HowTo:Install Wings3d
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Install Wings3D and the Wings Export Plugin
Download Wings3D
- Download the latest STABLE release of Wings 3D from the website.
Unstable versions may work and may have more features, but they may also be more unstable (obviously); - Follow the installation instruction;
- For a downloadable manual see here.
- Mandrake users see here
Get and install the Xmesh Export Plugin
Stable Plugin
New users use this.
Download the latest stable release (1.5a).
- For Wings3D before 0.98.16:
- Extract the compressed file into your Wings3D application directory;
- check if all .beam-files have the right permissions (
chmod 644
); - Start Wings3D.
- For Wings3D 0.98.16 and following:
- Start Wings3D;
- Select the [Install Plug-In] option in the [File]-menu and select the
.tgz
file you downloaded.
Nightly Plugin (Sorry, they are unmaintained right now)
Sometimes buggy, most of the time not working at all, only for Developers and bleeding edge users.
- Download the .beam files from the nightlies section here
- Copy all of the
.beam
-files into the directory./yourwingsdir/lib/wings-x.xx.xx/plugins/xmesh
- Check if all
.beam
-files have the right permissions in unix/linux (chmod 644
) - Start Wings3D.
For Mac OSX version of Wings3d
- Extract the two files
e3d_xmesh.beam
andwpc_xmesh.beam
either from the nightly download or from the expanded files in the stable.zip
package.
You'll need to right-click on the Wings3d application and click [show package contents], then navigate toWings3d.app/Contents/Resources/erlang/lib/wings-x.xx.xx/
(where thex
stands for the version); - Copy all of the
.beam
-files into the directoryWings3d.app/Contents/Resources/erlang/lib/wings-x.xx.xx/lib/wings-x.xx.xx/plugins/xmesh
or wherever theplugins
directory is located; - Start Wings3D
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