31/May/2024
- Operator Autosmooth (Legacy): Error Message typo
27/May/2024
- Operator Autosmooth no longer crashes in Edit Mode.
21/May/2024
- Operator Ge Curve Length prints the lenth of the first spline in the active curve object.
- Resource ARC Toon Matcap.
- Theme Armored Colony (also available from the Load Theme button in the addon preferences) was updated for Blender 4.1 (probably not ideal for older versions anymore).
- Theme Candy Orange changed somehow. I cannot remember what I changed.
- Operator Autosmooth now works in Blender 4.1 (it only adds the NEW Smooth by Angle modifier). The previous Operator still exists but is now named Autosmooth (Legacy) for older Blender versions.
- Operator Classic Mirror no longer throws a context override error in Blender 4.1.
- Operator Lattice Deform was creating a lattice of incorrect size in Blender 4.1 (the old depsgraph method does not work anymore).
- Operator Primitives no longer has HUD drawing issues, which were caused by how the
gpu_extrasmodule was being imported. - Addon Preferences Load Theme now enables the Theme Resources so you can always switch away and back to the Armored Colony Theme without having to click the load button again.
- Preferences URL Buttons had an outdated Artstation URL.
24/Nov/2023
- Operator Fast Crease stopped working in Blender 4.0 (they changed how creasing works again).
18/Nov/2023
- Certain Operators were not drawing in the viewport in Blender 4.0 because of the phased-out
dpiparameter in theblf.sizecommand.
17/Aug/2023
- Console error when starting Blender.
bpy.utilshas no Attributepreviews. Fixed by explicitly importing withbpy.utils.previews.
17/Aug/2023
- Some internal variable names and the like.
04/Aug/2023
- Operator Circle (Modal).
- Preferences Load Theme button now sets the sculpting workspace matcap to 'ARC Default', the same matcap I use in ZBrush (mostly neutral but with a slight blue tint).
- Operator Single Vert now enters edit mode and selects the vertex after creating it.
22/Jul/2023
- Operator Connect now remembers your previous settings (cuts and spacing) and allows for presets.
- Operator Control Loops no longer selects hard edges by default.
- Operator Primitives would print modal events in the console.
- Operator Primitives no longer uses the deprecated BGL module.
- Operator Increase Subdivision Levsls would set new SUBSURF modifiers to level 2 instead of 1.
20/Jul/2023
- Operator Fast Material (alpha) assigns the first material in the active object to all selected objects.
- Operator Rename Data Matches the data name to the object name for all selected objects. (basically
OBJECT.data.name = OBJECT.name).
- Operator Rename is now called Rename Objects.
- Operator Muscle Rig now considers the largest object to be the final parent if the active object is not part of the selection. It also works on multi-object selections.
- Operator Render now looks for a default path set in the addon's preferences (
render_path). - Operator Export OBJ and Export FBX now look for a default path set in the addon's preferences (
export_path).
- Operator Muscle Rig (a subset of the lattice_deform.py script) was placing the empty controllers in the wrong location.
- Operator Transfer Data was not renaming the data to match the object name consistently.
12/Jun/2023
- Registration errors if the Looptools addon and the Armored-Toolkit were enabled at the same time.
01/Apr/2023
- UI Buttons Align Objects to the snapping menu in the VIEW3D header. Aligns selected objects to the active object in the X, Y or Z axis.
- Operator Circle Deform creates a curve circle deformer for the selected objects with the correct size and orientation
- Operator Rename batch renames the selected objects by their dimensions (default), vertex count or creation order.
- Operator Filter Objects with Ngons/Triangles/Non-Quads deselects any objects that do not match the specified criteria.
- Operator Remove Modifiers removes specific modifiers from the selected objects (by type, name or all).
- Operator Camera from View creates a camera based on the current view.
- Operator Rename renames the object selected in the viewport.
- Operator Render renders all, the selected or the active scene camera to a specified location without opening the render window.
- Operator Filter Objects by Sides will deselect any objects that do not match the specified filter (ngons, triangles or non-quads).
- Operators Lattice Deform, Curve Deform and Circle Deform will no longer be parented to anything by default.
- Operator Classic Mirror: if the last modifier in the stack is a SUBSURF type, the mirror modifier will move up one position (keeping the SUBRURF last).
- Operator Subdivide: I did something to it, don't remember what.
- Operator Transfer Data renames the object data to match the object name.
- Preferences: made EEVEE AO and SSR a little stronger.
10/Jan/2023
- Operator Control Loops uses the bevel tool to create control loops for subdivision surfaces.
- Operator Cursor to Selected: move the cursor to the selected element and rotate it to match its normal.
- Operator Clear Location will automatically switch between the active center or the selection bounds center (can still be overriden in the redo panel).
- Operator Curve Deform was not placing the curve correctly in the Z (vertical) axis.
09/Dec/2022
- Operator Curve Deform: create an automatically sized curve deformer and assign it to all selected objects.
- Operator Classic Mirror now uses default merge and bisect thresholds.
08/Dec/2022
- Addon Preferences Load Preferences loads a few more prefences than before (check tooltip).
- Addon Preferences Load Theme now loads a Matcap and HDRI that matches the Armored Colony Theme.
04/Dec/2022
- Operator Transfer Data: 'Duplicate the
object.dataof the active object to all selected objects and optionally turn them into linked duplicates.
- Operator Vitaly Poke is more accurate. Also works with multi-object editing.
- Operator Lattice panel properties got renamed/reordered to be more intuitive.
- Operator Primitives got rewritten for future expandability. Also supports scaling inside the modal and toggling between CURSOR/WORLD alignment when creating the greometry.
- Operator Clear Location was NOT keeping the relative positions between objects when the property
as_group(now calledkeep_relative) was enabled. - Operator Muscle Rig was NOT placing the Empty Controllers at the right location. The
matrix_worldmultiplication order was incorrect. - Operator Delete Mirrored would sometimes crash at the poll method.
- Operator Focus would NOT run in Node editors because
NODE_EDITORis not a context mode you can poll, duuuuh. - Preferences Load Armored Colony Theme now loads my latest theme (someone said it looked like Maya and XSI had a baby).
18/Nov/2022
- Operator Clear Location: Similar to Blender's clear location (ALT G), but this version can optionally keep the relative locations between the selected objects and move them as a group to world zero.
- Operator Delete Mirrored would crash if you ran the script with a selection and tried transforming that selection afterwards. Fixed by adding
bm.select_flush_mode(). - Operator Select Hard Edges:
edge_anglepropertry no longer goes to negative values.
- Operators Classic Mirror and Delete Mirrored have smaller default thresholds
0.0001 m.
17/Nov/2022
- Operator Delete Mirrored would always delete geometry based on the object's origin, even when the mirror modifier had a different object plugged into
mirror_object.
15/Nov/2022
- Operators Increase/Decrease SubD Mod Level will now only adjust the subdivision level without changing any other settings like
use_limit_surfaceorquality.
14/Nov/2022
- Renamed Subdivision Set to Fast Subdivision.
- Operator Fast Subdivision now defaults to
use_limit_surface = Trueandquality = 1. The potential performance boost isn't as great as disabling it entirely but its more consistent. Setting it toFalsecould actually lower performance significantly in some situations (SubD level 3 and above with my typical mesh resolutions would become slower).
- Broken Keymap PFD buttom in the addon preferences. The file had been removed by accident.
03/Nov/2022
- Operator Hide: A hide toggle. When called on selected objects it will hide normally, if called again (and your selection did not change) it will unhide the previously hidden objects.
- Operator Mask from Selected: Creates a sculpt mask from vertices selected in Edit Mode.
- Operator Set Brush: Lets you create hotkey brush presets (if you make an 'hPolish' brush, you can hotkey it through Blender's Keymap Editor)
- File ARMORED_export.py: Will now house multiple export Operators.
- Operator Lattice: Lattice deformer rotation now matches the Active Object's rotation by default (optional).
- Operator Fast Crease: Increased functionality thanks to
bmesh, such as creasing without changing your selection or creasing all by angle. - Operator Focus: Split into individual Operators for different contexts (makes it easier to hotkey from the search menu).
- Operator Classic Mirror: Now defaults to mirroring in the X axis only.
- File SubD View in Edit: Apparently I added a bunch of empty space to the code for no reason, that seems to be it.
- Operator Subdivision Set :
use_limit_surfacenow defaults toFalse, for way faster subdivisions at the expense of accuracy.
- Operator Center Vertices: Did not work correctly if the object's origin was not at the world origin.
- Operator Compare: uses
bl_rna.identifier == 'Collection'instead of creating a new collection type property.
- Operator Export FBX: Now part of multiple Operators in the ARMORED_export.py file.
08/Sep/2022
- Operator Fast Crease: would sometimes think nothing was selected because it was using outdated object data.
07/Sep/2022
- Operator Select by Trait: The pop up will now appear even when nothing was found/selected (so you can be sure its working).
- Operator Silhouette: now saves ALL your current viewport settings to a JSON file before modifying them to mimic a silhouette mode. Running the operator again will read that file and restore your viewport to the exact same settings.
- Operator Fast Crease: now works with vertex creasing.
- Operator Subdivision Set: now disables
use_limit_surfaceby default when applying the SUBSURF modifier (faster but less accurate)..
- Operator Lattice: sanity fix (replaced one instance of
bpy.contextforcontext). Realistically, there was no need for this change since it does not affect anything.
30/Ago/2022
- Operator Muscle Rig: Now allows changing lattice resolution similar to the Lattice Operator.
30/Ago/2022
- Operator Muscle Rig (bundled with Lattice script): Creates a lattice around your selection and hooks the control points to 3 Empties aligned vertically. Made to be used with vertical cyber muscle kitbash.
- Operator Lattice: Now works with multiple selections.
- Operator Remesh: Blender Voxel Remesh can now preserve vertex colors natively. This script is relegated to simply enabling it.
- Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- I'm too lazy today, they're inconsequential anyway.
03/Jun/2022
- Resources: Another studio HDRI I really like.
- Operator Lattice:
scale_offsetproperty is now a vector so each dimension can be adjusted independently. - Operator Single Subdivision Level was renamed to Adjust Subdivision Level
- Operator Adjust Subdivision Level will no longer add a new Subsurf Modifier if an existing disabled/invisible one is found.
- Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- I'm too lazy today, they're inconsequential anyway.
- Operator Primitives: modal primitives no longer crash in Blender 3.2
09/May/2022
- Keymap Override Wireframe Selected (EXPERIMENTAL): displays the wireframe for any object you select, similar to other DCCs.
05/May/2022
- Theme Candy Neutral: gray background, white UI and red selections. Works well with black, gray and white matcaps.
- Operator Classic Mirror: creates a mirror modifier with my usual settings. If the modifier already exists, it duplicates and applies it.
- Operator Flatten: now includes a flatten to AVERAGE mode (the new default).
- Operator Toggle Tool: can now specify the fallback tool (the tool that runs when the gizmo is active but you don't click on it directly) (defaults to
builtin.select_boxwhich is my personal preference). - Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- + [CTRL][ALT][X] for Classic Mirror operator.
- + [ALT][F] activates
mesh.f2operator.
- Operators Duplicate and Extract no longer activate the move tool automatically.
27/Apr/2022
- Operators Select Ngons/Triangles/Non-Quads: all individual operators, which will select the specified polygons and open an error window if any are found (error window helps when selected polygons are too small or just hard to see).
- Operator Circularize: extracted (copy pasted) the Make Circle operator from the LoopTools addon (only thing I used from it).
- Operator Delete Mirrored: deletes unnecessary geometry that's already being generated by the mirror modifier.
- Operator Symmetrize: similar to Blender's but it symmetrizes all the geometry regardless of your selection.
- Operator Smart Delete: deletes components based on your selection mode (vertex, edge, face) without aditional menus.
- Operator Flatten: flattens your selection to the nearest axis or the active face.
- Operator Single Subdivision Level was split and renamed to Increase SubD mod level and Decrease SubD mod level and drawn menus were removed since the operators can be searched and hotkeyed individually now..
- Operators Increase SubD mod level and Decrease SubD mod level: no longer affect render levels or generate undo history (no more Redo panel).
- Operator Subdivision Set: no longer generates Undo history (no more Redo panel).
- Operator Lattice: added the option of clearning all mesh transforms before applying the lattice.
- Operator Vitaly Poke: added an extra option Deselect Corners which allows deselecting only the corner triangles instead of all triangles.
- Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- + [CTRL][ALT][X] to Symmetrize in X.
- + [CTRL][ALT][F] to Flatten Selection.
- − [CTRL][ALT] [X]/[Y]/[Z] to set vertex positions to world center X, Y and Z (wasn't using them).
- Operator Autosmooth: now works without toggling between object and edit mode under the hood (should be faster when the selected objects have slow modifiers).
- Operator Lattice: now works even if the mesh origin is offset (positioned at bounding box center by default).
- Operator Focus: removed a leftover debug print.
- Operator Single Subdivision Level: raised an exception when the active object was not part of the selection.
- Operator Open Most Recent: now removes the file from the recent files list if it doesn't exist (SOMETIMES?!).
11/Apr/2022
- Operator Toggle Overlays: Toggles the visibility of Overlays AND Gizmos.
- Keymap Override Transform with Gizmos: Pressing [G][S] or [R] activates the Gizmo version of the Move, Scale and Rotate Tools'
- Some extra primitives have been replaced with modals so you can adjust their segments (when applicable) with the scroll wheel.
- New Lambert like matcap from NVil but it's a little harsh sometimes.
- Operator Isolate Cycle was renamed to Compare.
- Operator Focus now works with more than one object in Edit mode.
- Operator Compare now works with collections inside other collections.
- Operator Switch Color Modes sometimes threw an error when searched from a window that was not part of the
VIEW3Darea. - Loopcut Keymap Exception: "... has no attribute
release_confirm".
- Some deprecated operators that were not even visible to users from within blender anymore (Select Through was among them); if I ever want that operator back I need to put more thought into it (hard-coded keymaps were a bad idea).
25/Mar/2022
- Operator Switch Color Modes: Switches back and forth between two viewport color modes (Vertex color and Object color by default).
- ZBrush Sculpting keymaps: Vertex Paint Mode now shares hotkeys with Sculpt mode, such as changing brush size with [S] with
release_confirmenabled, isolating with [TAB] and focusing with [F].- + [V] to Switch Color Modes.
- + [ALT][V] to Toggle Silhouette mode.
- Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- + [V] to Switch Color Modes.
(20/Mar/2022)
- PDF Keymap List in the Addon Preferences
- Transform with Gizmos keymaps:
- + [G] to activate the Move Tool (this override used to only work for the Scale and Rotate tools but now affects all three).
- Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- − [CTRL][R] to rest on ground in Edit Mode.
- − [ALT][SHIFT][DOUBLE_LMB] to select linked toggle (it conflicted with Blender's loop selection or something.)
- Video link buttons for the Keymap Overrides --at least until I have actual videos I can link to.
(11/Mar/2022)
- Operator Focus now has a dedicated operator for Edit Mode, which fixes some keymap priority issues with binding to [F].
- Sculpting Setup keymap override is renamed to ZBrush Sculpting an is focused on emulating my ZBrush hotkeys). Added some extra keymaps to achieve this (navigation not included):
- + [S] to change brush size.
- + [SHIFT][S] to change brush intensity.
- + [Q] to switch active object (subtool).
- + Double [Q] to switch active object and then frame it.
- + [SHIFT][F] to toggle wireframe.
- + [TAB] enters local view instead of switching to edit mode.
(10/Mar/2022)
- Operator Remesh (Sculpt Mode): Same as regular voxel remesh but with vertex color preservation.
- [CTRL][R] keymap for the new remesh operator.
- Operator Isolate Cycle (Outliner): based on your outliner selections, isolate 1 object and cycle to the next/previous one using the SCROll wheel. Also works with entire collections.
- Operator Scale Unmasked (Sculpt Mode) is a macro than sets pivot to unmasked (while in sculpt mode) and activates the default modal resize operator.
- Operator Node Stats (Geometry Nodes Workspace): prints node information: name, type, inputs, outputs, etc.
- Armored Focus now used in sculpt mode too. While hovering the mesh, runs
view3d.view_center_pick; while hovering empty canvas space, runsview3d.view_all, - Operator Shortcuts keymaps:
- + Local view (isolate) keymaps now have
frame_selectedset to False.
- + Local view (isolate) keymaps now have
- Sculpting Setup keymaps:
- + [S] to scale.
- + [F] to focus).
- + Brush scale and Brush intensity now have
release_confirmenabled. - + Probably other stuff.
- − [D] to switch objects.
- − [*] trivial stuff I never used.
- Toggle Cavity now reports the current cavity mode when toggled on.
- Fixed some descriptions and class names.
- Open Most Recent [SHIFT][ALT][R] works in more windows and not just the 3DVIEW.
handler.load_post.remove(...)was commented out fromsystem.unregisterfor so reason. It's now enabled again.
- Operator Smart Loopcut (replaced with a keymap to the original Loopcut with
release_confirmenabled)
(29/Nov/2021)
- Operator Delete and Grid Fill combines Delete Faces and Fill Grid into a single operator. This new operator appears in the [X] (delete) panel automatically.
- TAB History is now exposed to users in the addon preferences
- HDRIS, Studio Lights, and Themes to the resources you can install along with MATCAPS.
- Keymap Override Allow Gizmo Click. Activate gizmos the instance you click on them instead of waiting for a [MOUSEDRAG] event.
- [D] keymap for switching objects in sculpt mode.
- [F] keymap for sculpt mode with confirm on release Enabled.
- [SHIFT][F] keymap for sculpt mode with confirm on release Enabled.
- Maya Cube primitive is now a modal and allows adding segments with [MOUSESCROLL].
- Armored Focus is now bound to the F key again when Operator Keymaps are enabled.
- Armored Focus operator was simplified and performance was increased.
- [ALT+E] now activates Extrude along normals when Operator Keymaps are enabled instead of displaying the extrude menu.
- Updated the Armored Colony theme preset to be more consistent (red UI highlights have black text whenever possible).
- Added, Polished and even Removed a poop ton of addon code.
(16/Jul/2021)
- Keymap Override: Focus with F creates all the necessary keymaps 'fit view to selection' can also be done with F and not just NUMPAD_PERIOD (works for most of the main spaces such as Viewport, Outliner, Geometry Nodes, etc).
- Operator: Set Custom Orientation creates a temporaty orientation based on your selection, running the script from an empty area of the viewport goes back to Global pivot orientation (bound to D if Operator Shurtcuts is enabled).
- Operator: Toggle Transform now goes back to the previous tool instead of defaulting to Box Select.
- Operator: Toggle Transform (renamed to Toggle) now toggles any tool with the input idname when creating a custom KMI.
- Customize: System preferences now load once with a button instead of being a toggle, preventing my preferences from overriding the user's preferences un.expectedly.
- All properties in the addon preferences have more detailed descriptions of what they do/enable--but no video links yet--.
- Plus some minor operator edits I can't recall.
load_postevents being managed incorrectly caused some user preferences to reset unexpectedly.
(06/Jul/2021)
- BUGFIX: Addon was deleting default blender matcaps LMAO, but only with certain custom builds (99.99% of users were unnafected).
(04/Jul/2021)
- BUGFIX: Resource paths were NOT being created when needed, preventing the addon from being enabled.
(03/Jul/2021)
- FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE.