Key Ops: Toolkit
Features
All add-on functions can be enabled/disabled in the preferences
Industri Standard Keymaps
Alt Navigation - Navigate like in Maya
Dbl-Click to Select Mesh Island
Auto Delete - Instantly delete verts,edges and faces with no menu pop up with the Delete key
Maya Pivot - Pivot operation in Object mode that works similar to D in Maya
Toggle Retopology - One Click Toggle Retopology Overlay + settings and tool
UV Tools
UV Toolkit Panel - A collections of tools for the UV editor
- Unwrap In Place - Unwrap Islands in place withoute packing it
- Sharp Edges From UV Islands - Add sharp based on UV Islands to fix shading on uv unwraped meshes. With the only UV Island Borders option it will not add any sharp edges to for example an uv seam on a cylinder.
- UV Cut - Cut an Island, works more similar to cut in Maya
Pie Menus
Add Objects Pie - Faster way to add Mesh Primitivs, that also is automatically scaled relatively so it's never too big/small on the screen
Workspace Pie - Switch Workspace Faster
Cursor Pie - Better Pie Menu on Shift S with better pivot functinality then the defualt one
Modeling
Fast Merge - Merges the active/selected verts to the vert nearest mouse position
Connect - Connects Edges/Faces like in Maya/3ds Max
Game Art Toolkit
CAD Decimate - Tool to decimate very high poly meshes
Auto LOD - Tool to quickly create LODs
Quick Bake Name - Tool to quickly create bake names for high and low poly objects
Toolkit Panel - Adds new Modeling and utility operations to to the Toolkit Panel
Snap to gridfloor - Snaps the selected objects to the floor, Hold Alt - Individual, and Ctrl for Fast Mode
Duplicate Linked Modifiers - Duplicates the selected objects and creates a modifier instance that will have the linked modifiers from the original mesh. This means any changes of the original mesh will be replaced on the new duplicated mesh in real time. This is also works in Modifier List, making it even more smooth to use!
Quick Export - Exports the currently selected meshes
Attributes Operations - Adds new buttons to the attributes panel, simplifies and makes it more similar to how adding/removing vertex groups works.
Material Index - Tool to sort and assign Material Indexes after a index list. Useful for when exporting models to 3ds Max when using multi materials.
What's New
0.1.97 September 16th, 2024
Quick Bake Name is now up to 5x faster on Highpoly Meshes, note that the main bottleneck is still renaming the data block.
Offset UV should now work much more reliably, with hopefully no errors now in edge cases.
New Experimental Add Lattice Modifier Operation in the Add Modifier Pie Menu, that will setup everything in one click, the reason I made it despise a lot of similar addons, free and paid, is that I found none of them worked reliably and lack of options during the operation.
Polycount List - Now is up to 30% faster and has more options for filtering by collection, active collection, visible objects or the previous default All.
Updated for changes made in Blender 4.2.1
Alt Navigation has a new Table Navigation Mode, that makes it easier to navigate with a pen and tablet.
Cleande up the the toolkit panel layoute and made it look a bit more modern.
- Snap to gridfloor is now more reliable if it has parented objects while being way faster! It also now has a exact mode that is pixel perfect, but a bit slower.
- Duplicate Linked Modifiers - Duplicates the selected objects and creates a modifier instance that will have the linked modifiers from the original mesh. This means any changes of the original mesh will be replaced on the new duplicated mesh in real time. This is also works in Modifier List, making it even more smooth to use!
Limitations:
- Adding a modifier on the none original object will instead override the modifiers, which is really useful in many cases, but good to keep in mind!
- Removing modifiers on the none original object is not supported, only changing parameters for now.
Many minor bug fixes and improvements
Every single feature that this add-on adds is really useful. Thank you!