[BlendLuxCore] New Development Feature: Environment Variables
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 10:58 am
For simplification of the addon development process, a new mechanism has been added to allow running the addon from a local git repository.
Two environment variables are now checked by the main "__init__.py" script:
The second allows to work with a single git-repository folder across multiple versions of Blender, which will become relevant when maintaining several LTS versions of Blender. Switching between branches should not cause issues unless "__init__.py" itself is modified.
As an additional suggestion: Attached here are two example batch/bash scripts for Windows and Linux that set the variables and launch blender. Placing these scripts on yur local PATH - with paths adapted to your system, and renaming the script to something of your choice - allows to quickly start Blender in development mode.
Two environment variables are now checked by the main "__init__.py" script:
- BLC_WHEEL_PATH: If set as the path to a local pyluxcore wheel, this version will be used instead of downloading via pip
- BLC_DEV_PATH: If set as the path where the local BlendLuxCore/ folder is located, the code from this path will be executed.
The second allows to work with a single git-repository folder across multiple versions of Blender, which will become relevant when maintaining several LTS versions of Blender. Switching between branches should not cause issues unless "__init__.py" itself is modified.
As an additional suggestion: Attached here are two example batch/bash scripts for Windows and Linux that set the variables and launch blender. Placing these scripts on yur local PATH - with paths adapted to your system, and renaming the script to something of your choice - allows to quickly start Blender in development mode.