Installation

Download the most recent official release at Github. Don’t unzip the downloaded zip.

To install the add-on, navigate to Edit > Preferences > Add-Ons. Then seach for BlendArMocap using the search bar. Finally activate the add-on by pressing the checkbox.

Warning

Running Googles Mediapipe within Blender requires external dependencies. Preferably install them via the add-ons preferences with elevated privileges.

Starting Blender with elevated permissions

Installing dependencies may requires elevated privileges.

Windows

Right-click the blender application and choose: “Run as administrator”

Mac

  1. Start Blender as admin by using the terminal:

  2. Navigate to Blender: cd /Applications/Blender/Contents/MacOS

  3. Run Blender as admin: sudo ./Blender

The Terminal request may be blocked even with elevated privileges, if that happens navigate to System Settings > Privacy and Security > Full Disk Access then activate your Terminal. After doing so, the sudo tag shouldn’t be required anymore.

Linux

  1. Start Blender as admin using the terminal:

  2. Navigate to Blender: cd /usr/bin

  3. Run Blender as admin: sudo ./blender

Install External Dependencies

To run mediapipe, you need to install the required dependencies opencv and mediapipe via the add-ons preferences. Internet connection is required to install the required packages. It’s recommended to disable VPN’s during the installation processes. Blender may to started with elevated privileges during the installation process.

Default

Install dependencies within Blenders site-packages.

Local (Linux)

Install dependencies to the local user and link local user site packages to blender.