{"slug": "reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that", "title": "Reloading Textures in Blender Is a Pain — I Made a Free Add-on for That", "summary": "A developer created a free Blender add-on that adds texture reload commands to the right-click menu in the Shader Editor and 3D Viewport, eliminating the need to navigate through the Image Editor for texture updates. The tool supports material-wide and scene-wide reloads with confirmation prompts, and works with Blender 5.0+ in both Japanese and English. It is available for free on Booth.", "body_md": "Ever been deep in a texturing workflow and hit this loop?\n\nBlender doesn't put a reload button directly in the Shader Editor or 3D Viewport — you have to go through the Image Editor. That one extra detour adds up fast when you're iterating on textures.\n\nSo I made an add-on that puts it in the right-click menu.\n\nA Blender add-on that adds texture reload commands to the right-click menu in the **Shader Editor** and **3D Viewport**.\n\n**In the Shader Editor:**\n\n**In the 3D Viewport:**\n\nMaterial-wide and scene-wide reloads show a confirmation prompt to prevent accidental refreshes.\n\n**Substance Painter → Blender iteration**\n\nThe classic back-and-forth. Right-click and reload without leaving your current context.\n\n**Photoshop or other external editors**\n\nSame idea — make a change, flip to Blender, right-click, done.\n\n**Game asset work**\n\nHigh-frequency texture updates are exactly what this is built for.\n\nSame as any Blender add-on:\n\n`easy_texture_reload.py`\n\nWorks with Blender 5.0+. Supports Japanese and English (follows Blender's language setting).\n\nAvailable for free on Booth:\n\n👉 [https://epartworks.booth.pm/items/8332907](https://epartworks.booth.pm/items/8332907)\n\nI'm planning to keep building small add-ons for things that feel like they *should* be in Blender by default but aren't.\n\nIf this was useful, a follow would make my day 😊", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/mitarashi6bear/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that-278b", "published_at": "2026-05-27 05:28:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 05:53:03.674002+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools"], "entities": ["Blender", "Substance Painter", "Photoshop", "Booth"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reloading-textures-in-blender-is-a-pain-i-made-a-free-add-on-for-that.jsonld"}}