Add-ons

Image Node Preview

Simon Wendsche ·

Simon Wendsche writes:

I wrote an addon that adds a very basic feature to Cycles/Eevee image texture nodes: it shows a preview thumbnail of the image inside or above the node.

It is available on the Blender Market.

Features:

  • High performance: Thumbnails are generated by a C++ worker thread in the background, the Blender UI stays fully responsive at all times
  • Low memory usage: Each thumbnail takes up 265 KiB of graphics RAM (regardless of the size of the previewed texture). 100 thumbnails would use 25.6 MiB – a negligible amount.
  • Supported image formats: jpg, png, hdr, psd, tga, bmp, gif
  • Supported Cycles nodes: Image Texture and Environment Texture
  • No changes are made to the .blend, others without the addon can still open your scenes without problems
  • High-resolution displays supported (works with Blender’s resolution scale feature)

Caveats:

  • Thumbnails are not displayed for packed images
  • EXR format currently not supported
  • Thumbnails of image sequences are not updated when changing frames
Author Simon Wendsche
I am the author of the Blender addon for LuxCoreRender.
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