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UV Align And Follow is a Blender add-on that aligns the active UV quad into a rectangle and has the rest of the island's quads follow it, laying everything into a neat rectangular grid.

Billboard Render - Image Planes is a Blender addon that replaces selected objects with textured planes. Pressing its Render button renders the object and creates a rectangular plane positioned to look identical from the camera's point of view.

QuickBake is a Blender addon that automates Cycles texture baking, handling the preparation work before Blender bakes. It supports multiple baking modes at once and can bake several objects into a single texture.