Blender - Skeleton Tool (your future All In One addon for JKA models) 2.1

Bless you, gonna try it now

6 hours ago, bigphil2695 said:

Bless you, gonna try it now

Please let me know what you think of it afteryou tried it. Thank you!

Can I ask in more detail what this plug-in does?

Upload the latest version (v1.1), this can be considered as final.

Added new features and improved the ones it already had. 

Full description added aswell, I hope this works for all of you.

Enjoy!

So this is a check on the correct hierarchy? Niiiice!

1 hour ago, Laisum said:

So this is a check on the correct hierarchy? Niiiice!

Exactly. The correct hierarchy is optained by using this addon. It's not only efficient but also saving a shit ton of time.

Didn't think you'd release it xD but yeah it's useful so gj ^^

Awesome!

Thank you ^_^

ADDON COMPLETELY CHANGED

Pros:

+ No longer need to manually select an LOD level, it will do everything for you.

+ No more errors when an object is not named correctly, however it will stay untouched (nice indicator I think)

Cons:

- Create tags

- Apply armatures for you.

Naming convention is a MUST. -> helmet has to become head_helmet_0 (or any other LOD level).

Tried to use a separate model from my own OBJ, which I wanted to attach to a head. The name is head_hood (it was just hood upon importing), I simply renamed it myself. LOD deleted even before that. However when I press Parent Object/Tags, it gives an error:

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.91\scripts\addons\skeleton_tool-main\__init__.py", line 77, in execute
    if "skeleton_root" in obj.name or "model_root_" + lod in obj.name:
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str

location: <unknown location>:-1

What could be the problem?

The problem with this, is that the code was no completely optimised for the task. The current version however, is completely bug free as far as I can tell.

Thank you so much for making this man

You deserve all the praise you can get for this work

The addon has now been finished. If you follow the correct naming convention, it will work beautifully.

Previous problems stated above are also been taken care of.

Maybe anybody create video tutorial for this plugin? Or do you already have one?

New functions added and older code optimised.

It now has functionality for vehicles too. Parent all caps, tags and object in 1 click. Also gives you the possibility to unparent everything if you so please.

3 hours ago, Kitsu-NeshKaa said:

Maybe anybody create video tutorial for this plugin? Or do you already have one?

I haven't made any video's about it yet, but it's self explanatory. Would you like to see a video?

Hell, yes! Personally, I absorb information better visually.

I noticed an issue with stupidtriangle and the _off variant. 

That will be fixed in the next release. Might upload that later tonight.

Please visit Github for the latest version of the addon. I will be updating the code almost daily so new features will be added whenever they come to mind.

Currently, I added a Delete Empty Vertex Group and Create Tags function.

First one is useful when splitting your weighted model into parts, you can use this to iterate through all objects and check which vertex groups has no vertices assigned to it from that particular object.

Second one, does exactly as it says. It creates all the tags and stupidtriangle for model_root_0 - you then can use the Parent Tags function to add it to the model_root_0 hierarchy and then Create LODs to duplicate your model_root_0 and reduce level of detail per LOD.

Once the addon will get no new functions anymore, I shall create a video on how to use it even though it's self explanatory.