Simplicage v1.7.5 Addon for Blender Full Version Free Download

🛠️ Simplicage: The Animator’s Shortcut to Realistic Physics

What Simplicage Does

Blender’s native Cloth Physics is a powerful but time-consuming system to set up, especially for complex characters. You need a collision mesh (a cage) that is slightly larger than the character’s body to prevent clothing from clipping through. Manually creating, rigging, and weight-painting these meshes is a huge bottleneck.

Simplicage eliminates this manual work by acting as a specialized tool that performs three critical tasks automatically:⁴

Physics-Ready Cage Generation: It instantly generates clean, simplified cage meshes that are ready to receive Blender’s Cloth Physics modifier.⁵
Collision Box Generation: It creates optimized, non-renderable collision meshes to accurately represent the volume of the character (bones, body, etc.).⁶
Automatic Binding: It automatically transfers pin weights and sets up the necessary modifiers, including the new Bind Button added in v1.7.5, which lets you bind clothes to the generated cages instantly.⁷

Key Features in v1.7.5

Version 1.7.5 focused heavily on stability, performance, and user experience, incorporating crucial fixes for a smoother workflow:

⚡️ New Remesher: This version introduced a triangle-based Remesher that is faster, more robust, and provides better geometry for stable cloth simulations.
🔗 Automatic Binding: The new Bind Button feature was added, allowing you to automatically link clothes to the generated cages, a massive time-saver for rigging multiple pieces of clothing.
⚖️ Improved Weights Transfer: A new algorithm for weight transfer (used to control how the cage moves with the bones) was implemented, based on advanced academic research to ensure robust and accurate deformation.
🐞 UI and Bug Fixes: The user interface (UI) was refined for better clarity, and several bugs related to pin weights transfer were addressed.

🏗️ How Simplicage Streamlines the Workflow

The add-on is flexible and can generate cages using several modes, making it useful for both hard-surface props and organic characters:

Generation Mode	Purpose	Example Application
Mesh Selection	Creates a cage directly from the selected clothing or body mesh.	Generating a simplified cage for a complex dress or skirt.
Bone Selection	Creates a physics cage based on selected armature bones.	Generating simple collision capsules around the thighs or chest for pants.
Vertex Group	Allows for fine control by generating the cage only from specified vertex groups.	Creating a dynamic cage for long hair or a backpack that needs physics.

The core benefit is replacing a multi-step, technical process involving manual topology cleanup, weight painting, and modifier stacking with a single, reliable button press.