Cats Blender Plugin Versions Save

See update 0.13.1 for changelog

• Optimization:

  • Added new "Convert Textures to PNG" button
    • This converts all texture files into PNG files
    • This helps with transparency and compatibility issues
    • The converted image files will be saved next to the old ones

• Model:

  • Made SSBU models compatible

• Exporter:

  • No longer warns of meshes that could be split by Unity
  • Instead warns when having more than 70k tris
  • Now warns at 10 materials instead of 4, will be changed back when more nuanced warnings are in place

• Decimation:

  • Changed default decimation value to 70,000 tris

• General:

  • Fixed corrupted meshes breaking nearly all Cats features
  • Added automatic fixing of faulty Cats installations
    • Restart Cats if it doesn't show up after updating
  • Rewrote the entire updater
  • Added some Blender 2.8 compatibility fixes
  • Updated mmd_tools

• General:
  • Fixed an error removing the whole Cats UI
  • Fixed an error on Fix Model and other various buttons
  • Stopping Pose Mode in Blender 2.8 now selects the Box Selection tool instead of the 3D Cursor
  • Updated mmd_tools (improved 2.8 materials)

• Model:

  • Made VRoid (.vrm) models compatible
  • Made Koikatsu (.pmx) models compatible
  • Pose to Shapekey and Apply as Rest Pose no longer require you to have the armature selected
  • Pose to Shapekey now asks for a shapekey name first
  • Added separate buttons to enable and disable the Full Body tracking fix
  • Improved Export button warnings
  • Pose Mode now always makes the armature selectable
  • Fixed meshes being deleted when a different layer than 0 was visible
  • Fixed all bones being deleted on .dae models

• Model Options:

  • Put some model options under a new "Show More Options" button
  • Added "Merge Weights To Active" button
  • Added "Duplicate Bones" button
  • Join Meshes now removes subsurface modifiers and applies mirror modifiers

• Custom Model Creation:

  • Attach Mesh and Merge Armatures no longer remove the full body tracking fix

• Importer:

  • Added VRM Importer
    • Open the import menu to see the VRM button
    • If its not installed it will provide you with a download link
  • XNALara no longer randomly colorizes meshes
    • This makes combining materials much easier

• Translations:

  • Locally stored Google translations no longer get deleted after 30 days
  • Added a button to the settings menu to manually delete all local Google translations

• Eye Tracking:

  • Eyes will no longer be created in weird spots when the weight paint is off (thanks to zaCade for finding the cause of this!)
  • Fixed "Reset Rotation" sometimes not resetting the rotation

• Visemes:

  • Selecting the "Basis" shapekey is no longer allowed

• Optimization:

  • Added support for Material Combiner 2.0

• Shapekeys:

  • Fixed a bug in "Apply Selected Shapekey as Basis"

• Updater:

  • The settings and locally stored Google translations no longer get reset during a CATS update

• General:

  • Updated CATS to Blender 2.8
    • It is still compatible to Blender 2.79 and will stay compatible
    • "Combine Materials", "Create Atlas" and "Custom Model Creation" is not yet working in 2.8
    • If you have any issues with Cats in 2.8, please let us know!
  • Updated mmd_tools (for 2.8 compatibility)
  • Huge UI codebase cleanup
  • Loads of bug fixes

• General:
  • Fixed showing the wrong version number in CATS

• Translations:
  • Fixed translations breaking due to a Google Translate API change (Thanks BlueLament for the fix!)
• Custom Model Creation:
  • Fixed Attach Mesh throwing an error when the mesh has no vertex groups

• Model:
  • Fix: Joints and Rigidbodies now get deleted correctly

• Export:

  • Embed Textures is not longer enabled by default, but can now be enabled in the settings

• Settings and Updates:

  • Renamed "Updater" panel to "Settings & Updates"
  • Added setting to embed textures on export
    • Settings are saved into a local settings file
    • Issue: Settings get reset with every CATS update currently
  • This panel now shows the current CATS version

• Translations:

  • Added a warning when you are temporarily IP banned by Google Translate

• Eye Tracking:

  • Wink Right shape keys are now detected more reliably

• General:

  • Cats no longer unhides everything whenever it does something, it only unhides the current model
    • This helps a lot when working with multiple models