skinner

• window.py: Rearranging some of the Import tab UI elements. Bugfixing App.importSkin : It wasn't closing the undoChunk. Adding the 'Auto-Fix Broken skinCluster' to the 'Extras' tab. Updating tooltips, making multi-line.
• core.py : Setting setWeights unskinFirst default to False, was True. Updating the undoChunk closing code with specific names. Adding regenrateSkinCluster, adding new tempFilePath arg, and kwargs capturing to both exportTempSkin and importTempSkin.
• utils.py : Updating setBindPose : "it stopped working", and now needs a 'g' (global) arg set True.

Bugfixing tool to properly paste weights on selected verts. Specifically:

• utils.py : updating addInfluences to not change any weights when influences are added. Adding transposeWeights, to reorder SkinChunk influence weights based on skinCluster influence order.
• core.py : updating setWeights to leverage the new utils.transposeWeights to sort SkinChunk weights in the same order as the influences on the skinCluster. Also raising more expections if 'selectVertsOnly' is set and operations would happen that would change the skinning. Various verbose logging formatting changes.

As of Feb 2023, Skinner has been open sourced. But the developer would still appreicate any tips you'd like to provide.

Please 'buy me a coffee' per the below suggested tipping rate: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/akeric

• Student / Hobbyist / Indy dev : Free! (but if you want to donate, I won't turn you down)
• Any other production : $25 a user.

Reobfuscating previous release via PyArmor to see if it fixes 'Marshal Load Fails' errors for those that have been getting them.

Bugfixing string formatting error in core -> setWeights.

New options to set the post-skinning smoothing 'weight difference threshold' value. Changing the default post smooth diff value from .01 to .25, to help resolve odd skinning bugs.

Updating utils.normalizeToOne to better handle floating point precision errors.

Updating core.setWeights skinCluster smoothing code with a fixed tolerance value.

Updating Window 'extras' tab with separators and Skinner package install path.
Adding updated screenshots.

Updating all source to use Python3 type hint notation.

• Updating SkinChunks to store local transformations and rotateOrder values on joints : This will provide for more accurate/original values to be applied to new influences during creation.
• Updating Window enable/disable logic or 'Import Using Pre-Deformed Shape Positions?', 'Set To Bindpose?', and 'Unbind First?'.
• Bugfixing core.setWeights to properly set influences to bindpose on mesh that didn't yet have skinning, based on the influences stored in the SkinChunk data.
• SkinChunks now track if they weren't at the bindpose when created.
• Bugfixing utils.getAtBindPose to return correct values.

• New feature to also query/store worldspace positions during export based on the pre-deformed (aka intermediateObject) shape node, in addition to the post-deformed one.
• Bugfix to setWeights undo queue, that was applying bad weights when only a subset should be imported on.
• Updating docs with more animated gif showcasing functionality.

Updating generateSkinChunks to handle buggy imported FBX data that was setting skinCluster.skinningMethod to -1 (invalid).

Adding version info to SkinChunks. Small bugfix to SkinChunk.printData for numVerts.

Updating core.setWeights to update the return to include any new influences created.
Updating core.export, core.exportTempSkin, core.importTempSkin, and window.App.importSkin to have consistent parameters/args with core.importSkin

Import and export will now pre-detect if skinCluster normalization isn't set to 'interactive', and prompt the user if they want Skinner to auto-updated this before the operation takes place. If they cancel, no work is done, since skinner requires interactive weights.