#blender addon

Blender add-on to rename Sims 4 weights/bones for X-mirror editing

I'm not sure if there's any need for this other than body editing, but I'll send it here for Simmer who wants to fix some of the details.

As the name suggests, this is a Blender addon that renames Sims 4 weights/bones for X-mirror editing... Test version. This will align bone rules with Blender's X-mirror, making weight and rigging adjustments much easier. You can revert to the original state with a single button and resend to Sims 4 Studio.

Supports multiple languages. 8 major languages. For now, I think it's fine as long as you can use English.

This works from Blender 4.x onwards. Lower versions have not been tested. It has been tested on 4.23 and 4.5.

⚠️Caution⚠️ This will cause irreversible changes and cannot be guaranteed to return to normal. We recommend saving with a new name before doing this.

You should be able to load the zip file by simply specifying it or by dragging and dropping it, but if that doesn't work, try downloading it directly from the preferences.

↓How to Use↓

Quick and easy importing of bfres models. Tested to work with splatoon 2, 3, and ACNH, which means it should work with basically any switch game which uses the format.

If you wanted a splatoon model or something in blender, you'd have to go to switch toolbox, export it is as DAE, convert it to an FBX, then import into blender, and then spend a long while messing with the materials.

This bypasses all of that! and you can just import it directly into blender. While I did have an earlier version, this is almost a complete rewrite which is much less buggy(still buggy) with many more features and it took so long to get to this point.

I've started working on an actual Blender addon for mass-renaming bones, fixing materials and mesh normals for MGS models imported from Noesis.

I'm way deep in debt for this community and I wanna do right for everyone trying to have fun/learn with these models. Reverse engineering is too steep to climb for me right now, but Blender scripting is not beyond my reach so I'll try to help with that part.

You just select your mesh(es), go to the Object Data Properties tab and choose how you want to clean it:

Clean and Subdivide: Deletes loose vertices, merges by distance and calculates sharp edges using custom normal data, converts tris to quads, and subdivides the mesh.

Clean Mesh without Subdivide: Does all of the above minus the subdividing.

Clean Mesh and Keep Tris: Does everything listed above except subdividing and converting tris to quads.

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After:

Feel free to do whatever you want with this addon.