Helio Cloud Rendering Blender Addon

Installing

1. Make sure to have the latest Helio client installed.
2. Download the latest helio-blender-addon-VERSION.zip from the releases page.
3. In your Blender installation go to Edit -> Preferences -> Addons -> Install... and point to the downloaded zip file.
4. Enable the addon

There's now a new Render on Helio menu item in the Render menu which you can use to collect assets and send them to the Helio client.

Development

Set up your local IDE/Editor to use the python interpreter installed with Blender.

# macOS Blender 3.4
/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/Resources/3.4/python/bin/python3.10

To run/test the addon, use make run.

Release

To create a new release:

1. update the version number in __init__.py
2. create a new release with a tag (following semver). Important: It needs to be a GitHub release, a tag alone is not enough.
3. The GitHub action will automatically upload an appropriate release archive once the tag is there.

Credits

Thanks to:

• CGCookie for the blender-addon-updater
• various StackOverflow posts