Texture Budget Doctor started as an internal tool I created for my own Unreal Engine projects.

While working with larger environments, asset packs, and projects containing hundreds of textures, I kept running into the same problem: it was difficult to understand which textures were consuming the most memory, which settings were incorrect, and where optimization work would have the biggest impact.

Opening textures one by one quickly became slow, repetitive, and difficult to manage.

I wanted a clear answer to a simple question:

Which textures are actually hurting my project, and what can I safely do about them?

That is why I created Texture Budget Doctor.

After using, testing, and refining the tool in real projects, I decided to turn it into a complete Unreal Engine plugin and make it available to the wider development community.
Scan your project and find the textures that need attention

Texture Budget Doctor can scan:

• selected textures;

• complete Content Browser folders;

• the entire project;

• enabled project-plugin content;

• imported and reimported textures through Import Guard.

The plugin creates a structured overview of your texture usage and helps identify the assets that deserve attention first.

Instead of manually checking hundreds of textures, you can quickly review:

• estimated GPU texture memory;

• current and projected texture budgets;

• top memory offenders;

• oversized textures;

• missing or unsuitable mipmap settings;

• incorrect compression settings;

• unsuitable texture groups;

• normal-map configuration problems;

• non-power-of-two dimensions;

• unnecessary Never Stream settings;

• duplicate source textures;

• potentially unused textures;

• material sampler compatibility risks;

• texture-set inconsistencies;

• platform-specific effective resolutions;

• project policy violations.

Texture Budget Doctor uses estimated GPU memory values to help you compare assets and identify optimization opportunities. Actual runtime memory usage may vary depending on the target platform, streaming state, Device Profiles, pixel format, virtual texturing, and runtime behavior.
Safe optimization with full control

Texture Budget Doctor is designed around a careful and transparent workflow.

Before applying supported fixes, you can review every proposed change individually.

The Auto Fix workflow displays:

• the affected texture;

• the property being changed;

• the current value;

• the proposed value;

• the rule that generated the recommendation;

• confidence level;

• estimated impact;

• material compatibility information;

• read-only and source-control state.

You can select or exclude individual changes before applying anything.

Unsafe or advisory recommendations are not automatically selected.

Bulk fixes require a persistent snapshot before any texture settings are modified. Snapshot creation is validated before the operation continues, and the entire process is aborted if the snapshot cannot be created safely.

Texture Budget Doctor modifies only supported Unreal Engine texture asset settings.

The original source image files are never modified.
Snapshot and Restore workflow

Every supported bulk optimization can create a persistent snapshot containing the previous texture settings.

Snapshots remain available after restarting the Unreal Editor.

The Snapshot Manager allows you to:

• inspect saved snapshots;

• compare original, plugin-applied, and current values;

• restore selected properties;

• safely restore values that still match the plugin-applied state;

• skip properties that were changed externally;

• explicitly force selected restores;

• review partial restore results;

• open the snapshot folder;

• delete disposable snapshots.

This gives you a safe recovery path when testing optimization settings across larger projects.
Personal support

Texture Budget Doctor is independently developed and maintained.

I personally review bug reports, compatibility problems, and feature feedback.

If you encounter an issue, contact me at:

[email protected]

Please include:

• your Unreal Engine version;

• a short description of the problem;

• screenshots where relevant;

• the related Unreal Editor log messages.

I will investigate reported issues and provide assistance as quickly as possible.

Feedback from the community will also help guide future improvements and engine-version updates.
Core Features

• Scan selected textures

• Scan complete folders

• Recursive and non-recursive folder scanning

• Scan the entire project

• Optional project-plugin content scanning

• Estimated GPU texture memory

• Texture budget overview

• Top memory offenders

• Project health score

• Search, filtering, and sorting

• Configurable severity filters

• Compression diagnostics

• Texture-group validation

• Mipmap checks

• Streaming checks

• Normal-map configuration checks

• Non-power-of-two detection

• Never Stream warnings

• Duplicate texture detection

• BLAKE3 exact duplicate verification

• Material usage analysis

• Material sampler compatibility checks

• Material Function analysis

• Channel analysis

• Texture-set consistency checks

• Reference analysis

• Potentially unused texture advisory

• Device Profile analysis

• Platform Matrix

• Project Texture Policies

• Policy import and export

• Safe Auto Fix workflow

• Property-by-property fix preview

• Individual fix selection

• Read-only asset detection

• Source-control-aware workflow

• Persistent snapshots

• Snapshot Manager

• Restore after Editor restart

• Safe-match restore

• Selective force restore

• Partial restore reporting

• Baseline creation

• Before-and-after comparisons

• Scan history

• Regression detection

• Import Guard

• CSV reports

• JSON reports

• HTML reports

• Commandlet support

• CI and automated audit support

• No third-party dependencies

• Original source images are never modified

Useful For

• Unreal Engine texture optimization

• Texture-memory audits

• VRAM-budget planning

• Technical-art workflows

• Indie development teams

• Large environment projects

• Asset-pack reviews

• Marketplace asset validation

• Pre-release optimization passes

• Team-wide texture standards

• Project health checks

• Mobile texture-budget planning

• Console-oriented texture-budget planning

• PC project optimization

• VR project optimization

• Continuous-integration audits

• Automated build checks

• Performance review workflows