Key Ops: Toolkit 0.1.9x (Now on the Extension Platform)

Industri Standard Tools & Shortcuts to Speed Up Blender Workflow.

Blender Extension
Documentation
Github Page

Features

All add-on functions can be enabled/disabled in the preferences

Industri Standard Keymaps

UV

Unwrap In Place - Unwrap Islands in place withoute packing it
Unwrap in place

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.
Sharp From UV

UV Cut - Cut an Island, works more similar to cut in Maya
UVCut

Pie Menus

Extra

Game Art Toolkit

  • CAD Decimate - Tool to decimate very high poly meshes
  • Auto LOD - Tool to quickly create LODs WIP
  • Quick Bake Name - Tool to quickly create bake names for high and low poly objects
  • Polycount List - Get a list of objects and there poly count in realtime!
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  • Utilities Panel - Adds new Modeling and utility operations to to the Toolkit Panel WIP

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    Subdivde and Unsubdivide Cylinder
    Subdived_Unsubdived_Cylinder
    Connect
    Connect
    Extrude Edge by Normal
    extrude_by_normal
  • Quick Export - Exports the currently selected meshes
  • 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.
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Feel free to post your feature requests or if you find any issues with the add-on :slight_smile:

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Very excellent on that, have really been missing this feature. Just tried it, and it works great. Thank you!

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Thank you! I whanted this feature for a long time as well! haha :slight_smile:

I find it really nice to use together with Geometry Nodes, where instead of using slower and less flexible vertex groups, vertex, edge, and face groups can be used instead. Also, it’s nice to be able to save selection this way as well.

Also, with the Modifier Key, it’s even nicer since you can just press Tab in the properties panel, and it will toggle between the Modifier Panel and Data Panel, making it even simpler and faster to access.

Just note that Face Groups might not always work correctly in 4.0 due to a bug, it’s fixed in 4.1

Currently it only works for Bool, Float and Color, but this could easily be expanded in the future.

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My congratulations on the release of the first addon! :partying_face:
There are a lot of interesting tools! Have to try them :slight_smile:

One question regarding Modifier Key tool and others. Are they adding/changing your Blender hotkeys mandatory? Or is it off by default and can be on in the preferences?

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Thank you :heart:
Everything in the add-on can be turned on and off! So if you dont like a feature it can just be disabled. Also, not every feature is enabled by defualt. :slight_smile:

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Well, the reason why I asked about it is that I had not very pleasant experience with some other addon(great by the way) what ruined my custom keymap. After installation it forcefully replaced my hotkeys all over the Object, Mesh and 3D View sections… Enabling/disabling couldn’t help - what is done is done… Luckily I had a backup. That’s why I’ve come to the conclusion that changing any hotkeys by a new addon should be disabled by default.

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Ah, yes! I understand. Its a bit hard if you for instance want to override a shortcut that does something already in blender in phyton.

Still like 95% of the shortcuts in the addon wont change anything permanently, they get disabled when the addon or the extension is disabled.

There are some exceptions however, for instance there is an option to change the defualt shift a keybind to the add objects pie menu, this one is permanent, but there is of course an option to revert it :slight_smile: It was not possible to do it none destructible, otherwise I would have done it.

Also, always do backups for your settings anyways haha :slight_smile:

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Yeah, that’s 100% true advice! :stuck_out_tongue:

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This is genius and should be included in default Blender.

Almost everything from this addon looks like something I’d use. Pretty darn cool addon!

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Thank you for your kind words :heart:

The relative object scale is probable my favorite feature of my addon, so thanks for mentioning it! :grin: Been using it now for almost half an year and could not go back to default now haha

I am currently working on bringing back the Auto Smooth from how it worked in 4.0, to Blender 4.1 :slight_smile:

It will automatically moved the Smooth by Angle modifier the bottom of the stack and apply the same normals on all instances when the operation is used. Also, it makes it way easier to remove auto smooth modifier if its no longer need, just uncheck the auto smooth checkbox like in 4.0.

I hope it will make the transition over to Blender 4.1 a bit smoother.

It can already be tested/download from the github-page

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Hey Dangry

I just downloaded your addon, but I don’t have access to that attribute section You represented here:

Could You help me please, what am i doing wrong? Blender 4.1.
Thank You!

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Hi @Adam_Szalai The attribute operations are only available in edit mode :slight_smile:

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Lol, i’m always doing like this :smiley:

Thank You for the swift answer and for the addon!

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@Adam_Szalai Np :slight_smile: Oh! Also! I just updated the add-on for Blender 4.1, just like 20 min ago :laughing:

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question, is it possible to access that Auto-Smooth button you created from a script? i have lots of scripts that apply auto-smooth from blender 4.0 and many other features to a selected mesh in one go, i would like to translate them to 4.1 with this add-on

thanks! amazing job you’re doing!

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Thank you !
Any plan to add group UV islands ?

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Thank you! :slight_smile:

This should work:
bpy.ops.keyops.auto_smooth(auto_smooth=True, angle=0.785398, ignore_sharp=True, all_instances=True, move_to_bottom=True)

Or just bpy.ops.keyops.auto_smooth()

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Hi @carlosan What is “group UV islands” in the context of Blender? Are there any examples of how it would work you could point to? :slight_smile:

Sure

thanks you very much !

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