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2.0.7

• Attempts to restore datalink when reloading linked blend file.
• All returning datalink operators will attempt to first reconnect if not connected.
• Facial expressions included in datalink send pose and sequence. (But not visemes)
  • Currently certain expression bone movements are conflicting with existing bone movements.
  • You may wish to avoid the Head_Turn expressions as a consequence.
• Character Proportion editing mode added to CC/iC Create panels.
• Spring bone hair binding will add an armature modifier for the hair object if absent, to allow binding for newly created hair mashes.
• Scale body weights now acts on the normalized existing hair weights.

2.0.6

• Restored Rigify retarget limb correction utilities.
• Fix to Blender 4.1 import crash caused by 4.1 removing auto-smoothed normals.

2.0.5c

• Fix to converting generic objects to props.
• Fix to baking value textures back to CC4 when exporting converted props and humanoids.
• Datalink data send rate synchronization improvements.
• Rigify retarget and NLA bake options to bake to FK/IK/Both.
  • Rig FK/IK mode set appropriately, unchanged when baking to 'Both'.
• Quick FK/IK switch button added to rigify mini-panel.
• Send Rigified pose or sequence fix.
• Rigify Jaw alignment changed to -Z.

2.0.4

• Linking/Appending:
  • Added linking/append functions to auto-link to characters in blend files with full character data and functionality.
  • Added connect function to re-build character data for linked/appended characters.
  • Added custom properties to armatures/meshes and materials to aid re-connection of character data.
  • Rebuilding materials will add this custom data to existing characters.
  • Auto-linked/Re-connected characters can use full add-on functionality i.e. rigging, retargeting, exporting, rebuilding materials, etc...
• Rigify:
  • Datalink pose retargeting teeth position fix.
  • Eye bone and jaw bone alignments corrected.
  • Face rig jaw constraints adjusted for less lip deformation.
• Parallax eye shader AO fix.
• Basic materials SSS fixes.
• Importing a bad or incompatible mesh should fail more gracefully.

2.0.3

• Datalink:
  • Lighting and Camera sync.
  • Send Character (Go-CC) back to CC4.
  • Facial expressions and Visemes transferred in the pose and animation sequencing.
  • Animation sequence now writes to rig and shape-key action tracks directly using low level fast keyframing, all at once at the end. Which is much faster, for both native rig and Rigify rig.
  • Sequence rate matching so CC4 doesn't get too far ahead of itself.
  • Supports Morph editing and mesh updating for sending back morph OBJ for automatic morph slider creation in CC4.
• Subsurface Recalculations (you may need to reset the preferences in the add-on prefs)
• Export of Hue, Sat, Brightness params to CC4.
• Fixed SSS material detection.
• Fixed ActorBuild generation detection and export.
• HIK and facial profiles copied with character export (if generated by CC4)
• OBJ import/export fix for Blender 4.0.
• OBJ import now supports full materials.
• Fixed T-pose orientation when exporting Rigified animation.

2.0.2

• Correction to malformed json texture paths when exporting character from CC4 directly to the root of a drive.
• Disabled image search on FBX importer, should import a little faster now.

2.0.1

• VRM import fixes.
  • VRM to CC4 export generates HIK profile for auto characterization.
• Rigify fixes:
  • Face bone roll axis corrections.
  • Tongue bone meta-rig positioning corrections.
  • Teeth bone retargeting corrections.

2.0.1

• VRM import fixes.
  • VRM to CC4 export generates HIK profile for auto characterization.
• Rigify fixes:
  • Face bone roll axis corrections.
  • Tongue bone meta-rig positioning corrections.
  • Teeth bone retargeting corrections.

2.0.0

• Blender 4.0 support.
• WIP Experimental Data Link added:
  • Currently in alpha stages, more a proof of concept at the moment.
• Bake add-on updated and merged into this project.

1.6.1

• Object Management:
  • Generic material conversion better detects AO maps in Blender 3+
  • Transfer vertex weights with posed armature fix.
  • Empty transform hierarchy to Prop conversion puts bones in the right correct places.
• Exporting rigified animations with parented armatures now excludes those armatures from export.

1.6.0.4

• Fixed bake rigify retarget not assigning action to rig after baking
• Removes facial expression bone drivers on Rigifying (caused cyclic dependencies)
• Re-importing/rebuilding materials on a character will reload any texture images that are being re-used from existing or previous imports, just in case they have been changed on disk.
  • Except when the image has been modified by the user and has not yet been saved.
• NLA Bake fix.
• Fix Generic character import.
• Spring rig panels show if character is invalid for spring rigging.
• Expression drivers for bones only apply to CC4 Ext and Std profiles
• Bone drivers for direct visemes Ah and Oh added.
• Viseme bone drivers now excluded when Jaw drivers are disabled.
• Export Rigified motion and Unity T-Pose generation fix.

1.6.0

• Rigifying character keeps meta-rig and allows for Re-Rigifying the control rig from the meta-rig.
  • Useful for re-aligning bones, re-positioning face rig, etc...
• First draft of (optional) Dual Specular skin shader (Eevee & Cycles) with specular micro details.
• Added build options to generate drivers for Jaw, Eyes and Head bones from facial expression shape keys.
• Added build option to generate drivers for all expression shape keys driven from the body mesh shape keys.
  • Which means only the expressions on the body mesh need to be updated/animated.
• Fix to turn off vertex colours in hair materials when hair mesh has blank vertex colour data (i.e. all zero).
• Facial Expression shape key value range expanded to -1.5 - 1.5 (except for eye look shape keys)
• Characters exported with Mouth Open as Morph, now correctly detects the body mesh.
• Fix to support sphere colliders in collisions shapes.
• Some additional lighting arrangements: Authority and Blur Warm.

1.6.0.3

• Fixed bake rigify retarget not assigning action to rig after baking
• Removes facial expression bone drivers on Rigifying (caused cyclic dependencies)
• Re-importing/rebuilding materials on a character will reload any texture images that are being re-used from existing or previous imports, just in case they have been changed on disk.
  • Except when the image has been modified by the user and has not yet been saved.
• NLA Bake fix.
• Fix Generic character import.
• Spring rig panels show if character is invalid for spring rigging.
• Expression drivers for bones only apply to CC4 Ext and Std profiles
• Bone drivers for direct visemes Ah and Oh added.
• Viseme bone drivers now excluded when Jaw drivers are disabled.

1.6.0

• Rigifying character keeps meta-rig and allows for Re-Rigifying the control rig from the meta-rig.
  • Useful for re-aligning bones, re-positioning face rig, etc...
• First draft of (optional) Dual Specular skin shader (Eevee & Cycles) with specular micro details.
• Added build options to generate drivers for Jaw, Eyes and Head bones from facial expression shape keys.
• Added build option to generate drivers for all expression shape keys driven from the body mesh shape keys.
  • Which means only the expressions on the body mesh need to be updated/animated.
• Fix to turn off vertex colours in hair materials when hair mesh has blank vertex colour data (i.e. all zero).
• Facial Expression shape key value range expanded to -1.5 - 1.5 (except for eye look shape keys)
• Characters exported with Mouth Open as Morph, now correctly detects the body mesh.
• Fix to support sphere colliders in collisions shapes.
• Some additional lighting arrangements: Authority and Blur Warm.