Vircadia World Blender Tools

This is a Blender add-on that allows the creation of full Vircadia worlds within Blender, to be exported directly for upload into the server once done.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from the releases page.
2. Open Blender and go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.
3. Click Install and select the downloaded folder.
4. Enable the add-on.
5. Make sure your right sidebar is open, if not the hotkey typically is N to open it.
6. Navigate to the Vircadia tab.

Requirements

Blender Version 4.2 (LTS) or later.

Development

Pull this repository recursively to get the submodules.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/vircadia/vircadia-world-tools.git

If you've already cloned it without the submodules, you can initialize and update them with:

git submodule update --init --recursive

1. Make a 'development-env' venv with python 3.10 or later.
2. Install the dependencies with pip.
3. Run Blender from the command line with the development add-on enabled.

python3 -m venv development-env
source development-env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt