TexTools for Blender

MichaelBenDavid · February 4, 2021, 2:04pm

yes i confirm, the uv squares addon is doing the same sh*t…

Oskar_Edlund · February 25, 2021, 4:23pm

Im just a annoying idea guy since I cant contribute in any meaningful way. But, I have some annying ideas ( that might be good!)

first of, it would be nice to be able to shift-click select multiple bake outputs to batch bake them. and then save different “presets” of outputs combination.
It would be nice to have a drop down menu in the UI for the saved presets.

For example, shift click AO, curvature and normal. then save it as " prop-outputs" (or what ever)
and when working on a vehicle you want to bake a different list of outputs to be used, then you just choose the “vehicle-outputs” preset you have saved earlier.

show a bake loading bar at while baking at the bottom of the window. ( like blender default baking)

Thats my two cents of annoying ideas for you guys haha.
Other than that, thanks for hands down the best UV tool!
cheers!

franMarz · March 12, 2021, 1:30am

Added in the latest version of master:

https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools-Blender/archive/master.zip

Quick reminder: for anyone having problems with TexTools in Blender 2.92, please download the latest version of master. There have been some fixes and additions lately.

SavMartin · March 12, 2021, 12:28pm

Now, you have the way to disable help buttons, no more accidental click

DolgovRom · March 13, 2021, 8:11am

HI. When baking, this error appears. This creates high poly copies. How can this be fixed?

franMarz · March 13, 2021, 1:15pm

Please post any bug here:

https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools-Blender/issues

Could you test your scene in 2.91 with the latest version of the addon and tell us there whether or not it still fails?

franMarz · March 15, 2021, 8:31am

NEW RELEASE: TEXTOOLS 1.4.2

UV LAYOUT

Align To corners added.
Align modes: To Selection (current, default), To Canvas, To Cursor.
Align: extended the align type compatibility in Edges and Vertices UV selection modes.
Added Mirror operators.
Randomize Rotation added.
Rectify multiple islands per mesh support (originally implemented by renderhjs on his textools-blender bitbucket page)
Select Bounds was considering seam edges as bounds.
Select Bounds was extending the selection to the islands in 2.83 but not in 2.91 prior to determine the outline. Now it behaves the same in both versions, only working on the strict selection.
Multi object UV editing support for Iron Faces (without automatic packing).
Iron Faces unwrap margin shouldn’t be hardcoded, use the TexTools global padding variable specified in the “TexTools” tab in the addon category panel.
Align Edge, Align World, rotate 90 and Straighten were broken by new changes on Blender master in the behaviour of the rotate operator in uv space.
Renamed Rotation operators to better comply with math and physics conventions.

BAKING

There were unnecessary loops affecting deletion of temporary baking nodes and objects, only noticeable when baking several sets of objects.

GENERAL

Added “Hide panels help buttons” in the addon preferences.
Code cleaning and simplification.

PierreSchiller · March 15, 2021, 8:56am

All right!! just in time!! I am grabbing 2.92 projects like crazey.

Branskugel · March 25, 2021, 2:28pm

Great many thanks to you @franMarz for doing all this work, not only keeping TexTools working, but also making it better! This addon saves my life during the ongoing project. May I add a feature request though? I would really like TexTools to have a switch button, that would automatically set baking preferences for preview baking and final baking with settings customizable in preferences. Also a neat little feature could be a customizable list of baking rays lengths presets. And finally, an extra different cavity preset for baking done through pointiness in geometry node (if it’s possible/applicable, as I can see it could be not universal)

jkcrosbyfun · April 13, 2021, 12:32am

hiya folks, really love tex tools, I’m getting an error with blender 2.92, when trying to bake textures and wondering if I’m doing something wrong?

SavMartin · April 13, 2021, 2:08am

Hi, download the rigth version , yours its old : https://github.com/SavMartin/TexTools-Blender/releases/download/v1.4.2/TexTools_1_4_2.zip

jkcrosbyfun · April 13, 2021, 3:43am

oh wow! you were absolutely right! thank you so much!

sashaliu · April 26, 2021, 2:11am

Help me solve the problem, too.
Thank you!

zaha · April 26, 2021, 5:09pm

Hi eveyone,

one thing I find a bit inconvenient is the way to create a color ID map based on vertex colors, which is my default workflow for working with Substance Painter:

When I have a mesh and am in the UV Editor, I go to the TexTools Color ID section.
I then select the parts of the mesh in the view I want to color and click on Assign Color for every part, which will create a material.
Then select everything and click Convert to: Vertex Color.

I always wondered, when there’s already a dropdown there, why can’t I select “Vertex Color” at the beginning and then directly “Assign Color” to my vertices from there?

Also I think there’s a copy/paste error on the buttons for “Select by color”:

And after I converted the Material IDs to Vertex Color IDs and add another Material Color ID, there are empty Material slots for every Material Color ID I had before:

Apart from that the add-on is a real time-saver. Thanks a lot for maintaining and improving it. Definitely appreciate it!

SHABA1 · April 27, 2021, 1:40am

Is there anywhere on the web other than this thread where these tools are documented (NOT THE CODING) and explained. I put that not the coding in caps because every time I ask that type of questions the devheads automatically think that I should read the documentation in the python code. I just want to know who to use the thing not how it was built.

franMarz · April 27, 2021, 10:05am

http://renderhjs.net/textools/blender/

Not up to date, but still the best you can find. About the Python code, don’t worry, it isn’t documented.

SHABA1 · April 28, 2021, 3:28am

Thank franMarz. That is perfect. I had to download and save the entire page in order for and animgifs to work but that is not a problem now that I have a newer machine with a bigger hard drive.

Coverop · May 2, 2021, 1:48pm

This is probably one of the most useful and free addons I’ve seen for baking textures.
It only lacks an option for multi-bake textures.

I hope one day It will be added.

Lamia · May 3, 2021, 5:26pm

Align to world seems to be broken in the daily builds.

EDIT: all the rotations seem to be broken.

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\TexTools\op_island_align_world.py", line 54, in execute
    utilities_uv.multi_object_loop(main, self, context)
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\TexTools\utilities_uv.py", line 60, in multi_object_loop
    func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\TexTools\op_island_align_world.py", line 107, in main
    align_island(obj, bm, uv_layers, faces, y, z, avg_normal.x < 0, False)
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\scripts\addons\TexTools\op_island_align_world.py", line 201, in align_island
    bversion = float(bpy.app.version_string[0:4])
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '3.0.'

location: <unknown location>:-1

franMarz · May 3, 2021, 6:43pm

We know it, already have an issue in the github about rotations. It’s a classic one. Until 3.0 is more stable, we better don’t tackle any issue for that version of Blender.