[X3D-Ecosystem] Installation of X3DPSAIL into Blender

[Don Brutzman]

If the group successfully uses Blender with x3d.py and there are utility
methods that deserve adding, I will be happy to test and integrate them
into the X3DPSAIL x3d.py build and deployment.

all the best, Don
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM Vincent Marchetti via X3D-Ecosystem <
x3d-ecosystem at web3d.org> wrote:

> Question raised below
>
> How do you install X3DPSAIL in Blender?
>
> I am assuming this is equivalent to importing the PyPI x3d package.
>
>
> Somewhere in the Blender installation there is a python executable, in my
> Blender 4.2 installation its location, relative to the Blender executable,
> is
>
> ../Resources/4.2/python/python/bin/python3.11
>
> You can run something like
> PYTHON -m pip x3d
> ; where PYTHON should be an absolute or PATH accessible reference to that
> executable, to install x3d in Blender’s Python installed packages.
>
> However, what people usually actually want to do is to install a 3rd party
> package along with their own add-on that uses that library. There are on
> the web dark and mysterious hacks to accomplish this, but the real answer,
> as you point out, that you include the source code for that 3rd party
> package in the add-on code.
>
> So if we wish to modify the standard X3D import/export extension to use
> some feature of the x3d package, we need to add the x3d.py file to the code
> visible at
> https://projects.blender.org/extensions/io_scene_x3d/src/branch/main/source
>
>
> In your client code you then have to import the x3d package using relative
> import addressing.
>
> Vince Marchetti
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2025, at 7:29 AM, John Carlson via X3D-Ecosystem <
> x3d-ecosystem at web3d.org> wrote:
>
> One more agenda item:
>
> How do you install X3DPSAIL in Blender?
>
> A big puzzled!  The only way I really use to know is install it with your
> addon.
>
> I can't run external scripts like:
>
> /c/Program\ Files/Blender\ Foundation/Blender\ 4.5/blender.exe --python
> ponchogen.x3d.py
>
> without it properly installed.
>
> Please report on Blender 4.5, not a prior version.
>
> I'm upgrading to Blender 5 now.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM Bergstrom, Aaron via X3D-Ecosystem <
> x3d-ecosystem at web3d.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Here’s my proposed Agenda for the meeting in the morning:
>>
>> *Agenda Topics*
>>
>>    - Blender Topics - Materials
>>    - Blender Exporter in General
>>    - Maya Exporter
>>    - Open Discussion
>>
>>
>>
>> I apologize for sending this out so belated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Below is the Zoom Link and Meeting Agenda can be found on the Web3D
>> website:
>>
>>
>> https://www.web3d.org/calendar/2799/x3d-ecosystem-working-group-meeting/2025-11-12t140000-2025-12-10t140000-2026-01
>>
>>
>>
>> Aaron
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