Addons/Extensions

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These are my favorite addons so far. Alternatively there is a curated list on github of awesome Blender add-ons and tools.

General

• Modifier List: Alternative UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Available also inside the sidebar and as a popup.

Gamedef Specific

Fav	Name	Notes
	AssetGen	automates the tasks to get a game assets ready for video games from an High Poly model.
	Asset Creation Toolset	Tool collection for exporting game-ready models from Blender

Modelling

• Modern Primitive: Non-Destructive Primitives
• GarmentTool: designed to simplify process of making simulation ready cloth meshes inside Blender.
• SpeedFlow: Speedflow is a group of modals that allows you to improve dramatically your workflow for modeling. Adds visual, modal dialogues for easier application of various modifiers.
• MESHmachine: focuses on hard surface work without subdivision surfaces
• MiraTools: Various modelling tools
• HardOps: Non-destructive hard surface modelling
• Tissue: Apply one mesh as a mesh texture onto another
• QBlocker is an interactive object creation tool for Blender.
• TubeTool: generate tubing between two selected polygons.
• Building Tool: A collection of integrated tools to quickly model suburban buildings.
• ScribbleGen: barbed wire, brick wall, cables, hanging cables, chains, cobwebs and more.
• Real Damage: Creates damage on objects (concrete)

Retopology

• Softwrap: Wrap an existing object softly over a scanned geometry. 40$
• Tesselator: Automatized Remeshing via a simulated a particle system that can be guided by grease pencil. 8,50 $
• Retopo MT: Tool-Collection for manual retopo.
• Quad Remesher: Automatic retopologize of cylindrical objects
• Retopoflow: The oldest and best tool for retopo. Also the most expensive. 86€
• Tris-Quads-Ex: Converts tris to quads with a better topology.

Sculpting

• Brush Manager: an add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• Rune: Another Brush manager

Procedual

• Sverchok is a parametric tool for architects and designers. Github
• Sorcar: Procedural modelling in Blender using Node Editor. Github
• Modular Tree allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.

Geo Nodes Specific

• SDF Presets: A toolset of nodes for creating and manipulating signed distance fields in Blender's geometry nodes.
• Geometry Script: is a robust yet easy to use Python API for creating Geometry Nodes with code.
• Sci-fi HUD elements

Node Setups

• Procedural Building Generator
• Buildify
• Knitting Generator

Hair

• ❤ HairNet use the edge loops of a mesh object to create guide hairs of a hair system.
• HairTool: will help you generate hair card with uv's and much more.

UV-Mapping

• Mio3 UV: free support addon
• UniV: Blender Addon for UV Editor which aims to cover all sorts of operators for working with UV
• DreamUV: a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport.
• TexTools: a free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools. Github
• UV-Packer: Free UV packing tool for Blender
• UVShotPacker: Fast UV island packing add-on for Blender. (9$)
• Texel Density Checker 3: Calculate Texel Density for model for different texture size (includes non-squared textures and custom size)

Texturing

• Ucupaint: manage texture layers for the Eevee and Cycles renderers.
• Texture Synthesis GUI: A GUI for embark studios Texture Synthesis API.
• b3dsdf: a toolkit of 2D/3D signed distance functions and operators nodegroups for the shader editor
• Photo to PBR Texture: Node setup to convert a texture image to a PBR texture set.
• DeepBump: AI based bump/normal map generator
• Material Map Generator: A Blender plugin to easily generate Material Maps from an Image Texture with one click using Material-Map_generator by Joey Ballentine.

Shading

• Vertex Oven: Bake ambient occlusion to vertex colors.
• Bakelab: Eases the render to texture process.
• Auto Reload Images: Reloads images.

Rendering

• EasyHDRI: helps you to setup your HDRI images quickly.
• DNOISE: Rapid AI Denoising for Blender
• Pro-Lighting Studio: helps you produce gorgeous results, with dozens of interesting lighting suggestions for your model. (127$)
• BakeMaster: Latest baking tool
• EasyBake: Texture baking UI for Blender
• BakeLab2: Another textures baking tool. Video
• Bake to vertex color: This addon enables you to bake passes like diffuse, emission, ambient occlusion etc to vertex colors. Video
• GrabDoc add-on structured around creating a simple and streamlined method of exporting baked maps for trim sheets, tileables or even alphas.
• BlendNet: OpenSource network rendering solution for cloud rendering. Download
• Malt3D: Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration.

Rigging/Skinning

• Rigify: Comes with Blender. Tutorial
• Rigify to Unity: Converts Rigify rig to Humanoid compatible (Deletes unnecessary bones and controls)
• GameRig: auto riggin for games addon on top of Rigify.
• Weightpainting/Skinning small tools via YT:
• Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning: Transfer perfect skin weights easily.
• Lazy Weight Tool: Editing skin weights in a table.

• Adjust Vertex Weights

• Kineamtic Tool for Blender: Quality of Life addon for animators and riggers

Animation

• Animaide: Collection of various animation tools
• Ultimate Animator Bundle: Collection of various animation tools
• Mesh Tension: Create stretch- and squeeze-folds.
• Animation Layers: Edit animation or mocap data using a standard animation layers UI and workflow
• Bonedynamics Pro: add physics to bones.
• Simplicage: generate physics-ready (through Blender cloth physics) cages for your models.
• Horde: Crowd System Tools

Character Animation

• Faceit: Facial Expressions And Performance Capture (60-215$)

• Expression Capture: a windows application that allows you to extract facial expression, needs ARKit Blendshapes.

• X-Pose Picker: Genrates Animation layouts

• Rhubarb Addon: automatically creates mouth animation from voice recordings.

Motion Graphics

• Text Effects: animate 3D text in Blender
• Animax: a procedural animation system for Blender
• Animation Nodes: a node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics.

Import/Export/Processing

• MeshSync: Syncs meshes between Blender and Unity. Blender Plugin
• Better Fbx Importer & Exorter: Much more comprehensive FBX exporter than the blender internal
• Blender To Unity FBX Exporter: Exported FBX files are imported into Unity with the correct rotations and scales. My fork with additional settings and features
• Blender Photogrammetry: allows conversion and processing between a number of photogrammetry formats like COLMAP, Meshroom and Blender's motion tracker.
• blender-osm: OpenStreetMap and Terrain for Blender (Free/DonateWare)
• BlenderGIS: OpenSource alternative to blender-osm. Video-Tutorial
• MapsModelsImporter: Imports 3D data from Google Maps via RenderDocs.
• Sketchfab: Import models directly from Sketchfab.
• Embark Blender Tools: Export and other tools for game dev.

Scripting

• EasyBPY: A wrapper for the Blender Python API to make it more intuitive for beginners.
• Search-For-Online-Reference: Context menue entry for searching online for current or selected word.
• pistiwique_pie_text_editor: Various debug functions for the blender text editor.
• Face bpy module: Adds bpy code completion via a non-functioning bpy module.