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ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Fri Sep 23, 2022 6:38 pm

Hello all,

I would like to start editing ac3d files in Blender.
Now I found an add-on on Github, but I can't get it installed in Blender.
My OS is Ubuntu-MATE and I have version 3.0.1 of blender.
Anyone experience with this?

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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby CaptB » Fri Sep 23, 2022 8:16 pm

I seem to remember I had issues with plugins when using a blender snap which resolved themselves when using the version directly from blender's download page.I installed into into /opt/blender (with the appropriate permissions given) and then the plugins as usual.
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby TheEagle » Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:10 am

version 3.0.1 … can you post the link to the GitHub repo (for the addon) ?
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Sat Sep 24, 2022 4:13 pm

TheEagle wrote in Sat Sep 24, 2022 1:10 am:version 3.0.1 … can you post the link to the GitHub repo (for the addon) ?


Hello The Eagle,

This is the link: https://github.com/majic79/Blender-AC3D.git

At least I hope this is what you meant.

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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby Kugelfang » Sat Sep 24, 2022 4:59 pm

Not sure if it helps but I ended up installing the AC3d plugin to

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/home/jeff/blender-3.0.0-linux-x64/3.0/scripts/addons/io_scene_ac3d


Version 3.3 of the plugin and 3.0.0 of Blender. Then of course Edit->Preference->Add-ons to enable the script. Seems to work ok.

I don't remember where or how I installed Blender. I think it was from the Blender site but it might have been the Linux Mint repository.

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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby TheEagle » Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:10 pm

The plugin was written for Blender 2.6(.)3 - usually, the plugins need to be adjusted after each minor release (so, a plugin for Blender 2.6 will usually also work with Blender 2.69, but not 2.7). So either you install that old version of Blender, or try this fork: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/Blender-AC3D/tree/2.8 or https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/Blender-AC3D/tree/3.2
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:00 pm

TheEagle wrote in Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:10 pm:The plugin was written for Blender 2.6(.)3 - usually, the plugins need to be adjusted after each minor release (so, a plugin for Blender 2.6 will usually also work with Blender 2.69, but not 2.7). So either you install that old version of Blender, or try this fork: https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/Blender-AC3D/tree/2.8 or https://github.com/NikolaiVChr/Blender-AC3D/tree/3.2



Hello The Eagle,

It worked out with the 3.2 version from Github.
Don't understand why I didn't find it myself. :roll:
Thanks a lot.

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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby TheEagle » Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:20 pm

Great ! :) Do not forget to mark this topic as solved, please ! :)
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:40 am

Hello all,

This thread are solved.


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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby TheEagle » Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:58 pm

PH-RVL wrote in Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:40 am:Hello all,

This thread are solved.

Ummmmmmmmmmmm … not this way ! ;) Use the green checkmark button at the top-right of any post to mark it as the one that helped resolve the problem and the thread as solved !
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby elangelitobz » Mon Sep 26, 2022 3:44 am

I remember trying to install both blender and the ac3d plugins a couple months back but nothing I did seemed to work. I'm happy to see that a plugin for the newest version of blender as been created. I'll go ahead and try to install it now. It will be so cool if I do get it working.

UPDATE: I was successful in installing the latest version of snap blender and installing the 4.1 blender-ac3d plugin, set them up correctly and all seems to be working fine.
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:39 pm

TheEagle wrote in Sun Sep 25, 2022 1:58 pm:
PH-RVL wrote in Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:40 am:Hello all,

This thread are solved.

Ummmmmmmmmmmm … not this way ! ;) Use the green checkmark button at the top-right of any post to mark it as the one that helped resolve the problem and the thread as solved !



Hello TheEagle,

Saved by the bell.
It's not working quite right yet.
The plug in is visible but get an error message, that the .ac file cannot be loaded in "white".
I have set it to RGB but so far no success.

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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby TheEagle » Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:46 pm

The error message pops up in the statusbar, right ? Then click on it and post a screenshot of the window that pops up. Also, did the error occur on Im- or Export ?
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Re: ac3d in Blender

Postby PH-RVL » Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:50 pm

TheEagle wrote in Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:46 pm:The error message pops up in the statusbar, right ? Then click on it and post a screenshot of the window that pops up. Also, did the error occur on Im- or Export ?



Hello TheEagle,

I can't show you a screenshot unfortunately, have installed a new OS in the meantime.
I will come back to it in the future.


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