The latest CC/IC Auto Setup 2.3 & 2.31 for Blender

Hello!

The latest Blender Auto setup is available now!

Blender Pipeline Plugin in CC/iC

Version 2.2.5-2.3.0 (Release Date: 2025-07-14)

Several enhancements.

Enhanced:

  • Lights and cameras will now be exported and transferred to Blender.
  • Prop animation sequences can now be sent from Blender to iClone.
  • Send Scene button added to allow sending or updating the entire scene at once.
  • Motion updates will apply when target actors are already present in the Blender scene.
  • Select Scene button will select all DataLink-compatible objects in the scene.
  • Remote file transfer is now supported over DataLink, enabling transfer between local and remote Blender instances.

Blender Auto Setup in Blender

Version 2.2.5-2.3.1 (Release Date: 2025-07-14)
Several enhancements and bug fixes.

Data Link

Enhanced:

  • Remote file transfer supported over DataLink, enabling transfers between local and remote CC/iClone and Blender instances.
  • Motion Pose/Sequence transfer no longer dependent on Quaternions; preserves bone rotation modes across rigs.
  • Avatar and prop skin bones identified by iClone ID for accurate transfer and retargeting.
  • Prop animation Pose/Sequence transfer supported from Blender back to iClone.
  • Select Scene button added to select all DataLink-transferable objects in the scene.
  • Send Scene button added to send or update the entire scene.

Bug Fixed:

  • Incorrect prop mesh positioning caused by buggy exports from iClone.

Rigify

Enhanced:

  • Meta-human-like facial expression rig for Extended, Standard, and Traditional facial profiles.
  • Expression rig supports retargeting, DataLink motion transfer, and Pose/Sequence exchange with CC4/iClone8.
  • Control color adjustment, face rig placement, and character attachment options added.
  • Supports ActorCore, ActorScan, and ActorBuild characters.
  • ARKit Proxy added for Live Link face transfer input (e.g., Face-it add-on).
  • Expression rig proxy drives expression shape keys and head bones with adjustable strength, exaggeration, and directional bias.
  • Load CSV function added for face capture recordings, compatible with Face Landmark Link output.
  • Rigify export now uses CC Base naming aligning bones to original CC rig orientation, improving jaw and eye bone compatibility (e.g., Unity ConvAI).

Bug Fixed:

  • Rigify setup defaults rig to zero IK stretch; removed “Disable IK Stretch” option due to incompatibility.
  • Rigify bone locks being cleared on pose reset.
  • Rigify motion-only export.
  • Rigify blendshape export for rigs with and without face rig.
  • CC-aligned metarig finger rotation.
  • Rigify spring bone control rig and simulation rebuild for Blender 4.4.

Materials

Enhanced:

  • Emission reworked as multiplier on base color with expanded strength.
  • Reflection surface supported as clearcoat.
  • Wrinkle masks (local library images) now packed into blend files.

Bug Fixed:

  • Blender 4.1 material refraction setting.
  • Incorrect embedded alpha channels from FBX importer.
  • Embedded alpha channel custom UV mappings.
  • Default roughness and specular values fixed for PBR and Transparent shaders without textures.
  • Material export when texture image node image is missing.

Lights & Cameras

Enhanced:

  • Import and transfer of lights and cameras with animations, including pose and sequences.
  • Light and camera sequences can be sent back to iClone via Sequence Transfer (target must pre-exist in iClone).
  • Lights now support IES profiles and light cookie textures (Cycles only).

Scene & Export Tools

Enhanced:

  • Scene Tools: Eevee setup button added.
  • Baked GLTF export button added.

Bug Fixed:

  • Blender 4.4 action slot issues.
  • Blender 4.4 proportion edit crash when removing all shape keys.
  • humanoid export JSON avatar type.

General

Bug Fixed:

  • 1:1 viseme driver behavior.
  • FBX export scale units causing Rigify avatar bones to scale incorrectly in Unity.
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hey there! I can’t download the “blender pipeline plugin for cc4 hub.exe” file on the official website (reallusion com/auto-setup/blender/download.html).

It is returning a zip file called " CCiC-Blender-Pipeline-Plugin-2.3.1.zip"

What’s in the ZIP file? The file “blender pipeline plugin for cc4 hub.exe” seems to be an option to install via the Hub.

Hey, animagic

Its similar to what we have on the blender addon zip file.
It has the folders:
www imgur com/a/JZqr2wu

.vscode
btp
icons

and the files:
.gitattributes
.gitignore
LICENSE
main
README

I see. This seems to be something for HansRL to respond to, so I hope he will.