Blend Project Packer

Changelog

• Added linked-library dependency preflight for nested .blend files, with linked cache copying and path rewrites.
• Added Blender 5 compositor output support while preserving Blender 4 base_path handling.
• 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.

Changelog

• Replaced bpy.utils.user_resource with bpy.utils.extension_path_user.
• Removed in-process threading and queue usage from the shipped extension package.
• Changed the pipeline runner to serial, timer-driven execution via bpy.app.timers.
• Kept heavy .blend rewrite work isolated in headless Blender subprocesses.
• Replaced subprocess stdout/stderr reader threads with serial merged-stream parsing.
• Reduced blender_manifest.toml tags to ["Pipeline"] only.

Changelog

• Updated README

Changelog

Initial release of Blend Project Packer.

• Adds a Project Pack panel in the 3D View sidebar
• Builds portable project zip archives from saved .blend files
• Copies external assets into a portable project layout
• Supports image sequences and UDIM-style tile groups
• Recursively scans linked .blend libraries for single-file dependencies
• Copies baked simulation cache directories in Keep External mode
• Rewrites risky render and compositor output paths under //renders/
• Writes blend-project-pack.json with dependency, warning, and checksum data
• Leaves the original working .blend unchanged
• Runs locally with no network access, account, or upload step