Blender 4.2 LTS and later, on Windows, macOS and Linux. SHAPES is installed as a standard Blender extension.

Both contain the complete SHAPES toolset. Private is for individual artists and students working outside of a commercial context. Commercial is for professional use in any production environment, one licence per seat, and includes RBF Nodes and the RBF Nodes Runtime. SHAPES is released under the GNU GPL and has no licence check, so the licences work on trust.

No. Everything SHAPES creates is standard Blender data, so a finished setup plays back and renders without SHAPES installed. The only exception are setups with RBF solvers, which need RBF Nodes. Its free runtime version can be shipped with your rigs, handed to clients and installed on a render farm.

No. SHAPES works on its own. RBF Nodes is only needed for RBF solvers, which drive shapes from several poses at once. It is included with the Commercial licence and also available separately.

Yes. Get in touch with your order details through the contact page on braverabbit.com and you will receive a discount code.

Yes. Existing shape keys can be loaded, organised, edited, mirrored and driven with SHAPES. Once an object is loaded in SHAPES, the shape keys should only be managed through SHAPES and not through Blender's Shape Keys panel at the same time, because the two lists are not synchronised.

Partially. Blender doesn't allow direct editing of linked mesh data, so new shape keys have to be created in the source file. Existing shape keys can be managed and animated, and post-deformation corrections for individual shots can be created on linked meshes.

Yes, all 1.x updates are free.

Yes. SHAPES works on Blender's native shape keys, so the results can be exported to game engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine, within the limits of the export pipeline you use.