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Hunyuan3D for Blender

Plugin : A set of capabilities installed into an AI application or a host · requires blender

Hunyuan3D generation directly inside Blender.

Practical, with the same licence caveat as the underlying model.

Official site GitHub · 15,198 ★
Overall score
6.8 /10
Security: one caveat, see the card
Utility
7.5
Reliability
4.0
Security
One caveat
Ease
5 min · Comfortable

Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.

What it does, concretely

Creating a quality textured 3D object usually requires hours of manual modelling. This Blender plugin integrates Hunyuan3D 2.0, Tencent's 3D generation system, directly into the Blender interface, without leaving the application.

The plugin relies on two models: Hunyuan3D-DiT to generate geometry from an image, and Hunyuan3D-Paint to synthesise the texture on the resulting mesh. Generation runs locally on your machine, meaning your data does not pass through a remote server.

This tool is aimed at 3D artists, game developers and creators who already use Blender and want to speed up their workflow by generating textured assets from reference images.

It is not suitable for users who do not have a sufficiently powerful graphics card: shape generation alone requires 6 GB of VRAM, and full generation with texture requires 16 GB.

What it offers

  • ·3D mesh generation from a reference image directly in Blender, via the Hunyuan3D-DiT model.
  • ·High-resolution texture synthesis on a generated or hand-crafted mesh, via the Hunyuan3D-Paint model.
  • ·Fully local processing: no data sent to a remote server.
  • ·Compatibility with macOS, Windows and Linux.
  • ·Access to several model variants depending on available resources: standard, mini (0.6 billion parameters) and turbo (step distillation) versions.
  • ·Support for generation from multiple simultaneous views using the Hunyuan3D-2mv model.
  • ·PBR model available in the Hunyuan3D-2.1 series for physically realistic materials.

In practice

Price
Free
Commercial use
Commercial use: no
Available on
blender
Host
blender
Licence
Tencent Hunyuan Community
Runs locally
Yes, 12 GB VRAM recommended
FR interface
No

Security and data

Rating
Security: one caveat, see the card
Your data
Data stays local
Maintenance
Inactive for over six months

Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 March 2025

How to install Hunyuan3D for Blender

1. Install PyTorch from the official pytorch.org website, choosing the version suited to your system. 2. Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt then pip install -e . 3. Compile the custom rasteriser module: cd hy3dgen/texgen/custom_rasterizer && python3 setup.py install. 4. Compile the differentiable renderer module: cd hy3dgen/texgen/differentiable_renderer && python3 setup.py install. 5. Download the Blender addon from the Hunyuan3D-2 GitHub repository and install it via Blender's Preferences menu. 6. Verify that your GPU has at least 6 GB of VRAM (16 GB recommended for generation with texture).
pip install -r requirements.txt && pip install -e .

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