latest stable blender version (3.6+)

Changelog & Documentation

Hey! Ever had to use a piston in your art only to find out it can be quite a headache? If the answer is yes, PistonPusher may be of help!

PistonPusher is an add-on designed to reduce the overhead and planning required to work efficiently with pistons or actuators in blender, from mesh to rig. To achieve this, it offers a variety of assets and pre-made pistons and tools to manipulate them. 

A list of the most important features:

• Quick Rig system. (Pistons, cable/hoses, cardan joints, springs, edit armature)
• Snap Points system
• HAPS - Hose Attachment Points, a geometry nodes solution for quick cylindrical extrusions on curved surfaces using normal/data transfers.
• General piston utilities. Snap and align tools.
• Set bone as parent tool.
• Set child-of tool.
• Copy booleans tool.
• Linked duplicate radial arrays.

An overview of the parts directly included with the add-on (There are also additional files!)

Video's

Other add-ons:

There should be few to no limitations when it comes to other add-ons. I use quite a few myself. Like Hard Ops, Decal Machine, Kit Ops and more.

- user feedback!

- general improvements.

Support:

For issues, questions or suggestions, contact me at: [email protected] or message me on blenderartist. (Link to blenderartists forum post at top of page.)

Operating system and/or requirements:

Pistonpusher only relies on python. Its a safe bet that it'll work on most modern operating systems.  Add-on has been tested on linux. Developed on windows. MacOS is currently still untested.

A warning may appear when installed on a blender version that is not the latest version, this warning can be ignored if this store page indicates it should be compatible.

LICENSING:

All code falls under the GPL license. Any assets provided by PistonPusher, with the only exception being the free piston, fall under a standard-royalty-free license.