Inventory Icon Renderer – Blender add-on

Inventory Icon Renderer turns the props in your .blend into the item icons a game UI needs. No camera to place: the add-on measures every item and frames it.

What you get

• One PNG per item and size, e.g. Sword_256.png, Sword_128.png, Sword_64.png
• One atlas per size with JSON (TexturePacker hash layout, includes rarity per icon)
• Rarity tiles for Common to Legendary, outline and drop shadow that scale with the icon size
• Views: 3/4, front, side, top or custom; Fit Each or Same Scale
• Rendered once at 2x or 4x and scaled down, so small sizes stay clean

Your scene stays as it was

Items are linked into a temporary scene and never moved. Your scene is restored, also when a render fails halfway.

Requirements

Blender 4.2 or newer. Install as an Extension: Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions › Install from Disk, then pick the ZIP. No extra Python packages. Tested headless on Blender 5.2.2 (Windows) with an automated suite of 109 checks.

Known limits

• Icons are rendered at the current frame; no animated icons
• The atlas is a plain grid; icons are not trimmed or packed

License

GPL-3.0-or-later. You get the full source.

Developed with the help of an AI assistant (Claude by Anthropic). Code, tests and images were reviewed and run by the author. All images show real output of the add-on.