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Compiled and shared by Cristóbal Vila

ADD-ONS

This is a vast compilation with add-ons, custom nodes and other resources. Here I track what I have installed on my computers (a Mac for work and a WindowsPC for rendering) - I also save a link to other interesting stuff “to consider”, just in case that I need it in the future.

The emojis 🔴 or 🟠 means, pending to INSTALL or UPDATE on my Windows machine. I usually work on a daily basis on a Mac, using Win just for rendering.

TO DO: Install Blender 5.2 on my Windows Computer and update all add-ons and keymaps

INSTALLED

Preinstalled

This is pre-installed in 5.x

Node Wrangler - Use the panel in Sidebar of the node editor or press Shift-W to bring up the quick access menu

Blender Extensions

BLENDER EXTENSIONS - Source for all this Blender Extensions - Install from Blender Preferences

3D Cursors Briefcase - Store and manage multiple 3D Cursors - 🔴

3D Cursor Plus - Axes, undo and few other tools for your 3D Cursor - Installed but disabled because it conflicts with 3D Cursor Briefcase. Issue notified to author - 🔴

Bool Tool - Quick boolean operations and tools for mesh modeling - DOCS - 🟠

Cameraide - Saves render settings per camera, including: Resolution and frame ranges, Output paths and file names, Format settings - 🟠

Copy Attributes Menu - Copy Attributes Menu - Blender 4.1 Manual

Copy Object Name to Data - A simple operator to copy object names to object data

Curve Tools - Curve Tools - Blender 4.1 Manual - Adds some functionality for bezier/nurbs curve/surface modeling

Data-Block Utilities - Show users, merge duplicates, find similar, and more - Go to Properties ‣ Scene > Similar & Duplicates / Data-Block Users - 🟠

Dimensions in Edit Mode - Allows previewing and editing the dimensions of currently selected geometry in edit mode, just like in object mode - 🔴

EasyWeight - improvements for weight painting - Easy Weight Documentation - 🟠

Edit Mesh Tools - Edit Mesh Tools - Blender 4.1 Manual - Mesh modeling toolkit. Several tools to aid modelling.

EdgeFlow - adds a set of operators which help when dealing with curved shaped meshes - Documentation

Extra Curve Objects - Add Curve Extra Objects - Blender 4.1 Manual - Add extra curve object types

Extra Mesh Objects - Add Mesh Extra Objects - Blender 4.1 Manual - Add extra mesh object types

F2 - F2 - Blender 4.1 Manual - Extends Blender native functionality of creating faces using “F” key. Quad from Vertex and Quad from Edge

Geodesic Domes - Create geodesic dome type objects and much more (grid, cylinder, parabola…)

Group input helper - Quick Add Split Merge Move Group Input Nodes - Quick Add Input and Output Socket - 🟠

HDRI Rotator - Rotation HDR by Ctrl-Alt-RMB Drag in 3D View (both for built-in Studio Lights and/or Scene World). This works best for me than Hdr Rotation (because this didn't always rotated lights…) - 🟠

Keyframe selected - Hold Alt to insert/delete keyframe on all selected objects

Magic UV - Magic UV - Blender 4.1 Manual - UV Toolset - Try it more and maybe uninstall? - I never use it

Matalogue - Displays a list of materials and other node trees right in the toolbar of the Node Editor. This makes it easier to switch materials - __init__ fixed using Claude - STORED SEPARATELY

Manage File Paths - List of all image file paths and cache files with indicators for missing files - Look at Scene Properties > File Paths

Material Utilities - Menu of material tools (assign, select…) in the 3D View

MeasureIt - MeasureIt - Blender 4.1 Manual - Tools for measuring objects

Mio3 Flex - Reshape edge loops into smooth, freeform curves using a controllable path

Mio3 UV - UV Edit Assistant Tool - Unwrap so that the selected edge loop becomes a straight line OR the boundary becomes a rectangle - Mio3 UV - 🟠

Modifier Tools - Modifier Tools - Blender 4.1 Manual - Modifiers Specials Show/Hide/Apply Selected

Node Editor Switcher - Add a pie menu, quick buttons, and shortcuts for switching between the different node editors

Node Group Presets - Saves the current values of a given node group into a applicable/editable/copyable preset(s)

Node Align - Align Nodes in Multiple Ways using Shift-Q and Ctrl-Q - 🟠

Node Color Tools Pie - With Two Dynamic Pie Menus: Quick (Hardcoded) Color Pie Menu (D) and Precise (Customizable) Color Pie Menu (Z)

Node Group Utilities - Extra options and functions for node groups - Node Group Utilities DOCS - Use RMB over Node Group to SET or RESET default values

Normalize and Resize Curve Handles - To set all selected handles to the same size

Orbiter - Select an object and press play to start orbiting around it

Orient and Origin to Selected - Quickly manipulate the object origin. Edit Mode -> Mesh -> Snap menu > Origin to Selected. Edit Mode -> Transform Orientations > Local > Orient to Selected

POPOTI Align Helper - More friendly alignment based on perspective - 🔴

Ramp Generator - Select a ColorRamp and generate colors in the Shader, Geometry, Compositor & Texture Node Editors in one click

Remove Static FCurves - Cleans up animation channels that don't contain any animation data

Reset Custom Properties - To reset custom properties to their default values on objects and pose bones

Rotor - advanced mirror tool. Press ALT-X or select active to l and pick the side you want to mirror along - Rotor Documentation - 🔴

rmKit - advanced functionality for mesh editing, precision modeling, and material management - rmKit 0.1 documentation - 🟠

Save Selection - Export selection to .blend file. File -> Export -> Save Selection (.blend) - 🟠

ShapeKeySwapper - swap vertex positions between the 0 and 1 values of the active shape key with a single click

Show Object/Data Users in Viewport - Display the number of users for the selected object in the viewport, right next to its name - BUG: text size is extremely small on a retina screen. Fix using Claude and drop a note to author with fix - 🔴

Simple Renaming - To batch rename objects and data in Blender quickly - Overview - Documentation - 🟠

Simplify Curves+ - To simplify curves, both in the 3D viewport and also

Synchronize Workspaces - Synchronize 3D views between workspaces - 🟠

Tree Clipper - exporting and importing Blender node trees as JSON- Here is a REPOSITORY with some samples (Use the dedicated TAB at N panel) - 🟠

UniV - GitHub - Oxicid/UniV: Blender add-on for UV Mapping - UV Editor to cover all sorts of operators for working with UV - Simple but very powerful - 🟠

World Apply - Sync viewport world (environment) settings with scene world settings

You Are Autosave - Show a red warning when you haven't saved in a while

Third Part - Free

Kushiro - Free

KUSHIRO - All his add-ons at Gumroad

Curve Face Color - Tool for assigning color based on the face curvature, seam or marked sharp - Specially convenient to use in combination with QuadRemesher, as explained on this tutorial - 🔴

Kushiro Tools Kit - Free Collection - A specific collection with a great part of his free tools. Details:

Blender Bob - Free

Various of his add-ons are available on extensions.blender.org, but not all…

Blender Pro, a series of extensions to enhance productivity - Links to all Blender Bob add-ons (and explanations)

Parent-to-Empty: Adds a item on object/parent menu in Blender to parent objects to an empty - Modified to add also ROTATION

Not by Bob, but he recommended this: fSpy + fSpy-Blender: Official fSpy importer for Blender - Free app + add-on combo - Open source still image camera matching.

Xen Wildman - Free

Set Attribute Button - Originally shared at Pixel Fondue Discord, now also in Gumroad - Small add-on that Adds a Set Attribute button to the Attributes panel, by ImperfectLink aka Xen Wildman SmartWireframeOverlay - Pixel Fondue Discord Link - Small add-on that Excludes objects from global wireframe, by ImperfectLink aka Xen Wildman

  1. Enable globally in 3D Viewport > Viewport Overlays > Smart Wireframe
  2. Enable Locally per Object in Object Properties > Viewport Display > Exclude Wireframe

Various creators - Free

Analyze Mesh (#1) - Check mesh topology for quads, tris, ngons and edge poles

Batch Node Edit - By Quackers - Link to Erindale Discord Server - for editing various node properties in bulk

Loom - to simplify the process of rendering image sequences and specific frames - Use CTRL-SHIFT-F12

Bone Widget - for easy creation of custom Bone Shapes - To remove, I don’t use it

Bradley-Presets-Add-on - To automatically install and update Geometry Nodes by Bradley Animation - See below, at “Custom Geometry Nodes”

CheckToolBox (#1) - Highlights poles, triangles, N-gons… in real-time with colors in Edit Mode. Overview the project, for instance, object count, double count, isolated element count, etc.

Convert a curve to a mesh while preserving modifiers - It appears in the N panel, in the “Tool” tab.

Mesh Cleaner for Blender - Identify & Remove Doubles, Convert to Quads, Fix Flipped Normals, Check & Fill Holes, Remove Loose Geometry, Quick Clean Up

Orbit: add-on for blender, add quick navigation option in 3D view - LiquideBleu

Quick Align - Easily align objects to any world space axis right from the edit mode right-click menu

Quick Origin - (#2) To quickly move the origin point of an object to a selected area

RePrimitive - Change a STANDARD primitive shape at any point - Blender add-on RePrimitive - To remove, I don’t use it

3D_Cursor_Axis_Drawer - By Rouven Miller - Shared in Pixel Fondue Discord - To enable draw of color axis for 3D Cursor (available at N Panel > View)

renderborder: pixel-precise render border - To set the Render Region precisely - It’s an old add-on (created for 2.9) but it works fine - 🔴

Set Origin - (#2) Emīls Vfx - There is another one, a little more advanced, for the same purpose.: 3DPRS Origin Box - Blender Market USD $3*

(#N) Means connected, relative, very similar or even redundant pairs. To simplify…

Third Part - Paid

KeKit

KeKit - USD 20 - By Kjell Emanuelsson - keKit WIKI - 🟠

To update (steps):

  1. Export keKit Settings going to Preferences / Quit Blender / Delete the kekit add-on folder manually (Find HERE)

  2. Just open Blender and install as any other add-on

NOTE: new version 3.5.1 available for Blender 5.0 and up, only! (changed to Extension) To update, new instructions since 3.5.1 version: keKit WIKI

Lens Sim

Lens Sim - By Håvard Dalen - Discont from USD 40 to USD 28 (BlackFriday Offer) - To simulate camera lenses based on real-world optical data

By Quackers - Paid

Node Align | Addon for Organizing Nodetrees - USD 6 - By Quackers - Tools for organizing Blender node trees - Align, Distribute & Evenly Space Nodes

  • Align Nodes in Multiple Ways - After some time, decide if I maintain this or the Node Align by W_Cloud Nodetree Utils | Misc. Node Editor Tools - USD 5 - By Quackers - Normalize Node Width, Label Reroutes by Links, Set Labels, Set Node Width, Set Color

NormalMagic

normalMagic - USD 12 - Powerful new modeling workflows and advanced control over mesh normals - Docs - JUST INSTALLED: TO STUDY - - 🟠

  • Merging Magic: Normal Magic's Surface Tools for Blender - Tutorial by Christopher 3D demonstrating the Surface Project and Surface Insert tools only!

  • INSTALL: install add-on, then using the own add-on option, install the unzipped assets from any place in your disk. The add-on will place assets in the correct final place for you.

  • UPDATE: update the add-on as always (remove using Blender Prefs, Quit, Open, Install again). Then replace the assets in /Users/cristobal/Documents/Blender/Assets/normalMagic.

Sanctus Library

Sanctus Library - Procedural Materials and Assets Library for Blender 3D - USD 35 - Sanctus Library - Documentation - 🟠 - Check also Mac Install

  • If you use Sanctus Products bought in Gumroad You can now use my Extension Manager to install and update your products within Blender - Link

Sanctus Wood Works - USD 17 - Expansion for Sanctus library - CAUTION: Unzip the “Wood_Works_v1.0.2_expansion.zip”, put “Wood_Works_v1.0.2_expansion” folder side by side with Sanctus-Library folder (not inside) and add expansion from Preferences > Add-ons > Sanctus-Library > Expansions

UVPackmaster

UVPackmaster 4 – GPU accelerated UV packing engine - Discount from USD 44 to USD 38 - By Glukoz - 🟠

(#1) IMPORTANT: Leave open Privacy & Security in Mac Preferences to force-allow open and install the separate Engine.

By Yoshiaki Tazaki

Taz site - Great Japanese developer coming from Modo

YT-Tools - USD 20 - To enhance modeling workflow, especially for users familiar with Modo - Remember to disable custom keymaps - Documentation - 🟠

Attribute Manager - From USD 20 to USD 15 with launch discount - Spreadsheet-style attribute editing - Documentation

By Sergey Tyapkin

Zen UV - USD 34 - 🟠

  • To update: use the internal button, inside the Addon preferences.

Zen Sets - USD 14 discounted at USD 10.5 - 🟠

  • To update: just install new Zen Sets version, the old one will be replaced automatically, the settings will maintain.

By Kushiro - Paid

Simple Bend Ex - USD 10 - To bend the mesh very easily.You just need to select the faces (the bend area), then run the tool using RMB.

Slide Edge - USD 10 - Edge-sliding tool designed for duplicate and slide the selected edges.

Quick Attach - USD 10 - For attaching one mesh to the surface of another mesh, and connect the geometry.

Delta Quad - USD 10 - A topology tool for slicing a big Ngon face into smaller quads.

Round Inset - USD 8 - For Inset face with 100% original round corners.

Various - Paid

Annotate Plus - additional annotations tools - By Stefano Bianchini - USD 2.63

Shaders Plus - Caustics, Thin Film, Dispersion for Cycles & Eevee (v4) - Smouse - Shaders Plus v4 + Modules Bundle = USD 35 - Shaders Plus Docs - Allows you to achieve Real Time Caustics, Dispersion, and physically accurate Thin Film Interference Effects! SIMPLE N-PANEL - USD 10 - A new version for the free (and un-installed) SIMPLE TABS Quad Remesher - By Exoside - USD 30 > UPDATED “Indie Modo” > “Indie for all softwares”

Custom Nodes

Higgsas Blender Geometry Nodes Groups Toolset Pack - USD 10 - Manual 0.1 documentation - (Higgsas) Geometry Nodes Groups Blender 3.3/4.4 - Tutorials, Tips and Tricks at Blender Artists Community.

Geometry Nodes Building Blocks Toolkit - USD 10 - By Shmuel Israel - Functionality you wouldn't get with only the built-in nodes. They will cover most basic node types to create most average node structures one step above the default. PatternMaker USD 10 - “Almost” like having Substance Designer inside Blender - Docs Numeric Attribute Visualizer in Geometry Nodes - Ilir Beqiri - USD 5 - Purchased (not installed, stored)

Free Custom Nodes

b3dsdf - Toolkit of SDFs/vector utility nodes made by Celestialmaze - GitHub - Wiki Examples - Install as any add-on (not using Asset Browser System)

IL Object Array - FREE - You can array object or collection via Radial Array, Array Between, Array On Curve or Array On Grid

Utility Nodegroup Pack - FREE - By Quackers - Collection of various helper nodegroups - ATTENTION: not all node groups are marked as assets. Open .blend files to study - And also: not all are installed. More available ONLY for 5.0

Blespace - FREE - GN Bevel, GN Vertex Bevel, Fix Normals, GN Mirror, GN Array, GN Remesh… and more

Bradley Free GN Presets - Bradley/Mograph-Presets-of-Geometry-Nodes - Autoupdate with installed Bradley-Presets-Add-on (3) - Installation Guide - [ WIN Update for 5.x ]

Blenderesse - Procedural generators and other interesting stuff - FREE - Purchased (not installed, just stored)

Easy Photorealism,a Free Blender Compositing NodeGoup - FREE - 🔴

Easing Functions - celestialmaze's - FREE - [ WIN Update with new Mix Basics + Full ]

Edge Masks - Blender Smart Materials - 12 Mask Group To be Used for masking Materials - Created custom icons - FREE (or donate) - 🔴

Procedural Noise Pack [Blender] - 9 hand-crafted basic procedural noise texture nodegroups by Simon Thommes - To be fixed 3 of them - Created custom icons - 🔴 - Procedural Noise Texture Pack - Blender 2.8 - YouTube

Procedural Noise Textures - Blender - 20 Procedural Noise Textures, more “advanced” - Created custom icons - 🔴

Parallax Strands - Parallax strand shader that helps simulating a dense patch of grass or fur on any surface without the need of any additional geometry [ Downloaded only ] geoNodesAO for Blender [FREE] - Ray-traced Ambient Occlusion Directly on Geometry. Fully procedural, no need to bake texturesDownloaded - [ To install properly ]

My Custom Nodes Directory

My collection of custom nodes, by others and by myself. This is growing fast. Here is my main Nodes directory folder names, located at: /Users/cristobal/Library/Application Support/Blender/VERSION/nodes/

Shmuel

  • GN_library

ShadersMisc

  • Noise Pack - Simon Thommes

  • Noise Pack - Nacreous

  • Edge Masks - Alaa Eldien

Quackers

  • Sphere_to_UVs_to_Sphere

  • (4.5) Weighted Instance on Points

  • (4.5) Bit Mask Utils

  • (4.3) Set Instance Origin (For-Each Zone)

  • (4.2) Transform & Matrix Utils

  • (4.2) Spline Utils

  • (4.2) Grouped Statistics

  • (4.2) Group ID Utils

  • (4.2) GN Inverted Hull Lineart

  • (4.2) Extra Input Nodes

  • (4.1) Swizzle Nodes

  • (4.1) Split to Instances (Custom Origins)

  • (4.1) Grouped Geometry Operations

  • (4.1) Built-in Nodes with Menu Sockets

  • (4.0) Expand Selection

  • (4.0) Curve to Mesh UVs

PatternMaker - PatternMakerVer_3.0 Misc - Procedural_Screw - IL_ObjectArray_005 - Easy Photorealism node - Asset Geometry Node String Selection - Drumfish

Higgsas

  • Blender 5.0 Higgsas Geo Node Groups v13

Eterea

  • etr_scene_utils
  • etr_nodes
  • etr_mesh_organic

  • etr_mesh_mech

  • etr_curve_primitives

CelestialMaze

  • CelestialMaze

CartesianCaramel

  • Geometry Node Assets 4.1 v3

Blespace

  • GN Modifiers v1.1

BFA

  • G_Primitives
  • G_Normals_01
  • G_Nodgroups_Library_01

My Add-ons & Nodes

Finally! All these add-ons are already unified on a single kit, but:

This is a work in progress. TO-DO: clean, unify criteria, think about better placement, add better comments & headers…

etr_batch_operate_attributes - To rename or delete an attribute on all selected objects

etr_change_color_space - To change color space on all selected image textures from sRGB to Non-Color and vice versa

etr_change_selected_sds_levels - To change both SDS Levels in viewport and render for all Selected objects

etr_change_selected_sds_uv_smooth - To choose “Keep Boundaries” or “Keep Corners” for all SDS Modifers on all selected objects

etr_copy_viewport_color - To copy the Viewport Display Color from all selected objects to the one in active object - Caution: NOT the Material Viewport Display

etr_create_weight_ramp - (Weight Ramp by Order) Press button, select a bunch of vertices in order and press ESC. This will create a gradient weight, from 0.0 to 1.1

etr_custom_gn_color - Automatically apply a custom color to all selected frames or nodes in Geometry Nodes - TO DO: extend to Shader

etr_distribute - TO COMPLETELY REMOVE - A better version from original “Distribute” addon by Blender Bob. This one also includes an option to use bounding box, instead of origins - 🔴

etr_join_equalizing_bevels - To equalize Bevel Amounts and Bevel Weights once we join various objects

etr_label_image_nodes - To auto rename selected header node names, catching the texture image file name (after using Node Wrangler to import multichannel materials) - TO DO: change logic and create a new tool to simply remove Custom Labels fran any selected nodes, also in GN, not only in Shader Nodes (and filename will appear, automatically)

etr_remove_subdivision_modifiers - To remove SDS modifiers form all selected objects

etr_reset_active_modifier - To reset values to default on active modifier for active object

etr_round_values - Rounds near-zero position/rotation channels to 0.0 and near-unit and scale channels to +/-1.0

etr_set_curve_radius_to_1 - To set curve radius for all selected control points to exactly 1.0 (or any other value) - Different from the “Mean Radius” available at N Panel > Item > Transform

etr_toggle_lock_transform_channels - To lock/unlock all or individual transform channels for all selected objects

etr_transforms_deltas - Transforms to Deltas and Reset Deltas buttons for all transforms or by groups (Loc, Rot, Scl)

Interesting resource: lunadigital/blender-addon-template: An empty template for Blender add-ons - A boilerplate template to help you organize your Blender add-on code. You can even install and enable the template as-is, even though it doesn't do anything

Only Downloaded

This is: downloaded, but not installed

CR Basic Brushpack for blender texture painting - 6 customizable brushes along regular blender Brush

Point Animate by KIRI Engine - Transform your static 3D models into dynamic motion graphics and VFX point cloud animations

Bystedts cloth builder - for creating and simulation cloth - Tutorial

Audio2Blender Extension + SP1 - USD 8 - Downloaded FREE thanks to a Erindale’s Discord Coupon Code - Samples audio sources in Real Time and feeds Geometry Nodes with usable values to create sound-reactive content

ClothFX - Payhip - By AFX LAB - Blender Cloth Effects. Made simple & fast Average Normal Move - Shared by Rouven Miller in Discord. To move a face along normal and stop vertices at collision

Uninstalled

This is all my uninstalled add-ons, for different reasons:

Free Viewport Display or “Mesh Display” - By Blender Bob - Substituted by the much better YT Tools by Taz-San

X-Ray Selection Tools - CaptainCirno - I really don't use it…

Auto-Highlight in Outliner (USD 7) - This add-on helps you Find objects in the Outliner | Auto Highlight In Outliner - YouTube - Amandeep Various Add-ons - I actually already have it in KeKit and it's less intrusive.…

Modifier List - Enhanced UI layout for managing many modifiers - I like the Modifier Favorites, but too much intrusive - Loss dots to create keyframes…

Node Annotator - Easily create good documentation of your node trees. Meh…

Quickmenu: simplifies access to useful operators and adds missing functionality (uses D, search for another shortcut if enable again) - Powerfull, but I really never used it…

Node Arrange - Arrange node trees with one click - NodeAlign is better

Sync Material Viewport Color - Automatically sets color for viewport display from assigned material (already available in Ke-Kit)

SIMPLE TABS - Helps to organize your N-panel - Replaced by SIMPLE N-PANEL - USD 10

Boundaries to Ngon - To fill non-intersecting edge loops with a small set of ngons - Stored version for PC and Mac-Mx / Un-Installed special version for Mac Intel - Problematic

Custom Notes and Frame Tools - Time Range Notes - By Blender Bob - Meh…

Gizmodal Ops - Takes the Gizmo workflow from other 3D software (tap a key to show the transform, rotation or scale gizmo) and blends this seamlessly with Blender's Modal workflow (for precise transforms, rotations and scaling) - Meh…

Blueprints - allows you to automatically setup background images for modeling - YouTube Demo - from BlenderBob - Gives error in v5 - Not really that needed…

QuickSnap - USD 1 - Useful to snapping objects - Install for free here: quicksnap: Blender add-on - Very similar to Snap Base Command

Rockjail/io_scene_lxo: This addon for blender enables import of Modo files (LXO), experimental - Probably best to export pure geo from Modo, and recreate from scratch…

Target, Please! - The Ultimate Targeting Add-on - A simple Shift+T instantly tracks any object in your scene. Meh…

Classic Modifier Menu - By Quackers - restores the pre-4.0 layout of the Add Modifier - Conflict with Modifier Tools

BoltFactory - Add a bolt or nut - I have a custom procedural generator, now, much better Group-Edit-Tools - WIP Add-on by Quackers - Tools for editing NodeGroups, including arrows to relocate inputs and more - Also added an interface so that you can edit groups from the outside - Gives ERROR WITH 5.x - Looking for answer by Quackers

LoopTools - Loop Tools Manual - Mesh modelling toolkit. Several tools to aid modeling - Uninstalled in Blender 5.2 since are included natively [ WIN to DELETE ]

Align Tools - Align Tools - Blender 4.1 Manual - Align Selected Objects to Active Object - Substituted by Popoti Align Helper > Much better [ WIN to DELETE ]

Set Mesh Dimensions (DISCORD) - Special add-on from Blender for Artists, author: Jake Dube, modified by ChatGPT - Sets dimensions for selected vertices in world coordinates - Substituted by a better one [ WIN to DELETE ]

Mesh Align Plus - Move/align mesh parts+objects based on scene geometry/metrics - mesh_align_plus Wiki - Gives an error…

Unninstalled my own custom add-ons

etr_merge_separate_group_inputs - Replaced by Group input helper

etr_match_surface_viewport - Replaced by Sync Material Viewport Color

TO CONSIDER

Awesome-Blender: A curated list of awesome Blender addons, tools, tutorials; and 3D resources for everyone - Recommended by Javi Polo

Recommended Add-ons - My Top 15 Blender Add-ons - YouTube - Recommended by the author of Zen UV

The Ultimate 2022 Guide to the Best Blender Add-ons - CG Cookie

Top 10 UV Add-ons For Blender in 2024 - Blender Hub

CGDive’s Blender add-on Directory - Blender Add-ons and Resources curated by CGDive - The intention is to display the add-ons (I don't know if all of them... or the ones they promote) in a well organised way.

Extensions — Blender Extensions - Free and open source add-ons and themes.

LinkedIn - Tons of great suggestions for Blender add-ons to get started in game art.

How to install Blender Add-ons - the complete guide

How to Install, Use & Update Add-ons

The Greatest geometry nodes Collection - YouTube - With links under the video

blendergpt.org - Not exactly an add-on, AFAIK. an advanced artificial intelligence program that creates 3D models from text or image prompts in ~20 seconds. It lets you synthesize fully textured meshes, then import directly to Blender with a shortcut or download the source files for use in any compatible software

Blender Extensions

3D Viewport Pie Menus - Various pie menus to speed up your workflow

Add Camera Rigs - Adds a Camera Rig with UI

Aligning Horizontally Mini - align selected objects in a customizable grid. Adjust spacing on X, Y, and Z axes. Control the number of objects on X and Y axes

Amaranth - A collection of tools to improve productivity - Amaranth Toolset Manual

Anim Reviewer - Enhanced Blender Playblast - Enhanced Burn-in Metadata - Overlay custom information on videos - Support for 6 positions: top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right - Display scene information, timestamps, frame numbers and other metadata - Support for custom fonts, colors, sizes and margins

Archimesh - Generate rooms, doors, windows, and other architecture objects.

Atlas2Mesh - Turn a sprite atlas into real 3D mesh assets traced straight from the alpha channel

Attribute Sweep - lets you select and delete mesh attributes in batches. Select multiple mesh objects and scan them to see their removable attributes in one list

Auto Mirror - Super fast cutting and mirroring for mesh

Bagapie - For environmental and architectural modeling, offering 50+ tools for ivy generation, scattering, and parametric objects via GN (used in Flow movie)

Blur HDRI - Blur HDRI Images by creating a new node with a Gaussian Blur (it do not seems a live one, more like an “apply blur” while in Blender, no need to open in PSD)

Booltron - Faster boolean operations with large number of objects, including Curve and Text objects - Booltron add-on (free) can cut into Curves and Text objects!

Carver - Multiple tools to carve or to create objects - Example video on Instagram *Caution: it seems to freeze the Mac, for some seconds* Funtionality is now integrated on Bool Tool (already installed)

Coloraide - Enhances color picking. Available in the Image Editor, 3D Viewport, and Clip Editor.

Color Randomizer - Randomizes the color of an object, allowing you to manually select the perfect color by repeatedly pressing the button

CSV Importer - CSV file importer (read how to use the data) - DEMO: Importing String Data from CSV

Curve Generator - Select a FloatCurve Node and generate automatic curves in the Shader, Geometry & Compositor Editors in one click - Also import CSS data from animejs.com

Custom Templates - Allows you to use your own .blend files as template options for new projects - Application Templates - Blender 4.3 Manual

Exact Radius - turns selected rings of vertices into perfect circles of an exact numeric radius — one or many at once, at any orientation, for full circles, holes and partial arcs

Export: Adobe After Effects (.jsx) - Export cameras, images and empties to Adobe After Effects

Font Selector - allows user to dynamically visualize available fonts applied to a text object without the painful process of importing a font through filebrowser

Frames Per Beat - Generate timeline/dope sheet markers at each beat based on BPM and FPS

Geo Nodes Guide - Shows instant documentation inside the editor when you hover over any Geometry Node

Grease Pencil Tools - Extra tools for Grease Pencil - Includes a feature to scrub the timeline with ALT-MMB or whatever you assign it to (like this other old specific add-on)

Hot Node - Save and add nodes across files in super fast speed - Match Image / Share Nodes / Undo Redo / Customize

Improved Node Search

Light Generator - Generate Lights Automatically in your scene with varied distribution options: Slider based options, Varied spacing patterns, Target object, Randomize Power…

Material Library - will create a material library. You can save, load and categorize materials that can be shared across all your projects - DOCS

Measure and Scale - Measure between any two vertices and uniformly scale the entire object to match that measurement

Mesh Analysis Overlay - Triangles, quads, n-gons, etc. of different color - Similar to Analyze Mesh and Check Toolbox (already installed). Maybe smarter, simpler & stronger?

Mio3 Copy Weight - Copy weights across different objects (not possible by default). It copies the weight of the last selected vertex to other selected vertices

Modifier List - Enhanced UI layout for managing many modifiers with handy features to make the modifier workflow faster. Includes Edit Mesh Modifier

Motion Sounds - Adds sound effects to the Video Sequence Editor based on bone motion events

ND - Non-Destructive Modeling Toolkit

Node Presets - Add node groups directly to the node editors

Non-Destructive Primitives - Once you're done, simply press Tab to enter Edit Mode and begin modeling! If you ever change your mind, you can enable the modifier again and continue tweaking it in Object Mode.

Pataz Note - capturing the "state" of your scene when a note is created (Jumps to specific Frame, Switches to active Camera, Restores custom Viewport Angle and zoom level)

Per-Camera Resolution - To set a resolution for each camera. Switching cameras, manually or through TM markers, the scene resolution will get updated to the camera’s

Pie Customizer - lets you create custom pie menus, assign Blender actions to their eight directions, and set a shortcut for each menu without writing code

Place Helper - Efficient placement of objects, objects can rotate simultaneously while moving, quick copy, gravity dynamic placement… and more

PolyQuilt Retopology Tool [Fork] - Seems pretty good! - To help speed up the process of manual hand retopology, similar to tools like Retopology Flow and Quad Draw

POPOTI Align Helper - More friendly alignment based on observation perspective

Procedural Tiles - a growing library of shading nodes that emulate tiles, with interfaces easy and intuitive to use just like the Voronoi or brick texture

Real Time Paths - AKA “Motion Path Pro” - to update motion paths in real time, It works with any kind of object - New version 3.1.0 only for Blender 5.x

Rectangle Tools - quickly and conveniently construct rectangular geometry, also from existing geometry, including existing edges

Render Preset - Create Render Presets in a specific folder and apply on the fly. Also supports applying render preset through python

Screencast Keys - To display the Keyboard/Mouse and Operation status with customizable UIs

Shading + - Shading pie for designers and artists

Simple Deform Helper - Navigate your node tree faster via more node search options

Simplify Curves+ - Simplify Curves: 3dview, Dopesheet, Graph. Distance Merge

Surface Diagnostics - Complete set of diagnostic tools with a single click UI

Substance Textures Importer - looks at all the images in the chosen directory and attempts to guess the corresponding shader input to plug them into

Surface Psycho - NURBS editor inside Blender - True non-destructive NURBS modeling with real time editing - Import & Export STEP/IGES

Tissue - Tools for Computational Design

Tri-lighting - Add 3 Point Lighting to Selected / Active Object

Typst Importer - Easily render mathematical equations and code blocks

Ucupaint - Layer based painting and VDM sculpt for Eevee and Cycles

Universal Multi Importer - Import multiple files of different formats from the same import dialog, scan for files to import in a folder hierarchy

Third Part - Free

By Kushiro

Several very interesting Add-ons to consider by Kushiro

Grid Modeler - USD 20

Lots are FREE:

By Others

ActionRecorder - Automatically records your workflow, allowing you to save a sequence of steps as a reusable macro. It automatically assigns the macro to a button for easy access.

Animation Render Time Estimator for Blender - Additionally, the add-on outputs updates in the system console, providing detailed insights into the rendering process

AutoCam - Record a first-person walkthrough, convert it to a clean curve, and generate a fully rigged camera inside Blender, in seconds

BB-UVs: A Blender Extension to manage UVs in Object mode - By Blender Bob - Details

BezierUtils: Blender Add-on with Bezier Utility Ops - Interesting for drawing and working with bezier, more like Illustrator - Also: export bezier as SVG

BGSpheres - Blockout Geometry Node in Blender - To quickly block out models using geometry nodes. Inspired by ZBrush ZSpheres

Autoremesher: Automatic quad remeshing tool - Good alternative to Quad Remesher - AutoRemesher 1.0 - Free & OpenSource Retopo Tool For All! - YouTube

blenderKey - Addon to visualize and edit the hotkey bindings (WIP) - Completely vibecoded using Claude Code - STAY TUNED TO THIS

Bone Manager - Bone Collection tools : Select, Move, Lock, assign Bones Color from interface; Constraint Presets, Toggle Deform properties and visibility for easy debug; AND MORE…

BoneWidget - By Wayne Dixon - Easy creation of custom Bone Shapes - Used here: How to Quickly Rig IK FK in Blender (For Beginners) - YouTube

Bone Widget - By Blender Defender - Easy creation of custom Bone Shapes - Not sure if it’s same or not… (downloaded this one)

CAD Sketcher - A constraint-based sketcher add-on created by hlorus for Blender that allows you to create precise 2d shapes by defining CAD geometric constraints like tangents, distances, angles, equal and more. These Sketches are then converted into bezier or mesh which still stay editable through a fully non-destructive workflow i.e, Geometry nodes and modifiers.

Camera_shakify - to create camera shake - Shakify Video!

Claymate - It allows clay renders with all the fine details created by normal maps, displacement and bump map textures in the scene.

Collection2Empty - Convert Collections to Empties, all objects assigned to collection will be parented to the new generated Empty. Naming is carried over also

Copy shape key addon v2.0. It allows you to copy shape keys from many sources in one click - with or without the same topology, you can chose which shape keys you want to copy and you can even copy the animation

Differential Growth - to create organic forms - GitHub

Dynamic_parent - enable/disable parent-child relationships between objects through the animated Child Of constraint. When disabled the child's position relative to the parent is preserved.

Easy Lens Flares for Blender Compositor

Enhanced Vertex Color Tool - to streamline the process of working with vertex colors in 3D models. It offers a set of advanced tools for filling, gradient-based coloring, randomizing vertex colors, baking textures or AO - Enhanced Vertex Color Tool - DEMO VIDEO

EEVEE ekGlass Shader - This course is a free one, and it comes with a .blend file you can use to import the shader (or wine glass model)

Fast-Loop - Modo’s Loop Slice style tool for Blender - I tried this without success in my computer (error appeared) ¿Maybe it’s a Mac only issue? - Try again in some time…

Geometry Nodes Attribute Viewer - to see spreadsheet values in the 3D view, or what the concrete values of fields are on their domain positions, or what is the randomly generated value that you are plugging into other nodes, etc

Hard Surface Asset Checklist

IKurve - IK Rig on curve Addon - makes it easy to create armatures along any curve in Blender. Customize your bone count, set even lengths, and add an IK rig with ease - Article on 80.lv

IL Object Array - You can array object or collection via Radial Array, Array Between, Array On Curve or Array On Grid (all using Geometry Nodes)

Johnny Gizmo Blender Extension Library - Various interesting add-ons. You can add this Repository directly in Blender Preferences - Johnny Matthews - YouTube

Especially interesting by Johny Gizmo:

  • Text Function Nodes - More ways to work with strings in Geo Nodes:

  • Character to Int, Format Float, Format Integer, Left String, Lowercase String, LStrip string, Repeat String, Reverse String, Right String

  • RStrip String, Split String, Split String - Range Between, Split String - Range Length, Strip String, Uppercase String

  • Align Tools - Collection of Alignment Tools

  • Create Empty Vertex Child - New child empties at the locations of the selected vertices

  • Hinge Extrude - Extrude faces rotating around an active edge

Lens Cap - Synchronize viewport visibility with render settings, fine-tune depth-of-field with intuitive DOF controls, and select or keyframe cameras from a clear, scrollable list

Lineupnodes: Blender Add-on For Arranging Nodes of Geometry/Shader/Compositor Node Tree - Line Up Nodes - YouTube - To automatically organise trees of chaotic nodes

Link-Manager - add, remove, refresh, relocate all linked files in one simple UI. You can switch the linked file for a low res version and you have the possibility to turn on hi-res rendering so that on screen you will only have the low res version but in final render it will render the hi-res version - Description - Hopefully it will be approved by the Extension platform.

MeshKit: Geometry tools for copy/paste, point arrays, planar UV mapping, and more

Mantis Rigging Nodes - a NEW WAY TO RIG characters, props, or anything else in Blender using Geometry Nodes - See description and how to install below video

MP_Comp | Blender Compositor Presets - A collection of over 40 unique effects for Blender Compositor - Documentation - I've created over 40 effects for Blender Compositor

NijiGPen: Grease Pencil Add-on - Brings new features to Grease Pencil: Boolean, Offset/inset, Converting 2D shapes into meshes, Data exchange with other painting/designing software

NodeBooster: This is a collection of scripts that will add an extra node for blender - WIP - More info at Blender Artists Community

Noise Nodes - Advance Noise Nodes For blender, similar to the ones by Simon Thomme - STAY TUNED: seems to have problems with Blender 5.1 (see comments)

Normalize Unlocked - It normalizes weights only between unlocked groups, useful for when you have vertex groups for many uses in the same mesh, like for skinning, hair, modifier influences etc.

Offset-animation: Allows you to make multiple copies and offset animation - Example video at X - By Blender Bob

OpenScatter - Free and Open-Source Scattering - USD 1 - Voluntary support, USD 10 - FREE at GitMay3D/OpenScatter

Physics Dropper - USD 4 but also FREE -place all selected objects with the help of physics with just a few clicks. Basically, it's drop-it on steroids - Downloaded, but not installed

Pie Menu Editor USD 12 / FREE through this fork: Pluglug/pie-menu-editor-fork: A maintenance-focused fork of the Pie Menu Editor by roaoao.

Polyhedral-splines - WIP - Converts quad-dominant meshes into B-spline patches - Introduction

Popup Vertex Group List - Shows a popup dialog with all the vertex groups of your mesh

Quad_bridge: Blender addon to connect two edge loop using quads

RetopoFlow 4 alpha (free, maybe integrated in the future) - Jonathan Lampel en X: "This is huge because not only can it run right alongside all the other Blender tools, but the performance is also amazing. Here is RetopoFlow 4 alpha” - LINK

roosterMAP/rmKit - Variety of custom tools made by an ex-Modo user - There is a Falloff Transform for Move, Rotate and Scale - rmKit Documetation — rmKit 0.1 documentation

Screen Space Global Illumination for Blender Eevee - Native and Addon versions

Sculpt Bridge Tool - Create a bridge or punch a hole in a mesh with ease

Select by size (object mode) - Downloaded and saved, but not installed

Scale Normalizer - Automatically detect objects with non-uniform scales - Process selected objects or entire scene - Useful when importing models with LOTS of non-uni-scale objects

Shading for Inactive objects in viewport (wireframe) - Coding / Released Scripts and Themes - Blender Artists Community

Simple Blender Toolbox for modeling - Show, select and fix triangles, ngons, non-manfold, overlapping verts and faces, rotate edges - By Blender Bob

SKBoneGen: Blender add-on for generating bones along vertices - Tweet - Read answers, with tips to improve it - Look for more complete and robust options, which almost certainly exist

Smooth Unlocked - To smooth the weights of selected vertices only for the unlocked vertex groups. Locked groups will not be affected

SurfacePsycho - WIP - Non destructive workflow based on curves and Bézier surfaces - Docs - Blender Artists Thread - Gumroad

Target, Please! — The Ultimate Targeting Add-on - A simple Shift+T instantly tracks any object in your scene from your camera, light or any object

Tool Shelf - To collect all commonly used tools and scripts in one easy to access panel - VERY INTERESTING!

Transfer the vertex order - To transfer the vertex, edge and face order, from mesh A to mesh B, if both of them have the same topology

Tree_clipper: Add-on and library to export and import Blender node trees as JSON

Unit Menu - By Imperfect Link aka Xen Wildman. Adds a menu to the top right of the 3d viewport that displays the current units and gives you control over the scale of the grid - Downloaded, but not installed

UV-Rename - Extension for iterative renaming of multiple UV Maps

Viewport-presets - Adds a presets menu to the 3D viewport header which allows you to save and recall various combinations of viewport display settings

waylow/boneWidget - Making custom bone shapes. It has an editable library of shapes that make it easy to apply to any rig

wiggle-2: Rewrite of blender-wiggle with new features and physics - To manage chains of bones, to easily setups tubes, chains, collisions, etc

Third Part - Paid

By Mark Kingsnorth aka Configurate

Conform Object - USD 12 - To project smaller objects onto a larger object surface in one direction.

Flowify for Blender - USD 15 - To bend object to a surface that has evenly spaced 4 sided faces and 4 corners. A simple flat reference grid is used to guide the deformation

Mesh Materializer - USD 15 - To wrap an object onto the surface of another object like a material, using a UV texture map as a guide

Curves To Mesh - USD 25 - Create and configure mesh surfaces from Bezier curves in Blender - Los GN de Highass tienen una tool para esto…

By Gaffer

GitHub - gregzaal/Gaffer: A light-manager add-on for Blender (trial, free, no limits, to try it out)

Gaffer - Light & HDRI Manager - Blender Market (USD 20, if I am convinced and want to pay)

Gaffer update adds HDRI Favorites | Blender Secrets - YouTube (to see how it works)

3D Tree Growing Software - The Grove 89-149 EUR - A tree simulator

Amazing terrain creator addon - USD 1 - Generate 3D Maps EASIER with this ONE Simple Trick

By Others

Align And Distribute v3.0 USD 7 - Really powerful and with all kind of options

autoConstraints for Blender - USD 10 - autoConstraints for Blender [FREE] - autoConstraints for Blender 1.3 - YouTube

B-Presets - USD 5 - For saving render and viewport settings to presets and quickly switching between them (next one is similar, slightly cheaper but older)

BSpheres - USD 20 - inspired by spheres tools by ZBrush and 3DCoat

Blob Fusion - USD 13.20 - Organic and hard-surface meshes creation. It can be thought as mix of ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs, combining best of both worlds

BatchGenie: Asset Assistant - USD 18 - To simplify and automate common asset-related tasks in Blender and help you build your asset library

Blender Batch Render - USD 10

Blender Render Queue - USD 4 - USD 10 - a completely separate app from Blender editor. It will queue multiple projects and render them out.the background

CAD Transform - 10 EUR - Precise Move / Rotate / Scale / Align by 3 points - Precise snap from / snap to workflow - etc

Cameleon: Material Batch Rendering Tool - USD 7 - Rendering out hundreds of options for product. Cameleon will handle outputting every permutation of materials and camera angles.

Cell Fluids USD 20 - CellFluids is a Geometry Nodes powered add-on for simulating fluids. The simulation is sort of “2.5D”. It is based on the scene’s height field and simulated in 2d grid mesh with displacement applied to it (used in Flow movie)

Clean Graph - USD 16 - To streamline, enhance, and speed up every stage of the animation workflow (price will increase whenever author adds a new panel to the add-on)

Cloud Creator - £8 - Allows you to make any cloud and convert any mesh into a cloud! - Perfect Procedural Clouds in Blender

Cog generator - Precision Gears - USD 8 - gears incapsulated inside the closest thing to a faux "parametric" system, giving you the ability to change your gears on the fly

Cog generator - USD 8 - The speed and teeth adjust automatically to fit the previous cogs that where created to create chains of cogs easilly

CURVEmachine USD 17.5

Decal Master - Add Decals Like Never Before USD 18.75 (seems the best for decals)

DECALmachine USD 55

Deep Paint -Blender 3D Paint tool Set - USD 35 - From Gaku, the Japanese man who makes beautiful “watercolours” with Grease Pencil

Designer Tools Collection Variants - USD 13 - For dealing with multiple variants of something and you don't want to turn off one variant and turn on the other by hand

Dynamic Grabber - 18.75 - 25 eur - To easily grab, move, drop, and place objects with real-time physics

Easy Pivot USD 5 - Freely change your pivot point

FLIP Fluids - USD 76 - Set up, run, and render liquid simulation effects! Based around the popular FLIP simulation technique. Used in Flow movie

Fluent 3 - Stressless modeling tool USD 20 - USD 30 - Non-destructive hard-surface modeling tool

FontBank (Adobe Fonts + Blender) - USD 7 - To connect the full Adobe Fonts library directly to Blender. Automatically detects fonts installed on the operating system. Supports .ttf, .otf, .woff, .woff2, and .eot

Forgotten Tools - USD 5 - brings various "forgotten" features into Blender

Friendly Pivot for Blender - USD 15 - To quickly and conveniently change the Pivot Orientation, Origin and 3D Cursor positions by pressing one key

Geo-Scatter 5.5 - USD 99 - The #1 scattering plugin for Blender (the one used in Flow movie)

Haggis Tools - USD 15 - Optimizing workflows, reducing mundane and repetitive tasks

HairFlow - Simulate Blender's New Hair System - USD 20 - Nice example

Handy Weight Edit - USD 23 - An alternate weight painting method in Edit mode. It offers precise control where and how weight is distributed.

Hard Ops / Boxcutter Ultimate Bundle - USD 38

Hide Only Vertex [Lock Vertex] - Blender Market - USD 5 - Hide only vertices and lock edits - Protects the mesh from editing while the faces remain visible - LOTS OF SCRIPTS ON GITHUB

Instant Clean - USD 10 - a single click mesh clean add-on ideal when you import models

Instant Impostors v1.2 | One-click Impostor Generation (EEVEE) - USD 20 Lite - USD 50 Studio

Key Selected Objects - Blastframe - Add-on USD 10 (a bit expensive for such a basic, simple need…) - Alternate free: Keyframe selected (already installed)

Knitting Generator add-on - USD 10 - Generate wool fabric

L System - Tree and Plant Generator - Geometry Nodes USD 1.50

Lazy Bones USD 13 - Very interesting to simplify bone creation

Light Wrangler Blender Addon: Masterful Lighting Made Easy - USD 8.40 Non-Comercial - USD 17.40 Commercial - This seems FANTASTIC to create and fine tune artist-driven lighting

LiveNode Preview — Real-Time Shader Node Previews for Blender - 3.0 to 5.5 eur

MACHIN3tools USD 5 - USD 15

MatPlus - USD 75 - MatPlus turns Blender’s material editor into a layer-based painting tool, inspired by workflows from Substance Painter, ArmorPaint and Mari

Mesh Check GPU Edition - 2 eur - Similar to Analyze Mesh and Check Toolbox (already installed). Maybe smarter, simpler & stronger?

Modo-Me, Modo Action Centers, Smart Center and Axis Management USD 13 (I don't know if it's worth it…)

Motion path Pro - USD 10 - Update motion paths in real-time from graph editor and viewport windows at the same time - You can it as a feature of Clean Graph addon

Multi Camera Setup Addon - USD 14 - The setup and switching of multiple cameras are much quicker and easier

Node Preview - USD 19 - Displays rendered thumbnails above shader nodes, for each step (similar to what is available in Designer)

Outliner Bookmarks - 7.64 eur - For intricate projects or to optimize scene management

PBR Mixer - USD 14 - Creates layers from PBR texture sets and blends them based on their height using a selection of masking methods including Paint, Procedural Noise, another layer's Height, geometry Position, and surface Normal.

Perspective Plotter - USD 18 - Match a camera to an image with Perspective Plotter. Useful for creating 3D models from 2D sketches, matching a 3D scene to a 2D photo.

Photographer 5 - USD 24 - Physical Camera properties, Bokeh textures, Camera and Lens Post FX, Physical Lights with photometric units, Gobos and IES

POMegranate - USD 10 - Parallax Occlusion Mapping (I think 4.2 incorporates some of this, but I don't know if it is the same or not....)

Precision Bolts - USD 8 - mathematically accurate Bolts, Nuts & Threaded Rod along with (alpha) screws

Procedural Dynamic Paint - USD 7 - Control the dynamic paint with nodes

Procedural Foam - USD 15 - To generate realistic foam on the surface of objects. As it uses volumetric texturing, it will only work on Cycles, but you can preview it with Eevee

Procedural Fluid Simulators - USD 39 - Simulate the fluid on any surface with full control - Mixing Colors with Procedural Fluid Simulators - Tutorial

Quad Filler - USD 8 - To patch holes and connect open edge chains with clean results - TRY TO REPRODUCE IT USING GEOMETRY TOOLS!

Quad Maker - USD 18 - manual retopology tool - Recommended by Henning Sanden

Quad Sans - USD 20 - Versatile quad font

QuickCinema - USD 15 - Real Time Viewport Compositing: Lens Softening, Sharpening, Aberration / Bloom / Vignette / Color & Contrast & Fog

Resample Mesh - USD 25 - Allows you to reshape geometry by interpolating ( to create smoother transitions or reduce polygon count ) selected points. It also includes operators for smoothing, mesh optimization, and connecting edge loops.

Roads generator - USD 15 - Place a point, extend another from it, move them, and the road updates instantly - INTERESTING MORE TO STUDY THE INTERSECTIONS TECH

Serpens 3 - Visual Scripting Addon Creator - USD 14.40 - a node-based scripting addon for blender. It allows you to create real, installable python addons without touching a single line of code.

Smart Light Tool - USD 5 - To create and position lights based on their reflection points from the camera view, by calculating the reflection angles between the camera and scene objects

SpeedSculpt - USD 20 - Enhance your sculpting efficiency in Blender with SpeedSculpt, an intuitive add-on designed to streamline the creation and management of complex models

Split - Interactive real-time comparison addon - USD 6 - Compare a stored compositing state with the current state in a dynamic and visually interactive way

Squish- Instant Better Rig Deforms - USD 5 - correct ugly deformations in your rigs in just three clicks - add a modifier and BOOM! instant high-quality rig

Stamp It! - No Shrinkwrap & Extra Geometry USD 17.75

Stylized Cloud Generator - 7.50 EUR - Creating beautiful, stylized clouds in Blender, designed mainly with NPR/stylized renders in mind, this tool lets you craft stunning skies effortlessly

SUPER BUMP USD 12 - Super Bump for Eevee brings the power of material displacement to the Real-time engine!

ToOptimize Tools - USD 15 - To optimize your scene in a simple way. The addon will show you what is making your scene heavier, comparing each object, collection, texture, and material in your scene

Trees - USD 25 - A procedural trees generator system based on Geometry Nodes

UDON Custom Node Builder [beta] - USD 20 - making your own custom nodes (real nodes) - I don't like this sentence: “UDON is required both for creating as well as using the custom nodes. Custom nodes only work with UDON enabled”

uvFactory for Blender - USD 12 - to automate, eliminate, or streamline tedious unwrapping tasks. Use it to speed up manual unwrapping or create fully automatic UV pipelines.

UV Flex - USD 7.5 - Manipulate UVs directly, specially interesting for reshaping.

uvProject for Blender - USD 7 (early access) - A kind of automatic UVs for architectural-kind of geometry

Viewport presets for Blender - USD 3.6 - For creating, storing and loading custom 3d view presets (previous one seems newer)

Weight Paint Tools - USD 11 - Tools for simplifying workflow in blender weight paint mode

Woolly Tools & Shaders (v2) USD 35 - Transform your models into needle felt plushies instantly (lana, fibras, etc)

XDECAL™ - Blender Decals-Manager USD 35

YT-Bridge - USD 20 - Seamless Scene Exchange Between Blender and Modo - By Taz-san

Zen Cage - USD 9 - Intuitive control over object transformations using a bounding box cage with interactive handles. Align, Fit, Distribute, Clamp, Array, Rotate, and Scale

Custom Nodes

Collections

Erindale Toolkit - Advanced Geometry Nodes Groups (UPDATED FOR FIELDS) - Blender Market USD 17 - Seems good

Geonodes Modifiers Mograph - IL - USD 17 - Seems good

Extra Nodes for Geometry Nodes - USD 10 - Really consider to buy. It doesn't matter if they replicate or match the previous ones or the ones I already have, because they're all inexpensive.

Flipbook Texture Shader Node - FREE - This shader node group plays flipbooks by offsetting the UV map.

Procedural Curve Shapes - USD 8 - Interesting, to use directly and also to learn how to create procedural splines, seeing how they are made.

Geometry Nodes Nuts, Bolts and screws - USD 6

Geometry nodes Cog generator - USD 10 - Created by Studio Roel Deden Store Front - Several interesting procedural collections from the same study

DJH Geometry Node Assets - USD 25 - 65 modifiers/nodes - DJH Nodes

Strands: A DJH GeoNodes Library - USD 25 - To do ropes, chains, wires, or other long thin and flexible objects to your scenes

Node-it - USD 20 - Node groups that solve common shader challenges. It provides building blocks to create, customize, and fix shaders with ease. A great solution for shader creation

NodeBooster - FREE - camerainfo, isrenderedview, mathexpression, nexinterpreter, pythonapi, pythonscript, sequencervolume

Blender Bevel Node - USD 10 - This node, while not as robust as blender's bevel modifier, will handle most of bevel needs. Scenarios not supported are listed.

MolecularNodes: Toolbox for molecular animations in Blender, powered by Geometry Nodes - FREE

Adaptive Curve - From USD 0 to USD 3 - Tangent adaptive curves

UV Stretch preview in 3d - FREE - Already downloaded, but not installed - Preview UV Stretch with this #Geometrynodes Setup in Blender - YouTube

Free GN Presets V2.3 - FREE - Bradley Animation - YouTube

Shrinkwrap Multiple - USD 3 -Lets you shrinkwrap an object to another object or a whole collection, like a bunch of object inside an elastic bag

Easy Lens Flares for Blender Compositor - FREE - Real time drag-and-drop lens flare solution for Blender using procedural techniques with the GPU Fares 3D - FREE- Various interesting effects: Transform, Disintegration, Avoid Points Intersection, Gradients, Curls and 50 LOOPS.

Custom Tools or Scenes

Blender Geo Nodes: Platform Generator - FREE demo - 5 eur full (more to see how it is made, than to see how it is useful...)

Index Viewer for Blender 3.0+ (Geometry Nodes Fields) - FREE

Wrap Master - Blender Market - USD 12 Wrap bandages, ropes, chains or fabric around your models.

Johnny Matthews - Some interesting collections, and many are FREE: Spiral nodes - Coil on curve - Tile Generators - Blender Pick Node (?) - Multiplex Nodes - Circular Instance Array…

Alex Martinelli - FREE - GREAT Procedural Assets for Blender - Procedural Crystal, L-Systems, Phyllotaxis, Differential Groth, Spiderwebs, Cellular Automata, Camera control & Animation, Recursive Subdivision, Flock Simulation

Other Assets & Tools

Awesome-Blender: A curated list of awesome Blender addons, tools, tutorials; and 3D resources for everyone.

Cartesian Caramel en Gumroad - Lots of interesting GN. Several things for free or very cheap. Very good

Ultimate Blender Procedural Material Pack - USD 48,75

Collections of nodes

Tile Factory - Procedural Tile Generators for Blender - USD 45

Assets

Cleverpoly's Tools & Resources | Textify Callouts And titles Animation - Procedural Re-usable assets for product animators

Tree Library Botaniq Trees+Plants - USD 2 Starter - USD 49 Lite - USD 129 Full - library of optimized & realistic 3D vegetation. It features a variety of Trees, Palms, Succulents, Shrubs, Plants, and Pots

TFMSTYLE - Blender Project Files - FREE Scenes, Abstract, Geometrical, etc - Very interesting to learn!!!

Procedural materials

Simon Thommes - Procedural shaders (Textile, Bricks, Procedural Noises, Scatter, etc)

BlenderKit | FREE 3D models, textures and other Blender assets

Procedural Clouds Shader - FREE

Sanctus Wood Works - USD 17

Procedural Metal Materials Bundle - USD 13

Richard Yot - Assets, specially materials and lighting - A bit expensive but good quality. Free “Light Tent Rig”

Carvature - Procedural Wood Texture - USD 24 - These wood textures look great. Specially useful for block-wood object, where waves and knots should match between sides. Micro Scratches Normal Map - 5 EUR - Realistic micro-scratches, perfect for surfaces like car paint and other reflective finishes.

Matcaps

Huge library of matcap PNG textures organized by color - Visual gallery > MatCaps / mgherkins's Workspace | Observable

Brushes for Grease Pencil

FREE - Blender Grease Pencil Brush Pack - UPDATE Oct 8, 2024: This brush pack is intended for Grease Pencil 2, not Grease Pencil 3 which was released with Blender 4.3 BETA. Please do not expect these to work in Blender 4.3, I am in the process of learning how to mark them as assets to be able to share them so they behave as intended.

UV Checker Map Maker - Custom UV Textures - VINZI - A free web application that lets you create custom checker maps. You can customize grid size, numbering conventions, and colors, then download the maps at resolutions up to 8K

Dima Desktop - All the Blender icons as svg

Rigs samples

Stuff Man - Professional top level rigs - Great to learn techniques, tips and tricks - By Stuff Man - X - YouTube

Non-blender tools

Flowframes - Fast Video Interpolation for any GPU - Flowframes is a simple but powerful app that utilizes advanced AI frameworks to interpolate videos in order to increase their framerate in the most natural looking way possible.

UDIM GLOBE - FREE - a toolkit for turning high-res planet textures into UDIM tiles—perfect for 3D animation and VFX.

Online tools

Easing editor | Anime.js | JavaScript Animation Engine

Cloudgen - Cloud Generation Tool - free

CloudGen - Cloud Generation Tool

NarcisCalin/CloudGen