add more recommended Blender Add-ons

[Poikilos]

• Make it a separate md available via the web.
• Add these add-on lists.

Unknown if free

• Cacadeur - physically-based AI animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I3HoR5XElE

Free
(Some are marked as $1 but available free on GitHub or Gumroad)

• UVPacker Blender Add-on (UVPacker comes in other forms as well)
• Blenderesse' add-ons are now free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2vFU6snLo
  • Castle generator
  • Power line generator
  • Shaders: Weld, plastic, others
• iC Blender Tools : Converts an AccuRig (free rigging tool) rig to Rigify.
  • The voxel heat diffuse skinning addon works better than voxels for faces and better than heatmap for overlapping geometry (combines best aspects of both).
• Anti-Seam: Reduce the appearance of seams on tiled textures.
• one-click damage (OCD)
• Nature Clicker: Click to place assets
• BAGAPI
  • j key activates it
  • scatter (weight paint or dynamic proximity)
  • walls (generated using nodes)
  • curve-based rails, pipes
  • copyrotate! (circular array)
  • many more features
  • +$69 for asset packs
    • or create asset packs yourself including one by one via "save as asset"
• BY-GEN: Generative modeling (make a complex object from a simple one)
• Molecular addon: simulate multiple objects interacting including with cutting, flexibility and cohesion (such as hair, rope, fabric, cutting jello, etc).
  • The website is down but the GitHub repo and forum thread work. Example videos can be seen on the forum thread: https://blenderartists.org/t/moleculars-physics/521682
• Archipack (comes with Blender): Walls, floors, windows, doors, stairs, etc
  • a more advanced solution is Building Tool for multi-story buildings, making sets of bars out of thin boxes, etc.
• Mirror Selected Bones
• voxel cleaner
• miratools: Retopo loops (create and project connected loops over a model), drag a series of points from one end or edit them as a curve, etc
  • needs special install instructions since it is in a repo with other tools, examples, and addons
  • Videos of features are listed at: https://blenderartists.org/t/miratools/637385
• loop tools (ships with Blender): Make any selection of vertices into any shape, etc
• VoxCleaner: Reduce the poly count of meshes created using voxel art programs.
  • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rc-Hl3yUFQ&t=5s
• Community Material Pack Or on Blender Market: blendermarket.com/products/community-material-pack"
  • Video: More FREE Materials for Blender! (Community Pack) Jul 19, 2022 "Talking about the new Community Material Pack update."
• Simple Asset Manager (created since Blender's internal one is delayed): Releases
  • Cons: only uses Blend files (like Blender 2.92's builtin Asset Library panel does)
  • Pros: Deciduous trees collection is packaged for it.
• AssetLibraryTools
  • Pros: batch import model files, batch import textures of a certain resolution from https://ambientcg.com
  • Cons: no longer maintained by author

Free tutorials:

• Fractals in Blender - Geometry Nodes Extrude Node
• Geometry Node Basics #1 - Proximity effect in 5 minutes (Blender)
• Make Crystals with Geometry Nodes || Blender 3.0

Paid

• $49.99 https://blendermarket.com/products/turbo-tools-v3---turbo-render-turbo-comp-temporal-stabilizer
• $8 https://blendermarket.com/products/villagen
• terrain
• $3 Building Blocks, addon: Build multi-story buildings.
• $128 $68 personal: Human Generator human generator
• $2 Castle Generator Setup for Geometrynodes Fields / Blender 3.0
• Road Parts
  • 3DShaker also makes free models: https://www.3dshaker.com/free3dmodels
• https://www.blendermarket.com/products/true-terrain-
• terrain (one compatible with other blender asset packs)
• $20 Level Builder
  • scatter, place on surface, batch model import & preview, draw to place multiple with directional rotation
  • compatible with multi-story dungeons Unity asset pack
• $20 Hardops: provides shortcuts for hard surface modeling such as for mimicking/designing machined devices. Similar tools:
  • $29/$20 Fluent is similar
  • $20 Box Cutter
    -. $69 RDLab realistic destruction simulations ($77 with RDLab Asset Building)
• $9.90 Easy Envelopes Layered complex clothing rigging helper.

Non-Blender

• gimp-normalmap
• fork deprecated GIMP 2.8 plugin https://github.com/kyokenn/gimp-plugin-insanebump

Standalone tools

• https://github.com/Theverat/NormalmapGenerator
• AwesomeBump
• https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/390/how-do-i-make-a-normal-displacement-map-when-all-i-have-is-a-photo
  • MapZone
    • Apparently bought out by Adobe and became Substance: A later archive of the site redirects to allegorithmic, which redirects to Adobe Substance
  • https://www.smart-page.net/smartnormal/
  • https://www.knaldtech.com/
  • SSBumpGenerator
• Material Maker: Open source, made in Godot