4.2.3 Hotfix release

This release should fix the problems some people had when installing the addon. Thanks to Connor-art for finding out.

In addition this release adds a new feature. If you select a mesh collector you will get an extra option to inherit the configs of the collected meshes in addition to the ones specified directly.

Release 4.2.1 for Blender 4.2 and later

This new release of the Arma Toolbox requires Blender 4.2 or later.

What's new in 4.2.1

New Installation Method

• Uninstall the old version of the tool box
• Simply drag and drop the archive over the Blender window.
• Click "ok" in the window that pops up.

Future versions can simply be updated by dragging and dropping the archive into Blender.

New Features

There aren't many new features, this is mostly a conversion to the new addon/extension method.

One new feature is the Meshcollectifier. It's a batch operation to create a mesh collector for each selected item in the outliner.

How to use:

• LOD specifies the Mesh Collector's LOD (and lod distance, if required).
• Collection can be left empty, if specifies created mesh collectors are put in the collection (a new one is created if it doesn't exist)
• Add Decimate will automatically add a decimate modifier to the mesh collector.
• If add decimate is selected Decimate Ratio can be used to pre-set the ratio of the modifier
• Delete Groups: if left empty, nothing is added to the mesh collectors "Delete VGroups" list. If specified, can be either a single group or multiple separated by coma (no spaces).

Release 4.0.5

This release fixes a number of issues that break the toolbox on Blender 4.1. This version should still work with 4.0 and earlier post 2.80 versions, though.

This version should work on the latest Blender version, however, if you find more issues let me know.

v4,0.4

New Minor Release 4.0.4

New Features:

• Mesh Collectors list now show a warning icon in the title if an object reference has become invalid. Also, the icon of the invalid mesh in the list will be changed to an Error icon.

Release 4.0.3

New Minor Update

New in this release:

1. "Join as Proxy" will check the joining object for a named property called "proxy" and use the value as a path for the proxy
2. "Join as Proxy" can now automatically increment the proxy index

As an example for an application of this, I have some vehicle models that include "Deployment Gear" which is basically some proxy objects that are joined as a proxy. Since I am a lazy guy, I didn't want to enter the correct path for each of them, so I added this function. I have a number of proxy objects in a blend file which I stack into the vehicle model in question, then join all of them as a proxy.

Did I mention I am lazy?

Release 4.0.2

Minor Release
New Features:

• By default, all export configs are selected when doing a batch export, since that makes more sense than an empty list
• Mesh Collectors now have a list of vertex groups that are deleted prior to export. Note that the names are case sensitive, so make sure you write the names correctly. The list just collects

Release 4.0.1

Bugfix release. If you are having trouble using the toolbox on 4.0.1, update to this version.

• Fixed: Bug in version checking for pre-4.0.0 builds
• Added: Copy proxies now works either the old fashion way (dialog) or active to selected (no dialog)

Release 4.0.0

This release adds a load of new features to the Arma Toolbox.
Release notes are available here

This release is compatible with any Blender version from 3.0 up, including the new 4.0 release.

3.0.4 Update for Blender 2.8x

This update improves import and export speed significantly:

Export: Test scene in the old version took 1 minute 30 second to export, now it takes 11 second.
Import: Test scene import in the old version took 1 minute 7 seconds, now takes 9 second.

(Problem fixed. Please re-download this

3.0.3 update

This minor update fixes three problems:

• Error message when using the toolbox with 2019-05-17 or later (2.8 API change)
• RTM Exporter not showing in menu
• Error when placing a proxy (2.8 API change)