Separates a mesh by materials or loose parts or by whether or not the mesh is effected by a shape key.

Separate by material / loose parts / shapes This uses an internal dictionary and Google Translate.

Translate certain entities from any japanese to english.

This saves the shape keys and repairs ones that were broken due to scaling

Applies the current pose position as the new rest position.

Saves your current pose as a new shape key.

Making it compatible with Full Body Tracking.

Removing rigidbodies, joints and bone groups.

Renaming and translating objects and bones.

Imports a model of the selected type with the optimal settings.

This tries to completely fix your model with one click. Skip the step where he installs 'mmd_tools' in the video below, it's not needed anymore! (also very outdated)

If you need help figuring out how to use the tool (very outdated):.

Since Blender 2.80 the CATS tab is on the right in the menu that opens when pressing 'N'.

Check your 3d view and there should be a new menu item called CATS.

Also you don't need to save the user settings there. In Blender 2.80+ go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.

Important: Do NOT extract the downloaded zip! You will need the zip file during installation!.

Download the plugin: Cats Blender Plugin.

If you have custom Python installed which Blender might use, you need to have Numpy installed.

mmd_tools is not required! Cats comes pre-installed with it!.

Blender 2.79 or 2.80 or above (run as administrator is recommended).

Join our Discord to report errors, suggestions and make comments!

Merging bone groups to reduce overall bone count.

Translating shape keys, bones, materials and meshes.

Automatic decimation (while keeping shapekeys).

There are a lot of perks like having your name inside the plugin!ĭownload here: Cats Blender Plugin Features So if you enjoy how this plugin saves you countless hours of work consider supporting us through Patreon.

With Cats it takes only a few minutes to upload your model into VRChat.Īll the hours long processes of fixing your models are compressed into a few functions! A tool designed to shorten steps needed to import and optimize models into VRChat.Ĭompatible models are: MMD, XNALara, Mixamo, Source Engine, Unreal Engine, DAZ/Poser, Blender Rigify, Sims 2, Motion Builder, 3DS Max and potentially more

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