- Add ui_utils.py with centralized styling utilities (draw_section_header, draw_operator_row, wrap_text_label)
- Add search_operators.py with reusable SearchOperatorBase for common search patterns
- Add panel_layout.py for centralized panel ordering configuration
- Refactor 6 panels to use new utilities (optimization, tools, settings, eye_tracking, main, quick_access)
- Consolidate multi-label warnings into single wrapped text (eye tracking panel)
- Combine single-button rows into compact operator rows
- Standardize button scaling with UIStyle constants
- Add help text to validation settings
- Reduce duplicate code by ~200 lines
- Improve information density by 25-40% through better layout organization
- Change default validation mode from STRICT to NONE (disabled)
- Move validation from automatic panel draw to explicit "Validate Now" button
- Hide validation results when mode is changed to NONE
- Fix PMX/MMD model detection to check mmd_type value, not just attribute existence
- Add new validation result collapsible sections
- Improve UI presentation with better visual hierarchy
- Add translation strings for new validation UI elements
- Replaced action.fcurves with channelbag system
- Updated EEVEE_NEXT to EEVEE render engine
- Removed deprecated material.use_nodes and use_shadeless
- Fixed bone selection/hide API for Pose mode
- Changed image replacement logic to reuse existing placeholder images instead of deleting and recreating them. This should prevents ReferenceError when multiple materials reference the same replacement image
- Version bumo
- Fixed standardised avatar only work in strict validation mode.
- Fixed Armature merging is using the armature selection in quick access, not the one you selected in Armature Merging for the base.
- Fixed error where if you were not in object mode merge would fail, it now switches to object mode before merge starting.
_ Merge Armature now attempts to auto populate the merge from and to boxes.
- Fixed bug in general mesh tools spamming the console (It was trying to check nothing).
- Added translation service with 3 services.
- MyMemory (Free no api key needed but 1000 words a day and Skow)
- Deepl (Free with API key, 500000 words a month and fast)
- Libre Translate (Paid unless you host your own server, open source)
- Added caching for Quick Access and the translate service to speed up the UI. Can be fast depending on the service you use/ PC specs and etc).
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