Stop losing time on messy meshes and repetitive setup

Tired of shading artifacts you can't explain, n-gons hiding in plain sight, re-orienting every imported asset by hand, and hunting for the right tab in a Sidebar packed with add-ons?

DejaVu Tools is a 5-tool cleanup and prep kit for Blender. It makes topology problems visible, straightens meshes in one click, bakes depth and normal maps without leaving the viewport, and gets you around a crowded Sidebar in seconds — so the busywork stops eating into your modeling time.

Important: DejaVu Tools does not auto-fix topology. It highlights issues so you can correct geometry manually, faster.

See it in action

What you can do with DejaVu Tools

Resalt BAD Topology

• What it does: Colors every face by vertex count, so quads, tris and n-gons are visually separated the instant you look at the mesh. Includes one-click select-by-face-type and an optional live vertex-count overlay.
• Why it helps: Instead of orbiting the viewport guessing why a shader looks wrong, you see the problem faces immediately — and select them with one click to fix them by hand.

Auto Orient Object

• What it does: Realigns an object to the global axis using selected faces, edges, or 3+ vertices — works in both Object and Edit Mode. Default shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + F.
• Why it helps: No more manually rotating an imported or scanned asset until it "looks straight." Select the reference geometry, hit the shortcut, done.

Depth and Normal Map

• What it does: Bakes Depth and Normal maps from the active camera and exports them as EXR at 1K, 2K or 4K.
• Why it helps: Get texturing-, displacement-, or lookdev-ready maps in two clicks — no compositor setup, no round-trip to another app.

Sidebar Tab Navigator

• What it does: Turns Blender's narrow, vertical Sidebar tab strip into a searchable, sortable, favoritable list. Jump to any tab from the View menu, the viewport header, or the shortcuts Alt + N (open list) and Ctrl + Alt + N (search).
• Why it helps: Once your Sidebar has a dozen add-on tabs squeezed into a few pixels of vertical text, finding the right one stops being a guessing game.

Open .blend Folder

• What it does: Opens the active .blend file's folder directly from Blender's File menu, on Windows, macOS or Linux.
• Why it helps: Faster file handoffs, backups, and export checks — no digging through Recent Files or your OS file browser.

Feature highlights

ONE-CLICK VISIBILITY FAST FACE SELECTION PRECISE INSPECTION QUICK ORIENTATION DEPTH & NORMAL EXPORT FASTER SIDEBAR

• One-click visibility: Reveal topology hotspots the moment you look at the mesh.
• Fast face-type selection: Isolate tris, n-gons, and quads for manual cleanup.
• Precise inspection: Optional face-number overlay for detailed checks.
• Quick orientation: Align meshes from selected faces or edges, no manual transforms.
• Depth & normal export: Camera-based EXR baking at up to 4K, ready for texturing or displacement.
• Faster Sidebar: Search, sort, and favorite tabs instead of scanning vertical text.

Compatibility

• Blender: 4.4.3 to 5.2
• Operating Systems: Windows, macOS, Linux

Installation (under 1 minute)

1. In Blender: Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install...
2. Select the .zip file you downloaded from Superhive
3. Enable DejaVu Tools
4. Open View3D > Sidebar > DejaVu

Included files

• DejaVu Tools add-on (.zip)
• README
• User Manual
• License

Support

Support channel: Superhive product support thread.

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