Taichi Lab for Blender

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Installation - bundle taichi blender extension with wheels

1. Download Taichi Wheels

Before installing the addon, you need to download the appropriate Taichi wheel for your Blender version:

For Blender 5.1 and later (Python 3.13):

pip download taichi==1.7.4 --python-version 3.13 --platform win_amd64 --only-binary=:all: -d ./wheels

For Blender 4.x (Python 3.11):

pip download taichi==1.7.4 --python-version 3.11 --platform win_amd64 --only-binary=:all: -d ./wheels

You can also run both commands to have wheels for both Python versions — Blender will automatically select the correct one.

Remove the downloaded numpy wheels from the wheels folder. (Blender has its own built-in numpy. Remove it to avoid conflicts.)

├─taichi_addon_test
    │  auto_load.py
    │  blender_manifest.toml
    │  ... (other feature files)
    │  __init__.py
    │
    ├─wheels (numpy removed)
    │      colorama-0.4.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl
    │      dill-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl
    │      markdown_it_py-4.0.0-py3-none-any.whl
    │      mdurl-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl
    │      pygments-2.19.2-py3-none-any.whl
    │      rich-14.3.3-py3-none-any.whl
    │      taichi-1.7.4-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl
    │      taichi-1.7.4-cp313-cp313-win_amd64.whl

2. Install the Addon

1. Open Blender and go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.
2. Click Install and select the taichi_addon_test folder.
3. Enable the addon.