Quick Shape Keys

Quick Shape Keys is Blender add-on (Blender 3.3-4.4) for easy shape keys management.

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Documentation and Change Log

Features

• Collection structure like a blender outliner

• Top panel can be collapsed/expanded. Modify menu operators list can be customized to your preferences

• Use your custom icon to shape key

• Basic operations such as add, subtract, multiply, replace, invert
• Mirror or symmetrize shape keys by different methods

• Split shape keys by selected verts, axis or shape

• Linked split - this function splits a shape key A into shape keys B and C according to your parameters. If you change the shape key A, these changes are made to splitted B and C.

• Merge selected shape keys

• Synchronize shape keys tree between objects

• Vertex group manipulations

• Corrective pose shape key

• Shape key transfer

What you get

• Quick Shape Keys addon for Blender 3.3-4.4

Update Logs:

1.0.2

• Add new filter options: hide shape keys with driver and show only active shape keys(shape keys whose values are greater than 0 and mute false)

  

• Add new option "Split Current Shape Key" for split operation. If false, split copy of shape key

1.0.3

• The settings are divided into three tabs
• Added the ability to show translated shape key names using a CSV table

  

1.0.3.1

• Fixed several bugs

1.0.4

• Filter option "show only active shape keys" divided into two options: not equal to 0 and mute false

  

• Fixed several bugs

1.0.5

• Added new operator “Merge Selected” to merge selected shape keys into one

  

1.0.6

• Added new options to the “Selected By” operator: select with or without a driver
• New operator "Dissolve Active Collection" added to the delete menu.

1.0.7

• Added support for Blender versions 3.3-4.0
• Added new option to the “Merge Selected” operator: normilize final value

1.0.8

• Added expand/collapse button for top panel
• Added right click menu
• Added the select/deselect action to the operator "Select By". Added new options to the “Selected By” operator: select mute or unmute
• Added operators for scripting, for example, “delete shape key by name”, “select shape key by name”. Full table of added operators link
• An option to enable the old shape key panel has been added to the addon preferences(For advanced users, as this may break the Quick Shape Key collection tree)

1.1.0

• Added smooth operator
• Added the ability to change operators in the "Modify" panel. You can change the operator's position, name, icon, and add other blender operators.
• If the top panels are collapsed, their icons are used to access the menu
• Added the ability to create attributes based on shape keys
• Added shape key restriction toggle in addon settings on the "UI" tab

  

  Video with changes in the addon
  

1.2.0

• Added mute and lock buttons for collection(works like an Blender outliner)
• The "Copy as Linked" operator has been added to the Copy menu. The copied shape key will have the same name and data
• Similar to split operations, the "Copy By Selected Verts", "Copy By Axis", and "Copy By Shape" operations have been added to the Copy menu.
• The "Selected Verts", "Axis", and "Shape" options have been added to the "Shape Key Clear" operator. To remove a shape key deformation under these conditions
• The "Linked Split" function has been added to the split menu. This function splits a shape key A into shape keys B and C according to your parameters. If you change the shape key A, these changes are made to splited B and C.
• Added "Hide" and "Invert" options to the vertex group row

  

• Added new tab "Other" to Addon Setting. This tab contains the settings "Linked Split Realtime Update", "Mute Priority" and "Lock Priority" for copy as linked shape key. The "Realtime Update Attribute" was also moved there.
• The "Select Collection Content" operator has been added to the selection menu. This operator selects items inside the active collection without selecting it

1.2.1

• Reworked linked split system. More complex linkled splits are now possible. Before installing this version, do unlink split or unlink split(Remove) if you used linked split in addon verison 1.2.0.0-1.2.0.4

  

• Added option "Direction" to operator "Clear By Axis"

1.3.0

• Fixed several bugs
• Can assign custom icon or color to shape key regardless of the collection. Move your icons to a folder "quick_shape_keys\icons\custom". Recommended icon size 32x32

• Small optimization for large number of shape keys
• Changing some addon settings now requires restarting Blender
• To enable the "CSV Translator", you need to go to the Quick Shape Keys preferences, the "Other" tab, and enable "Use CSV Translator"