/Cats-Blender-Plugin-Unofficial--Blender

A tool designed to shorten steps needed to import and optimize models into VRChat. Compatible models are: MMD, XNALara, Mixamo, DAZ/Poser, Blender Rigify, Sims 2, Motion Builder, 3DS Max and potentially more, originally by absolute-quantum. Not Official.

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Cats Blender Plugin.

The non official version of Cats Blender Plugin which is maintained by Yusarina, Cats is an tool designed to shorten steps needed to import and optimize models into VRChat. Compatible models are: MMD, XNALara, Mixamo, Source Engine, Unreal Engine, DAZ/Poser, Blender Rigify, Sims 2, Motion Builder, 3DS Max and potentially more

Warning, Cats has changed UI wise, please click here to see the new UI features.

If your plugin is trying to update to a blender 4.0 version or is stuck in a update loop please ensure you using the latest version of the plugin for you blender version from the releases tab here.

You can find both 3.6 and 4.0 blender releases here, ensure you are using the one for your blender version!

  • You can find the development version for Blender 3.6 here.
  • You can find the development version for Blender 4.0 here.
  • You can find the development version for Blender 4.1 here.

Warning for Blender 4.0 and 4.1 users:

Though we have updated cats to blender 4.0 and 4.1, please note there are still some issues with MMD Tools which may break some plugin functionality, this is not a cats issue so please redirect those issues to MMD Tools. Blender 4.0 and 4.1 is not our priority and will be behind the blender 3.6 version. We HIGHLY recommend using blender 3.6 for the time being unless you REALLY need the new features in 4.0 and 4.1, which if your just making VRChat models or doing MMD stuff you most likely don't.

Blender 4.1 is also buggy and does have issues as well, we won't be recommending use of blender 4.x unto the first LTS comes out later this year.

With Cats it takes only a few minutes to upload your model into VRChat. All the hours long processes of fixing your models are compressed into a few functions!

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Blender version support policies.

Please Click Here to view which versions of blender we support.

Features

Please Click Here to view the features of cats.

Requirements

  • Blender 3.6 or above (run as administrator is recommended) (Please note some features may not work in version below 3.6).
    • Blender 3.6 is Recommended as this is the latest LTS.
    • Though I have updated CATS to Blender 4.0, I do not currently recommend using 4.0 as there multiple issues with MDD Tools and Blender 4.0 which cats uses.
  • Anything older then 3.6 is not supported and no longer works.
  • If you have custom Python installed which Blender might use, you need to have Numpy installed
  • NOTE TO WINDOWS STORE USERS, STOP USING THE WINDOWS STORE VERSION YOU WILL HAVE ISSUES, PLEASE EITHER USE THE STEAM VERSION OR THE ONE FROM THE OFFICIAL BLENDER WEBSITE.

Additional Plugins Requirements.

Some features of Cat's need additional plugins to work, you can find them here:

Installation

Please Click Here to see how to install.

Help

If you need help with Cat's you can check the wiki here. You can also see the the following video tutorials as well (Please note these videos may become outdated over time).

VRCHAT Avatar Setup - Blender CATS Plugin

Full Blender Tutorial on how to create VRChat models

Acknowledgements

Maintained by Yusarina.

Code contributors:

  • Hotox
  • Shotariya
  • Neitri
  • Kiraver
  • Jordo
  • Ruubick
  • 989onan

Cats Blender Plugin was original developed by absolute quantum then maintained by the community, click here to see the original project.

Cat's Uses the Following Plugins to Enhance it's features:

Feedback

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