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Andreas Gajdosik edited this page Jul 13, 2023 · 10 revisions

Navigate to Blender Preferences -> Add-ons -> 3D View: BlenderKit Online Asset Library to open BlenderKit add-on preferences. Those are split into 6 sections: Preferences, File Paths, GUI Settings, Networking Settings, Updater Settings and Runtime Info. In BlenderKit preferences you can:

  • fine tune the add-on behaviour,
  • sign up, login or logout your BlenderKit account,
  • update the add-on,
  • get redirection to add-on documentation and bug tracker,
  • see information about add-on version and file paths used on your computer.
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Preferences

General preferences located at the top allows you to handle your account and tweak some other general behaviour.

Show Assetbar when Starting Blender

When checked the assetbar will be automatically shown on startup of every Blender instance.

Sign up

Click to open a webpage where you can create a new account on BlenderKit.com and then login to the add-on.

Even with free account, you get improvements for the add-on functionality. As logged free/full user you can:

  • use free private upload space to privately save your creations and download them later anywhere, anytime,
  • bookmark your favourite assets for which you can search later,
  • give feedback to creators of asssets, rate and comment assets,
  • upload your creations publicly, became a creator.

Login

Click on the login button to login into the add-on - this will open domain www.blenderkit.com in your default browser.

  1. Login on web - if you are not already logged in on the web, please fill in your username and password and confirm.
  2. Authorize on web - Once you are logged-in, or if you were already logged-in, authorize that you want to use your logged account in the add-on.
  3. Success - After confirmation text Login went splendidly should be shown. Congratulations, you are successfully logged into the BlenderKit add-on! You can now close the browser tab and start using the BlenderKit add-on.

Successful login will fill in the Your API Key field bellow.

Log Out

Click to log out from BlenderKit. This will delete Your API Key.

Your API Key

Crypted API Key for your account which is used to authorize all API calls (search, download, upload etc.) to the BlenderKit.com server. This field is automatically populated during the login process. You can also paste the API Key in here manually from your profile page on BlenderKit.com, please use this permanent API key only when normal login process fails.

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File Paths

File Paths settings allows you to configure

Use Directories:

Which directories will be used for storing download data ( global and subdir, global, local).

  • Global directory and Project's subdirectory: Save downloaded asset files in both the global directory and the subdirectory of the current project.

  • Global directory: Store downloaded files only in a global directory. This can bring problems when moving your projects, since assets won't be in the subdirectory of current project. But it will save your hard disk space.

  • Project's Subdirectory: Store downloaded files only in a local directory. This can use more bandwidth when you reuse assets in different projects.

Global Directory

Global storage for your asset files, which will use subdirectories for the contents. This directory will be also used by the daemon to save its logs and other information in daemon subdirectory.

Project Assets Subdirectory

Name of the subdirectory in the project, where add-on will store asset data used in individual project.

Unpack files

Whether to unpack assets after download.

  • With unpack on, you can access your textures easier, and resolution swapping of assets is possible.
  • With unpack off, you can avoid some issues that are caused by other addons like e.g. Megascans. Switch unpack off if you encounter problems like stuck downloads.

GUI Settings

Networking Settings

Updater Settings

Runtime Info

Assetbar Thumbnail Size

Size of the asset thumbnails in the Assetbar.

Max Assetbar Rows

Max rows of assetbar in the 3D view.

Use GPU for Thumbnails Rendering (for assets uploads)

By default this is off so you can continue your work without any lag.

Networking settings

Deamon port

Port to be used for startup and communication with download deamon. Changing the port will cancel all running downloads and searches.

IP version

Which address family should be used for connections to BlenderKit.com server.

  • Use both IPv4 and IPv6: Add-on will use both IPv4 and IPv6 families of addresses for connections.
  • Use only IPv4: Add-on will use only IPv4 family of addresses for connections. This might fix connection issues on some systems connected to only IPv4 networks.

SSL Context

Which SSL Context should be used by Daemon for secured communication with BlenderKit.com server.

  • DEFAULT blank context: Daemon will use blank context ssl.SSLContext(). This is the default agnostic context which is independent of operating systems or versions of Python.
  • PRECONFIGURED by SSL module: Daemon will use ssl.create_default_context(). This might detect additional CA certificates installed to the system and fix SSL errors when behind proxy or VPNs.

Proxy

  • SYSTEM: Add-on will use system-wide proxy settings, custom proxy settings in add-on preferences will be ignored.
  • NONE: Add-on will ignore both system-wide proxy settings and custom proxy settings defined in add-on preferences. All add-on HTTP requests will not go through any proxy server.
  • CUSTOM: Add-on will use custom proxy settings, system proxy settings will be ignored. Please set the address in the add-on preferences below in the field “Custom proxy address”. This is an experimental feature, might not work on some systems.

Updater settings

Auto-check for updates

If enabled, auto-check for using an interval.

Enable pre-releases

If enabled, updater will also include pre-release versions.

Interval between checks

Months - Number of months between checking for updates. Days - Number of days between checking for updates.

Check now for blenderkit update

Check now for and update to the blenderkit add-on.

(Re)install add-on version

Install a targeted version of the blenderkit add-on.

Restore add-on backup

Restore add-on backup.

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