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Earns its place in the Blender extensions library for combining ray-cast projection, live preview, and texture baking in one add-on, updated through version 2.1.0 with Geometry Nodes support and stable edit-mode updates.
FTW3DForge Image Projector is a Blender add-on for projecting images onto 3D meshes with automatic UV mapping. It imports an image as a correctly sized plane based on a DPI value, then ray-casts that image onto a target mesh. A live preview updates the projection automatically as you move the plane, and the result can be permanently baked to a texture at a chosen resolution.
Under the hood, it uses ray-casting with barycentric coordinate interpolation for UV mapping and falls back to the closest point for non-hitting vertices. It supports subdivision modifiers on both the plane and the target mesh while preserving UV corners, offers XY, XZ, and YZ plane orientations, and respects Blender's metric or imperial unit settings.
Version 2.1.0 adds Geometry Nodes support, switches edit-mode updates to a modal timer, optimizes BMesh memory use, works in Solid viewport mode, and lets you save baked images to PNG, JPG, TIFF, or EXR. It requires Blender 5.0 or later and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.
FTW3DForge Image Projector is best for projecting reference images onto 3D meshes and baking the result into a texture within Blender.
FTW3DForge Image Projector is completely free to download and use.
FTW3DForge Image Projector is listed as compatible with Blender 5.0 and newer, which is also the minimum version it requires. The add-on relies on features such as ray-cast projection, live preview, and Geometry Nodes tracking that depend on this release, so earlier versions of Blender are not supported. If you are running Blender 5.0 or a later build, you can install the extension and use its full projection and baking workflow. For the current compatibility status, check the developer's page on the project repository.
FTW3DForge Image Projector installs as a Blender extension from a downloaded ZIP file. In Blender, open Edit then Preferences, go to Get Extensions, click the dropdown menu in the top right, and select Install from Disk, then choose the ZIP. Once chosen, the extension is installed and enabled. You can also drag and drop the downloaded file into Blender. The add-on requests permission to import images from disk, which it uses to load the image you project onto your mesh.
FTW3DForge Image Projector can save baked images to PNG, JPG, TIFF, or EXR, a capability added in version 2.1.0. When you bake, the tool creates a permanent texture at a resolution you set, and the original projection material is replaced with that baked texture. The baking resolution defaults to 2048 and can be adjusted within its supported range. Exporting to these formats lets you keep the baked result as a standard image file outside the Blender scene.
FTW3DForge Image Projector is listed as free here in the catalog and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. That license governs how you can use, modify, and redistribute the add-on. For the current terms, downloads, and any licensing details, visit the developer's page on the project repository. Because licensing can change over time, treating the developer's page as the authoritative source is the safest approach before you build the add-on into a production pipeline.
FTW3DForge Image Projector version 2.1.0 switched edit-mode updates from a depsgraph handler to a modal timer, which the developer notes prevents crashes when adding vertices. It reuses a single BMesh instance per update cycle for memory optimization, adds Geometry Nodes support so target mesh updates track evaluated and modified geometry, and works in Solid viewport mode without forcing a mode switch. The update also adds saving baked images to PNG, JPG, TIFF, and EXR, plus re-entry prevention to avoid infinite loops during updates.
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