today we are going to be taking a look at 30 free blender addons that you can use right now, 24 is alot of addons so with that lets start with a free addon that will keep everything organised.
SIMPLE TABSis a Blender Addon that helps to organize your N-panel or side panel, only about 10 addons can fit in the side panel, now imagine 30, simple addon can easily help you manage these addons by grouping the addons in a more organized way and giving easy access to the addons you need when you need them.
this addon is a collection of imperfect aperture maps, to create photo realistic bokey effects, most render engines let add different shapes for your aperture, this makes it easy to make photorealistic renders and out of focus zones, cycles does not have this function, this free addon brings that function with a number of different shapes you can use to cycles.
this smudge tool lets you add photorealistic smudge on walls very easily, it creates a water smudge mask on any mesh using geometry nodes, which you can use to add texture detail like dirt, rust and more.
its mind blowing what blender artists are sharing with the community for free, like this bird generator, that can also generate the flight path and animation of the bird, you can use it to generate a flock of unique birds with different flight path and behavior, the birds are well modeled and customizable to make each look unique and the flight path can be based off a curve you draw.
i cant believe this is also free, this geometry nodes setup allows you to create particles that interact with your world in realtime, this is a big deal because geometry nodes offers more customization and control than the particle system, one obvious advantage is that you can layer more effects ontop of the particle simulation like particle trails, child particles, and more things that are impossible to do with the the builtin particle system.
this one is for architects who use blender, this tool lets you draw accurate meshes with accurate measurements, its A constraint-based sketcher addon 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 beziers or mesh which still stay editable through a fully non-destructive workflow i.e, Geometry nodes and modifiers.
when you have textures that are tilling you can use this free anti seam addon to break up the seams, it creates masks over the seams and blends the different parts of your tiled textures to make them look more detailed and seamless.
if you have a objects or nature assets you want to scatter in your scene this free addon nature clicker can be of great help in providing a powerful way to scatter your objects, it will help you randomize the scale, rotation, and placement of different objects in your scene, to avoid object intersection and more.
this addon can let you block out your scenes faster by giving you tools to help you place objects according to different parameters, it also gives you an easy way to adjust object settings by using sliders instead of typing the figures directly, you can also place objects depending on other objects orientation or nearest face normal direction.
if you are working on a scifi render, try using this free future scratch scifi pack, that comes with a scifi themed kitbash greeble asset pack, these can be used to create a steam punk city, cyber city and more, the assets are well made and textured, you can also use other addons to scatter these into a large city.
this addon lets you download the 100s and 100s of pbr textures on ambient cg and other sites directly in blender, you select the textures you want, the addon downloads them, extracts them, and packs them into a material in blender with just a single click ready to be applied on any object.
if you are looking a cute cartoon robot, this robotz tool can generate different variations, that are ready to animate, with different expressions, characteristics, mannerisms and mores with just a few sliders.
ThisScifi Panel Generatorcreates quick scifi panels for hard surface models. There are 23 different panel styles to choose from, this can be quite useful if you are designing interiors of scifi scenes and mroe.
if you are looking for an optimized non destructive workflow, this free addon provides all the necessary tools. the addon provides workflow enhancements, tools, operations, and generators tailored specifically for non-destructive & hard-surface 3D modelling. It additionally offers post-modelling workflow enhancements for external applications such as Substance Painter, Marmoset Toolbag, game engines, and more.
if you want to create a chilly, cold render, with snow, icicle and visible coldness, this free snow generator does it in one go, snow, snow shaders, snow particles, icicle generators, dust and more.
the sky generator that comes with blender does not generate clouds or stars, if you want to replace it with something that generates more detail and is more powerful, this free addon real sky is the way to do it.
when you are creating hair for your characters tryout gbh tool, its built on the new hair system, can convert the hair to curves and meshes, you can generate different styles quickly, and gives you more options.
This hugely popular addon for the UV Editor reshapes UV selections into a grid. It respects vertical and horizontal face ratios and can stretch out any selection shape. No more manual alignment of a distorted UVBlender’s UV unwrap is far from perfect. Quite often, you end up with a distorted shape of your object and have to clean it up. This takes time and effort as you select all the vertices and re-align them via the appropriate axis, repeating this endlessly. What if you could do it with a single button push? That is what UV Squares is all about.
https://github.com/Radivarig/UvSquares?tab=readme-ov-file
Anime trees are quite hard to make, so when i saw that there was a generator that makes them easily and that its free , i rushed to add it to this list, enjoy.
another free tool that i find amazing and suprised that its free is buildify, the only issue is that it has not been updated to latest versions of blender, so you may find that some of its functionality is missing in the new versions, if you want something equivalent and guaranteed to one in latest versions of blender checkout auto building.
this is like buildify but updated with more features, more buildings and more control, its built with geometry nodes to allow you to just extrude a few faces and let the addon add all the details like windows, doors, textures and more.
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