Tools and plugins for modeling & animating

[Bikerdude]

Does anyone have a working .ASE import addon for Blender 2.79..?

[OrbWeaver]

Blender 2.79 is eight years old at this point. The only scripts available back then were the ASE and LWO exporters, which can still be downloaded from the corresponding branch.

There's a partially working import script for ASE available in the latest branch (which only imports geometry, not materials or vertex colors), but the chances of it working with an ancient version of Blender are very low, given how much the Python API changes between major releases.

[Bikerdude]

On 10/9/2025 at 12:17 PM, OrbWeaver said:

There's a partially working import script for ASE available in the latest branch (which only imports geometry, not materials or vertex colors), but the chances of it working with an ancient version of Blender are very low, given how much the Python API changes between major releases.

Fair enough, it was worth an ask.

[Arcturus]

AutoRemesher - free tool for automatic retopo:

https://github.com/huxingyi/autoremesher/releases

[Bikerdude]

8 hours ago, Arcturus said:

AutoRemesher - free tool for automatic retopo:

How would we use this for .ASE/.LWO models..?

[Arcturus]

@Bikerdude Blender has similar tool - Quadriflow. It\s in 'Data' tab under 'Remesh'. But this one might work better. Typically you would use a tool like this on a very high poly mesh or a messy, triangulated one, in order to get nice, even quads quickly.

[Bikerdude]

14 hours ago, Arcturus said:

@Bikerdude Blender has similar tool - Quadriflow. It\s in 'Data' tab under 'Remesh'. But this one might work better. Typically you would use a tool like this on a very high poly mesh or a messy, triangulated one, in order to get nice, even quads quickly.

Ah ok, could this also be be used for cleanly reducing down a very high poly mesh to a low poly for use in tdm..?

Hmm only supports wavefront, what ever that is.

Edited July 9 by Bikerdude

[Arcturus]

11 minutes ago, Bikerdude said:

wavefront

That's just .obj format. Downside of this method is that it doesn't preserve UV maps. QuadriFlow tries to, but inevitably they break.

[Arcturus]

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