RocketBlend Desktop is an open-source desktop application for RocketBlend, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Improve your Blender workflow by adding dependency management and enahanced project discoverability.
Note
Important: RocketBlend Desktop is currently under active development and still evolving. As such, expect significant changes, potential bugs, and incomplete features.
- Project Exploration and Search: Easily explore and search through all your Blender projects, making management and organization simple.
- Build and Add-on Management: Discover, download, and manage Blender builds and add-ons (note: add-ons are currently a work in progress).
- Custom Blender Environment: Assign specific Blender builds and add-ons to your projects to ensure consistency and prevent dependency issues.
- Easy Project Access: Set RocketBlend Desktop as the default application for
.blendfiles to open projects with the correct builds and add-ons, preventing project breaks. - Custom Package Definition: Create and manage custom builds and add-ons specific to your project's needs.
- Network Storage and Team Collaboration: Work seamlessly across shared network storage, enabling easy sharing across machines and team members. Configurations are stored in
.jsonfiles alongside your.blendfiles, suitable for shared drives, cloud storage, or Git repositories. - Lightweight and Flexible: Use RocketBlend's CLI directly without needing the desktop UI. Ideal for professionals setting up render pipelines or server tasks, while the desktop application offers an intuitive interface for regular users.
- Visual Project Gallery: Navigate and manage your work using the visual project gallery, supporting both images and videos.
- Golang 1.21.x
- NodeJS 20.x.x Recommended to use nvm or windows-nvm to manage NodeJS versions.
- Wails 2.8.0
- Then run
wails doctorto ensure you have all the correct system-level dependencies installed.
- Then run
- Git LFS to manage binary files (images/fonts).
- Mage
To run in live development mode:
wails devin the project directory- This will run a Vite development server that will provide very fast hot reload of your frontend changes.
If you want to develop in a browser and have access to your Go methods, there is also a dev server that runs on http://localhost:34115. Connect to this in your browser, and you can call your Go code from devtools.
To build a redistributable, production mode package, use wails build.
- RocketBlend - CLI tool that powers the build and addon management for blender.
- Official Library - Collection of packages for rocketblend.
- Wails - A Go library for building Web applications.
- Sveltekit - The framework that powers the frontend of RocketBlend Desktop.
- Skeleton - UI toolkit for Svelte and Tailwind.
- Bleve - A modern text indexing library for Go.
- Abjrcode - For providing a good example pipeline and cross platform build system for wails applications.
RocketBlend Desktop is licensed under the AGPL License.