SACR 7.4.0

Released: 2025-12-10

Blender 5.0 (stated)

SACR 7.4 updates the rig to Blender 5.0 and makes substantial backend changes for the V2 UI add-on available through the Blender Extensions platform.

Added

• Added a Skin Utility bone for the new Skin Utility feature, which can download Java Edition player skins.
• Added a shallow mouth option.

Changed

• Updated the rig UI to V2 with a cleaner, more capable script architecture.
• Simplified Python driver expressions, especially for arms and eyelashes.
• Updated drivers to integrate more reliably with the UI script.
• Changed Arm Style and Arm Type from integer properties to an enum.
• Moved Quick Parent bones into individual bone groups for more granular visibility control.
• Replaced the SACR Base Shader with a general-purpose Minecraft shader.
• Updated the iris and sclera shaders to R10.
• Assigned the correct material to 3x4 armor pauldrons.
• Gave each armor section its own texture file for add-on compatibility.
• Made arm bone shapes scale correctly with both slim-arm types.
• Reverted molar controls to a bone-based system.
• Changed the default camera resolution to 1920x1080 at 100%.
• Corrected the arm lattice assignments.
• Made hidden objects remain hidden when appended.

Removed

• Removed Extended Controls custom properties from face bone configurations; these are now controlled by the Python UI and bone groups.
• Removed obsolete scene custom properties.

Lite Rig

• Removed all objects in the Accessories collection.
• Simplified mesh geometry.
• Removed supporting bones for the hair rig.
• Removed properties and materials associated with removed meshes.
• Removed eye sparkles and lattices.
• Removed all bevel and subdivision modifiers.
• Disabled the face rig by default.
• Dissolved the Mesh collection.
• Disabled selection of all meshes.