blackstartx/pycharm-blender-plugin

A PyCharm Plugin that simplify the development of Blender Add-On inside the PyCharm IDE.

pycharm-blender-plugin's Issues

Marking projects or folders as addons does not exist in the menu

Hello! I am trying to use the plugin for some Blender development. Is there a setting somewhere or something I need to do to get the mark folder as ... menu options?

PyCharm Version: 2023.3.2
BlendCharm Version: 2023.3

I used the plugin to create a new Blender Addon. The folder contains an __init__.py module.

import bpy

bl_info = {
    "name": "Exporter",
    "author": "shall",
    "description": "Exporter",
    "blender": (4, 0, 2),
    "location": "View3D",
    "warning": "",
    "category": "Generic"
}

classes = (
)

register, unregister = bpy.utils.register_classes_factory(classes)

Cheers!

Seth

cann't connect to blender?

Hi, thanks for your code!

I ran into this problem, it looks like I can't not connet to blender?
Because after running this py file, nothing happened to blender.

After following the installation, my PyCharm still does not give me bpy object introspection

Hi!

I've managed to install it, and followed the configuration steps to the letter (to the best of my knowledge ;-) )

I've then created a new Blender Addon just as in the instructions you've provided.

The problem is that the template file __init__.py does start with import bpy, but PyCharm does not recognize that module.

I am able to reproduce my problems on Ubuntu 20.04 with Blender installed from Snap and PyCharm Professional 2022.1,
and on MacOS (12.3.1) with Blender installed using the manual method from the blender.org with PyCharm CE 2022.1.

Environment Variables

Good day @BlackStartx

First of all, I just found your plugin and want to say a big heartfelt thank you for it! 💯

Blender can use a number of environment variables and in my current setup, I must use the following two:
BLENDER_USER_CONFIG
BLENDER_USER_SCRIPTS

I'm wondering if there is a way within your plugin for me to set these up before the instances are started?

For normal Blender launching, I have a batch file that SETs them before executing Blender and while, for a regular Python program, I would normally do it through PyCharm's run configurations, I tried starting Blender with the --python C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\BlendCharm\pycharm_connector.py -- argument as an external tool in the run config but it didn't work ¯\(ツ)/¯

Another potential way... Could it be even possible to use the standard run configuration settings to set the ENV variable and then to trigger your plugin?

Thanks again :)

Windows: only works with traditionally installed Blender

Looks like a great addon I'm keen to use. However an issue which is it only works on Windows with a app installed via a .msi/.ese installation. A Steam installation can't be used, nor a Windows store Blender install.

print nothing

when print i got nothing

and when closed blender, i got that

Is it possible to output to the console?

Thanks for your addon.
Is it possible to output to the console via print?
Files are updated when the text changes, but there is no printing to the console.
I need functionality similar to how it is done in the addon for VSCode
Windows 11
Blend-Charm.2022.3.Community.Edition
Blender 3.4

No option to mark folder as Blender Add-On, bpy module not found

When right clicking and navigating to New -> Blend-Charm only see 'Create New Blender Addon', there is no option to mark a folder as a Blender add on.

Also, after creating a Blender add on folder, the code generated cannot find the bpy module

Am I missing something?

Environment...

PyCharm 2023.1.1 (Professional Edition)
Build #PY-231.8770.66, built on April 27, 2023
Runtime version: 17.0.6+10-b829.9 amd64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Windows 10.0
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 2038M
Cores: 12
Non-Bundled Plugins:
mobi.hsz.idea.gitignore (4.5.0)
org.blackstartx.blend-charm (2023.1)

Linux: Random NullPointerException

I get a random NullPointerException when using the plugin

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at data.VirtualBlenderFile.getRelativeAddonName(VirtualBlenderFile.java:51)
	at ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow.onSave(BlenderToolWindow.java:122)
	at ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow.access$000(BlenderToolWindow.java:52)
	at ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow$1.after(BlenderToolWindow.java:114)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.invokeMethod(MessageBusImpl.java:642)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.invokeListener(MessageBusImpl.java:617)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.deliverMessage(MessageBusImpl.java:417)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpWaitingBuses(MessageBusImpl.java:391)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.pumpMessages(MessageBusImpl.java:373)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl.access$200(MessageBusImpl.java:34)
	at com.intellij.util.messages.impl.MessageBusImpl$MessagePublisher.invoke(MessageBusImpl.java:180)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy132.after(Unknown Source)
	at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.persistent.PersistentFSImpl.fireAfterEvents(PersistentFSImpl.java:1219)
	at com.intellij.openapi.vfs.newvfs.persistent.PersistentFSImpl$3.close(PersistentFSImpl.java:806)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.LoadTextUtil.write(LoadTextUtil.java:450)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.lambda$doSaveDocumentInWriteAction$4(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:417)
	at com.intellij.pom.core.impl.PomModelImpl.guardPsiModificationsIn(PomModelImpl.java:326)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.doSaveDocumentInWriteAction(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:406)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.lambda$doSaveDocument$2(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:367)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.WriteAction.lambda$run$1(WriteAction.java:86)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteActionWithClass(ApplicationImpl.java:1003)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runWriteAction(ApplicationImpl.java:1029)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.WriteAction.run(WriteAction.java:85)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.doSaveDocument(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:367)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.saveDocuments(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:287)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.saveAllDocuments(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:262)
	at com.intellij.openapi.fileEditor.impl.FileDocumentManagerImpl.saveAllDocuments(FileDocumentManagerImpl.java:255)
	at com.intellij.execution.console.ConsoleExecutionEditor$1.lambda$focusGained$0(ConsoleExecutionEditor.java:65)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.runWithWritingAllowed(TransactionGuardImpl.java:215)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.access$100(TransactionGuardImpl.java:22)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl$1.run(TransactionGuardImpl.java:197)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:873)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl$3.run(ApplicationImpl.java:511)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.doRun(FlushQueue.java:69)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.runNextEvent(FlushQueue.java:112)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.FlushQueue.flushNow(FlushQueue.java:42)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:313)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:776)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:727)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:721)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:85)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:746)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:898)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:746)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$6(IdeEventQueue.java:439)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.computePrioritized(CoreProgressManager.java:803)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$7(IdeEventQueue.java:438)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.performActivity(TransactionGuardImpl.java:106)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.performActivity(IdeEventQueue.java:604)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.lambda$dispatchEvent$8(IdeEventQueue.java:436)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:873)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:484)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:207)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:128)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:117)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:92)

No connection to the Blender while using the debug mode

Hi!

I believe I have managed to install and configure the PyCharm-Blender-Plugin.

I've then created a new Blender Addon just as in the instructions you've provided.

I've used a toy blender plugin code "Move X Axis" available from https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/advanced/scripting/addon_tutorial.html. The code installs a trivial Object addon, and I have verified it works on my Blender if I install it manually.

"Running" the Blender works: When I hit the "Run" button from within the "Blender-Plugin" panel (not the one I usually push to debug local Python code), I get the Blender opened with my addon installed.

When I hit the "Debug" I also get the Blender app opened with my addon installed (yes, the new version gets installed over whatever other version of my Addon I might have had). The problem is that the PyCharm status reports waiting for the "Process Connection..." forever.

In the meantime, when I set a breakpoint inside the code of my addon and execute it from within the Blender, I don't get the debug experience.

I have exactly the same problem on Ubuntu 20.04 with Blender 3.1.2 and PyCharm 2022.1 Professional installed from snap and on
MacOs 12.3.1 with PyCharm 2022.1 Professional and Blender 3.1.2

'exe' dependency for adding instance

Hello BlackStartx,

tried to get your plugin working in osx, unfortunately it didn't work.
Found in the …/scr/main/java/data/BlenderExeFileChooserDescriptor.java that it only takes *.exe as instance.
Would it be possible to comment out the dependency to see if it also runs on the mac version of blender?
Unfortunately I don't know java to be able to do something with the source code myself…

Thanks, it would be great to hear from you.
daidalos42

Blender 4.0 Crash

After the update to blender 4.0 when I attempt to run blender from the plugin I get the following error:

blender: ../external_epoxy/src/dispatch_common.c:872: epoxy_get_proc_address: Assertion 0 && "Couldn't find current GLX or EGL context.\n"' failed.`

I am running the plugin on Ubuntu 20. I have a tweaked build of the plugin to get it to work properly, but the changes are fairly minor and it worked fine with blender 3.6.

Can anyone confirm if the plugin continues to work (or not) on officially supported operating systems?

I got an error

Read prefs: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\config\userpref.blend
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Program Files\Blener\blender-3.0.0-alpha\3.0\python\lib\threading.py", line 954, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "D:\Program Files\Blener\blender-3.0.0-alpha\3.0\python\lib\threading.py", line 892, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\BlendCharm\pycharm_connector.py", line 147, in start_client
    on_data(s, s.recv(struct.unpack('>i', s.recv(4))[0]))
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\BlendCharm\pycharm_connector.py", line 104, in on_data
    script_folder = bpy.utils.user_resource('SCRIPTS', "addons")
TypeError: user_resource() takes 1 positional argument but 2 were given

blender 3.0 alpha

when i click run/debug in pycharm i got the error.

it look like error in blender threading.py

Pycharm 2024.1 says 'Blend-Charm' plugin is no longer compatible

Pycharm error message:
Plugin 'Blend-Charm' (version '2023.3') is not compatible with the current version of the IDE, because it requires build 233.* or older but the current build is PY-241.14494.241

Can't Debug with 2023.1

Hi, Love this tool!

I wanted to report that since upgrading to 2023.1 I can't press the debug icon next to my chosen blender instance. I get the stack trace listed at the bottom.

Clicking Run works.

I'm running the following versions:
PyCharm 2023.1 - Build #PY-231.8109.197, built on March 30, 2023
Blend-Charm 2023.1

java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.toLowerCase()" because "ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow.getSelectedBlenderInstance().addonPath" is null
	at ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow$3.<init>(BlenderToolWindow.java:398)
	at ui.tool_window.BlenderToolWindow.onDebugClick(BlenderToolWindow.java:397)
	at util.MySwingUtil$1.mouseClicked(MySwingUtil.java:15)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6659)
	at java.desktop/javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3385)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6421)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2266)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:5026)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2324)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4854)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4948)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4584)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4516)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2310)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2804)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4854)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:790)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:739)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:731)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:399)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:86)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:97)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:763)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:761)
	at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:399)
	at java.base/java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:86)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:760)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.kt:666)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchMouseEvent(IdeEventQueue.kt:614)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.kt:569)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.access$_dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.kt:68)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue$dispatchEvent$processEventRunnable$1$1$1.compute(IdeEventQueue.kt:349)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue$dispatchEvent$processEventRunnable$1$1$1.compute(IdeEventQueue.kt:348)
	at com.intellij.openapi.progress.impl.CoreProgressManager.computePrioritized(CoreProgressManager.java:787)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue$dispatchEvent$processEventRunnable$1$1.invoke(IdeEventQueue.kt:348)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue$dispatchEvent$processEventRunnable$1$1.invoke(IdeEventQueue.kt:343)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueueKt.performActivity$lambda$1(IdeEventQueue.kt:994)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.performActivity(TransactionGuardImpl.java:113)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueueKt.performActivity(IdeEventQueue.kt:994)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent$lambda$4(IdeEventQueue.kt:343)
	at com.intellij.openapi.application.impl.ApplicationImpl.runIntendedWriteActionOnCurrentThread(ApplicationImpl.java:831)
	at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.kt:385)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:207)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:128)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:117)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:113)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
	at java.desktop/java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:92)

Debug mode seems to be inactive

When I try the addon with the debug mode, It starts it but nothing happens, Blender starts, but nothing happens.
The addon doesn't show or anything

There's no logs, when I do modifications it doesn't reload the plugin, etc...

HOWEVER, if I use the VSCode Blender Development integration, it works perfectly:

Plugin not supported anymore in pycharm 2021.1.1

Hi,
Your plugin looks very usefull. Unfortunately I get the following error when i try to install it in pycharm 2021.1.1:
"Plugin 'Blend-Charm' (version '1.0') is not compatible with the current version of the IDE, because it requires build 203.* or older but the current build is PY-211.7142.13"
I increased the intellij version that was targeted, and fixed some deprecation warnings. This allows the plugin to be installed under Pycharm 2021.1.1 as well. I will link my PR to this issue.

Blender no longer starts

All of a sudden, clicking on Run doesn't do anything anymore. I deleted and added back the Blender istance, I unmarked then marked back the folder as a Blender addon.
Nothing works. I click on the Run button and Blender does not start. No crash, no errors.

I see the shortcut in the scripts folder, the addon runs fine inside Blender when open directly (though I don't see it in the addon list), but from PyCharm I cannot run it anymore

Plugin does not want to install PyCharm 2023.1 and 2023.2 Community's Edition

I have tried installing the Plugin on 2023.1 and 2023.2 and keep getting "Fail to load plugin descriptor from file (then Plugin Name)"

I dont know if I am doing something wrong but have tried extracting and putting it in plugin folder still does not want to work mind assisting thank you

Configure Blender Executable

Crash loading blender program with pycharm

Exception in thread Thread-1 (start_client):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Blender version\daily\blender-4.0.2-stable+v40.9be62e85b727-windows.amd64-release\4.0\python\lib\threading.py", line 1016, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "D:\Blender version\daily\blender-4.0.2-stable+v40.9be62e85b727-windows.amd64-release\4.0\python\lib\threading.py", line 953, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self.kwargs)
File "C:\Users\jungh\AppData\Local\Temp\BlendCharm\pycharm_connector.py", line 156, in start_client
on_data(s, s.recv(struct.unpack('>i', s.recv(4))[0]))
File "C:\Users\jungh\AppData\Local\Temp\BlendCharm\pycharm_connector.py", line 101, in on_data
json_data = json.loads(data)
File "D:\Blender version\daily\blender-4.0.2-stable+v40.9be62e85b727-windows.amd64-release\4.0\python\lib\json_init.py", line 341, in loads
s = s.decode(detect_encoding(s), 'surrogatepass')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb9 in position 68: invalid start byte

Hello. I'm just using and testing your plugin. I tried to run blender using pycharm. but, it doesn't work and show the addon that i developed.

Reload on Save not working

First of all, thanks a ton for making this plugin for PyCharm, I don't really enjoy my time with VS Code and I find that PyCharm is a much better IDE overall (for Python at least). The reason I didn't purchase PyCharm Professional was because of the lack of an addon like this in the first place, so I might end up purchasing it if the plugin ends up working :)

Currently on PyCharm Community 2021.2.1 I can manage to open a Blender 2.93 instance and load up my plugin, but it doesn't seem to be updating when I save, but if I press the Play button and open another Blender Instance the plugin is updated in this new Blender instance.