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What the abbreviations and color codes mean:

Abbreviations:

New: New feature – Please report back if it works well
Imp: Improved feature – please report back if it really improves
Fix: Bugfix – Please report back if this solved the issue
Cleanup: very minor changes (for example: fixing typos in the user interface)

Bold face: Significant change

Green: No major issues known
Blue: Can be used, has known issues which have been fixed in a newer version
Red: Please do not use this revision, we recommend to upgrade to newer version
Orange: Instable version

Avastar-for-Blender-3.1 (2022-jul-15)

coming soon …

Avastar-for-Blender-2.93-10 (2022-jan-15)

Fix: The retarget tool attempts to create fcurves for all bones
Fix: Avastar exporter ends with tracedump when there are no hidden objects in the scene
Fix: Bone colorization when using bone mapper
Imp: Make retarget tool more stable and faster

Avastar-for-Blender-2.93-8 (2022-jan-15)

New: option for Retarget to (COG|Origin) root bone (to avoid floating avatars)
Fix: Added missing Hand structure bones to retarget maps (broke Bento animation imports)

Avastar-for-Blender-2.93-7 (2022-jan-11)

Fix: (very important) Avastar now creates correct bindings for native models (made with Avastar) and imported models (from developerkit manager)
Fix: (important)Avamesh now has the option “use bind pose” enabled by default to make sure the hands keep nice
Fix: (minor) Importing an animation without animation data creates a trace dump
Fix: (minor) creating a rig when importing an animation reports wrong context
Fix: Export works again after fixing the broken Documentation module

Avastar-for-Blender-2.93-5 (2022-jan-05)

Clean up Weight copy panel and make it more intuitive
Fix: active weightmap is not preserved after weight copy
Allow to make a weight copy ‘to selected verts only’ even when the target object is not in edit mode
Imp: make sure that all object select states are preserved when doing a weight copy
Imp: clarify labels in weight copy tool
New: added orange warning dot for user interface (weight copy tool)
Fix: Weight Copy did not take care of Modifiers
Optimized Maintenance panel. Removed login section for security reasons
Fix: Export meshes even when armature is in a disabled collection
Fix: When rebinding with use as bindpose, the bind_mat data (bone properties) must be adjusted accordingly, otherwise we get distortions on upload to SL
Fix: fitting preset now uses the set of deform bones instead of basic bones and volume bones
Imp: Reorganize the Binding Panel
Imp: Add back the clear bone weights operator button
Imp: use the collada importer bone chain finder to prepare a rig for the developerkit manager
Fix: propagate bone roll from collada to avastar (when using developerkit manager)
Fix: Hand structure bones are not set correct when using bind pose
Fix: When moving the sliders in the fitting panel, the armature changes its mode from POSE to OBJECT
Fix:Document baselink is sometimes added twice, resulting in broken links to document site
Fix: changed schema of documentation link from http to https
Fix: eye targets can not be moved by default
New: Added simple rig to mesh converter (wip)
New: Added more properties for to be used in action names (for animation exporter)

Avastar-for-Blender-2.93 (2021-nov-01)

Cleanup: adjust templates versions to avastar 2.93
Change From Machinimatrix to Avalab
Retarget: Do not add any translation to bones during animation transfer. this should be coupled with the ‘use translation’ option
Retarget: Reference location added with wrong sign ? Odd bug… needs to be checked

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