Mirrored shape keys = useless?

[Arith]

Hey there.
I am quite new in all this Blender stuff but I do my best and spend a lot of time understanding, learning and getting myslef into it. I really don’t like learning with YT tutorials, I rather find out things on my own to make them more familiar…
Well… I wondered when does when my “D day” fiinally come. And it seem like it’s here.

I made a character mesh. I used a Mirror Modifier. Then I made lots - and I mean LOTS - of blendshapes… I mean “Shape Keys”. It was half a day long experience that I really wouldn’t want to repeat in a while.
But of course…
Obviously, I cant apply any modifiers to “Shape Keyed mesh”…
I guess that u need to apply modifs first and then its Shapies turn but… Well… Guys… Is there ANY WAY to get through this without having to remove those Shapies; appliyng modifier AND THEN make ALL those Shape Keyes all over again…?

I’ll be extremely grateful for every possible solution…
btw: so sorry for my “english”
Thanks…

[FlyingBanana]

Just did a forum search and got this and one other for an answer

Mirror Modifier with Shape Keys

Hi - I’m new to this stuff so be gentle. I’m trying to add a mirror modifier to a MakeHuman mesh which has Shape Keys and I get the error “Modifier cannot be applied to a mesh with Shape Keys”. Obviously this makes modelling doubly difficult and a bit of a pain. It also happens with Boolean modifiers. Can anyone help, am I doing something dumb or is this how things are. Cheers

mirror modifiers and shapekeys don't mix

Hello Blender Users, So here is the situation. I started the model with the mirror modifier, rigged it with the armature modifier, created shape keys, and then ran into a wall when I couldn't apply the mirror modifier. Apparently, you can't apply the mirror modifier when it has shape keys. I was hoping that I could duplicate the shape key and create left and right vertex groups and assign the shape keys to them. The shape keys affect the mesh the way I want it to, so I would like to keep the…

[Arith]

so this means that answer to my question is no, right? i know how to do it properly, but i wanted to know if there is a way without making my shapekeys all over again / redoing them.
well… thanks anyway.

[FlyingBanana]

Did you look at the link to the threads? Someone wrote a script that will allow you to keep them but will involve more than just clicking apply