Gather Resources
Gather Resources
Gather Resources is a utility for collecting all external project files into a single place.
It scans your Blender file for images, textures, VSE video/audio strips, cache files, and other external media, then copies and relinks them into a local textures/ directory beside your .blend.
This makes it easy to archive, share, version-control, or transfer projects between machines—similar to After Effects’ Collect Files.
Features
- Collects:
- Image textures
- Image sequences
- VSE video footage and sound
- Cache files (e.g., Mesh Sequence Cache)
- Flattens nested/doubled
textures/folders - Preserves source folder structure where appropriate
- Handles duplicates safely (auto-renaming or reuse based on file size)
- Works across all scenes, not just the active one
- Multi-threaded copying for faster performance
- Safe, non-destructive — never modifies the original
.blend
Usage
After saving your .blend:
- Go to File → External Data
- Click Gather Resources
- A
textures/directory will be created beside your file - All referenced external media will be copied and relinked to this folder
A summary appears when complete.
License
GPL-3.0-or-later © 2024–2025 Simon Heggie
What's New
0.5.2 December 8th, 2025
Gather Resources — v0.5.2 Changelog
Follow-up bugfixes after 0.5.1 (Blender 5.x compatibility)
This update finalises the Blender-5 path behaviour introduced in 0.5.1 and fixes the last inconsistencies between scan → map → relink.
1. Unified Blender-5 path normalisation
compat/v5/normalize()is now the only normalisation used in:- v5 scanner
- v5 relinker
- root operator (Blender-5 branch)
- All
.resolve()calls removed from Blender-5 logic.
Effect: mapping keys now match exactly between scanner, operator and relinker.
2. Operator mapping logic corrected for Blender-5
- Blender-5 mapping keys now use:
src_key_str = normalize(str(src))
src_path derived from this normalised key ensures subpath computation and duplicate detection behave consistently.
A great addon, it saved me a lot of time, but there are a few more subfolders under the textures folder. I want to know why they are retained. I feel that they are not needed.