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With so many blender add-ons available online, each one targeting a specific problem, it can be difficult to decide which ones to use. That’s why I’m going to show you some of the best add-ons that can help you make amazing renders and enhance your blender workflow in this video.
Botaniq Blender Addons
Botaniq is a growing collection of realistic 3D plants and trees that you can use to create stunning natural environments. Whether you need to render a forest, a garden, or a landscape, botaniq has the right assets for you. You can choose from a variety of Trees, Grass, Flowers, Weeds, Ferns, Ivy, Palms, Succulents, Shrubs, Plants, Pots, Rocks, Lilypads, and Garden objects.
This Blender Addons latest update added 53 new assets (17 grass, 9 succulents, 11 shrubs, 5 plants, 11 deciduous). It also improved the material library and made it compatible with Geo-Scatter. You can now adjust the hue of each leaf and the season offset for more realistic colors. The integration with the Asset Browser has also been fixed.
Buy this addon Tree and Grass Library Botaniq Free Tree Addon Trees+Grass Trees – Blender Market
Flip Fluids
With the FLIP Fluids addon, you can create and render amazing liquid effects right inside Blender! Our addon uses a custom fluid engine that is based on the FLIP method, which is a popular and powerful technique for simulating liquids. We have been developing the FLIP Fluids engine since 2016 and we have integrated it seamlessly into Blender as an addon. It feels like a natural part of Blender!
This Blender Addons has Whitewater Simulator Make your fluid effects more realistic and impressive with the whitewater simulator. You can create and simulate millions of particles for foam, bubbles, and spray that add detail and motion to large water surfaces. Viscosity Solver Simulate liquids of any thickness and behavior with the viscosity solver. You can create thin liquids that flow smoothly, thick fluids that fold and curl, and anything in between. You will be amazed by how thick you can make your fluids in Blender
Buy this addon FLIP Fluids – Blender Market
Blender Kit
BlenderKit is a community that offers you everything you need to create stunning 3D artworks.
You can download models, materials, HDRs, scenes and brushes right in Blender.
Access 16,979 free assets for your projects You can use everything for commercial and non-commercial purposes. There are no limits on downloads. Our library grows every day with new assets.
57% of our library is free, thanks to our amazing creators.
Buy this addon BlenderKit: Download the BlenderKit add-on
Poliigon
Poliigon is a texture library, created by CG artists, for CG artists.
It has exclusive textures that you won’t find anywhere else, patterns, designs, and most importantly PBR materials.1,000+ PBR materials PBR means Physically Based Rendering, and it’s a technique that creates realistic shaders, using maps to control different aspects of the material Ultra-Sharp You may think this is obvious, but many textures online are fuzzy.
Fuzzy textures are useless, because they make the material look slightly blurry, destroying any realism.So we made sure to produce the clearest, highest quality textures available. Seamless There’s nothing more frustrating than finding the perfect texture, but then realizing it’s not seamless. That’s why we’ve made almost every texture seamless.
Buy this addon Poliigon – Textures, Models and HDRIs for 3D rendering
Mixamo
Mixamo allows you to easily rig and animate your 3D models. You can use Mixamo in Blender with the help of a free add-on that lets you import models, animations, and control rigs from Mixamo to Blender. You can access thousands of 3D characters, animations, and motion capture data. You can download the rigged models and animations in various formats, including FBX, which is compatible with Blender
Download Mixamo in Blender – Substance 3D (adobe.com)
Hard OPS Boxcutter
Hard Ops is a toolset that enhances the boolean workflow that booltool initiated. The aim is to make hardsurface easier and more versatile. Our toolkit includes boolean, non-destructive modelling, assistive helpers for optimal work, and many systems for sculpt and grease pencil sketching. Our vision is to make Blender more user-friendly while also respecting the original philosophy of Blender and what makes it amazing and keep being amazing. Our offer is a top-notch AAA experience with extensive learning, a thriving community, and detailed documentation to help you get the best out of Blender and hopscutter.
Buy this addon Hard Ops / Boxcutter Ultimate Bundle – Blender Market
Decal Machine
DECALmachine is a blender addon that lets you add surface details with mesh Decals in a very flexible, non-destructive, and UV-free way. It is a different way of hard surface texturing. DECALmachine also supports Trim Sheets, Atlasing, and Baking to make exporting to game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine etc. easier.
You can project, slice, create from grease pencil or edges, and match materials of Decals. You can also make your own. You can place, cut, manipulate or remove Trims easily – all in the 3D view.
Buy this addon DECALmachine – Blender Market
Node Wrangler
Node Wrangler helps you to work with nodes faster and easier. Nodes are the building blocks of many features in Blender, such as materials, shaders, compositing, geometry nodes, and texture nodes. Node Wrangler provides you with various tools and shortcuts that make node editing more efficient and convenient.
You can connect two nodes by dragging your cursor from one node to another without clicking on the sockets. Node Wrangler will automatically select the best-matched sockets based on their names, types, and availability.
You can merge the outputs of multiple nodes into a single mix node with different modes, such as add, subtract, divide, or multiply. You can also choose the type of mix node manually or let Node Wrangler decide for you
Rigify
Blender Rigify is an add-on that helps you to create character rigs automatically. It is based on a modular approach, where you can use different rig parts (such as arms, legs, spine, face, etc.) to build a complete rig for your character. Rigify also allows you to customize and extend the rig features, and to export the rig to game engines.
Quad Remesher
Quad Remesher can help you to speed up your workflow and improve your results by generating optimal topology for your models. You can use Quad Remesher to create base meshes for sculpting, retopologize your dyntopo sculpts or 3D scans, create low-poly versions of your high-poly models, or simply enhance the quality and appearance of your meshes. Quad Remesher has many features and options that allow you to customize and control the remeshing process, such as adaptive size, target quad count, symmetry, hard edges, curve guides, and more.
If you want to try Quad Remesher for yourself, you can download a trial version for free from the official website. The trial version is valid for one month and has no limitations on functionality. If you want to purchase Quad Remesher, you can do so from the same website or from the Blender Market. The price of Quad Remesher is $110 USD for a single license, which includes updates and support for one year.
Buy this addon Quad Remesher – Auto Retopology – EXOSIDE
Gobos light textures
Blender Gobos Light Textures V2 Enhance your scenes with realistic shadows using this collection of high-quality textures for Blender. You can easily import your gobos into Blender with one click using the asset manager. Choose from 149 textures in 14 categories to suit your needs.
You can also use animated gobos and colored gobos in this new V2 version to add more dynamism and realism to your animations. These video textures will make your scenes come alive with volume, depth, and originality. Gobos are the perfect tool for creating stunning effects!
Buy this addon Gobos Light Textures – Blender Market