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Blender Launcher [Standalone Software Client]

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What is it?

Blender Launcher is a standalone software client that provides management for stable, daily and experimental builds of Blender 3D . It is a free open source project available for 64-bit Windows and Linux (GLIBC 2.27 and higher) operating systems.

Why do I need it?

The goal of Blender Launcher is to make it easier to stay up to date with the latest features and improvements of Blender 3D together with the security of stable releases. Being a minimalistic portable application it is a nice tool for organizing the evolving free and open source 3D creation suite.

What features does it have?

Compared to its predecessor Blender Launcher introduces a number of major improvements:

• Rewritten from the ground up for better stability and extensibility
• Stable releases
• Daily builds
• Experimental branches
• Faster starting times by caching data
• Support for high DPI displays

Core features:

• Automatic checking of latest builds
• Fast access of favorite build via tray context menu or by middle click on tray icon
• Register .blend file extension for preferred build
• Startup arguments for launching Blender
• Template installation
• Indication of running builds and its number of instances

How to start using it?

How to thank the developer?

This is the best thing since sliced bread! The new version is a great upgrade over the old one, and I already loved the old one. Thank you.

Is there an option to use my existing installation folder? With the old Blender Version Manager that was possible, but with this version it seems to want an empty Library folder and ignores any installations if I select the old one. I assume I would have to re-install any Blenders I already have, plus reinstall addons & reconfigure Blender.

Or am I wrong?

Hi! If you want to use builds from BVM you should move them inside daily or custom folder (and restart applciation):

About addons and settings - they laid under configuration folder according to the Blender documentation. So, they not bound to build, only to version (i.e. 2.79, 2.80, 2.81 etc.).

Thanks for the explanation Oleg. Re the addons etc, I thought that when I upgraded from 2.80 to 2.81, then 2.81 to 2.82 these were copied to the new installation, but to be honest I can’t remember.

When you start a new version of blender for the first time it will give you the option of copying over all your previous settings/add-ons from an older version, if present. Blender saves configuration/add-ons for each version of blender that you run in the %appdata% folder. So even if you download a daily version of 2.90, for example, you will have the exact same settings/addons/startup file/etc and don’t need to worry about anything.

Thanks. I just tried by installing the latest 2.83 daily. The addons etc were copied.

anyone getting a Connection error status? Everything was fine yesterday. When I right click to quit it doesn’t quit either.

Version 1.0.0 Here’s what’s in the BL.LOG file:

2020-05-29 22:36:44,714 - main - ERROR - Windows Traceback (most recent call last): File “windows\main_window.py”, line 241, in quit AttributeError: ‘BlenderLauncher’ object has no attribute ‘timer’

Hi! Connection Error is an expected behavior when something fails with scraping data from blender.org , so it is outside of launcher. You should just wait for next update loop. However, an error is not supposed to happen when quitting, so thanks for report!

Ok, I looked at what’s happening and it seems there is now new version naming for blender builds and its broke everything. Fix is coming.

Blender Launcher 1.1.0 released!

• Downloading raises SSL Certificate error on some Linux distributions
• New version naming of builds raises connection error
• Finished timer caused error on quitting
• Launching new instances of Blender Launcher will open existing one
• Automatic cleaning of .temp folder

Thank you so much!

I can’t get ’ Launch When System Starts’ to work in 1.1.0, It used to work in 1.0.0 The option is active but it never starts.

Hi! Have you checked the Startup tab of Task Manager? If it is not there or manually turned off then it will not work I guess. Or maybe you changed Blender Launcher.exe location?

It’s not in the startup list. When I installed 1.1.0 I put it in a new folder, then deleted 1.0.0. However I found a copy of 1.0.0 executable lurking in the download folder. That’s now also deleted, but 1.1.0 still doesn’t put itself in startup - I’ll add to startup manually

Curious, I’d like to modify Blender Launcher to deploy a custom build of blender, whats the best way to go about this? Were can I make the modifcations in the source code? So, instead of point to url “ https://builder.blender.org/download/ ” it point to a hosted site with my custom complied version of Blender.

Weird. The only situation I can imagine is when it added to Startup and shown in Task Manager but disabled by system. Maybe there is something in BL.log file.

Well, you should take a look at scraper.py where all scraping functionality is lying. The code is not well documented, feel free to ask questions with PM.

Basically, the scrap_download_links function search through available links to builds by given URL and new_blender_build make a BuildInfo object that library can draw. However, it is bound to build type and naming parsing. So, I think you can pretty quickly reverse engineer this part.

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Introduction ¶

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Original Project By DotBow ¶

The Blender Laucnher V2 project exists because DotBow/Blender-Launcher has been inactive since October of 2022. It was archived on the 28 th of Nov, 2023 and will no longer be receiving updates.

What is it? ¶

Blender Launcher is a standalone software client that provides management for stable, daily and experimental builds of Blender 3D . It is a free open source project available for 64-bit Windows and Linux (GLIBC 2.27 and higher) operating systems.

Why do I need it? ¶

The goal of Blender Launcher is to make it easier to stay up to date with the latest features and improvements of Blender 3D together with the security of stable releases. Being a minimalistic portable application it is a nice tool for organizing the evolving free and open source 3D creation suite.

What features does it have? ¶

Compared to its predecessor Blender Launcher introduces a number of major improvements:

• Rewritten from the ground up for better stability and extensibility
• Stable releases
• Daily builds
• Experimental branches
• Faster starting times by caching data
• Support for high DPI displays

Core features:

• Automatic checking of latest builds
• Fast access of favorite build via tray context menu or by middle click on tray icon
• Register .blend file extension for preferred build
• Startup arguments for launching Blender
• Template installation
• Indication of running builds and its number of instances

How to start using it? ¶

• Download latest version from releases page
• Follow Installation instructions and notes
• Use Blender Artists Community thread to ask questions and make proposals

How to thank the developer? ¶

• The best reward is feedback and a happy user face!

Thanx for using Blender Launcher! Have a good day!

master Builds

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Embrace the Past

Among the releases you will also find these gems:

• The first 1.0 Irix Blender version
• Blender 1.60 , 1.73 , 1.80 , 2.04 ,
• Blender 2.25 Publisher
• The 2.04 iPaq port
• Old web plugin players
• Source Code

The source for all versions is available through repositories, which include the full history of commits and tags for each version .

Source archives for each release are also available. Check this page for interesting source code from the past. Containing old Blender versions as well as in-house software from the company that developed Blender; Dutch studio NeoGeo.

Blender 2.7

Blender took a big step in version 2.80, bringing amazing features but also breaking compatibility with certain hardware and features. It’s always recommended to use the latest stable release (4.2.1 LTS), but if you still need Blender 2.7 you can always get the official Blender 2.79b release.

You can also download the experimental nightly build from July 2019 which basically looks like 2.7 plus additional bug fixes and some new features that later became part of 2.80.

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RxLaboratory

Always create for the benefit of the people, the instruments of their well-being, and you will have created the instruments of their power and emancipation.

Download Rx experimental tools for Blender

This is a free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v3 – read more about this license here .

We strongly believe that emancipation, free sharing and helping each other will make the world a better place for everyone .

We work in a non-mercantile way, there’s no ads, you’re not the product, we don’t track you.

We rely on your voluntary donations . It’s not mandatory, but it’s much needed . Please, donate what you can afford , what you think is the right amount.

This is still an experimental add-on in development. It can already be used to import OCA files though and is the official implementation of OCA in Blender.

Useful links: Pre-release access Documentation OCA

This is a free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License v3 .

Version: 0.7.1 8 months ago

Size: 75 kB (.zip)

Platform: Blender macOS | Windows | Linux

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Daily Builds

The following builds have the latest features and bug fixes, but they can be unstable and break your files. Use at your own risk.

• Blender 4.2.0 Alpha fb6324bdd018 SHA 08 Feb 19:39 windows x64 Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Alpha fb6324bdd018 SHA 09 Feb 13:42 windows x64 Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 24 Aug 15:24 windows x64 Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 24 Aug 15:27 windows x64 Download
• Blender 3.3.11 Release Candidate ae9665bc449f SHA 24 Aug 15:56 windows x64 Download
• Blender 3.3.11 Release Candidate ae9665bc449f SHA 24 Aug 15:58 windows x64 Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Alpha 866974ae568c SHA 13 Feb 10:04 linux x64 Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 24 Aug 15:13 linux x64 Download
• Blender 3.3.19 Stable cedcf1c73417 SHA 10 Jun 13:18 linux x64 Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Beta 618c497801b8 SHA 05 Jun 13:07 macos Apple Silicon Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Beta 618c497801b8 SHA 05 Jun 13:08 macos Apple Silicon Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Beta fa5f2354f7ec SHA 06 Jun 11:19 macos Intel Download
• Blender 4.2.0 Beta fa5f2354f7ec SHA 06 Jun 11:22 macos Intel Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 24 Aug 15:17 macos Intel Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 24 Aug 15:19 macos Intel Download
• Blender 3.6.3 Release Candidate 56659f1510b1 SHA 25 Aug 16:34 macos Apple Silicon Download

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Three Procedural Metal Materials

by Ryan King Art in Surfacing

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Three Procedural Metal Materials, created with Blender's Procedural Nodes.

Node Group: The materials are joined into a custom node groups, with many custom settings, like the scale, colors, metallic, detail, roughness, bump, and more!

▶️ Ultimate Procedural Material Pack ▶️ Procedural Material Tutorial Playlist

Contents: ● Procedural Material Blender File ● Final Render ● HDRI Lighting

Tutorial: If you'd like to learn how to create this material yourself, you can watch the tutorial here:

Ryan King Art

Have questions before purchasing?

Contact the Creator with your questions right now.

MMD Tools contains various functions for editing MMD (MikuMikuDance) models.

• Model data ( .pmd , .pmx )
• Motion data ( .vmd )
• Pose data ( .vpd )
• Chop and Join model parts
• Rigid body editing
• Material editing
• Motion editing

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Permissions

This extension requests the following permission:

Import/export PMD/PMX/VMD/VPD from/to disk

• copyleftmorelos

muy buen addon. excelente

Thank you, this is usually one of the first add-ons I install/enable when updating Blender, and now I don't even need to keep the ZIP file backed up locally.

• Reetam-Tyata

great addon

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npr-prototype Builds

The following builds are from official branches. They have new features that may end up in official Blender releases. They can be unstable and break your files. Use at your own risk.

• Blender 4.3.0 npr-prototype all de37e33bff0b SHA 12 Sep 15:38 windows x64 Download
• Blender 4.3.0 npr-prototype all de37e33bff0b SHA 12 Sep 14:40 linux x64 Download
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