UV-Packer Addon for Blender

UV-Packer for Blender is a free, high-performance add-on designed to automate and optimize the packing of UV islands in Blender. Its primary function is to rearrange the already unwrapped UV islands of a 3D model to maximize the use of UV space, thereby reducing wasted areas and improving texture efficiency for both organic and hard-surface models.

Platforms: Windows, Mac

Code: github page

Nice little video demonstrating the performance and work flow in Blender: UV-Packer Featurette

How to install

UV-Packer for Blender consists of 2 components that need to be installed separately: The UV-Packer for Blender addon that provides the user interface in Blender and the corresponding program that performs the packing.

This archive contains the add-on for Blender. It can be installed through the Add-ons section in Blender's preferences.

In order to use the packing functionality the UV-Packer for Blender executable must be placed into the same directory the addon is installed into.

You can download the executable at https://www.uv-packer.com/blender/

You can find the documentation for UV-Packer with more information about the installation and usage here: https://doc.uv-packer.com

Requirements

The addon requires Blender v2.9. And currently UVPacker exists only for 64 bit Windows and MacOS (both Sillicon and Intel).