Handy Shape Keys for Blender

ABOUT

Handy shape keys is a free Blender add-on that will help you manage all your shape keys across collections.

The addon is compatible with Blender 4.1 and Blender 4.2.

Originaly, this addon is made to work with my "Procedural Cartoon Mouth" geometry node: Go get it here !

Have fun using it for any other projets as well.

FEATURES

• Compatible version for Blender 4.1 and 4.2
• A simple but handy menu to manage your shape keys across any collection
• « Update » and « Reset » functions
• « Update all » and « Reset all » functions
• An option to sync all indentical shape key values through all collections

HOW TO INSTALL

• Unzip the downloaded file and launch Blender
• Go to « Edit > Preferences… » and select the « Add-ons » sub-menu
• Uninstall any previous version of the add-on
• Click on the « Install from disk » (or « Install an add-on » in 4.1)
• Go and search for the « handy_shape_keys_addon_4_1.py» (Blender 4.1)
• Go and search for the « handy_shape_keys_addon_4_2.py » (Blender 4.2)
• Once installed, activate the add-on

• You can now close the « Preferences » panel and start using the add-on

HOW TO USE

• For this addon to work, you’ll have to create some shape keys on one of more meshes and put these meshes in one or different collections. You can put any name you want for the shape keys and for the collections.

• In the viewport, access the panel using the « N » key. You’ll see a new tab called « Handy Shape Keys ».
• In the drop-down menu, select any collection which contains meshes with shape keys. If there is no shape key in the selected collection, nothing will happend.
• The menu will automaticly detect and list all shape keys from the selected collection and will display them by names.
• Now, you can ajust any shape key value from the list, then use the « Update » button to refresh and show the new shape of your mesh. Unfortunatly, it not possible to see the changes in real time, so… don’t forget to update after changing any shape key value.
• If a mesh has multiple shape keys, you can also change any of it’s listed values to create inbetween or mixed shapes.

• You can use the « Reset » button to put the correspondant shape key value back to 0.

• In the case you have different collections including objects having identical shape keys, you can check the « Sync across all collections » option. Now, changing a specific shape key value from a selected collection and updating it will also affect the identical shape key value from all collections with identical shape keys.

• If you want to update or reset all shape keys in one click, just use the related button in the « Apply to all Shape keys ». You can also check the « sync » option, click on the « update all » or « reset all » button to change all shape keys from all collections at once.
  
  Really handy i’d say !

TERMS & CONDITIONS

• You can use this addon for personnal AND commercial use
• DO NOT modify / edit this addon or any part of its code
• DO NOT resale or repack these files without my explicite permission

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CHANGELOG

v.1.0

• Original release

v.1.1

• Complete rework of the layout, names and titles of the panel
• Added 2 buttons to update and reset all the values at once
• You can also use the « sync » option to update / reset all