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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 25/09/2026

With STF, you can now transfer 3d bezier curves from Blender to Godot^^ (Unity doesn't support them natively, so idk if I'll implement it for some 3rd party lib) #blender3d #b3d #godotengine #gamedev #programming

Screenshots of a heart shaped bezier curve in Blender and Godot.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 25/09/2026

Yes, so much yes! I was preparing face-tracking updates for a while. Rip that effort, but in the best way possible. All Squirrelbite avatars already use Unified Expressions. Major kudos to the VRCFT community for those. Once VRC shippes this, all my avatar bases will be updated accordingly.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 14/08/2026

I just released Slot Link 1.0 !! You can now export your slot-linked animations into FBX, without any manual tedium! I think that's worthy of being called v1.0^^ Start animating with Slot Link here: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/slot... #blender3d #b3d #gamedev #foss #opensource

extensions.blender.org

Slot Link

Animation For Video Games Made Easy

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 27/08/2026

If you are an EU citizen, please consider signing this citizen initiative: Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/... This is no stupid change(.)org petition.

Screenshot of my confirmed signature for this ECI

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 25/08/2026

Not all, and only with my shitty phone :P I also only know the handle of the purple crazy one @wetsquirrel.bsky.social, not the others :(

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 24/08/2026

EF was once again epic, saw at least 4 squirrel fursuiters! Also picked up this amazing artwork by @kashmere.bsky.social !

Eurofurence swag, main is drawn art of an anthro squirrel.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 14/08/2026

Note, I can lead a horse to water, but I can't make it drink. The exported animations may still be incorrect, depending on what you animate and what's in your scene, due to Blenders borked data-model.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 14/08/2026

The export uses the NLA hack that Blenders FBX exporter supports. Slot Link places all actions & slots on the NLA, with a gap between what are supposed to be separate animations in FBX. This is how the export ready NLA looks^^ It's absolutely unmanageable doing this by hand.

Ready to export NLA setup, automatically created by Slot Link

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 14/08/2026

extensions.blender.org

Slot Link

Animation For Video Games Made Easy

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 12/08/2026

My biggest pain point in Blender, that can't be fixed with extensions, is the inability to **pose** shape-keys (blendshapes). You can't have two characters, with different body shapes, sharing the same mesh. Consider voting: blender.community/c/rightclick... #blender3d #b3d #gamedev

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Pose for Shape Keys

Please consider implementing a shape key "pose" on objects, analogous to the po…

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 06/08/2026

In the future I want to build a feature to lay out all Slot-Linked Actions into the NLA. That way you can export them all into FBX without hassle! Also, thanks for the feature requests and bug reports @nyekonyeko.bsky.social !

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 06/08/2026

I released Blender Slot Link v0.2! * You can select multiple animation targets per ActionSlot. * You can restrict an Action to only affect a specified Collection. ..and more Get it here: extensions.blender.org/add-ons/slot... #blender3d #b3d #gamedev #foss #opensource #programming #python

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Slot Link

Easily manage projects with multiple separate animations

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 19/07/2026

I know Bluesky probably just showed you the latest post in this thread. The original post has a video with all the context.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 19/07/2026

In Blender, when you hit the spacebar, whatever happens is the animation. You can't just select another animation from a dropdown, and have something completely different happen. That is what I am trying to achieve with the Slot-Link extension.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 19/07/2026

Introducing this relationship natively would be one of the biggest improvements to Blender since the open-sourcing! In the video I linked earlier, at mark 2:24, I discuss a few potential ways of achieving that. You'll have of course a deeper insight on how that may be done.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 18/07/2026

TLDR / TLDW: You can't animate the same armature-poses, shape-keys, materials, etc.. in multiple independent animations. Only the one global animation per .blend file. Slot-Link turns Actions into legit standalone animations, permitting you to do all that, with just an additional button press.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 18/07/2026

I may complain about Blender, but I also try to do something about it. The Slot-Link extension allows you to manage multiple independent animations in Blender^^ And with version 0.1 you get a much improved user experience! extensions.blender.org/add-ons/slot... #b3d #animation #gamedev #foss

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 15/07/2026

It's a very technical topic sadly, sorry if it's boring. This is part 1, unfortunately there are more critical issues with using Blender for games development. Part 2 will be about the very engaging topic of mesh-instances^^

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 13/07/2026

Its so good aaaaa!

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 06/07/2026

The Godot implementation for the experimental 3d file-format '.stf' is now available on the Godot asset store! store.godotengine.org/asset/mars/s... #stf #godot #3d #interoperability #foss #opensource

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STF Importer - Godot Asset Store

STF - Modular 3D File-Format for Gamedev

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 23/06/2026

Cuute! Whoa, didn't know you draw so well!

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 22/06/2026

Thats awesome! I liked the freespace series, wing commander, command & conquer, total annihilation, ... Too many good games from back then!

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Meezer @catscomics.com · 22/06/2026

Colour sketch commission of the red squirrel named Sylvri for Magentawolf 🐿️ #furry #furryart #commission

Digital art commission of a Red Squirrel OC roller rollerblading named Sylvri for Magentawolf

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 13/06/2026

that movie is severely under appreciated!

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 12/05/2026

You can import an .stf file into Blender and export the scene into any format Blender supports, and vice versa. I haven't made a standalone conversion tool, nor do I plan to. The point of STF is to be a bridge between 3D modeling tools and game-engine editors.

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 29/04/2026

For the past 3 years I've been making yet-another™ 3D file-format, called STF. Find out why, and how it compares to glTF, FBX, and others: youtu.be/DDQjbSaDbkM #stf #stf3d #gamedev #programming #opensource #foss #interoperability #3dart #b3d #blender3d #godot #godotengine #madewithunity

youtu.be

Why do we need Yet-Another™ File-Format for 3D Models

YouTube video by Squirrelbite

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Mars 🌰 Squirrelbite.com @mars.squirrel.pub · 06/05/2026

I want to become less dependent of VSCode. A lot of my workflows are locked to it -.- I started by implementing an IDE/editor agnostic tool to develop and debug Blender extensions: codeberg.org/emperorofmar... #opensource #programming #vscode #blender3d #python