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author | Ton Roosendaal <ton@blender.org> | 2004-05-13 19:02:01 +0400 |
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committer | Ton Roosendaal <ton@blender.org> | 2004-05-13 19:02:01 +0400 |
commit | 3d3b101541c51a1962c494927fcc013bce6188fe (patch) | |
tree | 9f7b624b6b0dd25f4b3df971419b6d0667d34de3 /release/text | |
parent | 5d3629fdd8f41999c367e0827faf5465e10e29a2 (diff) |
Added the basic installation notes for each OS.v2.33a
People might want to check it. :)
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-rwxr-xr-x | release/text/blender.html | 81 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/release/text/blender.html b/release/text/blender.html index af65b1d2b51..1d60be74682 100755 --- a/release/text/blender.html +++ b/release/text/blender.html @@ -11,10 +11,9 @@ <br> <ol> <li><a href="#intro">About</a></li> - <li><a href="#pack">Package Contents</a></li> + <li><a href="#pack">Package Contents and Install</a></li> <li><a href="#start">Getting Started:</a></li> <ol> - <li><a href="#start_install">Installing</a></li> <li><a href="#start_run">Running</a></li> <li><a href="#start_1st">First steps</a>, <a href="#start_3dview">The 3d View</a></li> @@ -42,7 +41,7 @@ licence. The full program sources are available online.</p> <p align="right"><a href="#top">back to top</a></p> -<h2><a name="pack">2. Package Contents</a></h2> +<h2><a name="pack">2. Package Contents and Install</a></h2> <p>This is what you should get from a downloaded Blender package:</p> @@ -61,6 +60,55 @@ plugins and more.</p> coders and the CVS repository with the sources can be found at the <a href="http://www.blender.org">developer's site.</a></p> +<h3><a name="start_install">Installation notes:</a></h3> + +<p>Installing is mostly a matter of executing a self-installer package or unpacking it to +some folder. Blender has a minimum of system dependencies (like OpenGL and SDL), and doesn't +install by overwriting libraries in your system. There are also some extra +files needed for a good install, like an antialiased font and standard python scripts, but these +are optional. Typically these will go to your HOME/.blender/ +directory. Below you find instructions for it per OS. +</p> + +<p><b>Windows:</b> the .exe installer handles registry of file types for you. The .zip download has +a .blender directory included, which can be manually copied.<br> +The directory .blender is located by Blender while checking the following list:<br> +- whether environment variable HOME exists, <br> +- or, if environment USERPROFILE exists, and the installer has created there the Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender\ +directory, <br> +- or it uses the .blender directory from the installation directory (where blender.exe resides) <br> +Also note that Blender comes with two dll files, which have to reside next to blender.exe.</p> + +<p><b>Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris:</b> after unpacking the distribution, you can copy the .blender +directory from it to your home directory. </p> + +<p><b>OSX:</b> the .blender directory is in Blender.app/Contents/Resources/. This is being located +by default. If you like to alter some of the files, copy this directory to your home dir.</p> + +<p><b>Other settings:</b><br> +There are many paths you can set in Blender itself, to tell it where to +look for your collections of texture and sound files, fonts, plugins and +additional scripts, besides where it should save rendered images, temporary +data, etc. If you're only starting, there's no need to worry about this now. +</p> + +<p><b>Python:</b><br> +Some downloaded scripts may require extra Python modules not shipped with +Blender. Installing the whole Python distribution is a way to solve this +issue for most cases except scripts that require extensions (3rd party +modules), but we are starting to add more modules to Blender itself so that +most scripts don't depend on full Python installs anymore.</p> + +<p>Even if you do have the right version of Python installed you may need to +tell the embedded Python interpreter where the installation is. To do that +it's enough to set a system variable called PYTHON to the full path to the +stand-alone Python executable (to find out execute "import sys; print +sys.executable" inside the stand-alone interpreter, not in Blender). To check +which Python was linked to your Blender binary, execute "import sys; print +sys.version" at Blender's text editor), it's probably 2.3.something -- only the +two first numbers should have to match with yours.</p> + + <p align="right"><a href="#top">back to top</a></p> <h2><a name="start">3. Getting Started</a></h2> @@ -97,33 +145,6 @@ programming language -- <a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a> in our case Naturally, they run slower than compiled code, but still fast enough for <em>many</em> purposes or for mixed approaches like some plugins use.</p> -<h3><a name="start_install">Installation notes:</a></h3> - -<p>If you are reading this, you probably already have Blender installed. -Anyway, it's a matter of executing a self-installer package or unpacking it to -some folder.</p> - -<p>There are many paths you can set in Blender itself, to tell it where to -look for your collections of texture and sound files, fonts, plugins and -additional scripts, besides where it should save rendered images, temporary -data, etc. If you're only starting, there's no need to worry about this now. -</p> - -<p>Some downloaded scripts may require extra Python modules not shipped with -Blender. Installing the whole Python distribution is a way to solve this -issue for most cases except scripts that require extensions (3rd party -modules), but we are starting to add more modules to Blender itself so that -most scripts don't depend on full Python installs anymore.</p> - -<p>Even if you do have the right version of Python installed you may need to -tell the embedded Python interpreter where the installation is. To do that -it's enough to set a system variable called PYTHON to the full path to the -stand-alone Python executable (to find out execute "import sys; print -sys.executable" inside the stand-alone interpreter, not in Blender). To check -which Python was linked to your Blender binary, execute "import sys; print -sys.version" at Blender's text editor), it's probably 2.3.something -- only the -two first numbers should have to match with yours.</p> - <h3><a name="start_run">Running:</a></h3> <p>Depending on your platform, the installation may have put an icon on your |