MPFB 2.0.9

These are the release notes of MPFB 2.0.9, which was released 2025-04-19. Listed below are the changes since 2.0.8.

General

This is a bug fix release. If you did not run into trouble with material instances, you will not notice much difference compared to 2.0.8.

Downloads

MPFB is available from the extension platform, and the preferred way of installation is to use the extension platform functionality inside blender.

Material instances is now an explicit setting

A bug in MPFB 2.0.8 and earlier caused material instances to always be created when loading a saved character with any skin model except layered. There was no way to avoid having material instances created when loading a saved character.

This broke, for example, the MakeUp functionality, since that does not work well together with material instances.

From 2.0.9, material instances is an explicit setting when loading a character: