TexTools for Blender

TexTools is a Free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texture tools. Back in 2009 renderhjs released the Original TexTools for 3dsMax. Current features include: multiple out-of-the-box Texture Baking modes, UV Layout tools (Align, Rectify, Sort, Randomize...), Texel Density tools, smart UV Selection operators, Color ID tools and some UV related Mesh creation utilities.

Download & Documentation

Visit the Official Website & Documentation for an in depth overview of the original tools (outdated).

Links

• Blenderartists discussion thread
• Original author renderhjs.net personal website, all written in haxe ;)
• renderhjs's Git repository on BitBucket
• renderhjs's release log
• renderhjs's 3dsMax version of TexTools
• Polycount discussion thread

Installation

1. Download TexTools for Blender from master(best), or the latest release.
2. In Blender from the File menu open User Preferences
3. Go to the Add-ons tab .
4. Look for any old version of TexTools currently installed and uninstall it.
5. Hit Install Addon-on from File... and Select the zip file.
6. Enable the TexTools Addon.
7. The TexTools panel can be found in the UV/Image Editor view in the left side Panel.