Decal Backup

If you have not chosen a decal assets location outside the DECALmachine folder in Blender's addons folder, you should backup your decals as described in the video, and outlined below.

Attention

Otherwise, you risk of loosing any Decals, Atlases, Trim Sheets you may have created or any Bakes you may have done, IF the previous DECALmachine folder is removed.

Addons Folder (in user scripts location)

Linux: /home/name/.config/blender/3.6/scripts/addons
MacOS: /Users/name/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.6/scripts/addons
Windows: C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons

Update Installation

previous version of DECALmachine installed already

Update Installation in Blender

  • start Blender, bring up preferences
  • switch to the Add-ons tab and use the search input at the top right to find your currently installed DECALmachine version
  • unfold DECALmachine and shift click on the folder icon of the assets path
  • in your filebrowser copy your old decals to a safe location
  • in the Blender/DECALmachien addon preferences, click the Remove button
  • with the old DM now uninstalled, click the Install... button at the top right
  • locate the downloaded DECALmachine_2.11.1.zip file and double-click it
  • activate the addon by ticking the checkbox
  • ensure your preferences are saved (by default done automatically)
  • optionally, switch to the Decal Creation + Export tab, and install PIL
  • close preferences and in the 3D View press the D key to bring up the DECALmachine pie menu

Update Installation in the File Browser

Attention

Never install DECALmachine in Blender's program folder.
On Windows, that would be C:\Program Files\... DECALmachine needs write access to its installation folder, so you need to install it into Blender's addons folder.

  • with Blender closed, navigate to Blender's addons folder
  • find DECALmachine, and copy the DECALmachine/assets/Decals folder to a safe location to backup your existing decals
  • remove the DECALmachine folder
  • in your Downloads location, extract the DECALmachine_2.11.1.zip file
  • copy the DECALmachine folder from the zip file to Blender's addons folder
    • note, if you have a DECALmachine_2.11.1 folder after extraction, don't copy this one, instead copy the DECALmachine folder contained in it
  • start Blender and check if the pie menu (D key) comes up
  • optionally, switch to the Decal Creation tab, and install PIL if it isn't already