To use XXMI Tools most stable version you can download the latest release from the releases page

Then head to Blender and go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons and click on Install... and select the downloaded file. Make sure it is enabled after installing it. Done! You can now use XXMI Tools in Blender.

DEVELOPMENT VERSION

To test the development version of this blender plugin you must clone this repository

cd %appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\4.2\scripts\addons
gh repo clone leotorrez/XXMI-Tools

Then you can enable the plugin in Blender by going to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons and searching for XXMI Tools

Planned & necessary changes:

• Faster export Numpy
  • Outfit compiler Features
    • Apply join meshes per outfit
    • $variable in name(its the least of pains)
  • JoinMeshes features
    • Make all objects single use to temporarily remove linked data
    • Apply all visible shapekeys (ignoring Marked $variable)
    • Export marked $variable as data shapekeys
    • Apply all visible modifiers
    • Remove the vertex groups that contain the word MASK in their name. To avoid DX11 hard limit
    • Join all objects in the collection+$variable into a single "container" mesh
    • conver to numpy arrays
    • free bmesh/undo bs
    • concat vbs and ib concat + offset
      • store draw slices
    • write ini + resources into destination folder
• update DUMP format to add split vbuffer
  • Adding support for several texture hashes in hash.json
  • 2.8 to 3.5 support
  • update asset repo to new DUMP format
  • Shapekey support for ZZZ and HSR maybe HI3
  • Support pipiline for implicit weights (aka fix scyll collect too)
    • Fix import weights
• partial exports(blend, pos, tex, ib)
• partial export per component(meaning all materials of a single component are needed but not all components to export)
• abstracting INI generation for easier adaptation to new games

Bugs to fix:

• report triangulate issues to dss
• recalculate normals on triangulate
• fix export only selected and ignore hidden
• double check on copy(texture that dont exist, destination)

Would be nice to have:

• Restore resources on INI generation (textures, meshes, etc)
• Visual aid empty parented to import objects
• Mirrored mesh Boolean on import (3dm Custom property)
• "copy textures" -> "dont overwrite textures" on export
• apply texture on import(if requirements met, prolly needs some dds importer)
• WWMI added to the list as well?

Might be good but arguable:

• incorporate in-blender collect script
  • as well as texture selection and renaming with blender UI
• WWMI like toolbox
• GIMI Tools weight handling extra buttons on weight paint mode
• Gustav0 armature tools

Already implemented:

• mesh clean up on import( merging by distance, tri to quad and delete loose)
• adding 3.6 to 4.2 compatibility.
• merging multibuffer support from stock dss plugin
• merging GIMI, SRMI, HIMI, ZZMI into a single plugin
• turn script into a zip file for easier project management
• organize said zip xD
• Generate stuff on proper destination