Vircadia World Blender Tools

This is a Blender add-on that allows the creation of full Vircadia worlds within Blender, to be exported directly for upload into the server once done.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the releases page.
2. Open your Blender scripting console and run the following command:

import sys
print(sys.executable)

1. This will print the path to your Python executable. Now, with that path, run the following command:

/path/to/blender/python -m pip install supabase

1. Confirm that it was installed correctly by running in your Blender scripting console:

import supabase
print(supabase.__version__)

1. In Blender, go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.
2. Click Install and select the downloaded folder.
3. Enable the add-on.
4. Make sure your right sidebar is open, if not the hotkey typically is N to open it.
5. Navigate to the Vircadia tab.

Development

Requirements

• Blender Version 4.2 (LTS) or later. (accessible via path as "blender")
• Python 3.12
• pip (usually comes with Python)

Steps

1. Clone this repository recursively to get the submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-world-tools.git

If you've already cloned it without the submodules, you can initialize and update them with:

git submodule update --init --recursive

2. Navigate to the project directory:

cd vircadia-world-tools

3. Create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows, use `.venv\Scripts\activate`

4. Install the project dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt