| Add-On Name | Summary | Area Of Use | Download Link | Links To Other Information | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blender for Unreal Engine | This add-on allows you to export content created with Blender into Unreal Engine. | General Workflow | Free | ||
Boxcutter | Boxcutter is an extremely robust boolean toolkit. | Hard Surface ModelingEnvironment ArtGeneral Workflow | $20 | ||
Cablerator | Cablerator allows for the creation and editing of all sorts of cables. | Environment Art | $14 personal license | ||
Decalmachine | Decalmachine is a blender addon, which through mesh Decals, allows for surface detailing in a very non-committal, non-destructive, UV-less way. As such it represents an alternative approach to hard surface texturing. In addition DECALmachine has deep Trim Sheet support, and supports Atlasing, as well as Baking to facilitate exporting to game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine etc. | TrimsheetsEnvironment ArtGeneral Workflow | $50 | ||
Fracture Iterator | Fracture Iterator has been developed to help with the fracture simulation process. It is possible to control what parts of a mesh fracture and when, all in a recursive process until you are satisfied. | SimulationEnvironment Art | $12 | ||
GrabDoc | GrabDoc provides a simple and streamlined method of exporting baked maps for trim sheets, tileables or even alphas. | Environment ArtTrimsheets | $5 with Marmoset Bridge | ||
Hard Ops | Hard Ops is a toolkit aimed at assisting users with everything from modelling to rendering. | General WorkflowEnvironment ArtHard Surface Modeling | $20 | ||
Noisy Cutter | Noisy Cutter allows for cutting & slicing geometry from a hand draw spline. The cut is not flat like others tools work, but bumpy, noisy with an unwrapped UV. You can create natural cuts on wood or stone, concrete etc. | Environment Art | $9 | ||
MACHIN3tools | MACHIN3tools is a free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package. | General Workflow | $10 Deus Ex Version | ||
Power Save | PowerSave is a tool intended to streamline saving and make saving itself more accessible, friendly and more artist streamlined. | General Workflow | $1 | ||
RizomUV Bridge | The RizomUV Bridge provides the user with an easy to use UI which makes transferring objects and UV maps between Blender and RizomUV as simple as clicking a button. | UV | $8 | ||
SimplyCloth | SimplyCloth is a helper Addon for everyone who works with cloth in Blender. With this addon you can create cloth faster and easier than before. You don't need a lot of previous knowledge with the cloth physics settings! You can simply select a preset and quickly adjust them to your needs. | SimulationEnvironment Art | $33 | ||
Texel Density Checker | Calculate Texel Density for model for different texture size (512px - 4096px) | UV | $10 | ||
UV Packmaster | UVPackmaster 2 is an efficient and fully-featured UV packing engine available for Blender. It is the most efficient UV packer out there in terms of packing on CPU but it also provides a Cuda accelerated variant of the algorithm. When running on a GPU it significantly outperforms all other packers available. | UV | $12 Standard $29 Pro | ||
Welder | Welder is a must have for all hard surface artist. This addon will help you add believability to your artworks in no time. Welds creation has never been that easy, just select two objects and click one button to weld them along their intersection. If you're feeling creative, this addon will also allow you to or draw it free-hand on another models surface. | Environment ArtHard Surface Modeling | $10 | ||
Zen UV | Zen UV is not just a set of tools, it is ready to use pipeline for fast creating UV’s in Blender. It represents an intuitive system created by professionals and refined in real projects. | UV | $19 |
Blender Add-Ons
Blender is an incredibly powerful tool that offers a lot of great functionality as standard. That said, like many Digital Content Creation applications, it can benefit hugely from the addition of add-ons to support specific workflows and processes. Below you can find a listing of numerous add-ons that may enhance and support your existing workflow. There are direct links to where you can download them, along with some links to where you can find out a little more about them.
Links have been provided to Blender Market in most cases, there is no direct affiliation and add-ons may be available elsewhere at a cheaper price etc. Gumroad alternative links have been provided where they were easily obtainable but shop around and purchase where you choose.
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