Installation and configuration of Blender

Warning

While you see this note, is recomended to use Blender-3.6.5 since Blender-4 is still unstable. You can get it from here: Blender 3.6.5

1.- Go to https://www.blender.org/download/ , download the latest version of Blender and install it

2.- Download Fast64

1. Go to the Fast64 repository

2. Click in the green button where it says “< > Code”

3. Click where it says “Download ZIP”

3.- Open blender and click in General as higlighted in the image

Note

You can click in the Windows icon and search for it typing “blender”

4.- Import Fast64 in Blender

1. Go to the upper-left corner and click on Edit

2. From the list, click on the last option ⚙️ Preferences…

3. Go to the Add-ons section in the new window

4. Click on Instal… in the upper-right corner of the window

5. Select the Fast64 zip file we downloaded earlier

6. Click in the bottom-right blue button called Install Add-on

5.- Enable Fast64 and Magic UV Add-ons

1. Open Blender preferences window and go to the Add-ons section again

2. In the upper-right section, click in the blank space at the right of the lens

3. Write fast

4. Click in the Import-Export: Fast64 checkbox

5. Click again in the search box and type magic

6. Click in the UV: Magic UV checkbox

6.- Clean the default blender scene

1. Look at the top-right section of blender. Where it says in a list: Scene collection -> Collection -> Camera…

2. Select everything there and press Supr key (You also can Right click and then click on Delete)

7.- Configure Fast64 Add-on

1. In Blender, press N to show (and hide) the tools submenu at the right

2. Click on the Fast64 submenu and change Game from “SM64” (Super Mario 64) to “OOT” (Ocarina of Time)

3. Now click on the OOT submenu and put the Ubuntu oot moding path in the Decomp path section

Note

You can get your Ubuntu oot moding path by:

1. Opening Ubuntu and going to the OOT/oot folder: cd OOT/oot

2. Typing explorer.exe . to open that path with the Windows explorer

3. Clcking on the path on the top side of the window

8.- Save this configuration

To save this configuration you can do 2 things:

• Save a project and use it to open Blender when you want to do oot stuff

  1. Click on File in the upper-left corner of Blender

  2. Click on Save As…

  3. Save it in a comfortable location (Desktop for example) with a name similar to “oot_base”

  4. Repeat the proccess and save it again with a name similar to “oot_base_backup” (Just in case you open oot_base and save over it without noticing, you still have the backup)

  5. Next time you want to open blender to do oot moding stuff, open “oot_base.blend”

• Save this configuration as default so Blender will always open with the current state

  1. Click on File in the upper-left corner of Blender

  2. Hover Defaults at the bottom of the dropdown

  3. Click on Save Startup File

  4. Click again on Save Startup File

  5. Next time you open blender, you will have every configured