READYMESH — DOCUMENTATION

1. WHAT IS READYMESH?

ReadyMesh is a Blender add-on that turns any mesh into a production-ready

asset in seconds. It bundles the repetitive finishing pass every 3D artist

runs before an asset ships, applying transforms, setting a sane origin,

cleaning up geometry, fixing shading, and naming objects consistently

into a single panel and a single button.

It's built for game artists, archviz/product-viz artists, asset-pack

creators, and studio pipelines where dozens or hundreds of meshes need to

be brought to the same baseline before export, publishing, or handoff.

2. INSTALLATION

Requirements: Blender 4.2 or newer.

- Download ReadyMesh-1_0_0.zip from your purchase page. Do not unzip it.

- In Blender, open Edit > Preferences > Get Extensions (the Add-ons tab

  on older 4.2 builds).

- Click the dropdown arrow in the top-right corner and choose

  "Install from Disk…"

- Select ReadyMesh-1_0_0.zip and confirm.

- Enable the checkbox next to ReadyMesh if it isn't already active.

Once enabled, ReadyMesh lives in the 3D Viewport sidebar (press N to open

it) under its own ReadyMesh tab.

3. QUICK START > MAKE PRODUCTION READY

Select one or more mesh objects, open the ReadyMesh tab, and click

"Make Production Ready." This runs, in order:

1. Transform: apply location, rotation and scale (if enabled)

2. Origin: set the origin using your chosen mode (if enabled)

3. Clean: merge doubles, dissolve degenerate geometry, delete loose

   geometry, recalculate normals, clear custom split normals (if enabled)

4. Shade: apply smooth-by-angle shading using your Smooth Angle setting

   (if enabled)

5. Rename: sequentially rename the selection using your Naming settings

   (off by default)

Each step has its own checkbox beneath the button, so you can skip any

stage you don't need. The whole operation is a single undo step, press

Ctrl+Z once to revert everything it did.

Tip: you can select many objects at once and run Make Production Ready

across the whole batch, each object is processed independently, keeping

its own origin and geometry intact.

4. THE READYMESH PANEL

The panel is organized top-to-bottom in the order you'd normally work:

the one-click action first, then the individual tools it's built from, in

case you want to run any of them on their own.

- One-Click Prep: the Make Production Ready button and its five step

  toggles

- Origin: four one click origin placements

- Cleanup: the Clean Mesh button plus its five options

- Transforms & Shading: Apply All Transforms and Smooth by Angle

- Quick Modifiers: Mirror X/Y/Z and Add Bevel

- Naming: batch rename controls

Advanced numeric fields (merge distance, bevel width/segments, etc.) can

be hidden from the panel for a cleaner view: see the Preferences section

below.

5. FEATURE REFERENCE

5.1 Origin

Sets the origin point of every selected mesh object. Useful before

exporting to a game engine, which typically expects a bottom-center or

geometry-based pivot.

- Bottom: places the origin at the bottom-center of the object's

  world-space bounding box

- Center: places the origin at the center of the bounding box

- Geometry: places the origin at the median point of the mesh's geometry

- Cursor: places the origin at the current 3D cursor position

5.2 Cleanup

Runs a configurable geometry cleanup pass on the selected meshes. Each

stage can be toggled independently; the merge/dissolve distance is shared

between the two distance-based operations.

- Clean Mesh: runs all enabled cleanup stages below on the selection

- Merge by Distance: welds vertices closer together than the Merge

  Distance value

- Dissolve Degenerate: removes zero-area faces and zero-length edges

  below the same distance threshold

- Delete Loose: deletes vertices with no connected edges

- Recalculate Normals: recomputes face normals so they point outward

  consistently

- Clear Custom Normals: removes custom split normal data that can cause

  shading artifacts

5.3 Transforms & Shading

- Apply All Transforms: applies location, rotation and scale, resetting

  them to their defaults while preserving visual placement

- Smooth by Angle: applies angle-based smooth shading using the Angle

  value; automatically clears conflicting custom normals first

On Blender versions where the modern smooth-by-angle operator isn't

available, ReadyMesh automatically falls back to classic smooth shading

plus auto-smooth so results stay consistent.

5.4 Quick Modifiers

- Mirror X / Y / Z: adds a Mirror modifier on the chosen axis with

  Clipping enabled, so mirrored halves weld cleanly at the seam

- Add Bevel: adds a Bevel modifier using the current Width and Segments

  values, limited by angle

5.5 Naming

Renames every selected object sequentially: Base Name + an incrementing,

zero-padded number. For example, base "Prop," start 1, padding 3 produces

Prop_001, Prop_002, Prop_003, and so on, in the order the objects were

selected.

6. PREFERENCES

Open Edit > Preferences > Add-ons, find ReadyMesh, and expand it to set

studio-wide defaults. These values pre-fill the panel's fields every time

you start a new file.

- Default Merge Distance (0.0001): starting value for Merge Distance in

  Cleanup

- Default Smooth Angle (30°): starting value for the smooth-by-angle

  threshold

- Default Bevel Width (0.02): starting width for the Quick Bevel

  modifier

- Default Bevel Segments (3): starting segment count for the Quick

  Bevel modifier

- Show Advanced Options in Panel (on): toggles whether numeric

  cleanup/bevel fields are shown in the panel, or hidden for a

  simplified view

7. RECOMMENDED WORKFLOW

For a single hero asset:

- Finish modeling and check your normals visually first

- Select the object, set your preferred Origin mode

- Click Make Production Ready

- Spot-check shading in the viewport; adjust Smooth Angle and re-run if

  needed

For a batch of props / an asset pack:

- Set your studio defaults once in Preferences

- Select every object in the batch

- Enable the Rename step and set Base Name before running Make

  Production Ready, so cleanup and naming happen in one pass

- Run Make Production Ready once for the whole selection

8. LICENSE & SUPPORT

ReadyMesh is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

(GPL-3.0-or-later), in line with Blender's own add-on licensing

requirements.

Questions, bug reports, or feature requests: [email protected],

or through this product's inbox. Please include your Blender version and,

if reporting a bug, the steps to reproduce it.