Blend Project Packer
Bundle assets and caches into portable project zips.
Blend Project Packer creates a portable zip from the current Blender project for sharing, archiving, moving between machines, or preparing for a render farm.
It scans the saved .blend for external files, linked libraries, image sequences, UDIM tiles, render output paths, and baked simulation caches. It then works on a scratch copy of the scene, copies needed files into a portable folder layout, rewrites paths to //-relative paths, and writes <project>-portable.zip.
The generated archive includes blend-project-pack.json, a local diagnostic manifest with dependency graph data, warnings, copy decisions, and SHA-256 package inventory.
The extension is local-only and works offline
What's New
0.1.3 June 12th, 2026
- Added linked-library dependency preflight for nested
.blendfiles, with linked cache copying and path rewrites. - Added Blender 5 compositor output support while preserving Blender 4
base_pathhandling. - Expanded Keep External coverage for VSE media, OSL/IES files, Mesh Cache, Multires, CacheFile layers, volume sequences, and Blender 5 camera file paths.
- Expanded simulation/cache packing for Mantaflow, point caches, particles, Dynamic Paint, Ocean, and Geometry Nodes bakes.
- Added Blender 5 supplemental path discovery diagnostics to flag paths Blender reports outside the explicit pack plan.
- Added portable render readiness summary for blockers, required bake actions, handled files, caches, and output paths.