🔮Add-ons ^

• Check list of Blender's built-in add-ons documentation here.

🌊Simulation/Physics ^

• FLIP Fluids : is a powerful liquid simulation plugin that gives you the ability to create high quality fluid effects all within Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite. 
• Molecular Script : is a particle collision addon that makes particles collide for creating certain types of simulations, effects and particles linking as well.
• Jet-Fluids : Jet fluid simulator integration in blender.
• projectile : An artist-friendly tool for throwing stuff around inside blender. 
• Phobos : An add-on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models.

🦑Generator/Builder ^

• CharMorph : An open source character creation tool for Blender. It's a rewrite of MB-Lab, which is now unmaintained. 
• MPFB : MPFB2 is an open source human generator for Blender. It's complete rewrite of MakeHuman as a Blender addon. 
• FaceBuilder [$] : A Blender add-on that lets you create photorealistic 3D models of human faces and heads using a few photographs with a neutral face expression. [medium]
• Tiny Eye : Tiny Eye is a FREE, fully procedural, stylised eye that works in Eevee and Cycles.
• Wolf Generators : A collection of 16 geometry nodes generators. It includes; Bridge, Cables, Caustics, Chain, Falling Particles, Lightning, Music Visualizer, Rope, Snow, Snow Flake, Spider Web, Tree.
• Auto-Terrainer : Automatic Blender Terrain Generator is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that lets you turn any low poly mesh into realistic and customizable terrain. You can use it to create mountains, valleys, islands, deserts, forests, and more.
• Blenderesse's Generators : Blenderesse offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Electric Power Line, Melt, Bird.
• Buildify : is a geometry nodes library for easy building creation.
• Bricker [$] : Photoreal Lego/Minecraft Simulations.
• Blender Data Visualisation : Load data into Blender and create visualisations.
• BookGen : is a free book-generation addon for Blender.
• Celtic Knot : Generate bezier curves, pipes and ribbons in elaborate weavings, based off of a framework mesh.
• Curtis Holt's Generators : Curtis Holt offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Space Station, Mech, Weapon.
• Data-FX : Loads and visualizes different types of data within Blender from .csv files.
• Flex's Generators : Flex offers a few free geometry nodes generators, including; Crystal, Curtain, Engine, Lego Character, Pillow, Rope, Stair, Stingwire, Table, Tyre.
• Geometry Nodes Demo : Free examples of geometry nodes including procedural buildings and a hex grid map.
• Geometry Nodes Pipes : is an addon for blender which helps generating complex pipe layouts.
• Industrial Geonodes : A collection of industrial themed Geometry nodes. It includes; Pipes, Vents and Catwalks.
• Mesh Maze : Blender add-on to generate a maze on any mesh.
• Modular Tree : This addon for blender allows the creation of realistic trees with the node editor.
• Nino DefoQ's Generators : Nino DefoQ offers a few geometry nodes generators for free. Including; Hair, Braid, Cornrow, Moss, Snow.
• Pleebs Generators : Pleebs offers free geometry nodes generators for creating procedural assets. Including; Bush, Wall, Cobble.
• Post USSR Builder : Simple post USSR style building generator on geometry nodes. 2.93 and newer.
• Procedural Slime : generates procedural slime between objects.
• Random Book Generator : Book randomizing asset for Blender. Made with the new Geometry nodes.
• Real Sky : This add-on can generate procedural clouds, which Blender's built-in Dynamic Sky add-on lacks.
• Snow Generator : Procedural snow generator for snow effects.
• Spaceship Generator : procedurally generate 3D spaceships.
• Sprytile : a blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools. [more info]
• Stylized Fantasy Tree Generator : Generate endless variations of stylized trees with this geometry nodes tool.
• tree-gen : procedural generation of tree models in blender.
• Welder : welds generator for Blender.
• Environment:
  • Infinigen : Infinigen is a procedural generator of 3D scenes. It can generate infinite Photorealistic Worlds using real geometry. Infinigen is optimized for computer vision research and generates diverse high-quality 3D training data. 
  • Graswald [$] : is the solution for 3D Artists who need realistic vegetation in their scenes.
  • SceneCity [$] : Generate large road networks and mass-place tens of thousands of buildings. Mix both procedural and hand-made assets.
  • The Grove 3D [$] : Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year.
• Scatter:
  • Geo-Scatter [$] : The scattering tool for blender.
  • BagaPie Modifier : This addon create modifier and geometry nodes preset like: boolean, scatter, auto array on curve. 
  • Gscatter : Artist-friendly scattering for free from developers of Grasswald.
  • City Scatter : Generate cityscape concepts, powered by Blender's collection system.

🧊Modeling ^

• MACHIN3tools : is a free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package.  
• QBlocker : is an interactive object creation tool for Blender.
• fspy : is an open-source camera matching app, extremely useful for modeling directly from a reference image. (blender addon)
• PolyQuilt : is provides a few functions in edit mode like creating faces, knife tool, fan, edge-loops, etc. It does this with only the left-mouse-button. So no menu’s, no shortcuts. [more info]
• Modeling Cloth : Create real-time cloth-like behavior in meshes in Blender.
• KeKit : Brings some much needed functionality to Blender, with a whole array of production tools.
• Array Tools : is an addon for Blender to create translation, scale, rotation array with offset or global parameters in any direction and mix them. 
• BezierUtility : This add-on contains several tools for working with Bezier curves.
• Mesh Heal : is an add-on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes.
• JewelCraft : jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender.
• Box Select X-Ray : Modified box select tool that automatically toggles x-ray mode on and off during selection.
• Polysweeper : is a tool to sweep a face profile along a face loop.
• Edit Split Normals : Edit normals like meshes.
• Auto Mirror : Automate a series of tasks, such as deleting a half, setting a mirror modifier, setting a clipping, etc.
• Drop It : Designed to drop fast and simply Objects to Ground or Surface. 
• Maxivz’s Interactive Tools : Collection of intuitive, context sensitive tools for Blender.
• Synced Modifiers : allows you to add modifiers to multiple objects at the same time and automatically syncs all the modifiers using Drivers.
• CAD:
  • BlenderBIM : An add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender.  
  • Archipack [$] : The Archipack addon for Blender contains a collection of parametric primitives for ArchViz. You can manipulate these primitives with a realtime on-screen editing interface.
  • Building Tools : Building generation addon for blender.
  • Sverchok : is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes.  
  • CAD Sketcher : CAD Sketcher is a free and open-source project looking to enhance precision workflows in blender by bringing CAD like tools, features and usability.  
  • CAD Transform : CAD Transform provide intuitive snap from/to workflow, allow precise move/rotate/scale using advanced snap options and constraints in both object and edit mode.  
  • MeasureIt-ARCH : An expansion of Antonio Vazquez's MeasureIt addon to add features to create Architectural Drawings.
  • JARCH-Vis : is add-on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization.  
• Retopology/Remesh:
  • retopoflow : A suite of retopology tools for Blender. 
  • InstantMeshesRemesh : A suite of retopology tools for Blender. 
  • SpeedRetopo : is a free add-on for Blender to make fast and easy retopology using Bsurface.
  • Retopo MT : is a tool for retopo, you use it in addition with other addons or tools in Blender, in Edit Mode.
• Hard Surface:
  • KIT OPS : Can create objects and scenes with extreme efficiency and speed. Complex industrial designs can be generated in a single sitting.
  • ND : is a free non-destructive & interactive hard surface toolkit (smart modifiers, booleans, and geometry management)  
  • HardOps/Boxcutter [$] : HardOps, is intended to be a workflow assistant toolkit. Boxcutter, the most powerful boolean subsystem for blender.
  • Speedflow [$] : Addon for non-destructive workflow.
  • Bevel After Boolean : Addon comes in handy when working with booleans that have a curved surface.
  • EdgeFlow : This addon adds two operators to blender which both work on edgeloop selections.
  • Engraver : is an Blender addon with set of few tools designed to help carving decals in 3d models.
  • JMesh Tools : Hardsurface utility Blender addon for fast boolean and bevel operations.
  • Offset Edges : this addon introduces a cad-like feature, which create edges that have consistent distance from original selected ones.
  • Mesh Utils : Overlapping vert/edge/face, interior faces, edges by trait, and other stuff.
  • Poly Source : is designed to simplify the control of the number of different types of polygons. You can see how many Gone, Quad and Tris are on the active object.
• Sculpt:
  • Blender-Sculpt-Tools : Addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
  • Sculpt Alphas Manager : This addon provides a simple solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes.
  • Speedsculpt [$] : The addon allows you to create very fast characters, to manage Dyntopo Sculpting with booleans, cut curves, skin modifier, decimate, mask etc.
  • GoB : GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange.
  • Brush Manager for Blender : is an add-on for Blender that helps you to create custom brushes, store them in a file and organize the library of various categories of brushes.
• Snapping-Align:
  • Mesh Align Plus : Precisely align, move, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes.
  • Easy Align : Easy Align addon allows you to align mesh objects origins and align mesh objects to each others easily, it works in both Edit mode and Object mode. 
  • Blign : is an alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
• Mesh Generate/Stylization:
  • Tissue : Add-on for computational design.
  • Mech/Fy A procedural workflow that automates the process of hard surfaces modelling.
  • RandoMesh : A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh.
  • SliceMesh : Simple script for Blender to automate mesh slicing.
  • SuperPoke : Iterative poking tool for Blender.
  • MegaGrid : Simple Python script to randomly spam subdivisions.
  • BY-GEN : is an addon designed to simplify the process of creating non-destructive, generative modeling styles in Blender. 
  • Fiber Mesh : Generate fiber meshes.
  • Laser Slicer : Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing.

🌠Animation ^

• Animation Nodes : A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender. 
• AnimAide : is a free add-on for Blender that has some helpful tools for animation.
• Commotion : Blender add-on for motion graphics.
• Animax [$] : is a procedural animation system for Blender. Useful for animating multiple objects.
• AutoMask : A Blender Add-on for automatic rotoscoping with the help of Machine Learning.
• COA Tools : is a 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spine or spriter.
• reflow : Blender addon to change fps.
• Keyframe Nudge : Scripts for quick keyframe manipulation.
• Shape Keys+ : adds a panel with extra options for creating, sorting, viewing, and driving shape keys.
• Stop-Mo : transforms animations into a beautiful, hand-crafted stop motion style.
• Blender NLA Midi Copier : Blender add-on for creating midi-driven animations from the Nonlinear Animation view.
• BlendyPose : Blender Motion Capture using your camera.
• Rigging:
  • BlenRig : BlenRig is an Auto-rigging and skinning system. It provides the user with a Feature Film quality rig; including an advanced facial system.  
  • Rig on the Fly : Rig on the Fly is a Blender dynamic rigging tool used to simplify and speed up animation workflow.
  • Auto-Rig Pro [$] : Auto-Rig Pro is an addon for Blender to rig characters, retarget animations, and provide Fbx export, with presets for Unity and Unreal Engine.
  • Universal Human Rigged Base Mesh [$] : Rigged human base mesh.
  • Mixamo add-on for Blender by Adobe : This Blender auto control-rig add-on works with characters that have been auto-rigged with the Mixamo service.
  • Rigacar : Generate a complete rig as quickly as possible for standard car models.  
  • Wiggle Bones : Jiggle bone implementation for Blender with realistic physics.  
  • Spring Bones : Blender addon to add spring/bouncy dynamic effect to bones.
  • Rigid Body Bones : Blender addon which adds rigid body / spring physics to bones.
  • Bone Widget : Blender addon to assist with making custom bone shapes.
• Writing/Counting:
  • WritingAnimation : This add-on generates writing animation for the selected Bezier curves in blender.
  • Typewriter : Typewriter text animation for font objects.
  • TextCounter : LeoMoon TextCounter is an easy to use text animation plugin for Blender that can be used to make GUI simulations.
  • GreaseWriter : A Blender Add-on for auto-animating grease pencil strokes and emulating hand-drawn text.

🗜Render Engine ^

• AMD Radeon ProRender : is AMD’s powerful physically-based rendering engine that lets creative professionals use open industry standards to leverage GPU and CPU performance to produce stunningly photorealistic images in Blender.
  • AMD Blender USD Hydra : With Pixar's USD system emerging as a powerful tool for 3D graphics pipelines and interchange, this addon is meant to add first class support for USD and the USD Hydra rendering system to Blender.
• DreamWork's MoonRay : MoonRay is a physically based path-tracing renderer; it includes a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework. 
• Pixar's RenderMan : Physically-based render from Pixar. [more info] 
• OctaneRender Prime for Blender : Fully integrated Octane Render, free tier. (blender plugin manual)
• Redshift Blender Integration [$] : Redshift by Maxon is a GPU-accelerated renderer built to meet the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering.
• LuxCore : LuxCoreRender is a physically based and unbiased rendering engine. It offers advanced features like accelerated rendering of indirect light and efficient rendering of caustics.  (blender addon) 
• Malt : Malt is a non photorealistic rendering (NPR) framework. It offers fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration.  
• Pixel Art Rendering : This is a free addon to make pixel art like renders in blender. It works with eevee, bayer dithering and multiple light sources.
• Mitsuba Renderer : Mitsuba 3 is a research-oriented retargetable rendering system for forward and inverse light transport simulation.  (blender addon)
• appleseed : is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects.  (blender addon) 
• E-Cycles [$] : is a fork of Cycles which renders up to 2.5x faster out of the box when using CUDA GPUs, up to 15x using new options.
• K-Cycles [$] : Another fork of Cycles like E-Cycles. Advertised as an improvement over E-Cycles.

🗺️Texture/UV ^

• Layer Painter : allows you to use a Layer-System for creating materials with painting and procedurals. The layers include masks, filters and much more. Even though the addon is designed with a PBR workflow in mind, you can also use it for stylized painting. 
• TexTools : TexTools is a Free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools. 
• 3D-Coat Applink : 3DCoat now has native support of Blender via built-in AppLink.
• Bake to Vertex Color : Transfer Image to selected Vertex Color in all selected Objects.
• Bake Wrangler : is a nodes based extension and replacement for the inbuilt baking system.
• Blender Addon PBR : Provides a material panel that creates Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader.
• Bystedts Blender Baker : This addon streamlines the texture baking process in Blender.
• Car Paint Shader : Simple shader setup that lets you easily create variety of different car paint finishes.
• DreamUV : is a collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport.
• EasyBake : Texture baking UI for Blender that lives in the 3D Viewport. Small but powerful! Fast one-click baking and iteration.
• EZ Baker : An easier alternative to blender's default bake system. 
• Flow Map Painter : This blender add-on provides a brush tool for flow map painting. 
• glslTexture : Create textures from Glsl fragment shaders.
• Grungit : Grungit is an addon that automatically and effortlessly adds wear and tear to your models with a single click. The result is fully controllable and can deliver anything from imperfections and light wear to heavy damage. 
• Lily Surface Scrapper : Import shaders in Blender from a single URL.
• Magic UV : This is a blender add-on Magic UV consisted of many UV manipulation features which Blender lack of. 
• Parallax UV Mapping : This is Parallax Mapping material and node setup. Created in Blender 2.8 for eevee renderer, it works well in cycles too. [more info]
• PBR Texture Mapper : Create PBR node setup with one click.
• Poliigon Blender Addon : this addon allows you to browse, purchase, download, and import Poliigon assets from inside Blender. It supports loading textures, models, and HDRs, and more recently supports generating blender files for use in the Blender Asset Browser.
• Principled-Baker : Bake PBR textures with a few clicks.
• Sanctus Library [$] : The ever-growing procedural material library for Blender.
• SCATTr : Procedural texture placement.
• Texel Density Checker : Tools for calculate, set and copy texel density. 
• UcuPaint : A addon to manage texture layers for Eevee and Cycles renderer.
• UV-Packer : Automatic and free UV-Packer Add-on for Blender.
• UV Toolkit : Tools collection for UV editing in blender.
• Vertex Oven : Bake game-ready ambient occlusion in seconds without UV unwrapping or agonizingly slow Cycles bakes.

🎮GameDev ^

• MeshSync : Live link plugin for Unity. supported blender and other 3d softwares.
• Blender Tools by Epic Games : Blender addons that improve the game development workflow between Blender and Unreal. Send to Unreal, UE to Rigify.
• Mr Mannequins Tools : is a Blender add-on that gives the ability to export animations and weighted meshes that are directly compatible with the third person mannequin without re-targeting anything in Unreal Engine!
• Blender For Unreal Engine : This Add-on allows you to export content created with Blender to Unreal Engine 4.
• AssetGen : is automates the tasks to get a game assets ready for video games from an High Poly model.
• V-HACD : Library decomposes a 3D surface into a set of near convex parts. 
• Godot Game Tools : Made easy importing mixamo animations. tools to ease the creation/import process of assets into Godot Game Engine and others.
• Blender2Godot : is a addon that exports a Blender scene to a Godot Engine project.
• Embark Blender Tools : A Blender add-on containing workflow tools for game development. Includes tools for standardized import/export workflow, 3D modelling and new object types. [medium]
• Asset Creation Toolset : Asset Creation Toolset is many tools for game asset creation.
• Mixamo Converter : is a Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.
• WoT Tank Viewer : is a package of plugins for Blender, which allows you view 3D models from World of Tanks.
• Game Engine:
  • Armory3D : is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration. 
  • UPBGE : is an open-source 3D game engine forked from old Blender Game Engine, deployed with Blender itself. 
  • Arsenal : is a Blender integrated game engine written in Rust. 
  • INOX : Rust Game engine integrated in Blender.

🪀Misc ^

• Management:
  • BlenderKit : Allows you to download assets, materials, and alpha brushes to your blender client with the click of a button.
  • Blender Interplanety Storage : The online material (shader) storage add-on for Blender 3D creation. With the BIS add-on, you can save materials (groups of nodes) to the online personal library and then convenient search and upload them.
  • Asset Wizard : is a asset management addon.
  • NodeCustomBuilder : Preset system for nodes.
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