1.5.3

• Fix to retarget baking in Blender 3.4 not baking pose bones to rigify armature action.
• Fix to Rigify motion export bone root name.

1.5.2

• Rigify IK-FK influence controls replicated in Rigging panel.
• Fix to material setup error caused by missing normal map data.

1.5.1

• Fix to Generic character export.
• Fix to Generic converted character export.

1.5.0

• Rigify export mesh and/or animation overhaul.
• Smoothing groups added to export file dialog options.
• Support for CC4 Plugin, facial expression and viseme data export.
• Fix to legacy hair detection & scalp detection.
• Very slight subsurface added to scalp to prevent the dark/blueish artifacts on skin.
• Fix to bump maps connecting to normal sockets.
• Eye limbus darkness recalculated.
• Initial attempt at exporting Blender 3.3 Curve hair on characters via Alembic export.

1.5.0

• Rigify export mesh and/or animation overhaul.
• Smoothing groups added to export file dialog options.
• Support for CC4 Plugin, facial expression and viseme data export.
• Fix to legacy hair detection & scalp detection.
• Very slight subsurface added to scalp to prevent the dark/blueish artifacts on skin.
• Fix to bump maps connecting to normal sockets.
• Eye limbus darkness recalculated.
• Initial attempt at exporting Blender 3.3 Curve hair on characters via Alembic export.

1.4.9

• Fix to embedded image correction and image filepath comparisons.
• Fix to basic material texture loading.
• Convert to Accessory function added to Object Management.

1.4.8

• Adding existing RL material to a new character import will copy the material data.

1.4.7

• Match existing materials (for AccuRig imports) button added to Create tab and Rigify info pane.
  • Attempts to assign existing materials to the AccuRig import that match the original export to AccurRig.
  • For a Blender > AccuRig / ActorCore > Blender round trip workflow.
• Eye occlusion (Eevee) color darkened.
• Hair shader (Eevee) Specular blend added (Base surface Specularity -> Anisotropic Specularity)

1.4.7

• Match existing materials (for AccuRig imports) button added to Create tab and Rigify info pane.
  • Attempts to assign existing materials to the AccuRig import that match the original export to AccurRig.
  • For a Blender > AccuRig / ActorCore > Blender round trip workflow.
• Eye occlusion (Eevee) color darkened.
• Hair shader (Eevee) Specular blend added (Base surface Specularity -> Anisotropic Specularity)

1.4.6

• Fix for palm control location with less than 5 fingers.

1.4.5

• Fix for ActorCore / AccuRig import detection.

1.4.4

• Missing bone chains from CC3 rig will hide corresponding control rig bones (e.g. missing fingers)
• Export texture baking no longer duplicates baking on same materials across different objects.
• Export fix to CC3/4 when material name starts with a digit.
• Fix to import/convert of multiple generic GLTF/GLB props or characters.
• Fix to exporting Roughness and Metallic texture strength (should always be 100).

1.4.3

• Export bake maps now correctly sets bit depth and no alpha channel. Opacity texture bakes should work now.
• Convert generic character from objects to props added.
• Auto converts generic imports where possible, when using the import character button.
• Texture and material de-duplication (optional)
• ActorCore rigify accessory fix.
• CC/iC Create tab and panels added.
  • Physics & Object Management moved to CC/iC Create.
  • Multi-res sculpt & bake helper tools panels added.

1.4.2

• Separate Iris & Sclera emission colors for parallax eye shader.
• Displacement calculation reworked as it behaves differently in Blender 3.2.1 (was causing triangulation artifacts)

1.4.1

• Fixes
  • Export T-pose action created correctly when character bind pose is already a T-pose.
  • Tongue subsurface scatter parameter fixes in UI.
  • Hair material UI corrected in Blender 3.2.1 (caused by renamed icon enums)
• Accessory bones now copy to rigify rig.

1.4.1

• Fixes
  • Export T-pose action created correctly when character bind pose is already a T-pose.
  • Tongue subsurface scatter parameter fixes in UI.
  • Hair material UI corrected in Blender 3.2.1 (caused by renamed icon enums)
• Accessory bones now copy to rigify rig.

1.4.0

• Physics JSON changes and additions export.
• Unity T-pose export fix.
• Body Collision Mesh fix.
• Unity export logic fixes.
• Resize weightmap function.
• increment/decrement paint strenth weightmap buttons.
• image path writeback fix.

1.3.9

• Full Json data generation added.
• Rigify Toe IK Stretch Fix for Blender 3.1+
• Convert to Non-standard function.
• Convert from Generic character to Reallusion material based non-standard character.
• Export baking fixes and default PBR export support added.

1.3.8

• UI naming update.
• Repository rename to cc_blender_tools (title CC/iC Blender Tools), old repo links still apply.
• Initial support for exporting any non-standard characters to CC4.
  • Character should be aligned -Y forward, Z up for correct bone translation in CC4.
  • Json data constructed on export to try and reconstruct materials using the CC4 Blender Tools Plugin.
    • Materials must be based on Principled BSDF otherwise only texture name matching is possible.
  • non-standard characters rigged with Auto-Rig Pro will (try to) invoke the ARP export operator (if installed)
    • ARP export operator cleans up the rig and leaves only the relevent deformation bones.
  • Import functions expanded to allow import from FBX, GLTF and VRM for non-standard characters.
    • These are not considered to be CC/iC characters and have no material parameter, rigging or physics options.

1.3.6

• Rigify
  • Finger roll alignment fixed. All fingers now have exactly the same local bend axis.
  • Disables all physics modifiers non-contributing armatures and meshes during retarget baking to speed it up a bit.
• Physics:
  • Low poly (1/8th) Collision Body mesh created from decimating a copy of the Body mesh and removing the eyelashes.
    • Hair would easily get trapped in the eyelashes and a lower poly collision mesh should speed up the cloth simulation.
  • PhysX weight maps normalized, provides a more consistent and controllable simulation across different weight maps.
  • Tweaked some cloth simulation parameters.
  • Smart Hair meshes in particular should simulate better now.
• Unity:
  • Added animation export options (Actions or Strips)

1.3.5

• Fix to shape-key action name matching.

1.3.4

• Rigify Retargeting:
  • GameBase animation retargeting to CC Rigified Rig.
  • (Experimental) Mixamo animation retargeting to CC Rigified Rig.
  • Shape-key animation retargeting from source animation to CC character.
  • Shape-key NLA baking added (optional).
• Materials:
  • Diffuse Color, Hue, Saturation & Brightness parameters for Skin and Hair materials.
• Exporting:
  • Export to CC3 button renamed to Export Morph Target when editing OBJ imports with ObjKey.
  • When Export button is disabled: The reason is displayed under the button.
    • Export button Key check is overridable in the add-on preferences.
• Other Changes:
  • Fix to ActorCore character (ActorCore website download) animation retargeting.
  • Basic face rig generated from full face rig and has the same jaw & eye controls and parameters.
  • Jaw pivot retargeting fixes.
  • Palm bones no longer affect deformation or generate vertex weights.
  • Crash fixes importing characters with very short names.

1.3.3

• CC/iC/ActorCore animation re-targeting to CC Rigified Rig.
  • Preview and Bake functions for re-targeted animations.
  • Arms, Legs, Heel & Height adjustments.
  • Source armature and action selector, filtering by Armature name.
• Animation importer, import multiple animations in one go.
  • Renames actions and armatures to match file names.
  • Optionally removes meshes & materials.
• Bake control rig & re-targeted animations to Unity.
• Export Rigified character to Unity.
• Basic face rig drivers for Eye Look blend shapes. (If character has ExPlus blend shapes)
• GameBase to Rigify support.

1.3.2

• Face rig Automatic Weight failure detection and (some) auto-correction.
• Support for Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning add-on for voxel weight mapping of the face rig.

1.3.1

• Optional two stage Rigify process to allow modifications to the meta-rig.
• Optional basic face rigging.
• Support for ActorCore character Rigging. (Only with basic face rigging)
• Support for G3 character generation, which includes Toon base characters. (i.e. the old CC3 base)
• Support for rigging G3Plus, G3, ActorCore characters exported from iClone. (iClone exports with no bone name prefix)
• Some Control Widget fixes and scaling.
• Better character Generation check on import for exports without JSON data.

1.3.0

• Rigify function added.
  • Character objects are bound to the Rigify control rig.
  • Vertex weights are remapped to Rigify deformation bones.

1.2.2

• Object Management panel
  • All round-trip/Export object management functions moved to this panel.
  • Including checks and clean up.
  • Normalize weights function added.
• Bake/Combine Bump maps into Normal maps function added to Material Parameters panel.
• Highlight shift added to Eevee hair shader.

1.2.1

• Some fixes to exporting additional objects with character.
• Added a 'Check Export' function to identify potential problems with the export.

1.2.0

• Added initial export to Unity project function.
• Round-trip/Unity export additions and fixes.
  • Added baking raw metallic and roughness values into textures, when no textures connected, when exporting.
  • Modifiers removed from eye parts when exporting that prevented exporting blend shapes.
  • Modifiers applied on FBX exports.
  • Armature set to Pose mode on export, otherwise skeleton/bind-pose imports to CC3 incorrectly.
  • Some file path fixes when baking new textures with exports.
• Fixed skin micro-smoothness calculation causing smoothness seams between head and body materials.
• Fixed UI updating wrong unmasked micro smoothness parameter.
• Blender 3.0+ subsurface scattering method set to Christensen-Burley, rather than Random-Walk, which does not work well with hair transparencies.
• Color mixers for actor core/color masked materials prevented from generating negative/zero color values which could affect diffuse lighting.

1.2.0

• Added initial export to Unity project function.
• Round-trip/Unity export additions and fixes.
  • Added baking raw metallic and roughness values into textures, when no textures connected, when exporting.
  • Modifiers removed from eye parts when exporting that prevented exporting blend shapes.
  • Modifiers applied on FBX exports.
  • Armature set to Pose mode on export, otherwise skeleton/bind-pose imports to CC3 incorrectly.
  • Some file path fixes when baking new textures with exports.
• Fixed skin micro-smoothness calculation causing smoothness seams between head and body materials.
• Fixed UI updating wrong unmasked micro smoothness parameter.
• Blender 3.0+ subsurface scattering method set to Christensen-Burley, rather than Random-Walk, which does not work well with hair transparencies.
• Color mixers for actor core/color masked materials prevented from generating negative/zero color values which could affect diffuse lighting.

1.1.9

• Fixed PBR eye material crash.

1.1.8

• Texture Channel Mixer added, primarily for alteration of Actor Core characters with RGB and Color ID masks, but can be used with all CC3 based materials.
• Cycles hair anisotropy reworked.
• Cycles parameter tweaks:
  • Brighter iris settings for SSR eyes.
  • Hair subsurface reduced (May want to turn it off completely, there can be too many artifacts generated in the hair.)
  • Skin subsurface slightly increased.

1.1.7

• Cornea material detection crash fix.

1.1.6

• Baking add-on compatibility update.

1.1.5

• Character and Object operators (Character Settings Panel):
  • Add object to character, with parenting and armature modifier.
  • Convert and add materials to character to use with material parameters and export write back.
  • Transfer body vertex weights to object.
  • Clean up object and material character data.
  • Export back to CC3 will include Texture & Json data for any new objects added with these operators.
• Fix to Subsurface scattering for Blender 3.0 Cycles renders.
• Cycles adjustment settings added to preferences for user fine tuning of subsurface material parameters for Cycles.

1.1.4

• Added more support for exporting from characters with embedded textures.

1.1.3

• Crash fixes for Blender versions 2.83 - 2.91
• (Experimental) Added operators to add new objects to the character data.
  • See Character Settings panel with new object selected.

1.1.2

• Export accessory button no longer locked to character.
• Some import/export folder logic changed to try and cope with project folder & files being moved.
• Added custom texture node baking on export to CC3, including baking bump maps into normal maps on export.
  • If nodes are used to modify (or replace) texture inputs to material shaders, those nodes can be baked into the texture channel on export. This assumes the mesh has a valid UV map.
  • Bump maps can be baked into normal channels. Typically CC3 will only allow Normal maps OR bump maps for a material, not both, so an option has been added to combine them into just the normal map.

1.1.1

• Fix to crash from multiple character imports from iClone.
  • Note: Exporting multiple characters in one Fbx from iClone to Blender is not fully supported.
  • Characters should be exported individually.
  • If multiple characters are detected then a warning pop-up will be displayed.

1.1.0

• Updated export function to generate compatible Fbx file for CC3 re-import with FbxKey and to write back json material parameter and texture information. To be used in tandem with Blender Importer Plugin for CC3 3.44 for full round-trip character editing in Blender.
• Import/Export Interface simplified.
  • If character has Fbxkey then character is setup for editing. (i.e. Shapekeys locked to basis)
  • Otherwise (character is posed or has animation) character is setup for rendering.
  • Only Fbxkey character can be exported back to CC3.
• Optional Json and Texture write back for exports.
• Optional teeth rotation fix that affects some older generated characters when importing back into CC3.
• Bake on export function added to bake custom material nodes connected to master shader's texture map sockets into textures to include when re-importing back into CC3.
• Additional objects can be selected for exporting with the character, but must be properly parented and weighted with an armature modifier. Otherwise CC3 will ignore them.
• Some property and parameter fixes.

1.0.3

• First attempt at a single material parallax eye shader added. Which does not use SSR or transparency and thus can receive full shadows and subsurface scattering in Eevee.