Fix your SHAPE KEYS! - Blender 2.8 tutorial

Broken Shape Keys? It's probably a vertex order problem. This tutorial will demonstrate how to fix the problem in Blender 2.8
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[@FlippedNormals]

Amazing work Danny!

[@DannyMac3d]

Stop flirting with me

[@ShotGun1861]

What would it take for you two to collab on a video?

[@TheJobCompany]

I wish this video came out a few weeks earlier! Emberrassingly enough, I had a similar problem and after hours of unsuccessfull attempts to rearrange the vert order properly, I settled down with manually snapping every vert to the correct position by hand. That was a pain to do!

[@DannyMac3d]

I bet! Glad to be of some use! :)

[@dazwraps8213]

Bro you safe my life lol... The shape was not uploading but I was able to fix it following this tutorial. Thanks...

[@Vanisher]

Damn love being a Blender user because of people like you

[@michelleh1464]

thank you so much, this tutorial was exactly showing my problem and this addon fixed it, thanks to you for making this video and the guy who made the free addons, god bless you all

[@wiktorialewandowska4103]

I transformed my mesh after applying the shape keys and the mesh would explode. What fixed it for me was to: select the mesh -> edit mode -> select all vertices -> select the basis shape key -> go to vertex menu -> blend from shape. after that, the mesh deforms in the right way and I can add new shape keys without the model exploding. hope that helps someone!

[@LUA-gd2fq]

omg this fixed my model !! ty so much!! you saved my day 😍

[@erionmema1]

This is great !! Ive needed this tool a few times in my life... good to know its out there

[@Kingofsnow]

This is long overdue! Been waiting for something like this !

[@GottoGure]

his name is bartosz styperek he also have youtube channel as well.

[@mongobongo1147]

Yup, Bartosz creates some insanely good shit!

[@combeechan]

Didn't even know this sort of thing existed, thank you for creating this video!

[@jonathanhutchinson5649]

So important. I recall searching for a similar function in maya and it wasn’t even a great fix.

[@TheThehwashere]

I made added loop cuts one mesh so this addon does not fix work and my shape keys exploding.

[@MrDoc405]

not working on blender 2.8

[@phamtheanh9101]

bro u saved my life , TY so much

[@uncleboby5952]

aboslutally amazing!

[@davidtriune8028]

this works great, sometimes for complex meshes (like DAZ 3d characters), you have to repeat this process several times in different places to correct it. also you have to do it on each individual geometric island.

[@gaymo69]

have you tried doing the transfer using matching UVs? (This was added apparently in the updated release of this add-on) I cant get it to work on daz 3d figures... There are lots of islands on a Daz 3d figure, as far as i can see. Each tooth is a geometric island... so it's time consuming to transfer vert ids for each one.

[@davidtriune8028]

@@gaymo69 I dont think I've used that feature. I just do it for the main body and maybe the eyes, the rest I usually ignore because I re import just those parts into daz as morphs and keep the default mouth and teeth, etc. You may need to do it several times for each island. I think the teeth were pretty finicky which is also why I skipped them.

[@gaymo69]

@@davidtriune8028 i ended up skipping mouth and teeth. also the UV option in the new version of the plugin seems to be broken, at least for me, so dont bother trying it

[@BGBlenderererer]

uv works on simple low poly models@@gaymo69

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Basrtosz is a scripting GURU! He has amazing addons! I have the hair addon, have not used it yet :( But trying to get my character skills up first

[@juancarlospaduavalentin4558]

Amazing...

[@EbonyEcstasyOfficial]

omg omg omg omg. I've had this issue on multiple SFM model I edit, and I always just make new shapekeys but THANK YOU, you've saved me hours upon hours of work!

[@tails_the_god]

ikr?? i discovered this addon and it changed my life forever! :D

[@guilhermegarcia6971]

You save my life! Thank you very much!

[@eucharistenjoyer]

Great video. Do you have any idea on how to fix the "More than two faces share edge"? i've tried exactly like you said on the video, among lots of other combinations of two faces selected. It simply doesn't work (I'm using version 2.3, the latest one).

[@Madnat_582]

YESSSSS!! LIFE SAVER

[@Legend64Project]

How do you stop your shape keys from fighting each other? I have several shape keys but they are competing for priority whenever I pose my character!

[@pablojaviermuratore]

awesome! thanks for sharing!

[@pelakalion]

Thank you so much!! ^^

[@DJToasterWaffle]

but do you know of a way to fix shape keys but keep what was there previously? so basically i want to keep the smile shape key but fix the jank. because when i tried this before it just made all the shape keys i had blank.

[@sonicnaruto12345]

My mesh is perfectly symmetrical and mirroring shape keys doesn't work, mirror shape key does nothing and mirror shape key topology flips my entire character. I've tried everything, is there a way to fix this? I've tried everything

[@alfabetario16194]

THE SAME PROBLEM HERE, USING 2.9

[@BGBlenderererer]

@@alfabetario16194 theres a "smart shape keys" plugin and video on youtube dedicated to mirroring shape keys

[@katarn66]

Very useful! Thanks man!

[@DonaldDrennan]

What can I do if I edited points on one model? one has 3066 and my modified one has 3064, but I don't remember where the edit was. Thanks! this helps a lot.

[@julianwildauer]

great info THX!

[@vixtris]

thank you!

[@a_3599]

thanks very very helpful

[@sergeymalyshev2704]

This is all good, of course. But in blender 4.1 it doesn't work displaying indexes. Could you write more details for the solution?

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

I was to lazy to make video tutorial for it. Thanks for making it. Can I put link to this video tutorial on addon description: gumroad.com/l/copy_verts_ids ?

[@DannyMac3d]

Of course sir, thanks for offering the tool for free!

[@bartoszstyperek6306]

@@DannyMac3d And it done. BTWif you want to change/break vertex order quickly you can use this : mesh -> Sort elements -> Randomize (prntscr.com/osxgnk). Now you will have different verts ids

[@emberrr577]

Blender 2.79 wont let me install this plugin...

[@kreion]

Can you make a Rigify(Meta Rig) tutorial and how to fix the bad deformation that occurs?

[@JustCurious-ou6gn]

I don't have another same character so is there another solution? Where I only have to click on the mesh which I have problems with

[@samuelarman9693]

sorry if my question is stupid. How we manage to make the basis form and shape keys form exist in one screen like that?

[@unrickz9225]

more than 2 faces share edge... that's what I get u.u I was ok this morning, saved the file, came back and mirrored started to messing up my entire mesh, every file now acts alike in my blender... o.O

[@memomii2475]

thanks

[@craylixthomas1127]

Love your channel..and Since u r a professional , i wanted an advice from you. i am interested in character modelling and started sculpting just 2 days ago in blender and was able to do a decent job but when in zbrush I got really confused..so should I keep trying to sculpt in zbrush or just stick to blender. Thank you

[@tyleto]

cant seem to get this to work for me, i select two objects with the exact same uvs and vert count, click the Transfer IDs using UVs, and i go look at both objects to check and they dont line up...

[@gaymo69]

Same, the vert order ends up being completely wrong/different after using the 'Transfer IDs Using UVs' option in Object mode. my meshes have identical UVs. Did anyone ever solve this? or do we have to do it manually for each island?

[@dakotaotter9719]

I only have 1 model so I need to duplicate it to fix this issue?

[@_MaZTeR_]

This addon works on 2.93.6 as well if anyone is wondering. Not sure about 3.0.

[@BGBlenderererer]

works in 3.* lts

[@ruyabaraz]

Hi. My shape keys won't show in object mode and in other platforms like Spark AR. what do you think might be the problem? Thank you in advance.

[@marcus_ohreallyus]

My problem is that the shape key doesn't come on when using the slider in object mode. In edit mode if I click on the shape key I can see it. Something happened during my workflow and it's broken. Any ideas?

[@mrgg416]

1:52 this is polish name.

[@DEVBEEF]

thank fuck this works

[@AngelboyVR]

a poblem that Blender suffered for many years now, since 2.7 even, is the fact that somethimes, completely random and inconsistently, the changes on a Bases Shapekey doesnt get applied onto the other shapekeys which in turn fucks all other shapekeys up. say you just took the cheeck vertices and pulled them out a tiny bit on the basis, then you assume the same changes wud apply to the rest shapekeys as it mostly did before. but no, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. now if you activate all the other shapekeys, the cheeck goes inwards all the way to china because every other shapekey has the cheeck vertices on the previous position before the adjustment on the Basis. the worst about this is the fact that the bug itself is extremly inconsistent, it appplies some strokes and some not, and somethimes is applies the change with no problem, and sometimes not. they STILL did not fix this extremly workflow-disturbing and agonizing buig even in 2.9 WT actual F?!?!?! no wonder i have seen tonns of people with their custom avatar in VRchat etc with broken Blendshapes, because its blenders fault!

[@Asphyr]

I think jose and bartosz are separate entities, atleast the dev in the discord goes by jose.

[@bob1268205]

Will this problem appear if you imported a Zbrush model into Blender?

[@DannyMac3d]

The problem will only occur is the vertex order is different from the original mesh. Importing and exporting meshes between apps wont change the vertex order (unless you mess up the import/export settings)

[@bob1268205]

@@DannyMac3d thank you for the answer!

[@MrDoc405]

not avalibel anymore

[@BGBlenderererer]

still available

[@fookustudios3279]

Doesn't work, not surprised. A million version of blender with a million versions of plugins. Everything gets broken.

[@BGBlenderererer]

working on lts.

[@gower1973]

Learn something new yeah, I have to download another addon to fix something thats broke in Blender

[@DannyMac3d]

I learned this technique after downloading a plugin to fix the exact same issue in Maya - vertex order is app independent