STKtools not found in Blender

[heyda]

I try to play around with the STK RDK, but Blender 3D doesn't find the addons So what I did is:
Download http://supertuxkart.svn.sourceforge.net ... lender_25/
And put it to
/home/heyda/.blender/2.62/scripts/addons
invoke Blender 2.62

I tried all variations, so might it be, I really need an Blender 2.5?

[ctdabomb]

what version of the scripts do you have? you might need a newer version of blender, but not 2.5 (unless those are the scripts you have.)

[Arthur]

Blender is a moving target and from my observations for best results you should get the latest scripts from SVN and use them with the latest Blender version (and sometimes just after a new Blender release, the latest Blender release -1).

[heyda]

I use the most recent from SVN (if the link IS the most recent) and the Blender 2.62 which is the most recent official for Ubuntu.

You are right, that Blender is still in development, but maybe you should think about making use of the offical addon packaging techniques, that Blender offers? If install is pain, no artists will get to a productive point :/

[ctdabomb]

there are much more recent versions of blender you can get through their website. and installing them is no pain at all. just unzip and run they are much newer and better than 2.62 (my opinion)

[riidom]

the script says 2.59 (version is stated in "the bl_info = {" section, there it says " "blender": (2, 5, 9),"), and you can try if it will work in 2.60 or 2.61 - if 2.62 already doesn't work, it is of course not likely that newer versions will accept the script.
With export scripts it is indeed a pain, also in many other cases, basically one ends up with having a collection of blender builds in different versions. Work in the one you like, and use the one for export that is required, is simplest way to deal with it, imo.
Keep in mind, that between 2.62 and 2.63 bmesh got introduced, and the .blend format got changed, if you want to use a .blend -created in a newer blender- in an older version, save it with "legacy format" option checked in the newer blender version - else it will import as a faceless wireframe.

[Arthur]

Right, I think due to changes in the bmesh format etc the newest svn scripts only work well with 2.64 and perhaps newer.

[Funto]

Just in case: what does happen, is it that you can't find the STK options in the File>Export menu? You need to enable the addon first in the addons list.
Just checking

[heyda]

Thanks for your hints. Maybe I will start checking older versions.

And no, the addon currently doesn't even show up in the addon catalogue

[Auria]

Please start blender from terminal and check if any error message is printed there?

Also make sure you place the .py files and the stkdata directory directly in /addons

[heyda]

ok, return to start

I have in ~/blender one folder for 2.60 and one for 2.62. This because I use one 2.60a for testing COLLADA export, but this not my productive instance.
So changing to ~/blender/2.62/scripts was empty, so I created folder "addons" within.
There I droped stkdata and the 4 .py plugins.

To me this seems to be the right procedure to get it running?

[Auria]

that's correct except you need to copy not only .py files, you also need to copy the 'stkdata' directory.