Why were face maps removed?

[Dangry]

Hi, I have released an addon that among many things, tries to re-add face maps to Blender and make the new attribute system a bit more intuitive to use.

Let me know what you think Key Ops: Toolkit

[thinsoldier]

Promises made. Promises kept.

[Dangry]

Just a little late, by a few months haha

[michalpe]

Probably the simplest solution is to use free Forgotten Tools, which contains a Selection Sets feature, letting you save selections of vertices, edges or faces.
Works nice, you just can’t name your sets AFAIK.

Forgotten tools

Add-on updated to v0.4.0 (see changes below). Over the years I’ve had various scripts and snippets accumulating on my hard drive. As I’ve been away from Blender for quite a while, they became forgotten, and now I’m slowly gathering them again, fixing up for 2.8x and accumulating in one add-on. Hence the name, Forgotten Tools. Which I think fits it nicely, since some of the additions you’ll find in it have been sorely missing from Blender as well. This initial release will be small, adding a f…

or buy it from Gumroad and support the dev:

Forgotten Tools