Animation_nodes: Unable to install Animation Nodes on Blender 2.79

[FlashBlaze]

I'm getting an error message telling me I have multiple versions of Animation Nodes installed. But I can't find any versions installed on searching. Please help.

[JacquesLucke]

https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes/issues/798
It might be a different path in your case depending on your operating system. You can see the path of the addon directory in the error message.

[FlashBlaze]

Is it okay if I post a screenshot?

[JacquesLucke]

sure

[FlashBlaze]

[JacquesLucke]

Find this path in the windows explorer: C:\Users\Neeraj\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\
There you'll see multiple Blender versions. Remove them and then install AN again.

[FlashBlaze]

That solved it! Thanks a lot for replying early and solving my issue.

[JimCoote]

I have a slightly different issue with Animation Nodes. After selecting 'Install addon from file' I selected the entire folder I downloaded and this opened up OK. However I have no idea which file to select. Is it one of the .py ones? I'm on a Mac Book Pro using Blender 2.79

[JacquesLucke]

you have to select the .zip file you downloaded (don't unpack it manually).

[JimCoote]

The problem is that I cannot select the folder without unpacking it. I have tried both the macOS.zip files and the source code, and have exactly the same trouble.

[JacquesLucke]

hm I don't know why this happens. Maybe there is a filter activated in the file browser?
You need the macos release, the source code won't help you here.

If all of that does not work you can also install AN manually by copying the unpackt animation_nodes folder into blenders addons folder.

[JimCoote]

Thanks Jacques, I did as you advised and dropped the entire folder into the Addons folder, and it seems to be working fine.

After downloading I was left with a folder called animation_nodes but no sign of anything with a .zip suffix, (I checked just about every subfolder). I tried adding .zip in case downloading caused some kind of misnaming, but no luck. Oddly when I looked in my trash bin, (where I dumped failed attempts), and there appeared to be some zip folders there. I suspect that the downloading of some types of zip files is going wrong on my Mac somewhere. Anyway, all OK now. Thanks again.

[JimCoote]

Doh! Found the answer. Safari was set to automatically open any safe files. This meant that any zipped folders were always unwrapped after downloading. Simply right clicking and choosing compress gave me the zip folder back. I presume this is why previously I could see the zip folder in the trash but not elsewhere.

[JacquesLucke]

ah that explains it! Haven't thought about that. Thanks for sharing the solution.

[azwa1321]

i also have the same problem with him but i don't see the directory show in my laptop (c:usersWindows10AppData.......) there are no AppData in my C: ..how can i solve this problem ..? thanks in advance ..

[JacquesLucke]

Hey, the AppData folder is hidden by default.
Maybe that helps: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/

[videodromex]

I'm also using 2.79, when I add the .zip to my addons it does create a folder in my "...AppDataRoamingBlender FoundationBlender2.79scriptsaddons" folder, but the add on is not visible in my preferences, thus I can't activate it. I've rebooted blender twice. nothing gets added to the _pycache_, not sure if this is relevant.

[JacquesLucke]

please tell me exaxtly where you downloaded the compiled AN build.

If you did not download a release from https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes/releases, you can try that.

[videodromex]

Thanks a lot! that allowed me to install the addon, now, when I tried to bake average on an mp3 I get the following error:

[JacquesLucke]

Hope that helps: https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes/issues/885

[Eqysterika]

Hello, first I want to thank for the great work done with this addon, I am surprised with the magnificent things that it has. Unfortunately I got the error when I was installing it in the new version 2.79 ... I have Mac and I can't find the way to uninstall the previous versions. Could you help me?

[Omeleto]

I got an error message:

I don't know how to solve this. Please respond

[skoorbatase]

I'm having the same problem on MacOSX. "Uninstall the previous version" - but there doesn't seem to be a previous version anywhere

Hello, first I want to thank for the great work done with this addon, I am surprised with the magnificent things that it has. Unfortunately I got the error when I was installing it in the new version 2.79 ... I have Mac and I can't find the way to uninstall the previous versions. Could you help me?

[OmarEmaraDev]

This is not the only path where blender addons are installed. Addons installed through the install operator will be installed in a user specific path, in your case, it is in /Users/minuto31/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.79/scripts/addons/.

[skoorbatase]

Thank you! by typing - bpy.utils.script_paths("addons") - into the console I was able to find an alternate path that'd I'd created when I was trying to get an older version to work last year. After deleting that... ALL SYSTEMS GO! Amazing Addon! Thank you Jaques!

[Amir997]

Hi , I have downloaded the Zip file , follow the procedure , but AN not show up in the addon menu .

[OmarEmaraDev]

@Amir997 Please check the troubleshooting guide..

[janmatys]

Hi there I installed the .zip using the Blender standards (from preferences) and the addon will appear in the list, but when clicked (activating) Ive got this message...

...Im using Blender 2.79a and for sure download the AnimationNodes version for Windows. As an additional info I could provide that v1.6 of AN was installed WITHOUT problems (only v2.0 and 2.1 are "broken")

Sincerely, Jan

[OmarEmaraDev]

@janmatys Please check the troubleshooting guide..

[janmatys]

@OmarSquircleArt I already checked it for sure and I found nothing of help ... Could U explain what could I do to solve this? This is probably the same: https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes/issues/931 ...so could Jacques make some points?

[janmatys]

Anyone having the same issue try to install 14.14.26429 C++ Redist 2017 x64 cause I think that solves the problem (could be that one cause I have NO issue now ;) ).