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Release Log

2025/06/03: memsaver 1.3.0

Improvements & Additions

  • Added Decimate Meshes button similar to Resize Images
  • Added support for Octane render engine
  • All memsaver operators now report what happened, how many images were optimized, failed and how much memory was saved
  • Added control hints to preview adaptive optimize
  • Added active camera to adaptive optimize operators
  • Blender 4.4 and 4.5 (Alpha) support
  • Minor speed up of adaptive optimize

Memory Estimate Overhaul

  • Estimate memory of a selected directory or blends additionally to current file
  • Show datablocks or files view with collapsible details with tree navigation
  • Improved report visuals and report is interactive - sorting and searching is available
  • Improved estimation algorithm to be more precise for meshes
  • JSON output for memory estimate for automated processing

Fixes

  • Preview adaptive optimize doesn't throw error when a camera is selected
  • Preview adaptive optimize doesn't fail with no camera available
  • Preview adaptive optimize now uses world position of objects
  • Removed non-scene object target options for adaptive optimize, these shouldn't be considered at all as they are not in active camera

2024/07/19: memsaver 1.2.2

Changelog - Support for Blender 4.2.0. - Added Open Preferences button to the addon's panel header - Clear memsaver related properties on Blender data correctly

2023/11/20: memsaver 1.2.1

Under some circumstances memsaver would remove its custom properties and treat a derivative image as an original, damaging the .blend file. The issue was introduced in 1.2.0 and is now fixed.

2023/11/14: memsaver 1.2

Support for Blender 4.0.0. Bug fixes: behave correctly when user moves or replaces a resized image, don't fail adaptive optimize preview on non-existent images. Change label of check & regenerate operator based on user feedback. Report packed images in adaptive optimize preview.

2023/06/21: memsaver 1.1

Adaptive mesh decimation, support animations, support UDIM and sequence image types. Add support for .bmp, .exr, .hdr, .tif and .webp formats. Allow selecting all images except HDR/EXR. Handle negative and other invalid values of numeric parameters. Bug fixes; don't fail bounding box computation for point objects, fix bounding box size of objects behind camera, make sure cache folder exist before opening it.

2023/04/28: memsaver 1.0

Initial release. Resize Images, Adaptive Image Resize, automatic caching. Supports OpenImageIO or PIL/Pillow as backends for resizing.