Add-on pack, to be (help appreciated)

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At the moment getting all the add-ons is a massive drag. And add-ons can and do so much!:yes:

I would like to have all of the add-ons in one easy to upload spot, and a working-bleedingedge pack at that spot.

I am willing to collect, test, sort, and upload the add-ons, I will also keep the pack up to date.

I am asking for everyone to send me the add-ons they use, have used, have lying around, old or new(I will organize it). You can e-mail them to me, or link them.

If you would please, add links to add-on sites, such as http://blenderaddonlist.blogspot.com/, github and so on. In case I missed any.

Where do you guys suggest me uploading it to? I was thinking of making it on git.

I am asking for all the old add-ons, and non-working, pre-commercial/beta. So that we can fix, expand or learn from it.

I am a new-born when it comes to coding/scripting. I will be learning python, probably c# and some c eventually. I want to make an add-on/implement, auto add-on dowloading and updating into blender. I have, null experience with python thusfar. When I am more experienced, I will try to expand, fix and create add-ons.

e-mail: [email protected]
Please add a subject similar to blender add-on object assembler, not required though.

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Nice initiative, but how about updating the old wiki style page that lists add ons ?
As a benefit you stay within the blender.org web realm

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts

Maybe overthere you could make it a bit more explained (having sub pages for the bit complexer ones, explaining them).

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I was thinking of doing something similar, also with the manual being “re-made”. The capabilities, issues, etc of add-ons and scripts are beyond my ken for now.

I have nearly downloaded all of the scripts and add-ons related to blender, from here, git-hub, and the add-on bloglist, that alone has taken a very long time. I have played with very few of them in the recent blender(nevermind previous releases). It is extremely time consuming. By testing them, I try to find tutorials and such. I gather and organise the info. Which would allow me to easily iterate for wiki usage later on.

When I am done downloading, I will sort and upload. I will keep testing, and slowly but surely get to learning some code. Some of the add-ons are for areas I am not completely familiar with. I know very little about the game engine.

My main objective is to get and update add-ons easily. Many people have liked the idea.

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Hm in my opinion the wiki is still a lot more useable then the manual currently is, short texts to the point; So you can go quickly back to render work. But it could use some modern updates, for example in particles, include links to youtube fire tutorials etc.

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Fair point, generally things are just copied from the wiki. Will get to it a.s.a.p. Have sorted most of the add-ons, and will list what I have.

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Here is my current list, http://www.pasteall.org/56389/text. List is made from within Blender, order is descending as it is in Blender. Minor spelling mistakes might have been made on some names in the list.

Please send add-ons which you have and do not see listed.

The list does have things that are useless, but will have to neglect for now. I would like to figure which versions of each add-on I have, but have not had enough time.

Many with the [] brackets, are not listed, or might be duplicates.

Author(Nikolaus Morawitz) of object assembler, his website(www.emptygraphics.com) has been down for quite some time. Someone on IRC(newbs) apparently e-mailed the author, but was banned on the blender channel. I have found no way of contacting the author.

Still majorly sorting, and figuring out how best to share and keep updated.

Wiki/manual guys got back to me about the wiki, no more registrations will be accepted. But an exception was made for me to work on the add-ons section, because the manual links directly to the wiki.

If anyone would like some of these add-ons and cannot find them, please do not hesitate to ask. I am usually on the #blender IRC as well.