ShadTools Blender Add-On

Made for Blender version 2.93 and newer (4.2 LTS)
*Designed on Windows OS, some pathing features won't work on Mac or Linux.

Various tools personally built to assist with the creation of 3D avatars and assets

File

• Open Source Folder
  • Simply opens Blender file source location in file explorer
• Compile and Zip
  • Saves and compress the Blender file with all images assigned in texture nodes (in all materials)

  

Textures

• Auto Save All Images
  • Triggers "Save All Images" every 2 minutes, which is only if Blender detects an in-app change to the texture
    Helpful for those who hand-paint textures, and forget to Alt+S before switching
• Copy Textures To Path
  • Copy and overwrite images assigned in texture nodes to a path
    Helpful to quickly send updates to a Unity texture folder

  

Shapekeys

• Update Same Named Keys
  • All objects with the same named shape keys will update the active value
    Helpful to test various shape combinations before joining objects

• Copy & Mirror Key
  • Copy and Mirror selected key, and rename (_L/_R) respectively
    ex. Eye_L_Blink, will be copied, mirrored, and named "Eye_R_Blink"
• Reset All Keys
  • Set all shape keys for all objects back to zero

Edit

• Select All -X Verts
  • One-click action instead of selecting center vert, using side of active, and inverse...
• Select Non-Mirrored Verts
  • Select lost -X mirrored verts out of Blender mirror float tolerance (-e-6 or 0.000001)
• Select Close Mirrored Verts
  • Using "Tolerance" value, select verts that are within the mirror repair tolerance
• Fix Close Mirrored Verts
  • Using "Tolerance" value, repair verts on negative X that are compared from positive X within the tolerance value
    Helpful if you decide to sculpt on basis and need to repair verts that lost mirror
• Fix Close Centered Verts
  • Using "Tolerance" value, center any verts on X that are within the tolerance value
    Helpful to make sure center verts are zero
  
  

  

Bones

• Rename Unity to SFM
  • Rename commonly named bone structure to SFM standard
    ex. "Arm_L" or "Left Arm" (not case-sensitive) will be renamed to "bip_upperArm_L", etc.
• Rename SFM to Unity
  • Rename SFM standard to (my own personal naming structure for) Unity common bone structure
    ex. "bip_foot_R" will be renamed to "Ankle_R", etc.
• Set Selected X coord to Zero
  • Set selected bones that are not perfectly X centered to zero
    Helpful for quickly fixing Unity's auto humanoid structure

Vertex Groups

• Copy & Mirror Group
  • Copy and mirror selected group, and rename (_L/_R) respectively
    Helpful when you forget to apply mirror modify and/or forget to use X mirror symmetry while weight painting

Install Instructions

1. Edit > Preferences > Add-Ons > Install...
2. Browse to ShadTools.zip (Do not unzip the file!)
3. Check the box next to the addon to enable it(If updating, disable/enable toggle the addon, check the version)

ChangeLog

• 1.0.1 - Fixed Bone renaming being case sensitive for SFM and using wrong leftover list for Unity
• 1.0.2 - Added button "Fix Close Centered Verts", spitting after "Fix Close Mirrored Verts" which was centering on X zero within tolerance, fixing unintended situations
• 1.0.3 - Added Reset All Keys button, fixed issue with copy & mirror not when _R (right) side is selected
• 1.0.4 - Fixed register naming issue that can conflict with other add-ons ("my_tool" to "shadtools"), compiled script to init file and into a zip.
• 1.1.0 - Greatly improved responsiveness for "Update Same Named Keys"
• 1.1.1 - Fixed textures not properly compressing with Compile and Zip for Blender 4.2

If you have any issues let me know on Discord or Twitter
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shadsterwolf
Discord: Shadsterwolf