WeightLifter has been verified for 4.1 compatibility. It has been tested with the 4.1.1 version of April 16, 2024 and no modifications were needed to make it compatible. If you still encounter a bug, please let me know so that I can have a look at it.
WeightLifter is available on BlenderMarket. This update is free for customers who bought previous versions of WeightLifter.
WeightLifter is an add-on that can calculate all sorts of information and store this into vertex groups or vertex color layers. It can for example determine the visibility of vertices for a certain camera or the distance to some light source and much, much more (the add-on comes with a 30 page fully illustrated manual), information that can for example be used as a density map in particle systems. You can even bake this information if your scene is animated.
The future
The code in the add-on is very old (10 years, which in Internet terms is ancient) and it does show its age in the way it is structured and also, as I experience myself, it is not very fast, especially on large meshes.
I was tempted to modernize it, and improve its speed if possible, but this might also be an opportunity to add features. So if you have an idea or suggestion, please drop me a note in the contact box at the top right of the page or via BlenderMarket and I'll be happy to consider it.
In its current form it is unlikely it will be supported beyond Blender 4.2 LTS
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