SimplyFive-Light (LOD Generator for Blender)

A Blender add-on that generates a set of LOD meshes (Level of Detail) from the active object, using the meshoptimizer library. For each mesh you can create up to 5 simplified versions with individual aggressiveness settings; simplification can take UV unwrapping (including multiple UV channels), normals, vertex colors (transferred, and usable as an importance map), and materials into account.

👉 Why it's different?

Most Blender LOD add-ons lean on the Decimate modifier. SimplyFive doesn't touch it — it relies on the meshoptimizer algorithms instead, which preserve normals and UV unwrapping far better while they reduce geometry. Quality comparable to well-known commercial tools, it's fast, and everything runs locally: no internet connection, no questionable licenses like the ones similar products ship with.

User-friendly UI tools for comparing different levels of detail

You can quickly rebuild any individual LOD without changing the others

Preserving Uvs and normals as faithfully as possible

This is the Light version of the add-on — it covers 70% of everyday tasks. The remaining 30% needs the fine-tuning that's available in Pro.

→ Compare Light vs Pro

→ Get SimplyFive Pro

😉 comments / suggestions

I wrote the add-on for my own needs and I actively use it in my work. If you have your own specific pipelines that the add-on could improve, please write to me. I welcome any feedback!