1.12.2

2025-06-11

• Shading pie

  • fix bloom threshold issue in Blender 4.4 and 4.5 when in rendered shading with Cycles

• fix (rare?) issues with region border drawing in Focus and EditAssembly tools

  • in particular in 4.4 or 4.5 I think

• Customize tool

  • update input/NDOF pref changes in Blender 4.5

1.12.1

2025-06-05

DeusEx

• Assetbrowser tools
  • EditAssembly tool
    • ensure persistent relative view, even if assembly is scaled negatively

Prime

• Blender 4.5

  • Filebrowser tools (in Assetbrowser)

    • AdjustThumbnailSize tool
      • in LIST_HORIZONTAL display type
        • support dragging thumbnail size
        • support dragging column size via ALT
    • show import_method in header, as it's otherwise now hidden in a drop down
      • NOTE: in earlier versions it's drawn too whenever FOLLOW_PREFS is used
      • can be disabled in addon prefs
    • fix exception in 4.5 when cycling display type to LIST_VERTICAL which has been removed

  • Assetbrowser tools

    • support new list view thumbnail and column sizes when saving/retrieving bookmark

  • ToggleRegion tool

    • support new list view thumbnail and column sizes when toggling Assetbrowser

  • support point drawing via vulkan and metal^{thanks Ygolon!}

• Group tools

  • SelectGroup tool
    • add toggle to redo panel to avoid un-hiding group objects

• Material Picker tool

  • support material assignment from Assetbrowser while in Current File mode
  • fix material not assigning from Assetbrowser, when object doesn't have a material already

• Assetbrowser tools

  • UpdateThumbnail tool
    • fix dark thumbnails when render output color depth is is set to 16bit

• ApplyTransform tool

  • fix exception when trying to apply scale on objects without obj.data.transform() such as lights

• Modes pie

  • add lock bounds toggle in UV editor
  • fix Object Mode toggle going into Edit Mode, when called from Pose mode

• Workspace pie

  • fix viewport not syncing, when switching directly to .alt workspace

• Cursor and Origin pie

  • fix HyperCursor's Drag Cursor integration tooltip

• Documentation - lazy load all video iframes

1.12

2025-05-21

DeusEx

• Assetbrowser tools

  • add EditAssembly and FinishAssemblyEdit tools

    • access assembly's instance collection objects and manipulate them, then return to the previous outside-of-the-assembly state again
    • indicate AssemblyEdit mode via red region border, and red FinishAssembly button in top bar
    • transform the cursor relatively into the assembly edit mode, and back out again

    • fully support groups and wire objects within the assembly and adjusting their visibility accordingly to avoid outside-of-the-assembly clutter

    • support user made instance collections too

    • support linked assemblies or instance collections
      • NOTE: you can peak inside, but can't change anything permanently, until you make it local
      • distinguish linked and unlinked ones with a red vs green Edit icon

  • add CreateAssemblyVariant tool

    • creates an independent duplicate
    • optionally with linked object data via ALT mod key

  • add TurnAssemblyIntoAsset tool

    • turn any Assembly or user made Instance Collection into an Asset with Thumbnail
    • be default with catalog, tags and meta data, but can be skipped/postponed via ALT mod key

  • SetAssemblyOrigin tool (previously SetInstanceCollectionOffset)

    • support setting assembly origin rotation now
      • by default both - location and rotation - are set now, either from the cursor or another object
        • use ALT or CTR mod keys, or redo panel to set only rotation, or only location
      • NOTE: since Blender only supports a translation offset for instance collections, assembly origin orientation is changed, by manipulating instance collection root object locations and rotations within the collection

  • UpdateThumbnail tool

    • add Thumbnail Helper Gizmo to fine-tune automatic framing
      • NOTE: framing of the thumbnail is internally based on bbox(es)
        • but they may not represent the ideal or desired space the asset should occupy within a thumbnail
        • so the helper gizmo will overwrite the asset's bbox

• Group tools

  • Group Mode (Outliner)

    • disable group gizmos when entering Group Mode in the outliner
    • expose group gizmo toggle in outliner header

  • Group Origin Adjustment Mode

    • when entering disable potential axes locks (set up by the SetupGroupGizmos tool) and disable group gizmos too
    • when finishing re-enable axes locks and gizmos, and update the Inception pose if present
      • NOTE: it's still highly recommend to finalize the group origin BEFORE your create any group poses

  • SetupGroupGizmos tool

    • actually disable group empty's axes locks, when finishing the op with locks turned off

• Modes Pie

  • group empties
    • expose Group Poses
      • adding, setting and updating of group poses, including batch poses
    • expose Setup Gizmos tool
    • expose Group Gizmo axes and toggles

• Save Pie

  • add FinishAssemblyEdit button, replacing the CreateAssembly button, when in EditAssembly mode

• Cursor and Origin Pie

  • support changing Assembly/Instance Collection origins, including only location or only rotation via ALT and CTRL mod keys

• TransformGroup, SetupGroupGizmos, TransformEdgeConstrained Transform and PunchIt tools

  • update status bars of all modal tools, support 4.3's extra wide even key icons

• TransformGroup, SetupGroupGizmos, TransformEdgeConstrained Transform tools

  • support apple magic mouse scrolling

• TransformEdgeConstrained and PunchIt tools

• flesh out and modernize HUD

• draw HUD and 3D view elements on active 3D view only

• TransformEdgeConstrained tool

  • add missing tooltip
  • expose at bottom of native CTRL + E Edge Context menu

• sidebar

  • Group tools

    • move active object's group gizmo settings and poses into sub-panels

  • Assetbrowser tools

    • expose EditAssembly and FinishAssemblyEdit buttons

• addon preferences

  • activate Group tools and Assetbrowser tools by default (DeusEx only)

Prime

• Assetbrowser tools

  • CreateAssemblyAsset tool

    • support assembly/asset creation of objects with severely hidden children (in excluded or hidden collections)
    • support and default to keeping decal backups and stash objects again
      • and only expose the option if any are present at all
    • indicate entire assembly asset object count
    • support assembly/asset creation from selection only (and so for a part of a hierarchy only)
      • previously - for selection convenience - the entire object hierarchy determined and used for assembly/asset creation
      • now you can optionally create assemblies/assets from parts only, for instance, only the thigh of a robot leg
    • support assembly/asset creation without duplication (enable in addon prefs)
    • support adding tags and meta data
    • base average assembly origin location on non-wire objects preferably
    • improve main _Assembly collection creation (previously called _Assets), and support multiple (per-scene) across a single blend file
    • rename and invert behavior of previous Unlink Asset prop to Drop Asset into Scene
    • set collection colors, green for the main _Assemblies collection, orange for actual assembly asset collections
    • with a single asset browser open at time of asset creation select 'All' pseudo catalog in 'Current File' library

  • add ResetAssemblyOrigin tool

    • zero out collection's instance_offset and compensate collection objects accordingly
      • this ensures the assembly's origin is exactly in the world origin within the instance collection
    • support user made instance collections too

  • add CleanNonAssets tool

    • used to prepare a file for saving in an asset library, avoiding file bloat
    • removes everything in a blend file that is not an asset or related to one
      • also keeps fake user data, that can optionally be removed manually
    • lays out all object and collection assets and fake users on the view layer
      • Assemblies get sorted by size, and are distributed on thew X axis
    • organizes objects and collections into three main collections: _Assemblies, _Assets, _FakeUsers
      • sort DECALmachine backups and MESHmachine stash objects into dedicated sub-collections

  • SetAssemblyOrigin tool (previously SetInstanceCollectionOffset)

    • default to work relatively to the active assembly/instance collection empty
      • legacy behavior (relative to original objects) can be enabled from redo panel or via 'SHIFT' mod key
    • support user made instance collections too

  • UpdateThumbnail tool

    • support NODETREE assets

  • DisassembleAssembly tool

    • support disassembling instance collections with child collections and their contained objects
      • NOTE: assembly assets so far only ever contain on collection, due to this Blender bug
    • sort disassembled decals (from DECALmachine) into decal collections, depending on DM's collection settings

  • assetbrowser bookmarks bar

    • avoid unnecessary changes to capitalization of user library names
    • fix exception when Filebrowser tools are not active also

• Group tools

  • support drawing group relationships

    • draw group origins and distinguish between active and other groups by color
    • draw lines visualising parenting hierarchies
    • optionally draw lines to group objects
    • optionally draw the active group, useful for massive scenes with thousands of objects, that would otherwise slow things down

  • Outliner

    • expose parenting button to visually indicate if object parenting is shown or not
    • significantly flesh out Group Mode (toggled via 1 key by default)
      • indicate if you are in group mode via red label in outliner header
      • automatically toggle group relationship drawing
      • improve outliner layout changes and restoration of initial state when entering/leaving group mode
      • by default - when entering group mode - disable auto select, recursive select and group empty hiding
        • disabling auto select in particular, helps manually changing group hierarchies by dragging group empties around in the outliner, and avoids unindented hierarchy changes
        • automatically respond to those changes and update internal group properties accordingly, so there is no more need to run the Group Select tool afterwards
      • avoid applying outliner filter_text, when there are no other empties but group empties or when group prefixes or suffixes are not actually used

  • flesh out Group Origin Adjustment mode

    • automatically toggle group relationship drawing
      • and use different colors than when turning it on manually or via Outliner Group mode
    • disable auto select, recursive select and group empty hiding
    • prevent running most group tools in this mode
    • prevent toggling auto select and recursive select

  • Ungroup tool

    • draw red fading wires to highlight the now ungrouped objects
    • draw fading labels to summarize the operation and affected objects

  • SelectGroup tool

    • change behavior when in local view
      • always bring the group empty and other group objects into local view now
      • ignore recursive select setting, and instead support forcing recursive group selection via CTRL key
        • update tool tip accordingly

  • addon prefs

    • control what Outliner Group Mode toggles, and what buttons are shown in the Outliner header

  • fix issue with group auto naming to ensure the group suffix is always added after any potential potential index added by Blender

  • avoid group creation in linked collection, and pop a fading label about it

• SelectHierarchy tool

  • completely rewrite and support severely hidden objects (those in excluded or hidden collections)
    • in HUD and redo panel indicate how many objects are still hidden, and how to reveal them
    • in redo panel offer quick way to reveal and select everything in the hierarchy

• Extrude tools

  • expose Blender native Extrude menu keymap (in addon pref's Extrude tool settings section)
    • deal with case where it can't be found
    • because it was removed
    • because of the Industry Compatible keymap (which doesn't set it)
  • expose Cursor Spin and Punch It (a little) tools at bottom of CTRL + F Face Context menu

• SmartVert tool

  • SlideExtend
    • add HUD
    • support HyperCursor 0.9.18 changes
  • make merging UVs optional when merging LAST or CENTER
    • toggle in redo panel

• SmartFace tool

  • add topo mode
    • launches modal to immediately position the new face's vert
    • preview next vert selection and apply it when finishing or aborting vert translation
    • supports Blender's auto merge setting
    • optionally disable in addon prefs for legacy behavior, and optionally only enable it when
      • face snapping is used
      • when retopology overlay is enabled

• CleanUp tool

  • fix rare exception, when trying to remove redundant verts

• ApplyTransformations tool

  • when applying Scale in addition to compensating Bevel mods, also compensate the following mod types now:
    • Solidify
    • Displace
    • Welds
    • Linear and Linear Hyper Arrays
    • Helix Offset in Radial Hyper Arrays
  • when applying rotation rotate the Linear and Linear Hyper Array offset vectors accordingly to compensate
  • support applying transform on parented objects
  • in addition to comensating DECALmachine backups, also compensate MESHmachine's stashes now
  • improve applying scale/rotation on multiple objects of the same hierarchy
  • expose at bottom of the native CTRL + A Apply menu with direct Rotation, Scale and Rotation & Scale buttons

• MaterialPicker tool

  • improve raycasting internals
    • avoid hitting undesired objects when in local view
    • avoid hitting wire objects
  • fix exception picking a material in edit mode
  • fix exception picking None material from Assembly/Instance Collection object
  • fix material appended from asset browser not being cleared as an asset
  • fix import method LINK being used when asset browser is set to FOLLOW_PREFS

• Thread tool

  • add missing tooltip
  • draw fading message for illegal selections

• AlignRelative tool

  • add D key as primary instance/duplicate toggle (scrolling still works however)
  • flesh out HUD a little more
  • draw HUD and 3D view elements on active 3D view only
  • add missing tooltip

• Annotate, AlignRelative and Mirror tools

  • support apple magic mouse scrolling

• Mirror tool

  • fix mirror object being recognized as misaligned, just because it's scaled differently
  • draw HUD and only on active 3D view

• Filebrowser tools

  • AdjustThumbnailSize tool
    • fix thumbnail size not being drawn in some 3d views when dragging size in asset shelf

• Toggle Region tool

  • asset shelf toggling is enabled by default now (addon prefs)
    • when asset shelf is present, the shelf will be toggled instead of the asset browser
  • always restore 'All' pseudo library when either 'All' or 'Unassigned' was set at time of closing asset browser split

• Filebrowser tools

  • when cycling asset libraries via 1 key select 'All' pseudo catalog too

• Customize tool

  • keymaps
    • change native size 'radial_control' keymaps to use release_confirm
      • Sculpt Mode
      • Grease Pencil Sculpt Mode
      • Grease Pencil Brush Stroke
      • Image Paint Brush
    • re-enable 'mesh.loop_multi_select' keymap
      • now using 'ALT + SHIFT + CLICK_DRAG SOUTH' for loop selection, which conflict with MESHmachine's 'ALT + LMB' select wrapper
    • disable all hide_collection keymaps
  • startup file
    • disable showing object content in Outliner
  • in 4.4 input prefs
    • disable NDOF (Show) Orbit Center

• AlignRelative, MaterialPick, Mirror, Annotate, SmartVert/Slide Extend tools

  • update status bars, support 4.3's extra wide even key icons

• Modes pie

  • support adjustable top button (in addon prefs)
    • previously it always was the Edit button, which is now disabled by default
    • support Sculpt button, enabled by default
    • with Group tools active, support Group, Group Select and Ungroup at the top, depending on active object/selection
    • support showing a stack multiple buttons on top, combining any of the previous
      • NOTE: won't allow quick swiping motion
  • support EditAssembly Button at the bottom and Finish AssemblyEdit button at the top
    • optionally disable in addon prefs, and access from the sidebar, topbar or Save pie
  • flesh out empty object support
    • regular empties
      • expose empty's display type and display size
      • add Groupify tool, when groups tools are enabled, and the active empty has children
    • image empties
      • expose side, depth, opacity and gizmo properties
    • group empties
      • expose auto select, recursive select and hide empties settings
      • expose group name and size
      • expose Origin Adjustment mode toggle
      • expose Draw Group Relations toggles
      • expose Ungroup tool (optionally)
  • in SCULPT mode expose Symmetry, Dyntopo and Remesh options
  • add library reload button, if active object is linked or has linked data
  • for both Library Reload and MakeLocal buttons, preview EXACTLY what is linked in the tooltip

• Save pie

  • in Image/UV Editor expose
    • save image, save image as, open image, close image, pick image, new image, pack/unpack image and edit image externally
  • add OpenCurrentDir tool
    • opens current folder in system's file browsers
    • when current file is startup file, open Blender's config folder
  • show * indicators in pie buttons, if blend file or image is unsaved
  • expose FBX apply scale all prefs directly in the pie
    • use the unity icon for it
  • expose CleanNonAssets tool
    • and remove previous 'CTRL' mode of the Save As tool, which could be used for the same purpose (but did it worse)
  • ScreenCast
    • improve synergy with Screencast Keys extension
    • support disabling Screencast Keys, even when MACHIN3tools operator casting is itself no longer active
      • this happens when you start a new file while Screencasting is enabled

• Shading pie

  • Shade Smooth/Flat
    • support recursive shading of severely hidden objects (in excluded or hidden collections)
    • fix exception when 'boolean_auto_smooth' is disabled
    • fix issues with linked objects/data or partial selections, that include linked objects/data
    • ALT Smooth mode
      • skip sharpening HyperCursor's edge weight based edge bevels and HyperBevel objects
  • expose Retopology Overlay toggle
  • expose Mist Settings when Mist Pass is enabled, and scene.world is set
  • optimize when Backface Culling and Face Orientation toggles are shown
  • in 4.4, update Bloom Threshold and Size props for new Input types

• Cursor and Origin pie

  • support changing Assembly/Instance Collection origins from here
    • support to Cursor and to Object
  • support resetting the origin

• Snapping pie

  • expose global use_snap toggle
  • expose Snap Preset Targets in addon prefs
  • support alternating between SURFACE and FACE_NEAREST snapping toggling the Surface preset button a second time
    • optionally disable in addon prefs
  • optionally disable fading HUD in addon prefs
  • use non-alphabetic sorting order for multiple-snap-element indications at the top of the pie, and in the HUD
    • always sort it VERTEX > EDGE > FACE etc.

• Workspace pie

  • remember if .alt workspace was last used, and then switch back to it directly the next time

• Views pie

  • Smart Cam
    • if Mist Pass is enabled, enable use_mist Camera Viewport Display option

• Transform pie

  • avoid showing empty 3rd box on top for modes other than EDIT_MESH and OBJECT

• Quad Sphere object

  • expose default settings in addon prefs
  • support Unwrapping: None, Cross, Cubic, Cylindrical or Spherical

• sidebar

  • modernize using new layout.panel elements

  • add Get Support and Documentation panels, -both enabled by default, but can be disabled from the Help button in the header or the addon prefs

  • Assetbrowser tools

    • indicate if assembly or instance collection is linked, including for potential child assemblies
    • for instance collections that aren't local assembly assets, expose the collection selector, instead of just the collection name
    • fix exception when drawing instance_offset of nested assemblies/instance collections

• addon preferences

  • modernize using new layout.panel elements
  • expose HUD shadow prefs
  • keep track of and display registered operator and keymaps counts
  • fix issue where some tools caused an empty Tool Settings box to appear, or where it would be missing
  • disable Toggle Region tool by default

• remove DECALmachine and MESHmachine post-asset drop cleanups

  • done by each addon separately by now

1.11.1

2024-11-25

• Assetbrowser tools

  • when changing asset origin, prevent asset from jumping around by compensating for new translation offset

• MaterialPicker tool

  • fix Windows-only issue when assigning materials from asset browser due undocumented API change affecting how paths within blend files are represented

• Modes pie

  • without an active object, draw a message about it in the pie

• Group tools

  • handle occasional Restricted Context exceptions

• Customize tool

  • when customizing startup file shading, prevent exception in 4.3 due to API change

1.11

2024-11-09

• bump minimum Blender version to 4.2 LTS

• Align tool

  • support aligning selection to active's local axes
  • support aligning selection to cursor's local axes
  • rework the redo panel, and in particular the align in between and align to bone modes
    • for both add a distance slider, allowing you to tweak how an object is positioned

• AssetBrowser tools

  • CreateAssemblyAsset tool
    • expose instance collection offset in Assetbrowser tools sidebar panel, including from Cursor and from Object ops
    • set asset empty size based on asset object dimensions
    • fix issue where asset empty was not positioned properly, when disabling the unlink option
  • UpdateAssetThumbnail tool
    • support creating COLLECTION, MATERIAL and POSE/ACTION asset thumbnails
      • NOTE: all still require an OBJECT selection in the 3D view
    • support ALT mod key to ensure overlays are rendered too, useful if you want armatures to show up in the thumbnail for instance
  • fix exception in asset browser, when active asset is not of type OBJECT

• FileBrowser tools

  • in AssetBrowser
    • import method selection is now a modal tool
      • hold 4 key and move mouse horizontally
    • support modal thumbnail size adjustment in asset shelfs too now
      • like in the File- or AssetBrowser, hold 3 key while over an asset shelf, and move mouse horizontally
    • drop legacy non-modal behavior (then still optional) and remove option to disable it in addon prefs accordingly

• MaterialPicker tool

  • support picking materials from objects within instance collection assets

• SmartVert tool

  • use uvs=True arg when center- or last-merging

• SmartEdge tool

  • support creasing, when invoked via SHIFT + 2

• SmartFace tool

  • when multiple objects are in edit mesh mode, support creating multiple new objects from face selections
  • optionally support joining multiple separated objects into one
  • by default clear mods on separated objects now

• Focus tool

  • in View Selected mode, ignore arrays by default now too, unless disabled in redo panel
    • just as already done with mirror mods, focus on the original, not the evaluated results of these modifiers

• Mirror tool

  • support mirroring Grease Pencil v3 objects in Blender 4.3

• Customize tool

  • disable F keymap in grease pencil edit mode

    • you can still toggle cyclicity using ALT + C
    • but with F freed, view_selected can take over now

  • M3 theme

    • set asset shelf colors

• Tools pie

  • like the SurfaceDraw tool before, move Grease Pencil options from Modes pie to here as well now:

    • ShrinkWrapGreasePencil tool and surface distance prop
    • Thickness and Opacity modifier access, when present

  • add Annotation Note tool

    • point the cursor at part of an object, call the pie, pick the Note tool, start typing

      • finish via LEFTMOUSE or CTRL + RETURN

      • see statusbar for options:

        • screen X aligned by default, toggle Cursor X align via CTRL + S or CTRL + C
        • size is determined automatically, but can be changed by scrolling mouse
        • remove words via CTRL + W, remove all via CTRL + U or CTRL + BACKSPACE

      • in 4.2 Notes are Annotation based

      • in 4.3 due to crippling of the annotation API, Grease Pencil objects will be created instead
        • pro
          • parented to object
        • contra
          • pollutes scene
          • in solid shading has solid color, not annotation color
          • may require multiply blend to be legible
          • minimum stroke thickness hard cap, limiting small notes

  • ToggleAnnotation tool

    • update to fully support annotation note gpv3 objects in 4.3
      • it toggles both, regular annotation and the layers on the GP note objects

  • SurfaceDraw tool

    • update for 4.3's v3 Grease Pencils
    • when invoking Line tool using SHIFT mod key, ensure sufficient subdivision count when subdivisions are currently < 10
      • NOTE: you can always simplify later again, but you want to avoid having not enough subdivisions when drawing on curved surfaces

  • ShrinkwrapGreasePencil tool

    • update for 4.3's v3 Grease Pencils

  • with an active GP object, expose it's layers and some layer props now too

  • when in Grease Pencil PAINT mode, expose Draw, Line and Erase tools

    • with Line tool selected, expose line subdivisions prop too

  • when in Grease Pencil EDIT mode, expose native Stroke Simplify tool

  • fix HOps menu not appearing when installed as extension

• Save pie

  • avoid exposing fbx export when default fbx addon is disabled
  • add glTF import/export support

  • add Better FBX import/export support

  • Load Next/Previous tools

    • pop confirmation dialog when file has unsaved changes, to avoid accidental data loss

  • Clean out scene tool

    • support 4.3 annotations removal and empty annotation layer re-creation

• Modes pie

  • support Blender 4.3 Grease Pencil v3 rewrite
  • move grease pencil options from here to Tools pie
    • Shrinkwarp tool, Surface distance prop, Thickness and Opacity modifier access, when present
  • add VERTEX_GPENCIL / VERTEX_GREASE_PENCIL modes to tiny modes bar when active object is GP
  • in grease pencil paint mode, expose stroke placement popup
  • flesh out SCULPT, PAINT_TEXTURE, PAINT_WEIGHT, PAINT_VERTEX and PARTICLE modes
    • in each expose object, vert, edge and face mode toggles now

• Snapping pie

  • support setting snap element additively using ALT mod key
  • indicate snap element(s) at the top of the pie
  • draw fading label when setting one of the presets indicating the current snap target and snap element(s)
  • use CLOSEST target for absolute grid snapping
  • enable snap_show_absolute_grid prefs by default now

• Shading pie

  • expose rotation, if mapping node is connected to image node, which in turn is connected to the background node

  • fix exception for world setup using background node with connected image texture

  • when detecting a trace_max_roughness of 0 while raytracing is enabled, reset it to its default of 0.5

    • opening up pre-4.2 files seems to set this value to 0, but with it at 0, all metals will look like plastic
    • print warning message to terminal when doing this

  • fix angle prop not being in degrees when replacing invalid auto smooth

    • also recreate show_expanded and use_pin_to_last props

  • when adding auto smooth mod via the toggle (not via the presets), ensure an angle of 20° is used, not the default 30°

• Transform pie

  • indicate current choice of pivot and orientation by depressing buttons accordingly

• Cursor Pie

  • fix Origin to Cursor button width when multiple mesh modes are selected at the same time

• addon preferences

  • be more verbose in filebrowser/assetbrowser keymap labels in keymaps tab

  • GetSupport tool

    • check for and list workspaces that have addon filtering enabled

  • fix assetbrowser tool prefs not showing up

  • remove some legacy prefs that are no longer used

• indicate if a MACHIN3tools update is available in 3D view's sidebar and addon prefs

1.10.1

2024-08-05

• AssetBrowser tools

  • rework MakeLocal tool completely

    • fix issues on more complex linked assets of assets, and sometimes even on simple linked assets
    • making objects local (regular or instance collection) is tiered now
      • by default and if the selected object is linked, only the object itself will be made local
        • this allows you to position, scale, and rotate the object, while its data or linked instance collection remain linked, and so only exist in an external file
      • only on the second run, or when holding down SHIFT, or when the object itself is not linked and only its data or instance collection is, are data and/or instance collection made local too
    • instance collections are only ever made local one level down
      • so for recursive linked instance collections, you could keep the lower level linked while making the upper level local or disassemble it

  • CreateAssemblyAsset tool

    • fix occasional black thumbnails
    • fix exception, when choosing to not unlink empty

  • DisassembleAssembly tool

    • use new logic from MakeLocal tool to ensure linked assemblies are made local properly

• Save pie

  • add ReloadLibraries tool
    • reload libraries when linked data blocks are used

• Modes pie

  • improve handling of linked or partially linked objects by detecting if object data or instance collection is linked, even if object itself is not linked (anymore)

• Group tool

  • add workaround for Blender 4.2 "object loses transform bug on redo" bug

• Cursor and Origin pie

  • OriginToBottomBounds tool
    • add workaround for Blender 4.2 "object loses transform bug on redo" bug

• CreateDoFEmpty (Prime only)

  • fix exception when drawing fading label

• SmartEdge tool

  • fix issue in Korean Bevel mode

• remove unnecessary imports all over

1.10

2024-08-01

• AssetBrowser tools

  • CreateAssemblyAsset tool

    • rework completely and massively simplify the UX and exposed options
      • always duplicate the original objects for use in the instance collection
        • and always removed MM stashes and DM backups on those duplicates
      • avoid moving instance collection objects into world origin, make use of instance_offset instead
      • always add asset collection to the viewlayer in the new _Assets collection, which itself is on, but excluded from the view layer (so isn't rendered)
        • this aims to make things more transparent, bc you can now can easily see which asset collections exist in the file
      • by default, unlink the asset empty, so the asset only appears in the AssetBrowser's LOCAL/Current File library
        • if disabled bring back an instance of it, offset in front of the original object(s)
    • redo thumbnail rendering
      • perfectly frame the asset automatically, no matter where it is on the viewport, incl. for recursive assets (of assets)
      • support camera view rendering (incl. Depth of Field) and cycles rendering
    • support placing asset empty in Cursor location

  • add Disassemble tool

    • replaces previously awkwardly named AssembleInstanceCollection tool
    • makes assembly asset/instance collection objects accessible
    • when assembly is linked, make it local first
    • support Rigid Body setup if assembly objects make use of it

  • add MakeLocal tool

    • makes assembly local without disassembling
    • unlike the native op it properly deals with only the selection, but also goes recursively through the entire assert, to deal with linked assets of assets
      • whereas the native make_local op would have to be run with the ALL argument, which would then affect ALL linked id types in the entire blend file however

  • add RemoveAssemblyAsset tool

    • by default it removes the assembly empty + instance collection, if that no longer has any other users (such as other assemblies using the same instance collection)
    • for local assets, it can optionally completely remove the entire asset and all instances of it from the file
      • naturally, this then removes it from the asset browser too
    • for legacy assets (those created with prior versions, that didn't duplicate the original objects yet) just disassemble the asset/assembly and let the user decide if the collection objects should be removed

  • add UpdateAssetThumbnail tool

    • can be called from the 3D view's sidebar simply by selecting any local assembly asset
    • or alternatively from thee asset browser's sidebar
      • here it requires selecting the asset itself, and any object(s) in the 3D view

  • expose assembly asset collection name in asset browser's sidebar

  • AssetBrowser Bookmarks

    • add pseudo-bookmark for LOCAL (Current File) library

      • keymapped to ALT + ^ by default
      • when using this, MACHIN3tools will auto size thumbnails based on asset browser dimensions
      • NOTE: it's not possible to set All or Unassigned catalogs from the API
        • so instead MACHIN3tools will select the most used catalog in the file to ensure something is shown at all
        • also note, that Blender doesn't even list catalogs that exist in a file, if that file is not stored in an asset library location

    • fix some issues where the wrong library and catalog where displayed in the header

• Material Picker tool

  • support multiple 3d views and asset browsers open at the same time
    • pick/assign from any 3d view or asset browser on the workspace
  • support picking from and assigning to FONT, SURFACE and META objects

• Filebrowser tools

  • support modal thumbnail size adjustment
    • just hold down the 3 and move the mouse horizontally
      • feel free to remap to CTRL + MIDDLEMOUSÈ click-drag, to mirror Blender native panel scaling
      • you can disable this modal behavior in the addon preferences for legacy-style thumbnail size cycling using 3 and ALT + 3 accordingly
  • fix opening active folder in system's file browser via O

• Group tools

  • Outliner Group mode toggle (via 1 key)

    • when group auto-naming is enabled in addon preferences, further filter the outliner to consider the group prefix and/or suffix
      • this way you can truly only have group empties show up, instead of all empties

  • CreateGroup tool

    • when un-groupable (already parented) objects are among the selection, indicate that they weren't added to the group
      • also increase fading label time when there are un-groupable objects

  • Groupify tool

    • stop adding _GROUP to the empty names
    • support auto-naming addon pref
      • and with it disabled, just keep the original empty names accordingly

  • redo/simplify general group naming logic

• Smart Edge tool

  • support connecting lose/non-manifold verts, thanks Artem!

• Align tool

  • add workaround in 4.2 for "object loses transform on redo" bug

• Customize tool

  • in Blender 4.2, support addon installation from extensions repo

    • Icon Viewer
    • LoopTools
    • Screencast Keys

  • preferences

    • enable GPU compositing

  • keymaps

    • change curve.select_more and curve.select_less keymaps to SHIFT + WHEEL UP/DOWN, inline with mesh and UV selections
    • change outliner CTFL + F search keymap to /
    • in Blender 4.2 remap new Sculpt mode visibility filtering keymaps to use SHIFT mod key, thereby avoiding conflicts with Shading and Views pies

• Shading pie

  • update for Eevee Next in Blender 4.2
    • None, Low, High and Ultra Presets, check tooltips for details
    • support finding and applying user-created raytrace presets
    • expose passes incl. quick access to Shadow and Ambient Occlusion
    • expose fast GI related props
    • introduce multi props for resolution, thickness and quality(precision)
      • these set screen-trace and fast GI props at the same time
    • add bloom and dispersion toggles
      • both are setup and then toggled via realtime compositing
    • add volume rendering toggle
      • with volume objects present, toggle volume object filtering in the viewport
      • without volume objects, the world volume (node) is toggled, or created when there is none yet
      • force world volume creation via SHIFT when volume objects are present, but you want to setup a world volume too
      • when enabled, expose main world volume node props
    • in MATERIAL or RENDERED Eevee shading expose new World Shadow and "Sun Angle" props for adjustment of HDRI/world based shadows
  • Cycles
    • expose bloom and dispersion toggles here too
    • same for Volume rendering
  • expose world environment props, if found
    • generic support for props named: 'Power', 'Multiply', 'Rotate Z', 'Rotation', 'Blur'
    • Easy HDRI support for props: 'Sun Strength', 'Sky Strength', 'Custom Background', 'Solid Color', 'Rotation'
  • Shade Smooth and Toggle Auto Smooth
    • in Blender 4.2 prevent unintended removal of an existing auto smooth mod caused change in behavior of native Smooth operator
    • replace all invalid Auto Smoth mods (often as a result of appending or pasting legacy objects)
  • Shade Flat
    • fix fading HUD instance counter in 4.1, and ensure auto smooth removals are counted properly in 4.2
  • Blender 4.1+
    • unmark the Smooth by Angle node group asset when bringing it in from the ESSENTIALS lib
  • Bevel Shader
    • exclude CURVES, VOLUME, ARMATURE, LATTICE and META object types from bevel shader setup attempts
  • update Wireframe button to better show what being toggled depending on context

• Views pie

  • Smart Cam
    • by default, support perfect viewport matching now
      • adjusts scene resolution ratio to match viewport region
      • matches viewport Field of View
      • sets camera's sensor width to 72
      • can be disabled in addon preferences
    • add fading HUD
  • Next/Prev Camera tools
    • add fading HUD
  • when in camera view
    • support naming the camera
    • expose camera sensor width
    • add Depth of Field utilities
      • add CreateDoFEmpty tool
        • quickly sets up an empty as the DoF focus object and invokes translate tool, ready to snap the empty to a surface
      • add Select DoF object tool
        • select (and reveal if hidden) currently used DoF focus object

• Save pie

  • in Blender 4.2
    • ScreenCasting
      • default to ScreenCast Keys extension over SKRIBE
      • make Toggle Region op show up in screencasted operator list
    • Purge Orphans
      • preview purging, by invoking the tool with SHIFT key pressed
    • fix .stl import/export due to API change
  • Export tools
    • expose custom export folders per-export type in addon preferences
      • if set, the exporter will open in theses folders, instead of in the home dir
  • Purge tool
    • remove empty collections, which native Blender doesn't do as long as they are on the viewlayer
  • Clean out .blend file tool
    • remove node groups explicitly now, otherwise there may be left over ones, IF they are still marked as asset or fake user
    • update custom brush removal in Blender 4.2
    • remove libraries too now
    • disable use_scene_world and use_scene_lights
    • update poll to reflect all the data types that are to be removed

• Tools pie

  • add annotate line tool
  • with active annotation tool
    • add Show/Hide Annotations tool
      • hides and reveals annotation layers
      • remembers previously hidden layers and only reveals those, that were previously visible
    • expose surface placement settings as buttons, not as list
  • bring back BoxCutter and HardOps support due to popular demand
  • bring back SurfaceDraw tool (previously in the Modes pie)
    • by default disabled in the addon preferences

• Modes pie

  • add Guide mesh < > Final Mesh Editor support for quick access to the addon's Dual Mesh Edit mode
  • prevent initiating Surface Slide, when mesh has shapekeys
  • prevent rare exception when trying to sync tools

• Workspace pie

  • in Blender 4.2, support Blender Icon Viewer installation from extensions repo
    • it's exposed in the addon preferences
  • when syncing viewports from one workspace to another, sync shading.use_compositor and shading.render_pass too now

• Snapping Pie

  • fix absolute grid snapping exception in 4.2 due to API change

• addon preferences

  • Keymaps
    • in Blender 4.2, point out Shading pie and Views pie conflicts, due to new native Page Up/Down keymappings for Sculpt mode visibility filtering
      • expose these keymappins for easy remapping, if desired
    • Restore Missing Keymaps tool
      • add debug output and print to the system console which keymap items have been missing and now restored
    • fix potential exception

1.9

2024-05-23

• MaterialPicker tool

  • add RIGHTMOUSE keymap
    • for now disabled by default, so please enable manually in addon prefs
    • if you use RIGHTMOUSE for the context menu, you can add a mod key in the MACHIN3tools keymap prefs for RMB-material-picking/assigning
    • I highly recommend you try this, IMO it's a game changer
  • the tool is only active on views that show materials: MATERIAL shading, RENDERED shading, and SOLID shading IF MATERIAL is chosen as the color_type
    • NOTE: in SOLID shading make use of the Colorize Materials tool in the Shading pie, if all your materials show as white
  • the tool existing in 3 modes: PICK, ASSIGN, ASSIGN_FROM_ASSETBROWSER
    • which one of these are available, depends on presence of material editor, asset browser, object or face selection
    • for instance, without a material editor or asset browser on the workspace, but with an object selection present, the tool will invoke into ASSIGN mode automatically
  • with an object or face selection present, support clearing materials using X
  • when appending material from assetbrowser attempt to set the material's viewport color
  • support assigning material from asset browser to entire object selection using ALT
    • as opposed to just the object the mouse is over via LEFTMOUSE
  • in the HUD
    • try to draw picked or to-be-assigned material's color under its name, fetched from the Base Color input of the last node
    • in object mode list objects that are to be assigned a material and lightly draw object wires
    • in edit mode indicate if material is to be assigned to face selection
  • fix button not appearing in RENDERED viewport (even though enabled in addon prefs)

• Filebrowser tools, Assetbrowser tools, AssetBrowser Bookmarks, Toggle Region tool

  • support asset browser display_type cycling + storage
    • NOTE: this is not natively exposed in the Blender UI, but internally the asset browser is still just a Filebrowser in Blender, and so the display_type can still be changed
    • cycle between display types:
      • THUMBNAIL
      • LIST_VERTICAL
      • LIST_HORIZONTAL
  • use the 2 key, just as in the Filebrowser (same keymap item in fact) for asset browser display_type cycling
  • use previously unused (in asset browser) 4 keymap to cycle asset import method now
  • also draw button to cycle through Assetbrowser display_types in asset browser header

• Shading pie

  • 4.1 Auto Smooth
    • expose and make the auto smooth angle accessible, even on meshes with custom normals
    • expose setting in addon prefs to keep Auto Smooth mod expanded in mod stack, not collapsed
    • if not found itn he file already, append Smooth by Angle nodegroup from ESSENTIALS lib, without relying native op
    • when opening the pie look for invalid auto smooth mod and remove it
      • Blender can sometimes create these, especially when pasting or appending objects from legacy files
      • terminal will complain about missing Angle or Ignore Sharps inputs in that case
  • in SOLID shading with MATERIAL color_type chosen, expose active object's active material's viewport color
  • support wireframe toggling and wireframe opacity adjustment in SCULPT mode
  • BevelShader setup
    • prevent exception when materials without node_tree are encountered, like Blender's Fur Material
  • Shade Smooth tool
    • update description to mention sharp edges are based on operator prop, not auto smooth angle any longer

• Modes pie

  • support EDIT_CURVES + SCULPT_CURVES modes
  • disable "SurfaceDraw"-pseudo-mode, use Annotate tools from tools pie instead!

• Tools pie

  • add annotate buttons at the bottom
  • remove out Hops/BC buttons, I don't think anybody uses the pie for these?
  • simplify HyperCursor / Select Box alternation
    • this now allows easy switching from HC to annotating, and back
    • avoid always force-enabling HC gizmos, when switching into HC tool too

• Workspace Pie

  • add Geo Nodes workspace to bottom left

• SelectHierarchy tool

  • support selecting geo nodes mod objects

• ToggleSmooth tool

  • use SHIFT + TAB as the default on Windows

• ApplyTransform tool

  • ensure object has data block, so transform can actually be applied

• addon preferences

  • mention Bevel Shader in Render tools description
    • it is exposed through the Shading pie, but enabled through the Render tools
  • add ResetKeymaps and RestoreKeymaps buttons in keymaps tab IF there are user modified keymaps or missingkeymaps (due to user removal, accidental or not)
  • improve how keymap items are drawn

• Customize tool

  • M3 theme
    • define compliant colors for Attribute Editor/Spreadsheet space
    • use fully transparent color for front-facing face orientation color
    • lower the alpha of the back-facing face orientation color (red)
  • overlays
    • when the M3 theme is being installed enable the face orientation overlays
  • startup file
    • set (annotate) stroke placement to SURFACE and set eraser size to 50px
  • keymaps
    • disable node.select keymappings in Node Tool: Select Box keymap
    • in 2.7x keymap
      • set node.select keymappings in Node Editor keymap from RIGHTMOUSE to LEFGMOUSE using PRESS events
      • this allows for additive and subtractive node selection using SHIFT + LMB without delay
  • system
    • enable experimental asset debug info

1.8

2024-03-22

DeusEx

• SetupGroupGizmos tool
  • add option to lock axes, that don't carry a gizmo
    • this then allows for easy and lazy group rotation using the native op, without having to pick the right axis, and even with the rotation gizmo(s) disabled
    • disable locking via R or L keys

Prime ^{previously Standard}

• Assetbrowser tools
  • add Assetbrowser Bookmarks
    • draw buttons for 10 bookmarks in the asset browser header
    • support jumping to library/catalog via click, saving via SHIFT click, and clearing bookmarks via CTRL click, see tooltips
    • support jumping to library/catalog via new ALT + 1 to ALT + 0 keymaps
    • bookmarks store and recall library, catalog and thumbnail size
    • bookmarks are stored on disk in assetbrowser_bookmarks.json in Blender's config folder
  • with the catalog sidebar closed, display the library and catalog in the asset browser header
  • support maintaining bookmarks, across Library renames (Blender restart required)
  • NOTE: you can't bookmark any catalog in the 'Current File' library
    • and you can't bookmark any library's 'Unassigned' catalog either
• Shading Pie
  • BevelShader
    • support toggling it per-object
    • add arrow buttons to increase or decrease the global or per-object radius
      • halve and double the current value by default
      • with SHIFT held down, do -25% or +33% instead for smaller adjustments
  • Smooth, Flat, Auto Smooth tools
    • redo them completely, and maintainthe same look and UX in 4.1 as before
    • in Blender 4.1
      • support Auto Smooth toggling byp adding/removing goe node mod
        • sort it at the end of the stack, but before mirror and array mods
        • support instanced objects
      • support Auto Smooth for CURVE objects
    • support SURFACE objects in object mode (Blender does too, so why not)
    • properly deal with hidden children and mod objects when in local view and when either or both are included in a Smooth or Flat shading operation
    • when shading Smooth, optionally (but by default) enable Auto Smooth for objects carrying boolean mods
    • when shading Smooth with ALT pressed, sharpen edges via new operator angle property, not via a mesh's auto smooth angle prop as before
    • when Flat shading with ALT pressed to clear sharps, seams, etc, also disable Auto Smooth, if enabled, or present
    • limit options, that are exposed in redo panel, depending on context, hide what doesn't apply
    • when Flat shading and removing creases, make option, that avoids removal of creases while subd mods with use_crease are present, work per-object not globally or entire selection
    • add object mode fading HUD summarizing the shading changes
  • display Clear Custom Normals op, independently of Auto Smooth being enabled in 4.1
    • neither custom normals nor sharp edges require Auto Smooth anymore
• Modes Pie
  • Surface Slide tool
    • support instanced meshes
  • avoid exception when trying to mode change a linked object with library override
• MaterialPicker tool
  • support fetching materials from and assigning them to CURVE objects
• SelectHierarchy tool
  • indicate number of hidden parents/children in fading HUD
• Group Add/Remove tools
  • add little fading HUD to visually confirm what happened
• ToggleRegion tool
  • avoid exception when library stored asset browser settings, is no longer registered
• Thread, ToggleSmooth and QuadSphere tools
  • deal with Auto Smooth changes in 4.1
• CreateAssemblyAsset tool
  • fix issues caused by 1.7's change to UUID based catalog storage
• addon preferences
  • add GetSupport tool, placed at the top of the addon prefs
  • add custom updater
    • NOTE: since it's only introduced now in 1.8, it will only be of use for upcoming releases, so can't be used to install this very 1.8 update yet
    • allows for very easy addon update installation from .zip file, and from inside of Blender, instead of manually from the file browser
    • finds matching .zip file(s) in home and Downloads folder
    • allows selecting one of them them or manually selecting a file in any other location
    • extracts the file to a temporary location, and installs update when quitting Blender
    • like a manual update installation from the filebrowser, this maintains previous addon settings and custom keys
    • see installation instructions for details
• Customize tool
  • tweak M3 theme
    • adjust to edit mode color changes in 4.1
    • make crease edges green
  • when customizing the startup file, while the Shading Pie has been activated, disable native cursor display and activate custom cursor and object axes drawing instead
  • fix issues modifying keymap in 4.1
  • add hidden Toolbar Popup keymaps
    • set Annotate to D
    • set Annotate Erase to E
    • without deliberately creating these keymaps, the default keymaps will change depending on the active tool, now they persist
  • invert Transform Modal Map's proportional editing keymaps
    • increase the size by scrolling UP and decrease by scrolling DOWN

1.7

2024-02-10

Standard

• SelectHierarchy tool
  • support UP selection too now
    • including recursive, and unhiding
    • keymaped to UP, SHIFT+UP, CTRL+UP and SHIFT+CTRL+UP accordingly
  • add fading HUD
    • indicate if top or bottom are reached
    • when not undhiding, indicate if top or bottom with hidden parents/children is reached
  • if a group empty is among the new selection, ensure the highest in the hierarchy becomes the active object
• ToggleRegion tool
  • support toggling toolbar and sidebar in all node editors
  • support toggling toolbar and sidebar in UV/Image editor
  • avoid unnecessarily drawing "Not enough space" warning when toggling sidebar, while region_overlap disabled
    • Blender is weird sometimes
• Thread tool
  • raise maximum fade from 50% to 100% (one revolution)
• Filebrowser tools
  • in AssetBrowser
    • fix exception when trying to open asset without having an active asset chosen
  • fix rare issue not being able to open an asset's path in system filebrowser or to open asset .blend file in second Blender instance
    • it turns out the same catalog can be present multiple times, with different UUIDs
• SmartEdge tool
  • fix issue with Offset Edges mode, when undoing
• Groups
  • change empty draw type of active group to SPHERE, while others remaining CUBE
  • update group panel in sidebar
• Group tool
  • draw a fading message when no group could be created, because the entire selection is parented to something already
• SurfaceSlide, Focus and Screencast HUDs
  • take region_overlap and theme's header alpha into account as well!
  • it turns out a theme's header alpha at 1, essentially force-disables region_overlap
• Modes pie
  • SurfaceSlide
    • fix bottom HUD offset, depending on header and tool header positioning
• Shading pie
  • Bevel Shader
    • in Blender 4 connect to Coat Normal input too
    • support bevel shader on DECALmachine panel decals and trimsheet materials
      • automatically adjust panel decal bevel shader width, when parent object's bevel width is modulated
    • fix 2 nodes not being removed when, when bevel shader is disabled again
  • support creating new world if none is present in scene and setting/picking a world
  • add shadow catcher and holdout toggles to Cyclces box
  • add MACHIN3tool's draw object axes toggle in MATERIAL and RENDERED shading modes too
  • flesh out and clarify the 3 different kinds of wireframe "modes" depending on context
    • toggle wire for selected objects
    • toggle wire globally (all / overlay) with no object selected
    • toggle wire in edit mode (xray, legacy 2.79 style wireframe)
    • all three and any combination of them are now dynamically indicated accordingly when active
  • Screencast
    • support DECALmachine Material Override (including undoing it)
• Workspace pie
  • change default keymap pie from PAUSE key to F12
    • for some reason PAUSE key output from the Naga Pro V2 is not recognizd in Blender? ^{on Linux only?}
• addon preferences
  • fix issue of "double-drawing" 0 and 1 values
• rework when and how handler logic is executed
  • resolve conflicts with ZenUV/ZenSets, GridModeler, ArchiPack and NodeTreeStore
    • thanks Alex, kushiro and Stephen! 🙏
  • fix Blender crash related to real-time compositing and groups
  • skip DECALmachine post-asset-drop decal backup object cleanup, when DM has that capability already^{next update}
  • skip MESHmachine post-asset-drop stash object cleanup, when MM has that capability already^{next update}

DeusEx

• Groups
  • support multiple poses (any number) per group empty
  • expose group poses in group panel in sidebar
    • support setting, recalling, updating, previewing, sorting and naming of poses
    • support creating batch poses
      • batch poses are poses on different empties in the the same group hierarchy, that are linked together
      • they can be batch-recalled too
        • think hand poses, where each finger joint empty has it's own pose, but they are all tied together to create a hand pose
      • support (temporarily) unlinking specific batch poses from the other poses in the batch
    • support retrieving poses even when group gizmos are not shown
• Group + Groupify tools
  • automatically create Inception poses on group creation
• add SetupGroupGizmo tool
  • modal tool to quickly and conveniently setup the group gizmos directly from the 3D view instead of from the sidebar panel
  • support view based axis selection and toggling via TAB or T keys
  • support axis toggling via X, Y, Z keys accordingly
  • support all-axes toggling via A key
  • support gizmo size adjustment via mouse wheel (or 1 and 2 keys)
    • support precision adjustment via SHIFT and CTRL mod keys
  • support toggling gizmo display via S or D keys
• TransformGroup tool
  • flesh out HUD and draw line from group origin to mouse, HyperCursor style
  • support selecting group empty (and finishing without rotating) via G key
  • support switching to SetupGroupGizmo tool (and finishing without rotating) via Q key
  • remove gizmo size adjustment via mouse wheel^{use SetupGroupGizmo tool now}
  • support creating new pose and finish via S key (as before, but now you can create any number of poses per group)
  • support previewing and selecting poses by scrolling
    • release LMB to recall the previewed pose and finish
    • press SPACE to finish without recalling the selected pose
  • when invoking the rotation, initiate pose selection automatically, when group empty is already at a certain pose, when group rotation is initiated
    • except for the Inception pose
  • mark selected pose for removal via X key, and removal of all via A
  • remove previous R keymap for pose retrieval
  • remove previous K keymap for auto-keying for now
• SavePie
  • Screencast
    • support group pose tools (Set, Retrieve, Update, etc)

v1.6

2023-11-10

• add ToggleRegion tool
  • a single T keymap to toggle Toolbar T-Panel, Sidebar N-Panel, and asset shelf/browser depending on mouse position on the screen
    • NOTE: the new asset shelf is not very useful in Blender 4.0 yet, so toggling that is disabled by default, but can be enabled and used, if desired
    • more interesting is toggling a new asset browser area at the top or bottom of the 3d view
      • it will remember the previously chosen library and catalog_id as well as all asset browser settings
        • such as thumbnail_size, import_method, filter choices and filter search term, as well as header alignment
      • the previously set height of the asset browser area is remembered too
      • and all of this per-workspace!
        • so on each workspace you can have 2 different asset browsers that can be neatly tucked away or revealed when needed
      • an asset browser can then be closed not only with the mouse in the 3d view, but with the mouse in center of the asset browser too, as if it were a region, not an area
        • with the mouse towards the sides of the asset browser, you can toggle the library/catalog selection or active asset details, also just via a T press
  • NOTE: this tool is enabled by default in MACHIN3tools now
  • ALSO: check addon prefs for some tweaks in behavior you can make, and make sure you watch the short video about the tool, due to some Blender shenanigans
• Shading Pie
  • store per-shading type overlay visibility on scene level
  • expose default overlay visibility settings to addon prefs
  • deal with out of sync overlay visibility settings, which can happen if the user toggles overlays using other means
  • Bevel Shader
    • add option (default on) to consider mesh dimensions to modulate the bevel shader
      • this prevents small object from having massive bevels
      • you still have the option to modulate per-object on top of that
    • compensate for object scaling
  • Shade Smooth/Flat tools
    • fix 4.0 issues due to bevel weight and crease API changes
• Save Pie
  • ScreenCast
    • fix vertical positioning
  • support .stl import/export, disabled by default
• Views Pie
  • SmartViewCam
    • add poll to ensure it only runs in object mode
• Collection Pie
  • remove custom AddToCollection() and MoveToCollection() ops
    • Blender's the native ops now work properly in local view, even without outliner context overrides
• Cursor and Origin Pie
  • switch position of Origin to Cursor with Origin to Active/Selection buttons
    • Cursor is on the right now, the other Cursor buttons in the pie above
• Filebrowser/Assetbrowser tools
  • support opening the folder of an asset from the assetbrower in the system file browser using O key, just like in the filebrowser
  • show fading warning when attempting top open asset's .blend file, if it is already open right now
• CreateAssemblyAsset tool
  • fix and simplify thumbnail assignment in Blender 4.0
• SmartEdge
  • fix 4.0 issues due to bevel weight and crease API changes
  • fix KnifeProject Cut Through typo
• Mirror tool
  • simplify moving normal transfer mod on DM decals
• Material Picker tool
  • silence warnings when checking for asset browser presence
• Customize tool
  • rename Navigation Preferences to Input and Navigation
    • do NDOF setup
  • change NFOF_BUTTON_FIT view_selected keymap to NDOF_BUTTON_1 view_center_pick
  • disable shift + B zoom_border keymap
  • change curve.select_linked keymap from CTRL + L to SHIFT dbl LEFTMOUSE
  • in Blender 4.0 disable (require) alt_navigation for translate, rotate and resize ops in object, mesh and curve modes
• SmartVert tool
  • SlideExtend
    • support HyperCursor 0.9.15 alongside previous pre-release versions
• addon preferences
  • change addon category to 3D View
  • introduce registration_debug setting to control whether (un)registration confirmation is written to the terminal
  • simplify and refactor how the various settings are drawn
  • fix issue in addon keymap section where warning hint was not displayed when all keymapped tools or pies are disabled
  • add CURVEmachine and HyperCursor links to about section
• Group Context Menu
  • force INVOKE_DEFAULT executing context to support calling this (sub) menu from a keymap
• fully support Blender 4.0
  • drop dpi arg in blf.size()
  • support new shader names
  • deal with asset browser related API changes
• fix np.float issue with newer numpy versions
• silence reload_modules() debug output for good

v1.5

2023-06-27

• bump minimum Blender version to 3.6
• MaterialPicker tool
  • add prefs to show it on Material and/or Render shaded views, no matter the workspace
• Focus tool
  • with "Un-Mirror" enabled, only ignore mirror mods, that use a mirror object
  • fix rare exception when encountering None object in focus history
• Customize tool
  • update select_linked keymaps to delimit by MATERIAL, SEAM and SHARP
• Save Pie - Screencasting
  • add CURVEmachine support
• add workaround to prevent Blender crash related to real-time compositing and groups
• take system's UI scaling into account for all modal HUDs
• switch all timer modals to new system clock based method
  • fixes a long time issue, where timer modals would sometimes run much faster than they should
• remove bgl completely

v1.4.1

2023-04-19

• Cursor/Origin Pie
  • fix cursor and origin to edge alignment

v1.4

2023-04-18

Standard

• Save Pie
  • support Plasticiy import/export (.obj export with axes set properly)
  • Clean out .blend tool
    • support keeping object selection
    • also remove text, actions, worlds and custom brushes
    • also remove post-purge meshes not part of the selected objects (fake user meshes basically)
  • add optional pre-Undo saving, enabled in addon prefs, toggled in the pie
    • can be useful, if you notice undoing has a tendency to cause crashes
    • files are saved to the temp dir with _undosave suffix
      • backup files will be created too, depending on your Blender prefs
  • show warning in pie, if currently loaded file is in temp dir
    • this is done so the users doesn't recover a fil, and then just keeps working in the temp dir
  • replace native RecoverAutoSave op with custom OpenTemp op
  • LoadNext and LoadPrevious tools
    • improve poll to prevent execution when there are no next or previous files
    • update descriptions (tooltips) informing exactly what next or previous file is going to be loaded ahead of time
    • support loading backupfiles, .blend1, .blend2, etc. via CTRL
  • Screencast tool
    • support screencasting keys via SKRIBE, and prefer it over the Screencast Keys addon
      • for MACHIN3tools to find SKRIBE, there needs to be a skribe binary, shell script or alias in the system
    • enable ScreenCast Keys addon, when it's installed but not enabled
    • expose use_skribe and use_screencast_keys toggles to prefs, if they can be detected
• Shading Pie
  • add bevel shader toggle
    • automatically add/remove bevel shader setup to visible materials
    • support per-object radius modulation
  • Shade Smooth and Flat tools
    • for SHIFT and CTRL modes, ensure children or boolean mod objects are in local view, if local view is being used
  • Shade Flat tool
    • support clearing sharps, bweights, creases and seams independently, instead of always all of them
    • automatically disable clearing creases, if a subd mod which uses creases is present
  • expose PASSES enum in eevee and cycles boxes
  • expose 3.5 viewport compositing settings in MATERIAL and RENDERED views
  • add 15 to auto smooth angle preset
• Cursor/Origin Pie
  • add Origin to Bottom Bounds tools
    • set object origin based on center of bottom bounding box
    • optionally based on the evaluated mesh using ALT
  • tweak how orientations are calculated from faces or edges to be more in line with Blender behavior
    • Blender ensures the Y axis is aligned with the view's (screen space) up direction
• Modes Pie
  • highlight currently active edit mesh modes by depressing the buttons accordingly
  • support extending selection type using SHIFT
  • add tooltips explaining expand/contract behavior based on current and chosen selection modes
• MaterialPicker tool
  • support assigning materials from the asset browser using CTRL key
    • support applying to face selections in edit mode too
    • in object mode, don't finish the tool when applying material
      • this allows to easily apply materials to multiple objects, without having to recall the tool each time
      • use SPACE key to finish
  • remove fading label at the end
  • instead draw selected material name in HUD in real time
• Filebrowser tools
  • when opening blend file or asset in separate Blender instance using ALT + O, do it asynchronously instead of locking the initial Blender instance
  • when toggling hidden files via 4 key, toggle backup .blend visibility too
  • in Asset Browser
    • support cycling through all asset libraries, including new 3.5 ALL and ESSENTIAL libs
    • support new 3.5 FOLLOW_PREFS import type
    • switch default keys, use 1 for lib cycling, and 2 for import type cycling
• SelectHierarchy tool
  • optionally include mod objects (that aren't parented)
• Group tools
  • make removal of empty groups optional, by toggling it in addon prefs
• ClippingToggle tool
  • change medium default clip_start value to 0.05 for less wobbly HC object gizmos
• Thread tool
  • work around rare rotation issue
• preferences
  • fix render_enforce_hide_render description

DeusEx

• GroupTransform tool
  • avoid unnecessary selections when rotating using the group gizmos

v1.3

2023-01-01

• Shading Pie
  • expose auto smooth angle preset values to preferences
  • draw Shade Smooth/Flat buttons, when active object is CURVE too
  • ShadeSmooth, ShadeFlat
    • optionally smooth children and boolean modifier objects too
    • expand ScreenCast support
    • prevent issues with non-MESH objects among the selection
    • optionally and by default avoid setting sharps for HyperCursor's EdgeBevel edges
  • support Cycles' Fast GI toggle and it's viewport and render AO bounces
  • support Cursor axis drawing again
    • adapt how it is drawn based on whether the cursor itself is shown or hidden
    • only show cursor axes when HyperCursor gizmos aren't shown
• Save pie
  • Purge
    • provide feedback about what, if any has been removed
    • also run DECALmachine orphan removal, if DM is registered
    • add screencast support to distinguish recursive purging via ALT key
  • add SaveVersionedStartupFile tool
    • mapped to CTRL + U by default, not accessed from the pie itself (yet?)
    • addon prefs: support toggling CTRL + U keymap override, which if enabled calls the SaveVersionedStartupFile op instead of Blender's native op to save the startup file
  • fix the pie not completely unregistering due to bl_idname typo
• Modes Pie
  • support HyperCursor's geometry gizmo preview + toggle
• SelectHierarchy tool
  • support local view
  • add CTRL + DOWN keymap - unhide hierarchy
  • add SHIFT + CTRL + DOWN keymap - unhide hierarchy and include parent in selection
• Render tools
  • optionally and by default enforce hide_render setting of objects when Cycles viewport rendering (so not camera rendering)
  • accessed from Shading Pie
• Mirror tool
  • undo initiating Cursor mode when HyperCursor gizmos are visible, too confusing
  • fix how misaligned mirror objects are determined once and for all (the previous fix introduced another issue)
• Thread tool
  • fix depth value not really being percentage based, as was claimed
• MeshCut tool
  • support redoing
  • fix it not working with HyperCursor objects (and other addons using custom edge data layers)
• SmartEdge tool - Sharpen via SHIFT + 2
  • improve working with lazy (mixed) edge selections
    • this avoids the notorious double key presses
• Customize tool
  • enable Cycles preview denoising
    • set the start sample to 2, which allows it to have viewport nav to be as fast as without denoising
    • also set input passes from Albedo to None (RGB), which allows denoising to work for refractive materials
  • enable cycles Fast GI
    • set viewport and render bounces to 2
    • this creates a more punchier AO, which is great for details in shadowy areas
  • set select linked keymap to delimit SHARP not the default SEAM
  • fix keymap issue in 3.1.2, where the 3.2 keymap was attempted to be set
• preferences
  • cleanup and improve structure/usability
  • make individual tool and pie settings collapsible, and collapse them all by default
• various ongoing HyperCursor ^{on Patreon} integrations

v1.2

2022-11-26

• add SelectHierarchy tool
  • optionally and by default select children recursively
  • optionally unhide them too
• MaterialPicker tool
  • fix assign mode due to Blender's drawing functions no longer receiving an updated event prop
  • fix exception when assigning material to objects without a data block
• SmartVert tool
  • fix rare exception when connecting paths
• Mirror tool
  • fix removal issue, where mirror object misalignment wasn't recognized
• AssetBrowser tools
  • fix op bl_idname in sidebar panel
• Filebrowser tools
  • fix issue with keymaps not unregistering
• Asset Drops
  • check if MESHmachine or DECALmachine are actually installed before attempting to unlink stash objects or decal backups
• Customize tool
  • customize workspace pie
• Save Pie
  • add usd import/export support
  • support toggling obj/fbx/usd (addon preferences)
  • support Blender's experimental obj import/export
• Shading Pie
  • Object Axes Drawing
    • optionally draw it at fixed screen-space size
    • lower default axes size to 0.1 and alpha to 0.5
    • fix exception when object becomes invalid
    • fix execution when context.visible_object
  • add Denoise toggle in Cycles settings
• Cursor/Origin Pie
  • CursorToSelected tool
    • disable setting Cursor Orientation preset by default (addon preferences)
• Views Pie
  • Custom Views
    • disable setting Cursor Orientation preset by default (addon preferences)
• various, ongoing HyperCursor^unreleased integrations

v1.1.1

2022-09-12

• Mirror tool
  • fix cursor mirroing when using old (non-flick) keymap
• Asset Browser tools
  • fix sidebar panel exception to do old bl_idname

v1.1

2022-09-10

Standard

• Mirror tool
  • add support for flick mode, and default to single key SHIFT + ALT + X keymap
  • support flick mirroring across cursor(empty)
    • support re-using existing empty at cursor location
  • support flick removal of mirror mods for the active object
  • support removal of all mirror mods of all selected objects
  • expose flick distance in addon prefs
• Assetbrowser tools
  • CreateAssemblyAsset tool
    • support setting asset empty location to Average, Average Floor (default) or World
      • this makes creating Assembly Assets not located in the world origin very easy
    • support putting asset empty in asset objects' collections
    • improve readability of redo panel
    • optionally toggle overlays when rendering asset thumb
    • fix wire hiding
• Focus tool
  • support ignoring lights
    • this will keep them them always visible
• Filebrowser tools
  • Open tool
    • support opening .blend file using ALT + O
      • works in filebrowser and assetbrowser
• Select tools
  • SelectWireObjects tool
    • include objects with BOUNDS display type
• SmartVert tool
  • fix SlideExtend not working anymore in 3.0+
• Customize tool
  • fix keymap issues in 3.2+ due to changes in TWEAK keymaps
• Workspace Pie
  • support setting it up the prefs addon prefs
• Shading Pie
  • completely rework how object axes are drawn
    • toggle it per-object
    • toggle it for the active object
    • persists across blender starts and scene loads
• Modes Pie
  • support new Sculpt Curves (Hair) mode in 3.3
• Snapping Pie
  • support volume snapping
• UV Align Pie
  • prevent exception when aligning with multiple objects in edit mode, but the active having no loops(verts/edges in UV space) selected
• Views Pie
  • fix aligning to active, local or cursor in 3.2+
    • due to a change in blender behavior, it is now necessary to switch to an ortho side view afterwards, if you want to be able to rotate back into a perspective view utilizing Blender's use_auto_perspective pref
• Save Pie
  • fix Blender crash issues when starting new file
• various updates for HyperCursor(unreleased) support and integration

DeusEx

• GroupTransform tool
  • support auto keying group empty rotation
  • also allow keying initial rotation and activate auto keying using K key
• Extrude tools
  • activate by default
• Shading Pie
  • support toggling group gizmo visibility

v1.0.2

2022-04-24

• Customize tool
  • map select parent/child to up/down arrows
• avoid light visibility/renderability synching even when render tools are disabled
• fix typos

v1.0.1

2022-04-16

• AlignRelative tool
  • fix it being out of sync with the DeusEx version
• CreateAssemblyAsset tool
  • fix thumbnail saving on Windows
  • automatically assign thumbnail to asset

v1.0

2022-04-15

Standard

• raise minimum Blender version to 3.0
• add Documentation
• add Assetbrowser tools
  • add CreateAssemblyAsset tool
    • create multi-object asset for the Asset Browser
    • automatically assign to chosen library catalog
    • keep parent-child relationships
    • keep drivers
    • optionally clear Decal Backups and Stashes
    • optionally create thumbnail
    • automatically switch to preferred Asset Browser workspace
    • automatically switch Asset Browser to Local
    • optionally hide wire objects
    • support creation of assets made of assets
  • add AssembleCollectionInstance tool
    • used to access individual collection instance asset objects
    • also works for non-asset collection instances
    • optionally keep empty as root parent via ALT key
    • optionally hide wire objects
    • support assembling assets made of assets
  • automatically unlink decal backups and stash objects when appending assets using Asset Browser
• add Render tools
  • add QuickRender tool
    • quickly render different quality settings and automatically save the result relative to the blend file
  • add SeedRender tool
    • render 3 different seeds and combine them to remove fireflies
  • add FinalRender and FinalSeedRender tools
    • force .exr, create Cryptomatte and setup Compositor
  • add DuplicateNodes tool
    • duplicate nodes normally, except when a CryptomatteV2 node is active
    • in that case keep the input link and clear out the matte ids
  • optionally show render buttons in light properties panel
  • optionally sync light visibility/renderability when rendering
• add AlignRelative tool
  • duplicate/instance selected objects and align the relatively to chosen target objects
• add PunchIt (a little) tool
  • simple, but functional manifold extrusions
• Filebrowser tools
  • CycleThumbs tool
    • support backwards cycling using SHIFT + 3
  • in Asset Browser support
    • cycling import_types using 1
    • toggling LOCAL/Library using 2
• Groups
  • support Group Origin adjustment from the
    • Tools Tab in the 3D View's sidebar
    • Active Tool tab in the Properties View
    • Group section in MACHIN3tools panel
  • fix group selection issues in local view, that prevented (De)Select All from working correctly
• CursorSpin tool
  • add angle presets
  • add adaptive steps
  • add offset
  • force consistent positive extrusion, unless inverted
  • activate along Punchit with the Extrude button in addon prefs
• CleanUp tool
  • draw red HUD label when post-clean-up non-manifold edges are found
• ToggleSmooth tool
  • support multiple subd mods per object
• SmartVert SlideExtend tool
  • fix snapping in local view
• Save Pie
  • add custom SaveAs tool
    • ALT: Save as Copy
    • CTRL: Save as Asset
      • removes all objects in a file not belonging to an asset
      • it then invokes Save as Copy
      • useful to save assets to external library
      • save normally before running this op, or undo after it
  • .fbx export: make applying 'FBX_SCALE_ALL' optional in addon prefs
    • good for Unity, but bad for Unreal
  • optionally hide Screen Cast
  • remove Material + World appending tools in favour of Blender's native asset workflow
• Shading Pie
  • make setting use_scene_lights and use_scene_world optional when changing eevee presets
  • with the Render tools activated
    • support adjusting area light intensity when switching between Eevee and Cycles
    • area lights adjustment has 3 triggers
      • render init/cancel/complete
      • switching shading from material to rendered cycles or back in the pie
      • switching render engine from Eevee to Cycles or back in the pie
  • indicate if edit_mesh_wire (xray) is enabled using the blue wire icon
• Modes Pie
  • support particle edit mode
  • when the passthrough toggle or the edit mode wireframe toggle (shading pie) are used
    • make toggling X-Ray optional (addon prefs) when entering or leaving edit mode
  • in SurfaeDrawMode, avoid enabling auto-key to allow for grease pencil drawing
• Save Pie, ScreenCast
  • distinguish new MESHmachine Symmetrize modes
• Workspace Pie
  • re-enable Compositing workspace
• MACHIN3tools Panel
  • hide the entire panel or only sub-sections, depending on mode and activated tools
  • add Extrude section in edit mode with CursorSpin and PunchIt buttons
• preferences
  • allow disabling MACHIN3tools sidebar panel completely
  • redo about tab
• Customize tool
  • map ui.reset_default_button to MMB

DeusEx

• add Group Transform Operator and Gizmos
  • rotate Groups around specific axes without have to select said groups first
  • add global Group Gizmo toggle in 3D View's sidebar and the Object Context menu
  • add per-group Gizmo visibility and per-axis rotation toggles
  • set group gizmo size per-group and globally
    • set group gizmo size from the sidebar and from the Group Transform operator
  • set and recall rest poses for the active group groups down the hierarchy at once
    • set and recall rest poses from the sidebar or from the Group Transform operator
• add PunchIt tool
  • advanced manifold extrusions, same as in the dedicated PUNCHit addon

v0.10.0

2022-03-14

• add AssembleCollection tool
  • assemble all objects of a collection instance, making them accessible
  • works for linked and appended collection instance assets, brought in via the Asset Browser
  • accessed from the Modes Pie

v0.9.0

2021-11-27

Standard

• support Blender 3.0
• Save Pie
  • add ScreenCast tool
    • optionally show DM, MM, M3, HO and BC addon prefixes
    • automatically enable Screencast Keys for shortcut display, if that addon is installed
  • Add ReloadLinkedLibraries tool (thanks TitusLVR)
  • SaveIncremental tool
    • support two-digit versioning using ALT
      • useful to create sub-versions of already incrementally saved blend files like myfile_007_01.blend, instead of proceeding to myfile_008.blend
    • preview path in tool tip/description for clarity
  • Purge
    • use recursive purging now via ALT instead of running it multiple times
• Snapping Pie - add layout toggle (same as in addon prefs) - add second layout with grid snapping toggle
• Shading Pie
  • add 'Use Flat Shadows' toggle
    • toggle viewport shadows only for flat shaded lighting
  • simplify switching shading into single SwitchShading() operator
• Collection Pie
  • support local view for AddToCollection and MoveToCollection tools
    • requires Outliner to be visible on the screen, so won't work with maximized 3d view
• Cursor and Origin Pie:
  • prevent offsetting MESHmachine stashes on object's whose origin is not changed (aka "self stashes")
• SmartVert tool
  • support CENTER merging edge/face selections (per sequence/island)
  • support LAST merging edge/face selections to mouse (per sequence/island)
    • edge/face selection don't have a LAST(active) vert, so merge to the vert closest to the mouse instead
  • SlideExtend
    • add Flatten mode F
    • use new Snapping approach
• SmartEdge tool
  • support selecting adjacent faces/edges (as an alternative to Bounds/Region)
    • edge selection: select adjacent faces
    • face selection: select adjacent edges
  • support setting bevel weight(as an alternative to setting sharp)
    • support 2 new modes: CHAMFER and KOREAN
      • for both of these: add bevel mod if not present already
      • remove bevel mod again, if no bweights are set on the mesh anymore
  • fix rare error when connecting vert paths fails
• SmartFace tool
  • support going into Focus mode when creating a new mesh object from a face selection
• Filebrowser tools
  • add CycleThumbs tool (file browser tools) mapped to 3
  • remap hidden files toggle to 4
• CleanUp tool
  • fix issue when active object is not selected
• Customize tool
  • update node editor shortcuts
    • use F for node.view_selected
    • use SHIFT + F for node.view_all
    • disable F for node.link_make
• ToggleSmooth tool
  • prevent meshes without any faces causing exceptions
• addon preferences
  • expose HUD size and per-tool HUD fade time out settings
    • applies to CleanUp, ClippingToggle, MaterialPicker, SurfaceSlide, Focus, Group, TransformEdgeConstrained and Tools Pie
  • add option for alternative Snapping Pie layout showing absolute grid snapping button
  • add option for legacy line smoothing
• replace previous parenting and unparenting logic
• use safe matrix inversion everywhere
• fix some poll issues when doing operator search in non-3d view editors
• remove legacy code for Blender pre-2.93
• drop bgl module use for view3d drawing (except for legacy line smoothing)

DeusEx

• TransformEdgeConstrained tool
  • fix MMB axis lock issue with tiny scaled objects, due to axis vector being too small

v0.8.0

2021-04-16

DeusEx

• add TransformEdgeConstrained tool
  • rotate and scale while being constrained to edges
  • transform in view space and local space via axis locking
  • median, active, cursor and individual origins
  • support direction locking for scaling
  • quick access to zero scaling
  • keymaped to ALT + R in edit mesh mode

Standard

• add ToggleSmooth tool
  • toggle smoothing in Korean Bevels and SubD workflows
  • in object mode support multiple objects and equalize the smoothness state across all objects
  • keymaped to ALT + Tab
• SmartVert, SlideExtend
  • support sliding verts in edge mode
  • support snapping to faces (of any object in edit mode)
• CleanUp tool
  • add HUD indicating how much if any geometry was removed
  • make it easier to lower the dissolve_redundant_angle when dragging the prop in the redo panel
• SmartEdge tool
  • narrow down scenarios where knife project is used
• CursorSpin tool
  • make activation optional
• Customize tool
  • keep wire threshold at 1 instead of changing it to 0.99
• Shading pie
  • expose wire opacity instead of threshold

v0.7.1

2021-03-28

• fix exception in CursorToSelected tool
• Modes pie - SurfaceDrawMode
  • enable toolsettings.use_keyframe_insert_auto in 2.93 due to behavior change

v0.7.0

2021-03-27

• Save pie
  • add Clean tool
    • remove all objects, materials, images, collections from current blend file
• Modes pie
  • SurfaceDrawMode
    • create black GP material + set brush strength to 1
    • add opacity and thickness mods
  • add ShrinkwrapGreasePencil tool
  • expose opacity and thickness factors, if mods are present
  • expose Grease Pencil zdepth_offset
  • expose Grease Pencil use_curve_edit in 2.92+
• Align pie - AlignEditMesh tool
  • refactor and support redo panel
  • optionally align each edge loop or face island
• Shading pie - Matcap Switch
  • optionally switch background too
  • optionally disable overlays for Matcap 2
• Views/Cams pie
  • simplify orbit method (Trackball/Turntable) into single toggle
  • add orbit around selection toggle
  • fix SmartViewCam not working in EDIT_MESH mode
• SmartVert tool
  • Slide Extend mode
    • fix snapping issue with zero length edges
  • support CENTER when merging vertex paths
• SmartEdge tool - Knife Project mode
  • allow disabling Knife Project in redo panel
    • useful if you want to select the boundary loop, even though the current selection is separated from the mesh
• CleanUp tool
  • support multiple edit meshes
• Customize tool
  • fix node.links_cut and node.add_reroute KMIs in 2.92+
  • support 2.7x keymap in 2.93
  • set Filebrowser search KMI to /
• fix keymap issues when running Blender in background mode

v0.6.0

2021-01-20

• add comprehensive, export friendly Group tool set
  • group objects by parenting to empties
  • tools include Group CTRL + G , Ungroup, Groupify, Add and Remove Objects/Groups from Group, Select SHIFT + dbl-LMBand Duplicate Group
  • support auto-select, recursive-select and group-empty hiding - all enabled by default - and more
  • Outliner shortcuts 1, 2,3, 4 to Toggle Group Mode, Expand and Collapse, and Toggle Children
• add Add Thread tool
  • in edit mesh context menu
• add CursorSpin tool
  • in the Extrude Alt + E menu
  • CursorSpin basically just fixes Blender's native Spin operator
    • Blender's native op is still stuck in a world where the Cursor had no rotation
    • and so there is no convenient way to set the spin axis
    • while the spin center is properly initiated from the cursor location, the axis isn't
    • the only way to use Blender's spin op is using the Spin tool, which does it properly
    • CursorSpin does the same, but is also directly available from the Extrude menu, so there's no need for the Spin tool
• add SelectWireObjects tool
  • select wire objects, such as ones commonly used for booleans
  • ALT Hide them
  • CTRL include Empties too
• Align tool
  • support aligning active between 2 selected object
  • support groups
  • support "Affect Only Parents" transform option
• SmartVert tool
  • support vert bevel for single vert selections
• SmartEdge tool
  • add Knife Project capability
    • if the selection is separated from the rest of the mesh, run knife project
    • useful to quickly knife project duplicated edge or face selections
  • Offset Edges (Korean Bevel)
    • properly remove sharps, when the Bevel tool is chosen
• Material Picker tool
  • expose workspace names in addon prefs to filter which workspaces the tool's button should appear on
  • add Material Picker to Object Context menu
  • optionally assign material too, using ALT
• CleanUp tool
  • add option to find/select non-planar faces
• SelectedToCursor tool
  • support "Affect Only Parents" transform option
  • properly support group auto-selections
    • if the active object is a group empty, ignore all other selected objects
    • this means you can easily move a group to the cursor or the cursor to a group, without having to disable auto-select
• CursorToSelected tool
  • properly support group auto-selections
• Focus tool
  • fix invert mode being initiated via ALT modifier key
• SurfaceSlide tool
  • fix issues with booleans, by stripping all mods from the surface reference object
• Customize tool
  • Overlays
    • disable show_fade_inactive edit mode overlay
  • Keymap
    • ensure CTRL + B bevel keymap uses OFFSET
    • change SHIFT + CTRL + B vert bevel keymap to edge percent bevel instead
      • you can easily do vert bevels using SmartVert, or regular bevels switched to vert via V in the modal
      • switching mode using M in the modal is cumbersome however, hence the extra keymap
    • force bevel keymap profile of 0.6
    • this is helpful when alternating between Smart Edge Offset Edges, which forces a profile of 1
    • deactivate mesh.fill ALT + F keymap
      • this means ALT + F can be used from edit mesh mode to center the view on the mouse, just like in object mode
• Shading pie
  • add ColorizeObjectsFromGroups tool
    • recursively assign random colors to each group in the selection
    • ALT use existing group empty colors, instead of new random colors, to unify group objects colors
    • CTRL only colorize the active group
• Transform pie
  • add "Affect Only Group Origin" option
    • this enables "Affect Only Parents", and disables Group Auto-Select at the same time, allowing for convenient "Group Origin" changes
• Modes pie
  • fix several gpencil ("Surface Draw mode") issues due to 2.83+ API changes
• Tools pie
  • fix issue when not in Object or EDIT_MESH modes
  • fix issue when drawing tool name, if the pie's tools are customized
• M3 theme
  • tone down outliner selection color

v0.5.0

2020-12-26

• add MaterialPicker tool
  • accessed from the Shading/Material workspace
• add SurfaceSlide tool
  • accessed from the Modes pie
• rebuild SmartVert Slide Extend mode
  • support multi target sliding
    • this requires making a distinction between how the selection is made
      • make a manual selection of each vert, then every second vert will be a target for the previous one
      • to use a single target for multiple verts, use box or circle select, followed by selecting the active vert target
  • support snapping (to edges of all edit mode objects) using CTRL
  • support diverged snapping using CTRL + ALT
  • draw proximity and ortho coords
  • dissolve edges if necessary
  • add statusbar info
  • make it more responsive and take mouse direction into account to control the slide
  • improve performance significantly on heavy meshes
  • stop taking mouse inputs when passing through to adjust viewport using MMB
• Mirror tool
  • support mirroring across cursor
• Unmirror tool
  • remove empties created when mirrored across cursor
• Focus tool
  • add inverted local view mode, mapped to CTRL + ALT + F by default
    • focus on the inverted selection
  • ViewSelected mode
    • treat no selection in edit mode like no selection in object mode: focus on everything
• ClippingToggle tool
  • add fading HUD
  • use 0.01 as the default value for MEDIUM (same as Blender default)
• Customize tool
  • deactivate transform.translate SHIFT + T (texture space) keymap
• Cursor/Origin pie menu
  • add SelectedToCursor tool
    • like all custom tools in the Cursor/Origin pie, supports aligning location and rotation or only either one
  • add OriginToCursor tool
    • like all custom tools in the Cursor/Origin pie, supports aligning location and rotation or only either one
  • CursorToOrigin tool
    • support resetting only location ALT or only rotation CTRL to world origin
  • by default disable Cursor to Grid and Snap to Grid
    • can be re-enabled prefs
  • CursorToSelected, CursorToOrigin
    • optionally toggle cursor axes drawing, can be disabled in prefs
    • optionally set/reset cursor transform preset, can be disabled in prefs
  • move CursorToSelected down to the left, and CursorToOrigin to the top left instead
  • fix edge alignment issue in CursorToSelected and OriginToActive
• Views pie - Custom Views
  • toggle object or cursor axes, can be disabled in prefs
• Modes pie
  • support syncing tools, can be disabled in prefs
• Save pie
  • LoadMostRecent, LoadPrevious, LoadNextm Save and SaveIncremental tools
    • add statusbar output
• Shading pie
  • add 'in front' object display option when in wireframe shading
• Tools pie
  • add fading HUD

v0.4.1

2020-10-18

• Tools pie
  • fix BoxCutter tool not appearing for some people
  • add HardOps menu in edit mode
• Align
  • fix Align tool's ALT + A shortcut not working, due to Blender's (De)Select All shortcut taking precedence
    • discard 3D View Generic keymap, add Object and Pose mode keymap items instead
  • fix bone alignment, take Armature matrix into account

v0.4

2020-10-16

• change addon preferences
  • by default only enable the Modes pie and Focus tool to prevent new users feeling overwhelmed and to emphasize the customizability
• add Tools pie Menu Q
  • BoxCutter and HardOps support
  • optionally draw Quick Menu and Toolsbar
• Add Snapping pie
• Viewport pie
  • add ResetViewport
  • add optional orbit method selection (enable in addon prefs)
  • ViewAxis
    • use ORTHO when ALT aligning to a selection
  • add Custom Views, either in Local or Cursor space
    • optionally set trackball navigation when using custom views
    • optionally set transform preset when switching them on
    • turn off ortho grid when using custom view, as it isn't drawn properly anyway
• Transform pie
  • use VIEW preset instead of GLOBAL in custom views
  • add correct face attributes settings
• Shading pie
  • prevent accidentally switching to solid shading, when attempting to smooth in Material mode
  • prevent accidentally clearing custom normals when toggling cavity
  • add stats toggle (2.90 only)
  • add curve properties
  • add RotateStudioLight
    • rotate studiolight by 180 degrees
    • optionally rotate visible light sources too ALT
  • ToggleObjectAxes - draw cursor axes (in addition to object axes)
• Align pie
  • Align - support aligning in cursor space CTRL
  • Center - support centering in cursor space CTRL
• Cursor and Origin pie
  • OriginToActive
    • support edit mode alignment to Verts/Edges/Faces
    • support multi Vert/Edge/Face selections
      • the location is averaged, the rotation taken from the active
    • support only setting location ALT or rotation CTRL
    • DECALmachine support:
      • automatically change origins of projected/sliced decals and update decal backup matrices
    • MESHmachine support:
      • automatically change origins of stashed objects and update stash object matrices
  • CursorToSelected
    • use median weighted center instead of bounds center when aligning to face
      • because Blender's bounds center can produce locations not in the plane of the face
    • represent edit mode selection state in button label
    • support only setting location ALT or rotation CTRL
• Save pie
  • LoadMostRecent - ensure most recent file path still exists
  • MatcapSwitch - add option to force single color mode
  • fix rare unicode related exception when writing to the recent_files list/file
  • fbx export - use FBX_SCALE_ALL
• Workspace pie
  • SwitchWorkspace - also sync shading and overlays to non-alt workspaces, if ALT is pressed
• add MACHIN3tools panel
  • add SmartDrive tool
    • easily drive one object's location/rotation with the location/rotation of another
  • add Unity Export (Preparation) tool
    • for now
      • support mesh objects
      • support armatures
      • support meshes parented to other meshes or bones
      • support bevel, mirror and displace mods
    • prepare objects to achieve 0 rotation imports
    • swivel y and z scale props
    • add optional triangulation
    • already integrated in DECALmachine 2.0's Atlas Export
• Focus tool
  • Local View mode
    • add Focus Level HUD
    • also allow going up a level if selected objects == visible objects
      • so no need to deselect in that case
  • View Selected mode
    • if nothing is selected, focus on all visible objects
• Align tool
  • support aligning to active bone
    • optionally parent to the bone
    • optionally align object Z to bone Y
    • optionally roll when aligning to Bone
  • prevent odd undo issue when calling the tool first thing in Blender's startup scene
• Cleanup tool
  • add removal of redundant verts and/or edges (replaces previous 2-edged vert removal)
• SmartEdge tool
  • add bridge capability and expose bridge props to Redo panel
  • add "Korean Bevel" capability CTRL + 2
    • create "fake" bevel shading via support edges
    • uses offset edges or bevel, depending on topological conditions
• Customize tool
  • update for 2.90
  • add statusbar changes for 2.90+
  • add extremely verbose terminal output for every change that is done (shading, overly, keymaps, etc)
  • enable use_uv_select_sync for startup file customization
• fix Quadsphere exception in edit mode
• fix PurgeOrphans tool not unregistering

v0.3.15

2020-06-08

• add Filebrowser Toggle tool
  • keymaped to i, 2 and 3keys by default
    • toggle sorting alpha numerically or by time
    • toggle display type vertical list or thumbnail
    • toggle visibility of hidden files (linux users only?)
• Quadsphere object
  • smooth by default it
• Customize tool
  • add outliner customization
  • startup file customization
    • hide toolbar
    • set view matrix
  • shading customization
    • set new studiolight_background blur and alpha settings to 1
    • disable eevee volumetrics
    • enable eevee AO and SSR
  • fix 2.82+ viewport prefs issue, due to removal of multi_sample prefs
• Shading pie
  • refactor, making it more contextually aware
  • add world space lighting toggle for solid shading in studio mode
  • for armatures set bone axes and armature display type, not object axis and object display type
  • ultra eevee preset
    • setup a volume node when switching to this, if none is connected to the world
  • add cycles settings when in rendered shading
  • expose new bg strength and blur props
  • expose volumetric shadow props
  • add auto smooth presets
  • indicate if toggles are enabled
  • move object related settings into their own box
  • separate overlay and solid shading related settings
  • add tooltips everywhere
• Save pie
  • add Purge Orphans tool, which optionally purges 5 times in sequence (ALT key), and without a confirmation dialog
  • automatically set export operator's use_selection prop, based on current selection
• Align pie
  • add AlignObjectToVert tool
• Cursor pie
  • add OriginToActive tool
• Modes pie
  • UV Editor
    • remember pre-uv_sync-toggle selection and restore it when switching back
    • when disabling uv_sync_selection, sync edit mesh mode to to uv select mode (EDGE to EDGE, VERT or FACE to VERT)
      • the idea being, there is little reason being in face mode when turning off selection sync:
        • faces - being present only once in uv space - can just as well be transformed with sync enabled
        • the most likely scenario is, you'd want to edit vertices or edges, because unlike faces, they are present multiple times in uv space
  • fix edge mode icon
• Workspace pie
  • sync all(most?) shading and overlay properties to .alt workspaces
• Transform pie
  • use NORMAL orientation for Individual and Active presets, when in EDIT_ARMATURE mode
• fix keymap drawing issue in prefs
• fix rare Focus tool exception

v0.3.14

2019-12-22

• Align pie
  • add View mode
  • add Center tool
  • add Straighten tool
• UV Align pie add view mode
• Save pie - LoadPrevious and LoadNext tools
  • add alternative "don't load ui" mode
• raise blender version to 2.81 due to the 'affect only' Transform pie options

v0.3.13

2019-12-11

• add Transform pie
  • pivots, orientations and 'affect only'
• add UV Align pie menu
• Shading pie
  • add Eevee presets
  • add ToggleObjectAxes tool
  • fix grid toggle in non-side-view ortho views
• Align pie
  • add AlignObjectToEdge tool
• Save pie
  • AppendMaterial tool
    • avoid duplicate material appending in object's material stack, re-use existing material slot indices
  • LoadNext and LoadPrevious tools - warn if current file is unsaved
• Cursor pie
  • add CursorToSelected tool (cursor rotation support)
• Workspace pie
  • maintain viewport location, rotation and distance when changing workspaces
  • support switching to alternative workspaces
    • maintain shading when switching to and from alternative workspace
• Modes pie
  • UV Editor - create UV channel if none is present, when entering UV editing
  • fix potential performance issue (on Windows only?) with Modes pie due to addon checks
• add Open tool
  • in Blender's filebrowser, open current folder in system's file browser when O is pressed
• Focus tool
  • add ViewSelected mode, mapped to F by default
• Mirror + Unmirror tools
  • support grease pencil objects
• Mirror tool
  • fix drawing bisect_z and flip_z in operator properties
• MeshCut tool
  • in SEAM mode, mark edges as 'MESHCUT' (in addition to marking them seams as before)
  • remove straight 2-edged verts for SEAM(SHIFT) cuts
• CleanUp tool
  • remove ALL straight edged verts based on the angle threshold, not just the outside verts
• Customize tool
  • clean out startup scene

v0.3.12

2019-06-27

• MeshCut
  • redo internals and improve performance
• Save pie
  • reverse material order, when using Populate to bring in materials list from another blend
• Modes pie
  • support opening blends from linked objects in subprocess
• Customize
  • update full screen keymapping, due to API changes
  • update loop and ring selection keymappings, due to API changes
• fix issue when removing old version and installing new one in the same Blender session
• fix broken Views and Collections pie's due to API changes

v0.3.11

2019-05-20

• add QuadSphere object
• Views pie
  • add custom Perspective/Ortho Toggle
    • toggles viewport between Perspective or Orthographic
      • if preferences.inputs.use_auto_perspective is enabled, it will be turned of when going into ortho
      • it will be re-enabled when going into perspective again
      • this ensures the viewport doesn't go into perspective automatically, when rotating out of front, side or top view ortho views, unless you've been in perspective mode before
• Modes pie
  • add "pseudo-mode" SurfaceDraw
  • select an object, press the Pencil button in the modes pie
  • this creates a gpencil object and parents it to the active, and sets it up for surface drawing
  • if there is already a GPencil child on the active, create a new 'SurfaceLayer' instead
  • with SHIFT pressed, the Line shape is selected
  • perfect for DECAlmachine's GPanel tool, but generally useful to quickly draw on surfaces
• SmartEdge
  • add toggle sharp mode, keymapped to shift + 2
• Shading pie
  • add show_edge_seams toggle
  • ToggleGrid
    • add support ortho front, top, right, etc. views
  • add alternative modes for Smooth and Flat Toggles
    • ALT Smooth sets sharp edges based on auto smooth angle
    • ALT Flat removes all sharps, seams, bevel weights and creases
    • both can be run from object and edit mode and always affect the entire mesh
• Customize
  • set overlay.wireframe_threshold to 0.99 instead of the default 1
    • otherwise obj.show_all_edges has no effect
    • useful for hiding the internal edges on MEShmachine's plug handles
  • disable preference auto-save
  • fix error due to Blender API change
• fix MeshCut issue due to recent depsgraph changes
• tweak theme

v0.3.10

2019-04-12

• redo ClippingToggle tool
  • allow custom min, med and max values
• Customize tool
  • remap mesh.merge default keymap from Alt + M to M to make room for HardOps's material menu in edit mode
  • deactivate VIEW3D_MT_edit_mesh_select_mode keymapping in the MESH keymap
• Focus tool
  • fix issue when leaving local view and there's no history
• Collections pie
  • add visibility toggles
• Save pie - Append Material
  • if DM is present, don't apply materials to decals
  • fix issue when empties or other unsupported objects are among the selection
  • fix UI list issue due to API change
• Modes pie
  • update GroupPro main menu idname

v0.3.9

2019-03-26

• add MeshCut tool
  • knife intersect at object level
  • optionally flatten target's modifier stack
  • optionally mark seams
• Save pie: Append Materials Menu
  • avoid appending material, if it's already in the scene, except when shift is pressed
  • so now the menu can be used to apply the listed materials (repeatedly), without creating duplicates
• AlignEditMesh
  • support redo last
• Customize
  • disable screen.animation_play kmi's (Alt + A)
  • disable view3d.object_mode_pie_or_toggle kmi
• fix registration error due to strict enforcement of idnames in blender b24a255ca678
• fix issue with runtime Apply tool registration

v0.3.8

2019-03-13

• Focus
  • rewrite, use new local_view API tools
• Align
  • add Origin and Cursor align modes
• fix registration issue due to recent API change

v0.3.7

2019-03-08

• add Collections pie
  • mapped to shift + C
  • add to, remove from, move to and create new and purge empty collections
  • select a collection's objects and with SHIFT select all a collection's objects
  • with ALT subtract a collection's objects from selection, with SHIFT + ALT do the same for all objects of a collection
  • with CTRL disable viewport selection of a collection's objects(but not the collection itself)
  • GroupPro, BatchOps and DECALmachine integration
• add ApplyTransformations tool (specials menu)
  • apply Scale and/or Rotation of selected objects, while keeping Child transformations and Bevel width values intact
• add SelectCenterObjects tool (specials menu)
  • first of potentially more selection tools
  • selects objects if their bounding box crosses both sides of the chosen axis
• Views and Cams pie
  • make Orthographic/Perspective button and lens prop context sensitive: adjust camera if view is aligned with one
• Shading pie
  • Colorize Objects based on Collection membership
  • add wireframe_color_type selection
• Customize
  • map F key to focus on active in outliner
  • disable SHIFT + X object mode delete keymap item
  • fix keymap + use_save_prompt issues due to API changes
• Align pie
  • fix CursorToOrigin issues due to API changes
• Modes pie
  • remember pass_through and show_edit_mesh_wire states when leaving edit mode
  • re-enable xray shading accordingly the next time entering edit mode
  • support loading external blends of linked instance collections in subprocess
• Focus
  • for local view, use frame_selected=False
• Save pie
  • add incremental save path to recent files list
• SmartVert
  • add execute() to allow for redoing/tool properties to work

v0.3.6

2019-02-14

• add UnMirror
  • removes last mirror mod in the stack of the selected objects, works on mirrored Group Prop collections as well
• add Object Specials menu
  • includes only UnMirror for now
• Shading pie
  • support object coloring
  • add Colorize from Active
  • add Colorize from Materials
• Align pie
  • fix issue due to Blender API change
  • add CursorToOrigin op
    • unlike view3d.snap_cursor_to_center(), CursorToOrigin also resets the cursor rotation
• Modes pie
  • improve Group Pro integration
• Focus
  • add alternative Local View mode, performs better in heavy scenes
• Mirror
  • support mirroring Group Pro collections, incl. with Decals
• Align
  • support dropping empties to the floor
• Customize
  • fix mirror keymap issue with selection tool
  • fix issue with HEADER position due to API change

v0.3.5a

2019-01-23

• Modes pie
  • fix issue in pose and edit armature modes

v0.3.5

2019-01-22

• Shading pie
  • fix template icon scaling issue due to recent change in template_icon_view()
• Modes pie
  • add GroupPro pie button, if it's installed
  • add mode switch buttons for TEXTURE_PAINT, WEIGHT_PAINT, VERTEX_PAINT and SCULPT for MESH objects
  • add support for CURVE, FONT, SURFACE, META, LATTICE object types
  • add GPENCIL support
  • move Occlude/PassThrough button to the bottom left
  • fix issue where cavity was enabled when leaving edit mode, even if it was turned off before entering edit mode
• Save pie
  • fix issue when appending ALL materials
• Smart Vert
  • rebuild Slide Extend
• Mirror
  • add support for decals
  • support single object mirroring and expose bisect and flip settings in that case
  • support mirroring Decals
• Customize
  • update preference customization according to latest API and layout changes
  • overlay: set vertex_opacity = 1
• tweak theme

v0.3.4

2018-12-26

• Savepie - Append Materials
  • add Populate tool to fetch material names from source blend file
  • add AddSeparator tool
  • automatically add a material name, that is typed in manually, once return key is pressed
  • fix error in Append menu, when appendmats collection is empty
• adapt to API changes:
  • fix context.user_preferences errors
  • fix overlay.show_backface_culling errors
  • fix cursor keymap error
• update theme

v0.3.3

2018-12-02

• allow material appending in edit mode with edit mesh selection
• update Customize
  • Matcaps and Default Shading
    • disable setting shading type to SOLID to avoid crash since Blender 1b870bce85d
  • Keymaps
    • set 3D View set_cursor kmi's orientation property to GEOM
• SmartFace
  • fix distance sorting error
• Shadingpie
  • reset xray_alpha to 0.5 wen leaving edit mode
• Preferences - Modes pie
  • disable Rotate Around Selection by default

v0.3.2

2018-11-28

• Shading pie:
  • add Curvature toggle
  • allow eevee gtao factor dragging beyond 1
• tweak theme
• fix 2.7x keymap preset loading on MacOS
• fix edit mesh wire toggle and occlude/pass through toggle not updating when leaving edit mode with x ray enabled

v0.3.1b

2018-11-26

• fix world path issue on Windows

v0.3.1a

2018-11-26

• fix matcap path issue on Windows

v0.3.1

2018-11-26

• add cavity toggle to modes pie
• allow flexible addon folder naming

v0.3

2018-11-25

• initial 2.80 release