About Pose Shape Keys

Pose Shape Keys, developed by Mets, solves the problem of corrective shape keys breaking after vertex‑weight adjustments or bone‑constraint edits. The add‑on saves the final sculpted shapes apart from the base mesh and restores them when the mesh is modified, provided the topology remains unchanged. It supports symmetry workflows using per‑side mask vertex groups, allowing simultaneous authoring and propagation of both sides of a shape key. Users can also create multiple shape keys at once, such as breaking a Fist shape into individual finger joint keys, with an operator to normalize masks. Automatic driver set‑up handles simple cases, and version 1.0.0 adds options to filter bones by selection and side, as well as driver initialization with keyframes. Pose Shape Keys runs on Blender 4.2 LTS and newer.

Features

• Stores final sculpted shapes separately and re-applies them on a modified base mesh, as long as the topology hasn’t changed
• Symmetry workflow support: author and propagate both sides of your shape keys at once using a mask vertex group per side
• Authors multiple shape keys at once, for example a Fist shape broken up into individual finger joint shape keys via a mask vertex group per joint
• Operator to normalize the masks
• Automatic driver set-up for simple cases, with ‘Only Selected’ and ‘Side’ options to filter bones
• Drivers initialized with keyframes for custom curve editing

Best for

Blender riggers who need corrective shape keys to survive later weight‑painting or bone‑constraint changes.