Collection Utilities
This is an update to support the new Blender 4.2 release, which introduces the new extensions platform, and a new modern format for extensions.
The new extensions platform now expects a new format for addons based .zip archive file format with a new internal structure.
For end users visible changes are small, it is now installed from Edit > Preferences > Extensions, then from the dropdown arrow on the top right, choose Install from Disk.
Other than this change and some new defaults minor adjustments and cleanup, no functional changes are expected.
Bug fixes and improvements:
Fix a bug that caused early termination of name transferal procedure for all objects if an object didn't have the name source datablock in Transfer Names
General simplification of code
Miscellaneous optimizations and improvements
New Features:
Transfer Names can now copy names from object materials, with a choice for active material, or material slot index
Transfer Names can now transfer name from the immediate parent of an object
Concatenation mode for Transfer Names now has the ability to completely replace a datablock name or keep it as a prefix or a suffix. This allows more complex naming conventions, by gradually constructing names through appending or prepending to current ones.
Strip Option allows attempting to eliminate the automatic disambiguation serialization numbering Blender adds automatically to names (like .004). This is available for name transferal in Transfer Names and for Create Collections from Objects
Create Collections from Objects now has an option to create collections only from top parent objects (selected objects that aren't parented to any other), saving you the hassle to manually cherry pick them.
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