How do i download Add-ons from the blender website!?

Hi all

So when i go to http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.5/Py/Scripts/Add_Mesh/Masonry

i click the link to the current download and it gives me a webpage full of text instead of a .py file to install

how do i install these addons?

thanks
JOsh

EDIT: Rightclick save as did the trick. i feel stupid lol

Ok so i managed to download them

but they are not .py files. they are in fact text documents.

how do i get them to be .py files?

thanks
JOsh

how do i get them to be .py files?
just rename the extension from (.txt) to (.py) and put it in the (blender\2.59\scripts\addons) folder.

you can go to graphicall.org you’ll find builds with bundles of addons pre-installed.

This may help also.
With this technique you can update your Blender install w/o losing the add-ons and vis-versa.

What browser are you using. I notice I have problems like that with some browsers and not others. On this file, Opera could not copy it correctly, but Internet Explorer did, though I had to rename the extension from .txt to .py

thanks for the response guys

So i tried in firefox to ‘save as’ the page, but likewise im not getting anything but a text file. even though the extension says .py

same for chrome which i was originally using

i feel like im making some major mistake

but basically when i go onto the site and click the link i get a white page full of text, i right click and save as and get a txt file. this is the only way i have seen how to get the file onto my computer at all…

do i need python installed or something? i did have it installed but dont anymore.

or am i downloading it wrong?

THanks for any assistance
Josh

Under the “file name” dropdown there is another dropdown called “save as type” select “all files” from that. That gets rid of the .txt extension

na it didnt work mate. thanks though

as you can see that is the name i save it under,

yet in the downloads it adds.txt to it anyway…

this is really irritating lol

thanks for your help
JOsh

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na it didnt work mate. thanks though

as you can see that is the name i save it under,

yet in the downloads it adds.txt to it anyway…

this is really irritating lol

thanks for your help
JOsh

Hnh. strange. Just tried it using both the right click “save link as” and the left click “save page as”. With python installed the right click offered me a save as type: Python, but I changed that to all files and added the .py manually, and it still worked.

                      Another way to change it (besides a simple renaming of the file extension) would be to open it in a programmers text editor( blender's own text editor works for this) and, after highlighting syntax and a quick look at indentation to be sure the line space formatting was not corrupted in the exchange ( because that's the only type of format difference between a python file and a regular text file), save it to whatever you script destination is as xxx.py rather than xxx.txt.

didnt have python installed. all is good now :slight_smile:

Thanks for everyones help really appreciate it

Josh