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Using NumPy in Blender Add-ons Without Requiring External Installation

When developing Blender add-ons, I often find myself in need of the numpy package due to its optimized algorithms for array manipulation. However, a significant ...
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Are addons generally considered safe to download and install?

Are addons considered safe to download? I mean, it seems that anyone can make their own addon. Who's to say if they're safe or not?
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Can't Active Add-ons in Blender 3.2.2

I'm using Blender 3.2.2, my add-ons need to install Pillow in blender folder first before install it in blender, so there it's not pb with that but when i active the add-ons , i got a error message. I ...
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Run a script on Blender startup WITH PREFERENCES

Please read before marking as duplicate! [STORY] In short: I have a script that needs to run on Blender startup with AddonPreferences. I'm using app handlers to "tell" it to do stuff on ...
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How do I keep updates to Blender's Python install when I want to use a new version of Blender?

I'm on macOS with a new install of Blender, current version as of now. I had some issues and finally managed to get pip working with the Blender install of Python and I'm adding modules I need to use ...
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Installing module to blender's python (Mac)

I'm trying to install modules (one of them is open3d) with pip command. From 2.8+ it should be easy as pip install open3d (...
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Addon not appearing after installing

I have an addon I'd like to install. I get a blue message at the bottom saying that the addon has been placed in the addons file location next to where Blender was downloaded... But when I go to ...
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Do "make install" on different Linux sytem than the one used for "make bpy"

I have successfully built Blender-2.80-Beta as bpy (as in make bpy) for linux in Ubuntu 18. Also when i do make install on the ...
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Why the addon installation succeeds but the API is not accessible through the bpy module?

I have compiled Blender 2.79b as a Python3 module on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I install an addon using bpy.ops.wm.addon_install(), enable it using ...
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Blender on OS X Sierra 10.12.4 - Menus not working correctly

When I try to use the file menu is sorta, works but not well. I cannot click on anything if it appears at all. Sometimes I get Python: INFO_MT_file instead of the file. I have deleted ~/Library/...
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How do I install patches?

I found a hairdynamicscollition.txt patch for Blender that I wish to install. How do I do it? I tried to run it as a script, but when I do so in the text editor in Blender, a red mark is over the ...
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Can an add-on be automatically installed and enabled?

I am developing a program that will include a custom importer and exporter for blender. I would like the installer for my program to be able to automatically install and enable the import/export ...
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How can I install a script into blender? [duplicate]

I want to install this extension to my blender to get materials to save from blender render to cycles render. Anyways when I clicked on the installation link this is what appeared(picture). How do I ...
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Constant repeating errors in console

Was just about to start learning Python in Blender, turned on the console and found the following message being constantly printed: ...
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