Blender 2.79 released, modified MHX2 material importer avail

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Blender 2.79 released, modified MHX2 material importer avail

Postby blindsaypatten » Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:01 pm

For anyone that hasn't noticed, the stable release version of Blender 2.79 has now been released!
The release notes with new features list are at:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev: ... Notes/2.79

There's a decent video overview of new features at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGYwZX35u4

I'm not absolutely sure but I don't think that the installer on Windows asked me where to install it so my 2.78 executable etc. were overwritten. Possibly I wasn't paying enough attention, but if you want to keep both then keep your eyes open. So far I haven't run into any problems with 2.79.

One of the much anticipated features is the Principled Shader, and I have created a modified MHX2 material importer in the form of a modified materials.py file that you can just drop into your MHX2 runtime addon directory, in my case:
C:\Users\Lindsay\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\import_runtime_mhx2
I have modified it so that if the Principled Shader is available it will use it, if it isn't it will just use the regular nodes as in the past. It also has a few extra features/fixes like it will set roughness based on the shininess value in the export file. This is quite different from the prior materials loader I wrote.

I have attached the file, if you try it out please let me know if you run into any issues - I haven't run across any yet.
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