CC/iC Blender Tools 1.6.0

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.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.8.5

• Fixes:
  • Fix to empty transforms or deleted objects in export.
  • Fix to transfer vertex weights leaving working copies behind.
  • Some object management UI corrections.
  • Fix to bake path when exporting character converted from generic with materials added after conversion.
  • Fix to replace selected bones from hair cards.
  • Fix cloth settings error in detect physics.
  • Fix CC4 spring bones creation.
  • Fix to exports of objects which originally had duplicate object names.
  • Fix to import collider parenting crash when using Blender versions before 3.5
  • Fix to UI panel in 2.93.
  • Fix to collider generation in 2.93
  • Fix to collider generation when Rigifying when posed.

1.5.8

• Spring Bones:
  • Blender spring bone rigid body simulation added for spring bone hair rigs.
  • Spring bone simulation controls.
  • Hair spring bone chain renaming.
  • Bone generation truncate and smoothing parameters.
  • Added support for not quad grid poly mesh hair cards, should work with any hair mesh.
  • Rigid body colliders for the spring bones that use the collision shapes from character creator.
  • Rigify update for spring bone system.
  • FK, IK and tweak bones for spring rigs.
  • Rigify and spring bone UI updates.
  • Baking spring bone simulation and animation into new animations
  • Exporting rigified spring bone characters and animations, including the rigid body simulation as animation.
• Cloth Physics overhaul:
  • Physics UI update.
  • Better mapping of PhysX weight map to blender vertex pin weights.
  • Physics presets updates, mass, tension and bending to better simulate the cloth type and work more consistently with external forces.
  • Cloth physics preset detection on import.
  • UI tools for point cache baking.
  • Fixes to weightmap paint mode resetting texture.
  • Browse button for painted weightmap, so you can find it.
  • Weightmap assignment fix for materials with the same base name.
• Sculpt / Mesh:
  • Character geometry transfer to shape-keys function.
• Character Objects:
  • Add object to character (from another character) now copies the object into the new character.
  • Transfer weight maps now works when posed to effectively parent in place target mesh.
• Other:
  • Fix to eye close slider.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.8.4

• Fixes:
  • Fix to empty transforms or deleted objects in export.
  • Fix to transfer vertex weights leaving working copies behind.
  • Some object management UI corrections.
  • Fix to bake path when exporting character converted from generic with materials added after conversion.
  • Fix to replace selected bones from hair cards.
  • Fix cloth settings error in detect physics.
  • Fix CC4 spring bones creation.
  • Fix to exports of objects which originally had duplicate object names.

1.5.8

• Spring Bones:
  • Blender spring bone rigid body simulation added for spring bone hair rigs.
  • Spring bone simulation controls.
  • Hair spring bone chain renaming.
  • Bone generation truncate and smoothing parameters.
  • Added support for not quad grid poly mesh hair cards, should work with any hair mesh.
  • Rigid body colliders for the spring bones that use the collision shapes from character creator.
  • Rigify update for spring bone system.
  • FK, IK and tweak bones for spring rigs.
  • Rigify and spring bone UI updates.
  • Baking spring bone simulation and animation into new animations
  • Exporting rigified spring bone characters and animations, including the rigid body simulation as animation.
• Cloth Physics overhaul:
  • Physics UI update.
  • Better mapping of PhysX weight map to blender vertex pin weights.
  • Physics presets updates, mass, tension and bending to better simulate the cloth type and work more consistently with external forces.
  • Cloth physics preset detection on import.
  • UI tools for point cache baking.
  • Fixes to weightmap paint mode resetting texture.
  • Browse button for painted weightmap, so you can find it.
  • Weightmap assignment fix for materials with the same base name.
• Sculpt / Mesh:
  • Character geometry transfer to shape-keys function.
• Character Objects:
  • Add object to character (from another character) now copies the object into the new character.
  • Transfer weight maps now works when posed to effectively parent in place target mesh.
• Other:
  • Fix to eye close slider.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.7

• Hair bone de-duplication.
• Bones from grease pencil lines or hair card generation now replaces (matching) existing bones.
• Grease Pencil lines generated only from active grease pencil layer, allowing for better organization.
• Added some color space fallbacks when using different color space configurations.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.6

• Relative wrinkle strengths for individual wrinkle maps implemented.
• Overall wrinkle strength and curve power slider added the head material parameters.
• Competing wrinkle maps now use additive blending to solve overlap.
• Brow correction added for brow raise + brow compress wrinkles.
• Generated images not yet saves are auto-saved for export (so they get included).
• Add custom bone function for hair rigging.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.5

• Flow maps added to wrinkle map system.
• Better texture limiting for the head material.
• Fix to export crash when a texture field is missing in the JSON data.
• Corrupted JSON data detection and error report on import/build.
  • In some cases resetting the collision shapes in CC4 will fix corrupted JSON data.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.4

• Wrinkle Map system implemented.
  • Characters with wrinkle maps will setup wrinkle shaders in the head material automatically.
  • Preferences for Build Wrinkle Maps.
• OpenColorIO ACES color space support.
  • ACES color space overrides.
• Optional Texture Packing and Texture limits added to reduce number of textures in imported materals.
  • Some systems can have very low texture limits (i.e. only 8 on some OSX systems) this can help import full CC4 characters.
  • Preferences for pack and/or limit textures.
• Body sculpting updated:
  • All sculpting modes work on a copy of the character.
  • Multi-res applied base shape copied back to original character in a way that preserves existing shape keys.
  • AO Map added to baking, layers and export.
  • Additional strength, definiation and mix mode controls added to layer ui.
• Spring Bone Hair Rigging (Cloth Rigging to follow)
  • Added initial Hair curve extraction from hair cards.
  • Spring bone hair generation from selected hair cards or greased pencil lines on surface.
  • Hair card weight binding fine tuning controls.
  • Hair cards are weighted individualy to neighboring bones and uniformly across to avoid lateral stretch and behaves more like cloth physics implementations.
  • Spring bone generation from grease pencil lines.
• Fixes:
  • Some extra transparency material detection.
  • Fix to hand & finger bone roll alignment when bind pose has arms and hands at a steep downward angle.
  • Fix to partial material name matching errors from ActorCore and AccuRig.
  • Export bake socket fix for Blender 3.4+.
  • Shapekey locks will be disabled and all shapekeys reset to zero on character export.

CC/iC Blender Tools

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.

CC/iC Blender Tools

1.5.2

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

CC/iC Blender Tools

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.