Best useful addons collection for Blender

1. Gizmo Pro ($15):

– Gizmo Pro is a useful addon that provides a Zbrush style all-in-one gizmo and quick actions palette.
– It allows for quick access to orientation and snapping settings as well as customized operator functions.

2. Bend Face ($12):

– Bend Face is a tool that makes it easy to rotate a mesh or mesh selection around any edge.

– It eliminates the need for custom orientations or manipulation of the 3D cursor.

3. Mesh Data Transfer (Optional Donation):

– Mesh Data Transfer adds a panel for transferring shape, UVs, vertex groups, and shape keys from one Object to another.
– It works regardless of topology or vertex count.

4. Snap! ($20):

– Snap is an addon that allows for defining snap points on objects and easily snapping them together.
– It is great for creating modular asset packs and scenes with interchangeable parts.

5. Select Sim (Optional Donation):

– Select Sim is an addon that enhances Blender’s ‘Select Similar’ options by allowing selection by shape.
– It can narrow down the selection by checking for faces with similar surrounding topology.

6. Conform Object ($10):

– Conform Object is a tool for attaching objects to curved surfaces, seamlessly blending them.
– It also blends the normals of the objects, creating a continuous surface.

7. Zen Sets ($14):

– Zen Sets is a selection set manager for vertices, edges, and faces. It provides powerful organizing and visualization capabilities.
– It fills the gap in Blender’s vertex and face group features.

8. Mira Tools (Free):

– Mira Tools is a set of retopology and mesh deforming operators.
– It includes unique operators like Curve Deform and Curve Stretch.

9. MACHIN3tools:

– Consolidates hotkeys and pie menus for working with vertices, edges, & faces
– Includes a transform pie menu with all the relevant settings

10. EZ Lattice:

– Allows for easy warping and deforming of meshes with a lattice

– Works on groups of objects, individual objects, and even selected vertices in edit mode

11. Group Pro:

– Allows for easy management and editing of collection instances in Blender
– Enables editing of any collection instance in the scene

12. Edge Flow:

– Uses spline interpolation to adjust edge loops to fit the surrounding geometry
– Helps clean up messy topology and better blend between areas

13. Smart Fill:

– Enhances Blender’s default face-fill functionality
– Auto-fills faces in more scenarios and adds more options

14. PUNCHit:

– A more robust version of Blender’s Extrude Manifold tool
– Allows for creating holes through the mesh and works well with n-gons

15. Slide Edge:

– Creates face loops from selected edges
– Provides flexibility when working with extrusions and corners

16. Box Cutter:

– An interactive object mode tool for complex Boolean operations
– Allows for cutting and modifying geometry with various cutting modes

17. MESH machine:

– Allows you to adjust edit mode bevels at any point in the modeling process

– Fixes geometry and normals on challenging areas such as curved surfaces or faces surrounding Booleans

18. Add Mesh: Extra Objects:

– Includes several new mesh primitives in the add menu
– Useful for adding points, sphere, math function surfaces, gears, and more

19. Drop It (Optional Donation):

– Move and align your Object to the surface below
– Useful for precise object placement

20. Electrify:

– Allows you to create various lighting effects controlled by empties
– Easy to animate and export low poly version for game engines

21. Welder:

– Creates welds at intersections between objects
– Useful for rendering CAD models realistically

22. Bricker:

– Transforms any mesh into a realistic LEGO brick model
– Adjustable level of detail, materials, connections, and more

23. Simply Wrap Pro:
– Wraps cloth, ropes, or chains around objects with a basic sketch in the viewport
– Simplifies the process of adding realistic wrapping details

24. Bchart:

– Imports .csv data into Blender to create 2D and 3D graphs and charts

– Customizable and animatable

25. One Click Damage:

– Used for quickly beating up hard surface shapes in Blender
– Works by generating a duplicate mesh, displacing it with noise, and using a Boolean modifier

26. Random Flow:

– Generates highly detailed sci-fi renders with customizable results
– Blows away other greeble and sci-fi panel creators in terms of control and attractiveness

27. Hair Tool:

– Creates low poly hair cards for games or real-time render engines
– Comprehensive addon that assists with creating hairstyles, eyebrows, beards, fur, etc.

28. Archipack:

– Makes architectural visualization easier in Blender
– Allows for precise measurements, easy wall drawing, and generation of floors, roofs, and moldings

29. Blender Kit:

– Enables downloading of user-generated models and materials from the Blender UI
– Free and provides access to a wide range of assets for use in Blender projects

30. Erindale Toolkit:

– Supercharges Geometry Nodes creations with custom nodes for levels of detail, camera culling, and advanced instancing
– Node++ adds 75 general-purpose nodes and modifiers

31. Animation Nodes:

– Enables control of objects, vertices, text, sound, and time in Blender
– Primary focus is animation but offers robust mesh manipulation capabilities

32. Sverchok Nodes:

– Provides alternative or complementary parametric modeling to Geometry Nodes
– Well-designed addon packed with modeling-specific features

33. Modular Tree addon:

– Modular Tree addon is a powerful alternative to Blender’s built-in Sapling tree generator addon.
– It offers more features and functionality.

34. Scatter ($99):

– Scatter is a comprehensive object distribution addon for Blender.
– It allows you to scatter assets using procedural methods and adapt to surfaces.
– You can save combinations of assets as biomes for easy application.

35. Other notable biomes for Scatter:

– GrassBlade
– Gardener
– Desert Scapes
– Vertical Scapes
– Jungle Scapes

36. Other Object scattering addons:

– Bagapie
– Flow Manager
– Asset Sketcher
– Foliage Paint Tool

37. RBD Lab ($69):

– RBD Lab is an add-on for fracturing and simulating rigid body objects.
– It also generates smoke and debris from impacts.

38. Khaos ($35):

– Khaos helps with rigid body destruction and creating explosions using Blender’s particle and smoke systems.

39. Spyderfy ($36):

– Spyderfy adds swarming and flocking behavior to animated models using Blender’s Boid particles.

40. Physics Dropper (Optional Donation):

– Physics Dropper uses rigid body physics to simulate objects falling.
– It offers more control compared to the snapping algorithm.

41. Wiggle Bones:

– Wiggle Bones is a small addon that allows bones to jiggle based on movement or rotation.
– It is fast, easy to use, and unobtrusive when not in use.

42. X-Muscle System:

– X-Muscle System allows for detailed muscle animation by creating muscles that deform along with the bones.
– With customization options, it offers flexibility and realistic results.

43. Tension Maps:

– The Tension Maps addon provides vertex group heat maps for controlling wrinkles and stretch marks.
– It is useful for shape or texture adjustments.

44. Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning:

– Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning fixes the limitation of loose geometry when rigging disconnected parts.
– Creating a voxel proxy and applying weights it provides accurate and quick results.

45. Bone Layer Manager:

– Bone Layer Manager allows users to assign names to bone layers, making it easier to manage and locate bones.
– It also provides an intuitive sidebar UI for adjusting rig properties and constraints.

46. AnimAll:

– AnimAll enables the animation of various properties, including vertices, bevel weights, creases, and UVs.
– It is a preinstalled addon that offers additional animation possibilities.

47. AudVis:

– AudVis is useful for animating objects based on audio, with options for real-time or prerecorded audio.
– It also provides a shape modifier panel for quick effects.

48. True Time Remapping:

– True Time Remapping allows precise control over the speed of animations.
– While it doesn’t work for all features, it is helpful for baked simulations and camera moves.

49. Frame Ranger ($25):

– Speeds up Timeline and Dope Sheet tasks
– Allows for adding played controls to animation editors
– Switch between saved frame ranges
– Manage markers
– Automatically adjust frame range to match keyframes
– Remap keyframes to play animation at different speeds

50. Animaide (Free):

– Brings clever concepts to the graph editor
– Ease keyframes between two points in 14 different ways
– Allows for moving objects in 3D view and shifting curves accordingly
– Made by animators for animators

51. Mesh Trails ($56):

– Automatically generate clean, customizable mesh-based animation trails
– Adjust UVs, change procedural shaders, and stack modifiers

52. Camera Shakify (Free):

– Provides automatic and realistic camera shake
– Easy to use in camera data properties
– Created by Blender legends Ian Hubert and Nathan Vegdahl

53. Node Wrangler (Preinstalled):

– Enables quick preview of nodes
– Easily adds mix nodes, mapping nodes, or PBR textures
– Reloads images with a click
– Allows for quick switching of node types
– Compatible with Octane render engine

54. Colormate ($12.50):

– Calculates different color harmonies
– Imports color palettes from popular apps
– Provides color library to save and access from shader editor or 3D view

55. Sprite Handler ($19):

– Import and play sprite sheets
– Allows interaction between animated sprites and lights, shadows, and other objects
– Can convert sprite sheets to mesh objects
– Render animations as sprite sheets

56. Extreme PBR Nexus($89):

– Giant library of PBR materials
– Tools for mixing and modifying materials in the viewport
– Several procedural options for popular materials

57. Simple Bake Addon:

– Simplifies the process of baking any PBR map from any material
– Automatically bakes normal maps, exports the results, and creates new materials

58. Bake Wrangler Addon:

– Node-based baking system for flexibility and automation
– Allows channel packing, batching multiple types of maps, and matching high and low poly objects

59. Blend it Addon ($36):

– Seamlessly blends textures of multiple objects with different materials
– Great for eliminating harsh lines where objects intersect the ground

60. Node Preview Addon ($35):

– Adds thumbnails above shader nodes to show their output
– Automatically updates affected nodes as you edit your material

61. Node Mini map Addon ($20):

– Helps navigate complex node graphs and find specific locations
– Provides a mini map for a better overview and quick navigation

62. Scattershot Addon ($14):

– Randomizes image textures to avoid obvious repetition
– Can blend multiple sets of PBR textures, rotate normal maps, and more

63. Fluent Materializer Addon ($35):

– Library of 40+ procedural effects for quickly enhancing materials
– Allows easy mixing and stacking of effects with the node editor pie menu

64. Mask Tools Addon ($35):

– Integrates procedural effects into Blender’s texture painting workflow
– Enables substance-like painting with procedural tools and mixing PBR textures

65. Locking Overlapping Islands:

– Locking overlapping islands allows for packing mirrored and unmirrored pieces together.
– This saves texture space and maintains an asymmetrical look.

66. Pixel Margin Size:

– The ability to set a pixel margin size is a great feature.
– Other packing methods use a percentage-based margin, which can be difficult to convert.

67. Windows Only:

– The packing engine requires a separate installation and is currently only available for Windows.

68. Render Notifier:

– Render Notifier pings you on Telegram when your render is finished.
– A Slack or Discord version could be created.

69. Render Burst:

– Render Burst renders an image from all cameras in the scene or from selected cameras.
– Saves time by avoiding manual re-rendering when tweaking models or materials.

70. Matte Painter:

– Matte Painter is a workflow tool for importing images into Blender and painting opacity masks.
– Great for adding details to a scene with composition already set.

71. VFX Nodes:

– VFX Nodes adds preset node groups for common tasks in Blender’s compositor.
– Useful for working with video clips, including vignetting, cloning, and patching.

72. HDRI Maker:

– HDRI Maker helps create scenes with HDRIs by adding a ground or animated water plane.
– Includes about 400 HDRIs and offers a believable look.

73. Simple Tabs ($1):

– Enables reorganizing addon tabs for a less cluttered sidebar.
– Allows easier management of multiple addons.

74. Floating Windows ($1):

– Enables popping up separate editor windows for quick access and editing.
– Provides flexibility to customize editor size and location.

75. Blender for Unreal Engine ($5):

– Automatically organizes objects, textures, animations, and more for easy export to Unreal Engine.
– Simplifies the process of setting up objects for Unreal without manual effort.

76. BlenderBIM (Free):

– Designed for architecture professionals working with .ifc files.
– Facilitates exchange of technical specification data with clients.

77. Serpens ($15):

– Node-based addon creator that bridges the gap for non-programmers.
– Export node graphs as Python code for easy sharing and installation.

78. Power Save ($1):

– Automatically saves files in the background to prevent data loss.
– Creates incremental saves to track progress and provides quick access to recent saves.