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Show HN: Onion Packer – An open source Textures and Images organizer

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This doesn't do texture packing, does it?

The name might be a slight bit confusing

Nope, we put "packer" in it because we liked the sound :)

Yeah that's very confusing then

Exactly what I thought when I saw the name. I was confused.

Yeah, I thought it was a tool for packing textures into a single image.

Sometimes it's just easier to do a quick search and modify the result instead of keeping a huge texture library available constantly. But keeping an inventory of scratch/bump maps to use on a variety of projects is actually something I've been looking into...then wham, here it is. Anybody have experience with it?

Hi and thanks for your comment. When designing Onion Packer we focused on the designer need of: - quickly finding the right texture / image - have a fast way to preview it on a 3D model

You mentioned bumps, which is something that is in our roadmap (3D preview, together with diffuse textures).

We are looking for precious feedbacks and testers, since we are in the initial phase. If you have some good suggestions it is very easy that it will be considered. Onion Packer wants to take the direction that its users suggest it to go :)

Give it a try, it's totally free.

It would be much more interesting as kind of a plugin to Pinterest than as a standalone app.

Hi, thanks for your feedback. I didn't know that Pinterest allows developers to create their own plugins. Could you kindly describe me how Onion Packer could take advantage of it? Thanks :)

AFAIK it does: https://developers.pinterest.com/

As an housing architect, Pinterest simplified a lot my workflow by keeping all images in the same place (it allows private boards and full resolution). There is plenty of room to improve, their tools are not designed for professionals. You could build on top of that.