The FAST Add-on panel enables users to effortlessly rename and reorder their add-ons for an optimized workflow. With the added convenience of saving these settings, users can maintain their customized setup across multiple Blender installations, ensuring a consistent environment tailored to their preferences.

Our FAST Animation panel, designed as the perfect companion to the FACEIT add-on, enhances any facial motion capture workflow, compatible with apps like Face Cap and Live Link for iPhone. This tool excels in efficiency by automatically removing silence from audio clips of performances, adding markers, and deleting extraneous keyframes outside these markers. Then allows for seamless repositioning of key frame sequences and marker sections on the timeline with a single click, You can edit face mocap performances of any length in no time at all.

The FAST Blender Preferences panel is specifically designed to keep your animation workflow stress-free by ensuring that essential Blender add-ons/preferences, are automatically activated/deactivated(for testing) at startup, by simply checking unchecking their boxes. This is particularly invaluable in situations where you’ve had to delete your preferences file to restart Blender for troubleshooting or after reinstalling Blender or otherwise.

Our FAST Auto Save panel offers what we confidently consider the best auto-save feature available. Designed through rigorous testing, this system ensures that your most recent auto-save is always readily accessible upon startup. When we created this every time we lost a file we would write more code, it has been a long time since we have lost a file.

The FAST Google panel features Google Voice F3 Search, a revolutionary tool that eliminates the need to manually type when searching for an operator; Equally impressive is the Google Voice to 3D Text feature, which allows you to add beautiful extruded 3D text, at the 3D cursor, based on your spoken output. Additionally, the Transcribe button from the FAST Extended panel is conveniently located within this panel as well.

The FAST Extended panel features a dedicated button linked to the Replica dialogue software webpage, Once installed, this same button (Add it to Quick Favorites) transforms into a launcher for the Replica software allowing you to create dialog for your characters very fast. Additionally, the panel includes a vital tool that transcribes audio into text. This functionality is crucial for most automatic lip-sync technologies.

The FAST Green Screen panel enables you to key a green screen video in just 2 clicks!! It automatically opens the video in the compositor, with keying nodes pre-added for immediate use. Simply use the eyedropper tool on a green part of your video and with one more click, of a button on a ‘Compositor’ panel (Right…)

The FAST Green Screen compositor panel takes over and your footage is keyed out, placed on a plane, and its audio is added to the sequencer kind of like an amplified ‘Images as Planes’ featured…with too many more features to talk easily about here.

Our FAST Operator Settings panel, each setting supports the functionality of specific operators, described below.

High Poly Fix: Swiftly toggles the disabling of high-polygon objects to accelerate viewport performance…(The operator is included here for ease of access.)

Our Advanced Camera Setup feature auto places cameras centered to the viewport view. This feature is enhanced, here, by an option to disable it’s render preview.

Temp Auto Keyframe: introduces a timer control for our temporary auto keyframing functionality, which automatically deactivates it, to prevent oversight.

Save and Restart Blender: Causes our restart feature auto close windows like preferences and the file browser upon restart.

Auto Pack: Turns on selective packing of just sounds, not textures, into your file to avoid lags from oversized files.

Window Offset: Adjust the on-screen position of add-on notifications from our message box system.

Run Operator Startup: Executes a chosen operator automatically at Blender startup, ideal for testing.

Fix Mixed Legacy Nodes: Updates old node setups to ensure compatibility with newer Blender versions.

Our FAST Lighting panel, introduces a button to add a eight-spotlight setup, designed to cast an even light across extensive scenes and a button to add our standard 3-point lighting setup employs 3 round area lights, that attach directly to the character’s rig at the neck, or right at the center of selected mesh objects. The panel allows for editing of single lights and even multiple lights at once, with a unique nudge feature for precise adjustments. It also includes an option of also adding an HDRI, at .400 strength, for ambient lighting..

The FAST Theme 1 panel, centralizes all ‘User Interface’ RGB theme properties on a single viewport panel, grouping some settings and some are offered as just the standard singular Blender setting. This is based on extensive testing to ensure beautiful results with minimal effort. This panel introduces “Save” and “Reload” options, To bookmark your place when you’re editing a theme, and 3 awesome default themes!, and, our, ‘Theme Sync’ feature!! Make a change to your theme it is reflected in Blenders theme properties, make a change in Blenders and notice the changes on our panel, there’s even an undo feature, so if you make a change you’re not happy with, undo, and see the changes immediately reflected on your theme. This is way cooler than Blender’s default system!!

Introducing our FAST Theme 2 panel. We’ve streamlined theme customization by consolidating all ‘3D’ settings, shade top and shade down, onto a single, panel directly within the viewport. This intuitive arrangement of sliders allows for effortless adjustments to the 3D aspect of theme elements across the Blender interface… And the ‘Theme Sync’ feature applies to this panel as well, make a change to your theme settings, undo, and you see the changes immediately reflected on your theme. It is like a ‘Blender Dream’ come true.

Our FAST Rhubarb SK panel brings you the Rhubarb functionality you’re accustomed to for shape keys. We’ve also optimized it with additional features for non-English phonetic voices that make it even better. This panel, which requires you to create requires 9 specific shape keys to create the automatic lip-sync animations, introduces nine dedicated buttons for these shape keys, allowing you to add keyframes at any timeline point, to fine tune these animations, fast. This is a way better ‘Rhubarb’ for Blender 4.0.

The Fast Speech Bubble panel adds a morphable/animatable speech bubble to your scene, ideal for adding cartoon effects. With a click on the ‘Add Bubble Text’ button, Google’s voice recognition captures your voice and converts it into text, which is auto-centered, within the bubble. It also has a ‘Words Per Line’ and ‘Text Size’ setting. It comes with features for resizing the bubble, along with tools for custom morphing and shape keys for dynamic animations. I’m going to add video textures to mine and create cool scenes like the 80’s TV show ‘Dream On’.

The FAST Daz Studio: Import panel offers Auto-Import from Daz Studio in just 1 click for props and environments (adds nice lighting) and 1 click for characters (adds the face & body animation, with audio, with a camera pointed at face, with awesome lighting……and more…) It also automatically backs up each imported character to a zip-file, making it possible to reimport any character that you’ve previously added, in just 1 click!!…we also make adding additional animation to an already imported character fast!! This is the absolute best way in the world to work with DAZ Studio characters in Blender.

The FAST Daz Studio: DAZ panel includes buttons for quickly launching DAZ Studio in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions directly from Blender, and a button to force close DAZ cleverly circumventing the typical 15-second wait time DAZ Studio imposes before it can be reopened. The panel also facilitates you to bring DAZ assets into Blender, for detailed sculpting and morph creation, with the proper settings applied on import. This functionality is crucial for artists looking to refine DAZ objects within Blender.

The FAST Daz Studio: Materials panel offers a powerful feature for artists working with DAZ Studio assets in Blender: the ability to refresh the materials on any DAZ Studio props, environments, or characters with just a single click, based on the original file from which they were imported. This efficient tool works on all selected objects that belong to the same import file.

The FAST Transform Panel elevates transforms and basic Blender operations by offering XYZ move, rotate, and scale alongside a distinctive nudge function for ultra-precise movements. Set nudge via the mouse scroll wheel, all transforms are then done precisely, ensuring exact object placement. Camera controls include same nudge maneuvers, set camera on the panel and zoom, pan, elevate, rotate to your heart’s content, with pinpoint framing. Quick-view switches further augment this panel which is found in the N-Panel region as its own stand alone panel named only ‘*’ for ease of use. It includes other essential actions (delete, hide, show, disable, duplicate, separate) as well, The transforms work on bones in pose mode! making this panel indispensable for very precise, rapid, animation and every aspect, of scene construction/editing.

The FAST Audio panel in our add-on offers customizable control over the beep sound utilized for functions like Google Voice F3 search and Google Voice 3D text creation, as indicators that Google is listening to what you’re speaking, otherwise, while minimally used so you could focus on your projects act as, both as notifications and warnings.

The FAST Append panel though small enhances Blenders append functionality. The first button activates Blender’s standard append function and also appends sounds and markers, at the correct position on the timeline. The second button is dedicated solely to appending sounds and markers.