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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon nutti

Support Blender portable

Open zzzzzig opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

The portable version of blender stores it's addon folder in the main Blender folder, not in the standard location. It would be great if I could specify custom addon install locations. Also, as an addition, maybe make the add on manager itself have a portable mode itself, where it stores any data it may use in it's own folder.

Even better, I would love to be able to transfer addons from one portable, say "c:\portablePrograms\Blender-2.78", to a different one, say "c:\portablePrograms\Blender-2.79". This as far as I know still needs to be done manually, and it would be amazing to be able to automate it.

zzzzzig avatar Dec 27 '17 04:12 zzzzzig

@zzzzzig

Thanks for feature request.

First request:

It would be great if I could specify custom addon install locations. Also, as an addition, maybe make the add on manager itself have a portable mode itself, where it stores any data it may use in it's own folder.

This feature already in the current version. You may use Custom Add-on feature to realize it.

related issue: #2

Second request:

Even better, I would love to be able to transfer addons from one portable

There are no features to realize this feature. I will add to my idea about it.

But I have a question about it. We can not distinguish installed add-on between installation version and portable version, because these applications share same add-on directory. And it is a specification of Blender. Do you want to transfer the add-ons among the custom directories. is it right?

nutti avatar Dec 30 '17 01:12 nutti

Great! I had not seen the custom addon feature option! To answer your question, yes. I would love if I could transfer all custom addons from one portable version to another portable version, without transferring all the stock addon files. I don't know if this is difficult or not, but doing it by hand is an enormous pain. The ability to transfer addons between custom locations would be wonderful.

zzzzzig avatar Jan 05 '18 15:01 zzzzzig

@zzzzzig

The ability to transfer addons between custom locations would be wonderful.

OK, I add this feature as feature request. But I'm now busy for other project. Please wait until I implemented.

nutti avatar Jan 11 '18 12:01 nutti