BLENDER_USER_SCRIPTS and multiple paths?

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After trying again and again various tests to see what exactly goes on. I found this quirky behavior.

  • Blender’s python distro as invoked from local path ./python.exe is able to get the update from os.environ.

  • In Blender, in the command window, perhaps it would update or not, not 100% about when this occurs.

>>> import os
>>> os.environ['BLENDER_EXTRA_SCRIPTS']

So generally:

  • System restart is definitely needed when blender.exe runs from the Explorer (double click). Is a bit terrible in terms of user experience, but at least if all the paths are set once they won’t need to get updated often.

  • No system restart is needed if blender.exe runs from terminal (eg: Powershell)
    PS D:\programs\graphics\blender> ./blender.exe It will immediately retrieve the updated os.environ, provided that Blender is closed and Powershell is closed as well. Then invoking blender.exe again in the same way. Perhaps not much of a problem, as many developers might start blender.exe from .bat files with prefixed arguments.