EZ Join Mesh for Sculpting Blender plugin

If you're a mesh maker and body maker, you've come across the dreaded multiple meshes issue... You try to join them and materials get messed up, shit gets messed up, and chunk data is lost... This mod aims to fix that!

It records all of the data before joining the mesh with the press of a button, and once you make your desired edits you just separate with the click of a button. Join your mesh, and edit to your hearts desire, and then simply click the restore button to split the mesh into it's original parts, restoring all recorded data.

Installation & usage:

1. Download the .py file and go to preferences in blender(3. 6. 22+) and add it

2. Press N to open your sidebar and navigate to the 'Sculpt Join & Restore' tab

3. Select all your mesh you want to join and edit (make sure the active mesh is the top selection (Ctrl+Click it in the Layers if it's difficult to directly select)

4. Sculpt your mesh and weight it or do whatever you want

5. Select your mesh again and make sure it's the only thing selected

6. Click Restore after sculpting and then export!

It's as simple as that!

IF YOU ENCOUNTER ISSUES, CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING:

What Version of Blender are you using?:

1. I've really only tested this on Blender 3. 6. 22 (LTS), I'd suggest using that version when trying to use this script.

Understanding the way it works:

So the way this works is by recording what's in a Collection. Everything you want to merge must be in that collection and have it's data/parents there to begin with BEFORE you merge. You can't move them from collection to collection (before hitting restore), or store data from multiple collections at once, (linked items either), it records the data from the collection it was in at that specific moment in time and all of the object data. It only works on one collection at a time nothing can be moved out of it's collection/deleted or altered before pressing restore. It's like a literal record button! So just keep that in mind.

DO NOT MERGE ANY VERTICES WHEN THE MESH IS JOINED!

Easy Solution:

So either you move everything you want to merge to one collection or merge each collection separately.

Feel free to contribute to the Github.