If you wanted to keep morphs and skin gen intact, but edit the body in Blender, you would need to switch to an .obj export workflow where you just create body relative morphs and keep the character entirely in CC3 until it's finished:
e.g (one of the very first videos on this add-on):



Anything that changes the body topology or bones makes the character incompatible with CC3.
There's no way to keep the hidden mesh data as all that data is inaccessible. You can make any changes you want to the non body meshes, so you could delete the hidden faces yourself in Blender for the vambraces and the hair meshes. But anything starting with CC_Base_ you cannot add or remove any vertices or faces.



So you can do whatever you like to the outfits and the hair in Blender and it will go back to CC3, but the body not so much.

One possibility is if you want to have body mesh with deleted faces, then using a duplicate of the body mesh, say:
CC_Base_Body_HiddenFaces,
You can do what you like to this duplicate and it should not block being re-imported back into CC3 as the original body is intact.
In Unity you can swap the mesh in the prefabs of the original CC_Base_Body to the HiddenFaces version and delete the duplicate.
If that works it could be coded into the add-on and package to deal with that situation automatically...

Ok nice information, good to know what I can and can't do. I will try to adapt to that workflow instead of hiding meshes on CC3 side from now on then. I can definitely live without baked morphs and skingen stuff, also without hiding CC_Base mesh vertices. Just wanted to mention my observations for people that might have trouble because of them.

I have tested various different CC3->Blender->UnityHDRP and also CC3->Blender->CC3->Blender->UnityHDRP cases with about 15 different characters in the past days. What we have currently covers everything I needed from this workflow. Really I can't thank you enough man, this is a great improvement, it is like a Unity NearlyLive Link :)

• Blender 3.0+ subsurface scattering method set to Christensen-Burley, rather than Random-Walk, which does not work well with hair transparencies.

@Victor Quick question for you. On the CC3 Import tool in Blender, in the settings you can specify Eevee or Cycles as the target render engine. I do most of my "rough" renderings in Eevee and only use Cycles for the final production render. If I change the setting of the render engine, do I have to re-import my CC3 characters into Blender? I think I might if the render engine affects the material generation of your plugin. Can you clarify? Thanks in advance!
  - Jeff

- Jeff
The Adventures of Capt Sanchez
Cybernautic Studios

sorry for the double post. I accidentally double-clicked the Post button, lol

- Jeff
The Adventures of Capt Sanchez
Cybernautic Studios

You don't need to re-import the character, but you do need to rebuild the materials, with the 'Rebuild Advanced Materials' button under the build settings, which reconstructs the materials with all the current material parameters.

It mostly scales down some of the subsurface settings for Cycles, as they are much more sensitive than Eevee's, and uses Cycles Anisotropy for the hair instead of the approximate Eevee highlights.

Awesome! Thank you for the clarification.

- Jeff
The Adventures of Capt Sanchez
Cybernautic Studios

Version 1.2.2:
Github page - Release Page

• Object Management panel
• All round-trip/Export object management functions moved to this panel.
• Including checks and clean up.
• Normalize weights function added.
• Bake/Combine Bump maps into Normal maps function added to Material Parameters panel.
• Highlight shift added to Eevee hair shader.

Dev version test: Rigify conversion



It's on the Dev branch if anyone wants to try it: https://github.com/soupday/cc3_blender_tools/tree/dev

Note: Currently CC3+ generation characters only.
I still need to figure out the face coordinates and bone mappings for the older generations.

Hi!

The RealIlusion team directed me to here. They are well aware of your work and that yours is a great source to use.

Thank you so much for your work!!!