I need to be able to have two copies of Blender on one machine, but each with it’s own different theme.
Changing a theme is no problem, but so far I haven’t figured out how to have two different copies of 2.57 on one machine each with its own theme. I tried unzipping it twice, into two different directories, hoping that Blender would store the setup info in two different directories in documents and settings. But that didn’t work.
I’m not familiar with SVN versions. I’ve just been unzipping the standard 2.57 version.
In my experience, you could load Blender on a stick and then run it off computers that didn’t have Blender. I can remember doing this and going to the library and Blending at the library. But I just tried loading Blender 2.57 on two different data sticks and running them on a virgin computer, but it wouldn’t run.
You wouldn’t happen to know what the name of the file where the theme information is kept is would you. Then I could make an alternate copy and have both themes available.
Hi… I have 2 versions… All I did was download zip file from graphicall to a folder I created for it on desktop… Unzipped it to that same file… And then download again to a different file I created on desktop…and unzipped to that file… Then you have 2 different icons in 2 different files… Not sure if this helps.
The problem is not two different versions, like 2.49 and 2.57. The problem is using 2 different themes. As RickeyBlender said, it appears that there is a file that controls the theme, that all copies of Blender on a certain computer use. There is no way to save that theme so that it can be transported or swapped in and out as far as I can find.
You CAN do it! In fact due to espresso overload the other night I did just that. What you need to do is to get the config folder from
[Root]\Documents and Settings[user name]\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender[Version Number]\config
And move it to here:
blender-2.57b-windows32\2.57\config (or whatever version # you are using).
You will probably just wish to create a new folder in that blender directory, name it config and copy the startup.blend into that. Delete (or rename to be safe) the [Root]\Documents and Settings[user name]\Application Data\Blender Foundation\Blender[Version Number]\config file. Blender may complain the first time you save defaults, but after that it’s cool. Then blender goes out and looks into its own directory rather than elsewhere. Try to have blender running before making modifications to the file structure. At least it works for me…