{"id":7394,"date":"2023-08-20T15:18:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2023-08-31T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:37:46","slug":"install-nowhere-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-nowhere-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Nowhere Toolkit for Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a1cfc0ca5205\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a1cfc0ca5205\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-nowhere-toolkit\/#description\" >Description<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/install-nowhere-toolkit\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/52uFSQk8lqI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>To build content for NOWHERE using Blender the toolkit first needs to be downloaded from the Google Drive repository and installed into Blender via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/user-preferences\/\">Blender Preferences<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #ddecf3; color: #000;\"><p><b>Download<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/u\/1\/folders\/1-15BMH4xQ6xYZzn7mSnEJnuhUYqXZH_j\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NoWhere Blender plugin<\/a> (c. 300 KB | *.zip).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #fc0; color: #000;\"><p><b>Important<\/b>: <b>DO NOT EXTRACT<\/b> the contents of the plug-in ZIP file, it needs to be installed as an intact ZIP file for proper functionality. To help in doing this it might be useful to enable <b>File name extensions<\/b> in Windows File Explorer &#8211; for Windows 10 and Windows 11 this option can be found in the <b>View<\/b> [i] tab of <b>File Explorer<\/b>; in the <b>Show\/hide<\/b> column click the <b>File name extensions<\/b> checkbox [ii] to enable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/imvu-studio\/windows-file-name-extensions.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/imvu-studio\/windows-file-name-extensions.jpg\" alt=\"Start from a 'clean' file\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Enable <b>File name extensions<\/b> to ensure a ZIP file is being installed.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: after downloading the *.zip file (see above), open Blender and click <b>Edit \u00bb Preferences<\/b> [1]. The <b>Blender Preferences<\/b> window will open. Here, click the <b>Add-ons<\/b> [2] menu option to expose the <b>Install<\/b> button [3] and click this to open the <b>Blender File View<\/b> window. Browse to the location <b><i>nowhere-plugin[version].zip<\/i><\/b> was saved [4], select the ZIP and then click the <b>Install Add-on<\/b> button to install [5]. Once done Blender will list the plug-in within Add-ons as <b>Generic: NWR Scene Plugin<\/b>. Close Blender Preferences. Finally, the tools will now be accessible from <b>Scene Properties<\/b> [6] labelled as <b>:: NWR :: Project<\/b> [7].<\/p>\n<p>For more on the Blender toolkit refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/urnowhere.notion.site\/0d9b8de404e6427d9518fa2fc362bc04?v=ae36b9d3425b4d63b527d475081b638d\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Builder Guide to NOWHERE<\/a> documentation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/blender-preferences.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/blender-preferences.jpg\" alt=\"Blender Preferences\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Add-ons and plug-ins are generally installed through Blender Preferences accessible from the Edit menu [1]. Once open, select Add-ons [2] then click the Install button [3] (only available when Add-ons is highlighted in the menu).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/install-nowhere-addon.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/install-nowhere-addon.jpg\" alt=\"Nowhere toolkit zip file\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>The Nowhere toolkit must be installed as an intact ZIP file, so select <b>nowhere-plugin-[version].zip<\/b> [4] and complete the process clicking <b>Install Add-on<\/b> [5]. Blender may take a moment to complete the operation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/nowhere-tools.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/nowhere\/nowhere-tools.jpg\" alt=\"Nowhere tools\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Once the plug-in is installed, in <b>Scene Properties<\/b> [6] the tools can be found under <b>NWR Project<\/b> [7].<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate;<br \/>\n&#8211; 00:00 : Download<br \/>\n&#8211; 01:00 : Installation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1006,1001,230],"tags":[1005,797,522,337,1002,1004,1003,304],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-metaverse","category-nowhere-metaverse","category-tutorials","tag-add-on","tag-addons","tag-blender-preferences","tag-installation","tag-nowhere","tag-plug-in","tag-toolkit","tag-zip"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}