{"id":1688,"date":"2024-01-21T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2024-01-21T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T15:53:20","slug":"psa-psk-add-ons-import-export-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/psa-psk-add-ons-import-export-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Unreal *.psa\/*.psk AddOn for Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><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><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<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\/site\/psa-psk-add-ons-import-export-tool\/#Activating_Add-Ons\" >Activating Add-Ons<\/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\/site\/psa-psk-add-ons-import-export-tool\/#Other_useful_Add-Ons\" >Other useful Add-Ons<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>The import\/export scripts for Blender aren&#8217;t standard scripts, they&#8217;re an &#8220;<b>Add-On<\/b>&#8221; and as such need to be &#8216;activated&#8217; and loaded before they can be used. The following short tutorial explains how to do this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Resources<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a title=\"Blender View Properties, Camera Clip and other essential 'panel' settings\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/view-grid-camera-clip-properties\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">View Properties &amp; camera clip<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a title=\"Viewport transparency in Blender\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/scene-view-alpha-transparency\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Viewport transparency <\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a title=\"Essential keyboard shortcuts for Blender (download key chart)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/useful-keyboard-shortcuts\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Essential keyboard shortcuts<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a id=\"addons\" name=\"addons\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Activating_Add-Ons\"><\/span>Activating Add-Ons<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>All &#8220;<b>Add-Ons<\/b>&#8221; are located in the &#8220;<b>User Preferences<\/b>&#8221; area of Blender which can be accessed from the &#8220;<b>File<\/b>&#8221; menu via &#8220;<b>File \u00bb User Preferences<\/b>&#8221; or the keyboard shortcut &#8220;<b>Ctrl+Alt+U<\/b>&#8221; (first image below). This opens a separate window showing various application options &#8211; &#8220;<b>Interface<\/b>&#8220;, &#8220;<b>Editing<\/b>&#8221; and so on, click &#8220;<b>Add-Ons<\/b>&#8220;. By default &#8220;<b>All<\/b>&#8221; is selected, click &#8220;<b>Import\/Export<\/b>&#8221; do selectively display on those tools associated with the import and exporting of models into and out from Blender.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down the list where necessary to &#8220;<b>Import\/Export: Export Skeletal Mesh\/Animation Data<\/b>&#8221; and &#8220;<b>Import\/Export: Import Unreal Skeleton Mesh (psk)<\/b>&#8221; and click both corresponding <b>check boxes<\/b> to the right of each entry, activating the tools (second image below). Once done, either close the window or if the tools are to be loaded as defaults, i.e. the PSK\/PSA tools need to be loaded every time Blender is opened, click the &#8220;<b>Save As Default<\/b>&#8221; button bottom-left of the window, this will automatically close the preferences and load the psk\/psa Add-Ons into the Tool Shelf ready for use (last image below).<\/p>\n<div class=\"content_images\">\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-activating-add-on-scripts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"File User Preferences to enable Add-Ons\" src=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-activating-add-on-scripts_sml.jpg\" alt=\"File User Preferences to enable Add-Ons\" width=\"428\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>File User Preferences to enable Add-Ons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-psk-psa-export-scripts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Selecting Add-On to activate it\" src=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-psk-psa-export-scripts_sml.jpg\" alt=\"Selecting Add-On to activate it\" width=\"428\" height=\"352\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Selecting Add-On to activate it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-psk-psa-export-tools.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Add-On loaded into the ToolShelf after activation\" src=\"\/images\/tutorials\/blender-udk-unreal-export\/blender-psk-psa-export-tools_sml.jpg\" alt=\"Add-On loaded into the ToolShelf after activation\" width=\"428\" height=\"268\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add-On loaded into the ToolShelf after activation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"others\" name=\"others\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Other_useful_Add-Ons\"><\/span>Other useful Add-Ons<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A number of other useful game related Add-Ons are available from the Add-Ons preference panel, all of which are activated in the same way as the above PSA\/PSK tools. These include;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blender to XNA import\/export.<\/li>\n<li>Blender to DirectX *.x export.<\/li>\n<li>Blizzard *.m3 import.<\/li>\n<li>Import Lightwave *.lwo files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[215,276,326,325,29,322,28],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-add-on","tag-blender-2-5x","tag-psa","tag-psk","tag-tutorials","tag-udk","tag-unreal"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}