real-time collaboration for blender 4.5+

Blender,but together.

Two artists, one scene, live. Blend Buddies streams transforms, mesh edits, materials, and animation between Blender users in real time.

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runs on blender 4.5+licence gpl-3.0transport wss / tls 1.3
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jane
jane · sphere's better big. ship it
snapshot loaded · 2 clients · waiting for input…transform_stream cube.001 · Δloc.x · 30 msg/slock_object sphere.002 → jane · scale 1.5×delta_update mat.cube · base_color · persisted ✓

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§01 · capabilities

Everything you'd expect to sync, actually does.

A complete pipeline built for Blender's depsgraph. Not a one-size-fits-all generic plugin.

/01geometry

Live mesh sync

Edit vertices, edges, faces in edit mode. Every geometry change rebuilds on every connected client.

/0230 Hz

Transform streaming

Grab, rotate, scale — watched live at sub-frame rate. Echo suppression keeps both ends from fighting.

/03shading

Materials & nodes

Full shader graph serialization. Shaders, textures, procedural setups arrive intact on the other end.

/04safety

Object locking

While someone is editing an object, no one else can touch it. Built-in handoff makes sharing explicit.

/05presence

Presence cues

Persistent per-user colors and selection overlays. See who's looking at what, in 3D, at a glance.

/06versioned

Backups & recovery

Auto-snapshots on every join, plus manual saves on demand. Roll any room back to any version.

§02 · workflow

From install to collaborating, in three.

01 · Install

Drop the zip into Blender.

Preferences → Get Extensions → Install from Disk. The setup wizard handles username on first launch.

02 · Room

Create or join a room.

Pick a room name and a password, then share them with your collaborators. Saved credentials make rejoining one click.

03 · Work

Just use Blender.

Auto-sync is on by default. Move objects, edit meshes, tweak shaders. Everyone sees everything, live.

§03 · specifications

Under the hood.

blender_manifest.toml
# Blend Buddies Beta — extension manifest
id = "blend_buddies_beta"
name = "Blend Buddies Beta"
version = "1.0.17"
type = "add-on"
licence = ["SPDX:GPL-3.0-or-later"]
blender_version_min = "4.5.0"
# Wire format
protocol = 1
transport = "wss://"
serialization = "msgpack"

Built for Blender's architecture.

A dedicated change detector hooks into the depsgraph, debounces and batches events, then pushes deltas onto a WebSocket queue — all without ever blocking the main thread.

requires
Blender 4.5.0+
platforms
macOS · Windows · Linux
network
outbound WSS / port 8765
storage
AES-GCM + SQLite (server)
updates
in-place via extensions API

§04 · trust & safety

Your scenes, your rules.

TLS 1.3 in flight

Every packet on the wire travels over TLS. No plaintext scene data leaves your machine.

AES-GCM at rest

Server-side scene data is encrypted at the field level before it touches SQLite.

Per-session HMAC

Each session has its own message-authentication key. Replays and tampered frames are dropped.

One-click wipe

Delete every credential, salt, and acceptance record stored locally with one button.

available now · superhive

Stop emailing
.blend files.

Blend Buddies is out now on Superhive. One purchase, no subscription, no licence keys — install it and start a room.

Get it nowon superhive · blender 4.5–5.2 lts

GPL-3.0 · support@blendbuddies.dev