Pre-Delivery Inspection for Blender Assets

Pipeline Inspector is a Blender pre-delivery inspection add-on designed to help artists check common asset handoff problems before export, upload, or client delivery.

Before sending a model to a client, marketplace, game engine, or another DCC pipeline, Pipeline Inspector gives you a clear delivery status:

READY FOR DELIVERY

or

NOT READY FOR DELIVERY

It focuses on practical production risks that can easily cause rework after delivery.

What it checks

Texture Presence

Detects missing or unreachable texture references before the asset is delivered.

Material Assignment

Checks whether visible mesh objects have export-relevant materials.

Applied Scale

Detects objects with unapplied object scale.

UV Existence

Checks whether mesh objects have usable UV maps.

Normal Consistency

Detects inconsistent face winding / normal direction issues.

Why use Pipeline Inspector?

Many asset problems are easy to miss inside your own Blender scene, but become obvious after export or handoff.

Examples include:

• Missing textures

• Empty or disconnected materials

• Unapplied scale

• Missing UV maps

• Normal direction issues

These problems can lead to broken assets, incorrect imports, marketplace rejection, or extra back-and-forth with clients.

Pipeline Inspector helps you catch these issues before delivery.

Key features

• One-click inspection from the Blender N-panel

• READY / NOT READY delivery status

• Score-based inspection result

• Blocking issue and warning count

• Per-check result details

• Read-only validation: the add-on reports issues but does not modify your scene

Important note

Pipeline Inspector is a validation tool, not an automatic repair tool.

It helps you find potential delivery risks, but you should review and fix the reported issues manually before final export or handoff.

Tested environment

• Tested in Blender 5.1.1

• 137 automated tests passed

• Runtime validation completed

• Release package structure verified

Installation

Method A: ZIP Install

1. Open Blender.

2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.

3. Click Install from Disk.

4. Select PipelineInspector_MVP_v1.0.0.zip.

5. Enable Pipeline Inspector.

6. Open the 3D Viewport sidebar with N and find the Pipeline Inspector tab.

Method B: Manual Install

If Blender does not recognize the ZIP package correctly, use the manual installation method.

1. Extract PipelineInspector_MVP_v1.0.0.zip.

2. Find the pipeline_inspector folder.

3. Copy the entire pipeline_inspector folder into your Blender add-ons directory.

Windows example:

C:\Users<YourName>\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\5.1\scripts\addons\

1. Restart Blender.

2. Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.

3. Search for Pipeline Inspector.

4. Enable the add-on.

Known limitations

• Pipeline Inspector reports issues but does not automatically repair them.

• ZIP installation may not be recognized correctly in some Blender / Windows environments. If this happens, use the manual installation method.

• Normal consistency checks can be conservative on complex meshes. Please review reported objects manually when needed.

License

GPL-3.0

Version

v1.0.0 MVP