Plugin developer 3d-io has released UV-Packer for Blender, a new edition of its free UV packing plugin for the open-source 3D software.ĭesigned for “3D artists, game studios, arch viz, photogrammetry … and 3D product designers”, the plugin optimises the packing of UV islands for both organic and hard surface models to minimise wasted UV space.Ī high-performance automated UV packing plugin Scroll down for details of the new macOS edition.

Please note that this plugin has been tested for Blender 2.83, 2.93 LTS, 3.0, 3.1.0 and 3.2.0, and 3.3.1 LTS.Originally posted on 1 March 2021. You can download the latest version of the plugin on GitHub. Here’s some inspiration to get you started. Just download it, install the Sketchfab plugin, get creating, and upload your finished work to your Sketchfab account.

If you haven’t yet tried Blender, this is the perfect opportunity. We’d love to see you there!Īnd now for the big news! In celebration of the Blender Conference and 20 years of Blender being open source, for a limited time, we’re giving all Blender users who export models to Sketchfab with our plugin a free month of Sketchfab Pro! All you have to do to get your account upgraded is to upload a model directly to Sketchfab using Blender’s Sketchfab plugin. In addition to our team members being available at BCON, one of our Sketchfab Masters, Conrad Justin, will be hosting a tutorial, Creating an epic Halloween scene from scratch with Sketchfab assets, on Saturday, October 29 at 2:30pm. Several of us will be there, eager to meet and connect with the talented artists and developers who make the Blender and Sketchfab communities such vibrant, creative groups. Blender Conference starts today and the Sketchfab team is pleased to be among the attendees.

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