Merge pull request #162 from drichardson/fix-102

Use tempfile.gettempdir() instead of script addon directory for temp files

send2ue/addon/__init__.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 bl_info = {
     "name": "Send to Unreal",
     "author": "Epic Games Inc.",
-    "version": (1, 4, 11),   # addon plugin version
+    "version": (1, 4, 12),   # addon plugin version
     "blender": (2, 83, 0),  # minimum blender version
     "location": "Header > Pipeline > Export > Send to Unreal",
     "description": "Sends an asset to the first open Unreal Editor instance on your machine.",

send2ue/addon/functions/export.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import bpy
+import tempfile
 from . import unreal
 from . import utilities
 from . import validations
@@ -37,9 +38,8 @@ def get_fbx_paths(asset_name, asset_type):
 
     if properties.path_mode in ['send_to_unreal', 'both']:
         fbx_paths['unreal'] = os.path.join(
-            bpy.utils.user_resource('SCRIPTS', "addons"),
+            tempfile.gettempdir(),
             properties_window_manger.module_name,
-            'temp',
             f'{get_unreal_asset_name(asset_name, properties)}.fbx'
         )
 
@@ -894,4 +894,4 @@ def send2ue(properties):
                 f'You do not have the correct objects under the "{properties.mesh_collection_name}" or '
                 f'"{properties.rig_collection_name}" collections or your rig does not have any '
                 f'actions to export!'
-            )
+            )

send2ue/addon/functions/utilities.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import os
 import bpy
 import shutil
+import tempfile
 
 
 def get_action_name(action_name, properties):
@@ -203,9 +204,8 @@ def remove_temp_folder():
     """
     properties_window_manger = bpy.context.window_manager.send2ue
     temp_folder = os.path.join(
-        bpy.utils.user_resource('SCRIPTS', "addons"),
-        properties_window_manger.module_name,
-        'temp'
+        tempfile.gettempdir(),
+        properties_window_manger.module_name
     )
     try:
         original_umask = os.umask(0)