Requirements

Experimental Builds

Experimental Blender builds such as 4.5-alpha/beta may work, but are not officially supported, and fixing any issues related to them, will not be a priority. Still, feel free to report any issues you encounter.

Older versions?

If you want to run MESHmachine on an older Blender version outside of the currently supported range, you can reach out to me via email and I'll supply an older addon version.

Latest MESHmachine

The latest version is 0.18, available on Superhiveformerly Blender Market and Gumroad.

Legacy Addon?

MESHmachine is what Blender 4.2+ calls a Legacy Addon now.
This unfortunate term does not imply any obsolescence at all, it's just a distinction compared to the new extensions system.

See this page to learn what's new in the latest versions, or see the changelog for the full, detailed release history.

How to Install?

Blender 4.2+ Drag and Drop Installation

Blender supports drag and dropping addon .zip files (both legacy and extension addons!) from your system's filebrowser on the open Blender application to do the installation.
This is super convenient, and also works for update installations, but you should always restart Blender after updating to a new addon version.

Otherwise, the traditional ways to install described below also work.

Fresh Installation

NO previous version of MESHmachine installed

Update Installation

previous version of MESHmachine installed already

Attention

The video below applies to updating from MESHmachine 0.15.0 (or later).
If you are updating from an earlier version of MESHmachine, that doesn't have the Integrated Updater yet, please see these legacy update instructions.

Special Case: Blender on MacOS

MacOS users should install Blender properly, by following the official instructions.

Avoid running it just from the Downloads folder!
Note that, for dragging of files and folders, you need to hold down the COMMAND key.
This will ensure AppTranslocation1 is avoided.

Furthermore, your download may not actually result in a .zip file, and instead extract automatically. This can and needs to be be changed in Safari settings.

Special Case: Blender on Arch Linux

Arch Linux users and users of other Arch based or similar rolling release distros are advised to use the official Blender builds.
The Blender package in the Community repository does not supply its own Python, and does not follow official recommendations.

As a consequence, your system's python version may not work properly with Blender and/or MESHmachine.

Note

Use the official tarball from blender.org to be on the safe side, it comes with a bundled Python and is the correct version that Blender addons are built against.

  1. Learn more about AppTranslocation. ↩