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Generative Pipeline for Blender
Nano Banana integrates seamlessly into Blender as a standalone render engine alongside Cycles and Eevee. Select it from the render engine dropdown and start generating photorealistic images from simple blockouts, depth maps, or existing renders — powered by Google Gemini AI.
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- 📍 Smart Points: A new way to guide AI! Click anywhere on your image to drop a colored, numbered marker, and give the AI precise instructions for that exact spot (e.g. "make this object gold", "change to wood"). The AI applies the edits perfectly while leaving the markers completely out of the final image. This enables highly targeted, convenient inpainting without drawing complex masks.
- 🖼️ Beautiful Visual History: The generation history has been completely rebuilt. It now features a gorgeous, clean UI with visual thumbnails making it easier than ever to browse, compare, and restore your previous renders or edits.
This project is proudly supported by the Google Cloud for Startups program. Their generous cloud credits made it possible for us to build the heavy AI infrastructure bridging Blender to Google's Gemini models. A huge thank you to Google Cloud for believing in independent creators and open-source tools! 🙏
Nanode provides three central workflows:
- Depth Map Render (Mist) — Block out basic shapes, let AI create photorealistic results perfectly respecting your geometry.
- Regular Render (Eevee) — Enhance Eevee renders with AI to add intricate details.
- Style Transfer — Apply the look, lighting, and palette of any reference image to your scene.
- Resolution Control — Generate in 1K, 2K, or 4K with automatic aspect ratio preservation.
- Smart Material Generation — Generate seamless textures directly onto your models inside the 3D viewport.
- Multi-Angle Projection — AI automatically sets up and projects textures from multiple camera angles to cover complex geometry.
- Style References — Match texturing to a specific style via image references.
- Smart Points — Drop a marker on an object to target your edits explicitly to that location without needing complex manual masks.
- Visual History — Flip back and forth through generations using beautiful image thumbnails.
- Inpainting — Draw a mask directly in Blender, describe what to add (e.g. "Add a red car"), and the AI perfectly integrates it.
- Object Integration — Place reference objects into scenes with matched lighting and shadows.
- Full Image Edit — Change mood, time of day, weather using text prompts.
- Download the
.zipfrom Releases and install viaEdit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install from disk. - Enable Nanode AI Render Engine.
- Go to the active Render tab, select Nano Banana, and click Login with Google to receive 100 free credits upon signup.
- Select Nano Banana from the render engine dropdown.
- Build your scene.
- Open the Render Properties tab -> write your prompt describing the final vision. Select reference image (optional).
- Select render type Depth Map Render (Mist) or Regular Render (Eevee).
- Press F12 or click Render > Image Render. Render is done!
Accessible via the 3D Viewport N-Panel (press N > Nanode AI Texturing).
- Select the main object you want to texture.
- Click Init Cameras to surround your object with AI projection cameras.
- Type your prompt (e.g. "rusty metal surface with peeling blue paint").
- Click Generate Draft to project the textures.
Accessible in the Image Editor space (press N in Image Editor).
- Select your rendered image. Open the Nanode AI Editor panel in the sidebar.
- For Smart Points: Enable "Smart Points", click "Add Point", drop a numbered circle on your image, and write a prompt specifically for that spot.
- For Inpainting: Click Draw, paint over the area you want to change, type what to add (or load a Reference Object), and click Apply Drawing.
- For History: Scroll down to the History section to view large, beautiful thumbnails of all your previous edits and switch between them instantly.
Uses the depth map of the scene to create a render perfectly respecting geometry.
| Depth Input | Prompt | Result |
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"Ultra realistic, middle ages, knight defending himself from arrows, beautiful lighting, light fog, motion blur, night time, fire forrest" |  |
Create a render with the exact same style as your reference image.
| Depth Input | Style Reference | Result |
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Enhances basic Eevee renders to add photorealistic, intricate details.
| Eevee Draft | Prompt | Result |
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"Photorealistic advertising, interesting background, beautiful light" |  |
| Eevee Draft | Style Reference | Result |
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Apply incredible, context-aware seamless textures directly onto your models.
| Plain Object | Prompt / Style | Textured Object |
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"Arcane style, man in jacket, red tie, scar on face" |  |
Draw a mask and the Nanode Editor will inpaint it with matched lighting and shadows.
| Mask | Prompt | Result |
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"Add spot light" |  |
Globally edit your image using a text prompt.
| Original | Prompt | Result |
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"Make the background blue and the text green, add some stars" |  |
Target precise edits without manually painting complex masks. Just drop a point and describe the change.
| Points Input | Prompt Configuration | Result |
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Generating heavy AI image pipelines requires massive server resources, but we strive to keep it incredibly accessible.
- ✅ Free Tier: 100 Free Credits upon logging in with your Google account.
- ✅ Bonus Credits: Earn +50 Credits anytime by submitting feedback using the in-addon feedback button.
- ✅ Store Live: Run out of credits? You can securely purchase top-up bundles via nanode.tech — directly linked to your Blender addon.
Found a bug? Have an idea? We need your help to make this better!
- In-addon Feedback — Click the Feedback button in the editor panel.
- GitHub Issues — Open an issue for detailed bug reports
- Email — Reach us at contact@nanode.tech
Every piece of feedback helps shape the future of Nanode. We read absolutely everything. 🍌
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