I want to import an addon into a Blender script
Is this possible, are there any tutorials about it?
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There are addon utilities available in 2.77/scripts/modules/addon_utils.py which you can import into your script.
Here is an overkill example, lists all addons and then tries to enable addons named ['mesh_looptools','mocap_madness','goose']
import bpy
from addon_utils import check, paths, enable
def get_all_addons(display=False):
"""
Prints the addon state based on the user preferences.
"""
import sys
paths_list = paths()
addon_list = []
for path in paths_list:
bpy.utils._sys_path_ensure(path)
for mod_name, mod_path in bpy.path.module_names(path):
is_enabled, is_loaded = check(mod_name)
addon_list.append(mod_name)
if display: #for example
print("%s default:%s loaded:%s " % (mod_name, is_enabled, is_loaded))
return(addon_list)
#print all the addons and show if enabled and default
addons = get_all_addons(True)
#enable dependencies
addon_dependencies = ['mesh_looptools','MocapMadness','goose']
for addon in addon_dependencies:
if addon in addons:
is_enabled, is_loaded = check(addon)
if not is_enabled:
print("%s enabled" % addon)
enable(addon)
else:
print("Error Dependency %s missing" % addon)
Mainly only need
is_enabled, is_loaded = check(addon)
if not is_enabled:
print("%s enabled" % addon)
enable(addon)
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$\begingroup$ okay, so would i have to change addon to what the addon is called $\endgroup$ – Alexander Pagan Jul 19 '16 at 19:20
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$\begingroup$ Yes, like "mesh_looptools" for Mesh Loop Tools $\endgroup$ – batFINGER Jul 19 '16 at 19:29
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$\begingroup$ how would i use the addon after it was enabled $\endgroup$ – Alexander Pagan Jul 19 '16 at 19:34
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2$\begingroup$ Depends on the addon. Addon foo_bar may register an operator "foo_bar" which you would call using
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$\begingroup$ What im wanting to do is open a 3d view addon from python, ho would i do that $\endgroup$ – Alexander Pagan Jul 19 '16 at 20:16
from io_scene_3ds.import_3ds import load_3dsto useload_3ds(filepath, context, IMPORT_CONSTRAIN_BOUNDS=10.0, IMAGE_SEARCH=True, APPLY_MATRIX=True, global_matrix=None)code from the import 3ds addon? or do you want to enable the addon in a script? $\endgroup$ – batFINGER Jul 19 '16 at 18:37