Setting Up VSCode To Use As IDE With Blender In Linux - Blender Python Scripting

One of the trickiest things to get sorted is an IDE. It definitely isn't required, however, it makes your life a whole lot easier.

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Welcome to part 2 of this series, In this part, we are going to install an IDE (Integrated development environment) to work alongside Blender. - in this case VSCode.

This is the Windows version of this video, so if you are using MacOS or Linux, I have dedicated videos for both of those:

[flolu]

You are a legend! I wrote Blender addons without intellisense for months :D
Thanks for the effort you put into this series!!

[chepecarlo]

Thanks for the video :D did not know that there was a plugin for code

[DeeFanatic]

How do you assign a hotkey to a script ? Basically, I want to run a specific script with a specific hotkey. Similar to what you can do in C4D.

[neilmarshall]

Hi. Do get this properly into the Automating Blender playlist. Atm you have the Mac VSCode set up twice. Thanks....

[roberth]

Nice tutorial that does explain how to make different tools, programs and plugins work together in Linux.
Though, you are not using the Blender extension that you installed (from Jacques Lucke).

In VSCode: F1 -> Blender: Build and Start -> For Flatpaks that should produce the following error message:
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> could not install debugpy
-> possible Solution:
I only was able to install it by manually running what VSCode does: --python

Also its nice to note how to bring up the console in Linux, since there is no Window-> Open Console entry:
- Just open a terminal and start the snap or flatpak (probably need to search for the appropriate path here)
-> Solution: I found mine at