SceneHelm - Production Control Toolkit for Blender
Diego Contreras
WHAT'S NEW — SCENEHELM 1.5.0 BETA
SceneHelm 1.5.0 Beta makes the toolkit easier to navigate and substantially expands its parametric building workflow.
The new Focused Tools catalog groups the existing toolset by task, provides cross-workspace search with English and Spanish aliases, and lets you return to the full All Panels workspace whenever needed. Visual galleries now make the seven building and seven fence factory presets easier to identify before loading their settings.
Buildings gain style-aware architectural finishes, procedural materials, detailed roof surfaces, gutters and downspouts, grouped editable families, and constructed windows, doors, shutters and hardware. The current American Suburban kit includes authored window and door parts, continuous lap siding, detailed porch and shingle work, and one closed L-section corner moulding per orthogonal corner.
This update remains compatible with Blender 5.2 LTS and keeps SceneHelm's scene schema 1. Building recipes 1–8 remain readable; the current kit writes recipe schema 9 after an explicit Create or Apply Changes operation.
BETA NOTICE
This is a development release. Automated regression and packaging checks pass, but native Blender validation of Building Kit 03 is still pending. Back up important projects before updating. Older SceneHelm installers cannot edit schema-9 buildings.
SceneHelm 1.1.2 - Release notes
This update brings the architectural building improvements together with the modular fences, hanging cables and Scene Doctor maintenance fixes released since 1.0.0.
- Buildings: seven editable presets, geometric windows and doors, independent facades, floor/bay exceptions, roof forms and optional architectural details.
- Fences: seven presets, independent components, corners/slopes/closed paths, a static pedestrian gate and recipe-based editing.
- Cables: ordered supports, relative/absolute sag, per-span overrides and recipe-based editing; existing-curve copies retain profile-only updates.
- Doctor: guarded Apply R&S with explicit results, missing-image location helpers and purpose-aware Geometry Review.
- Delivery: refreshed installation, tool reference, FAQ and Spanish modeling documentation. One complete edition; unchanged GPL-3.0-or-later license.
Updating from 1.0.0
Back up your .blend, download scenehelm-1.1.2.zip and install that ZIP without extracting it. Restart Blender and run Doctor > Extension Health; the expected result is 8/8 checks passed. Re-scan the scene and rerun Production Readiness.
SceneHelm keeps schema-1 project records. Legacy generated objects without complete recipes remain unchanged; they do not automatically become parametrically editable. Load saved recipe-based objects again after reopening. Review manual-edit replacement prompts before confirming.
Blender target remains 5.2 LTS, starting at 5.2.0. Cables are static, buildings have rectangular footprints, and generated demonstration scenes are not included. See the documentation for exact scope and limits.
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| Blender Extension Compatible | Yes |
| Published | about 2 months ago |
| Blender Version | 5.2 |
| Extension Type | Add-on |
| Render Engine Used | Cycles, Eevee |
| License | GPL |