Can't find the plugin folder

[Cardinal]

Hello,

I'm using version 3.3 on Windows 7. I have looked for the following path :
C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\eTeks\Sweet Home 3D\plugins

but under the Sweet Home 3D folder I have two other folders "work" and "recovery" along with "preferences.xml" and nothing for plugins.

Thanks for your help.

[Puybaret]

plugins folder is created if needed when the user installs a plug-in (the same behavior applies to furniture, textures and languages folders where sh3f, sh3t and sh3l files are stored). You can create it yourself if you want to.

[Cardinal]

Thanks for your answer Puybaret.
I created the plugins folder and put a test plugin I wrote (a JAR file), but it's not read by SH3D when I run it. So I downloaded some plugin to double check and it worked. However, that plugin had a ".sh3p" extension. What's the diffrenece between a JAR plugin and a .sh3p plugin and how do I make one?

Thanks.

[Cardinal]

I also tried to test with the VolumePlugin from the tutorial to make sure I get everything right, but in the PluginAction.execute() method eclipse can not resolve the call to getHome(). And indeed I couldn't see where that method is declared?

Thanks in advance.

[Cardinal]

Ah, it's an inner class. Sorry.

[Cardinal]

I finished creating the VolumePlugin, exported to JAR, changed extension to sh3p and run. I got the message saying the plugin will work in the next run but there's nothing new in the menu

[Cardinal]

I solved the problem. I was exporting with the wrong options. Sorry for spamming.

[Puybaret]

Great you found out! [:)]