Installation

Bake Wrangler requires Blender 5.0.1 or newer.

Install from a zip file

  1. Download the Bake Wrangler .zip file.

  2. In Blender, open Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Add-ons.

  3. Click the Install… button near the top right of the Add-ons view.

  4. Navigate to the downloaded zip file, select it, and click Install Add-on.

  5. Find “Bake Wrangler” in the add-on list and enable it by ticking its checkbox.

Once enabled, a new editor type called Bake Node Editor becomes available from the editor-type drop-down in the top-left corner of any editor area.

Updating

To update to a newer version, repeat the install steps above with the new zip file and make sure Overwrite is checked (or ticked by default) in the file browser when prompted. Some updates change the internal format of a recipe (see Troubleshooting); after updating, it’s a good idea to restart Blender before opening existing files, even though this usually isn’t strictly required.

What gets installed

Bake Wrangler adds:

  • A new node-editor type: Bake Node Editor.

  • An add-on preferences page (Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Add-ons ▸ Bake Wrangler) — see Preferences.

  • A small status icon in Blender’s status bar (bottom of the window) that shows whether a bake is idle, running, or finished with errors. This can be turned off in preferences.

  • A bundled recipe library file (resources/library.blend inside the add-on folder by default) used to store and share reusable recipes — see Recipes & Presets.

Permissions

Bake Wrangler reads and writes baked textures to disk at the paths you configure in your recipes, and (depending on your preferences) launches a background instance of Blender to perform the actual baking — see Interface for how that background process works.