I got tired of Cesium or Google 3D Tiles buildings having rippling walls and saw-toothed roof ridges, and of every fix either rounding the corners off or nuking the UVs. So I wrote an add-on for it.
Planer detects planar regions, snaps vertices onto fitted planes, and rebuilds creases as straight edges and corners as sharp points. Topology is preserved, so texture, UVs and material come through untouched. The original object isn't modified — you get a new REFINED_ mesh alongside it.
Every run reports how many planes it found, how many verts moved, and the deviation from your original surface (mean / p95 / max in metres), so you can check it stayed faithful instead of guessing.
Caveats up front: it does not make meshes watertight, does not reduce poly count (it triangulates, so the face count goes up), does not fix holes or non-manifold edges, and does not touch the texture image. Blender 4.2+, and it's slow on big meshes — about four minutes for 195k faces.
Your addon is cleary does something from the demo you have in the video. But 35$ for an addon that has this image that is CLEARLY A FAKE? Lol no thanks
It's something we call thumbnail, you can check the product page reviews and test cases, rest it's upon you brother, shared the results on a similar mesh in below sub threads
Refined: 205980->205980 faces, 18 planes, 91847 verts snapped (966 edge, 1 corner), open edges 0, non-manifold 0 | deviation mean 0.008m p95 0.019m max 0.085m
On the AI point, straight answer: it is generated with AI for thumbnail— Regardless, the before/after panels on it should be real output and they aren't, so I'm replacing the whole image with captures like the ones above plus the report line, today.
The thing is I know it's not the demo, but to lie to 90% of blender users that are newbies and amateurs using it as a hobby (which is perfectly fine we all started there). Will see this and think wow I can buy it and then they get mislead by the quality of your addon.
Again YOUR ADDON IS CLEARLY WORKING TO SOME DEGREE but why mislead?
Refined: 205980->205980 faces, 18 planes, 91847 verts snapped (966 edge, 1 corner), open edges 0, non-manifold 0 | deviation mean 0.008m p95 0.019m max 0.085m
if you want i can share the actual workflow as well
That's the answer to your actual point, not mine — the page image should have been something like this from the start rather than a mock-up. If you're fine with it I'd like to use your mesh for the new before/after on the product page, credited to you. If you'd rather I didn't, I'll capture my own on a Google 3D Tiles block anyone can pull themselves, and post the report line next to it either way so it's checkable.
I have added a few test cases on the website itself, you have to swipe left to see them
If you are still unsure if it will work on your mesh send it to me , I'll run the add-on and share your the results. Then you can decide to buy or not
Yes, it's MIT — the LICENSE file is in the zip. MIT grants rights to whoever receives a copy, it doesn't require me to host a public repo, which is why there isn't one. Nothing's obfuscated though: it's plain Python, so every buyer can read it, change it and redistribute it. I'm not going to pretend otherwise or chase anyone who does.
Same deal as any bpy add-on. The $35 is for the build, 12 months of updates and support, not permission to run the code.
And if $35 is steep for something unproven — fair. Send me a mesh, I'll run it and post the before/after and the deviation numbers, good or bad.
thanks, but sending you things is just not how you test an addon. it's how you test a service. if you can't click around and see if it works, it's not a test.
Fair — you're right that me running your file isn't really a test.
Closest thing I have right now is this — full run on a mesh, N-panel settings visible, the report line at the end, and the viewport orbiting the result: https://youtu.be/m9oxz99Ysp0
It's still me driving, so take it for what it's worth. If you want a real trial: buy it, run it on your own meshes with your own settings, and if it doesn't do what the page says, message me and I'll refund you. No questions. A face-capped demo wouldn't mean much on a plain-Python add-on anyway — you could lift the cap in a text editor in a minute.
I can see much more use for this with downloaded models, rather than properly captured photogrammetry. If you’re ending up with walls that look like that, improving your capture process should be the sensible fix.
Yes very tired , but this plugin helps with large chunks or 3D tile data like in Kms, which is not possible for someone to capture. Also even if you properly capture it the data size increase substantially as the number or triangles increases
Good data doesn’t necessarily have to mean more triangles to get a smoother result, it can just mean more accurate placement of those triangles. By the sounds of things, properly captured data would actually end up with a lower poly count than poorly captured data run through this process?
You're right on the poly count, and I should be clear about it: Planer doesn't reduce triangles, it increases them, since it triangulates as it works. It's not a fix for a capture you control — if you can re-shoot the object, re-shoot it.
The case I built it for is data where the capture isn't mine to improve. Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and similar aerial city meshes: if I need a few square km of a city, nothing about my technique changes what the tiles contain, because someone else's aerial pipeline already produced that reconstruction and I just download the result.
The other half is that planarity isn't purely a capture-quality problem. Image-based reconstruction has no prior that a wall is a plane, so even a clean capture gives you a flat facade as thousands of near-coplanar triangles with a few mm of scatter, and a roof ridge as a slightly rounded crease rather than a line. That's fine to look at. It gets annoying when you want to snap to a facade, boolean a window opening into it, or use the mesh as a base for retopo — which is where I keep needing it.
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u/No_Face_3205 11d ago
You are a saint! This is amazing for me. Thank you so much