Up-to-date Mesh Data Transfer instructions?

[vetmin]

So I was trying to convert PPP's Kuminga to 2k22 by following TGsoGood's tutorial here (https://youtu.be/TT6T2u9yBP0?t=164) but unfortunately it appears to be out of date, as the interface of the plugin no longer seems to offer the same functionality (i.e., no Transfer UV or Transfer Vertex Groups buttons, nor any Vertex Group text field below those buttons). Or am I mistaken and there's some reason why these options are not appearing? The missing buttons (but not the text field) are visible in this screenshot on the download page, though that could be out of date, too: https://mmemoli.gumroad.com/l/tOKEh. FWIW, I'm using Blender 2.8 & Mesh Data Transfer 1.3.5. I saw that some in the YouTube comments of TGsoGood's tutorial had similar issues, but no solutions were offered. Does anyone have any insight into what the issue might be here?

Thanks.

[Ddecourt404]

Having the same problem

[vetmin]

Having the same problem

I sorta solved it. If you use the latest version of Blender (2.93.4 or 5, I think), the Mesh Data Transfer plugin works fine and shows all the missing options. My problem though is that I thought I was limited to 2.79 or 2.80 for the NBA 2K Importer/Exporter tool, since I'd previously tried to install it on 2.93.4 or 5 and got an error message, whereas I got no error message with 2.80. After realizing that the Mesh Data Transfer plugin works as advertised in the newer Blender though, I decided to give the 2K Importer/Exporter another go in the newer Blender, and I was able to install it by (IIRC) extracting the contents of the "nba2k_tools" folder into the main Add-Ons folder directly, instead of being in the "nba2k_tools" folder. The error message that comes up if you install it per the instructions says that it can't find the *.json file in the Add-Ons folder, which... of course it can't, because it's in the subfolder, but for some reason it couldn't recognize that, so I thought I'll just put the plugin files in the folder Blender says it's looking in, and it worked.

Try that and let me know if it works. If it doesn't I'll revisit it and see if there's something else I forgot that I did. P.S. I was using the portable version of Blender 2.93.x (i.e., the *.zip file), not the version from the installer, though that may not matter.

[TGsoGood]

Here is a tutorial for installing the NBA 2K model importer into blender 2.93.5

phpBB [video]

[connseanery]

have you guys tested it with exporting changes to hair & facial hair? there were some newer versions of blender with the importer/exporter that worked with body models but not hair, facialhair.

thanks