #15072
    scalare
    Customer

    Hello Alexander, thank you for getting back to me. I’m attaching screenshots for both the “File Paths” tab and the “Add-ons” tab. You will see that the last add-on listed is UV: Magic UV, instead of verge3D, which is what used to show up there as the last item.

    Thank you!

    2019-05-29 at 2:41 pm #15075
    Mikhail Luzyanin
    Staff
    scalare wrote:

    You will see that the last add-on listed is UV: Magic UV, instead of verge3D, which is what used to show up there as the last item.

    Have you tried to type Verge3D in search panel?

    Co-founder and lead graphics specialist at Soft8Soft.

    2019-05-29 at 2:47 pm #15076
    scalare
    Customer

    Actually, I did try that yesterday, and nothing shows up. In fact, when I reach the fourth letter (“verg”) in the search form, the list gets empty.

    2019-05-29 at 3:11 pm #15077
    Yuri Kovelenov
    Staff

    Hi,

    Just in case, did you restart Blender after selecting the Scripts path?

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    2019-05-29 at 3:16 pm #15078
    scalare
    Customer

    Yes, I opened and closed Blender several times since I set the value for the scripts path. Same results :-(

    2019-05-29 at 3:33 pm #15081
    scalare
    Customer

    Now that I think of it, I also uninstalled Blender 2.79 a few days ago (I had it installed, but used the stand-alone 2.80 version). Could that make any difference? I uninstalled it before I updated version 2.80 anyway.

    In any case, do you happen to know where the preferences are being saved? Because replacing the 2.80 build was working fine before, so I guess they were being saved somewhere persistently.

    Thanks!

    2019-05-29 at 4:43 pm #15082
    scalare
    Customer

    Have you removed the add-on and installed it again to test, or just installed it on a vanilla Blender? Could the removal have affected this in any way? I cannot use Verge3D right now :cry:

    2019-05-29 at 11:15 pm #15083
    scalare
    Customer

    I’ve found the problem! My verge3d folder had custom applications inside the applications folder. It seems Blender won’t take it if it is a “modified” version of verge3d. I downloaded a clean copy of verge3d 2.12.4, used it to replace my modified version, and then Blender was able to see the add-on, and I could re-enable it. I copied over the custom apps afterwards. It is working again!

    I post the solution because I think this could help some other users. Not sure how likely it is to try to enable the add-on after adding custom applications to verge3d, but you never know, hehehe.

    :bye:

    2019-05-30 at 6:37 am #15087
    Alexander Kovelenov
    Staff

    This is great you did find a solution! I believe the issue might be connected with addon uninstallation. Maybe you did press “Uninstall” button in Blender?

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    2019-05-30 at 10:03 am #15091
    scalare
    Customer

    I actually had expanded the add-on in the preferences list, and pressed the button there. The newest version of Blender has the label “Remove” for it. I honestly don’t remember if the version of Blender I had used when this problem started said Remove or Uninstall.

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