Has this project been abandoned?

[dav01d]

No description provided.

[thevioletdev]

Seems like it :/

[vikista]

:(

[TactileVisions]

That'd be a pity

[hhzx]

Why？:(

[Xiarno]

Since the last version supported is Blender 3.6.0, which is an LTS version, it's possible that they are waiting for Blender 4.2 which is also an LTS version before releasing a new update to this addon.

The target for 4.2 LTS release is currently July 16th.
Source: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/milestone/19

[DanMcLaughlin]

Yes it's been discussed elsewhere, James left the company and there's nobody supporting this anymore. But the license was changed and we're now allowed to fork and develop it ourselves. What is needed is somebody to take the lead on that.

[Xiarno]

Yes it's been discussed elsewhere, James left the company and there's nobody supporting this anymore. But the license was changed and we're now allowed to fork and develop it ourselves. What is needed is somebody to take the lead on that.

Is that so? Well, if a fork get made that is usable and updated, would you mind linking it here please?

[DanMcLaughlin]

If you read my comment I said somebody needs to take the lead.

[Xiarno]

If you read my comment I said somebody needs to take the lead.

And if you read my comment, I said "if a fork get made", which is in the future, whenever that would be, if you could please link it here.

[DanMcLaughlin]

I'm trying to tell you I'm not taking control of this project and am unlikely to have any part of it, perhaps you could take the lead and find somebody who is willing to take responsibility on this.

[JoshQuake]

I'd love to do so to keep it alive, however I'm not skilled enough to do major fixes. I'd have to rely on others for most updates. However that being said I can do so and began implementing the pending pulls into my own fork.

If other contributors are okay with that, the fork is here https://github.com/JoshQuake/BlenderTools

[DanMcLaughlin]

That's great @JoshQuake! I think all we need is a maintainer who can

• Integrate all the pending and existing fixes, there are two are three already, the LOD regex error, the Blender 4.0 FBX update (older) and there might be one more
• Merge new fixes from the community
• Publish releases

However that link doesn't go anywhere, is the repo public? Are you able do these things and continue maintenance?

Edit: some URL parsing problems, if I go to your home page and view it from there looks like you already cut a release

[jellb]

Please keep it alive 🙏

[JoshQuake]

That's great @JoshQuake! I think all we need is a maintainer who can

• Integrate all the pending and existing fixes, there are two are three already, the LOD regex error, the Blender 4.0 FBX update (older) and there might be one more
• Merge new fixes from the community
• Publish releases

However that link doesn't go anywhere, is the repo public? Are you able do these things and continue maintenance?

Edit: some URL parsing problems, if I go to your home page and view it from there looks like you already cut a release

oops fixed link. Yeah I'm definitely down to do that. This tool is too useful to be abandoned.

[TactileVisions]

Thank you, @JoshQuake

[dav01d]

Awesome work @JoshQuake

In case people missed it, Josh is now running this project in a fork: https://github.com/JoshQuake/BlenderTools

[dav01d]

Closing thread for now, see above 👆