Learn how to set up and install VSCode on Linux for efficient Blender Python development with this step-by-step tutorial. This easy-to-follow guide covers everything from downloading and installing VSCode to configuring it for seamless integration with Blender.

5 Steps to setup VSCode for Blender Python (on Windows)

5 Steps to setup VSCode for Blender Python (on macOS)

Commands for installing Python on Debian based systems
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.10

Commands for building and installing Python on RHEL based systems
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install make wget gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel zlib-devel
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.11/Python-3.10.11.tgz
tar xzf Python-3.10.11.tgz
cd Python-3.10.11
./configure –enable-optimizations
nproc
make -j8
make altinstall

Visual Studio Code Download
https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

Python Download
https://www.python.org/downloads/

Fake Blender Python API module
https://github.com/nutti/fake-bpy-module

Blender Python scripting: Creating custom operators from scratch

00:00 – Intro
02:00 – Step 1 install Python
08:14 – Step 2 install VSCode
09:08 – Step 3 Configure VScode for Python
11:48 – Step 4 Configure VScode for Blender Python
14:10 – Step 5 Configure Blender/VSCode integration

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