Blender Addons

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Fluent: Materializer
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Incredibly useful procedural texturing toolset for Blender.
Uvpackmaster 3
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
A suit of UV pack tools. This addon has saved me countless hours.
Simplebake
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Greatly improve and simplify the baking process in Blender.
Edit Linked Library
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
This one ships with Blender! Easily track down linked blend-file, make modifications, save, and return to your original scene file.
Camera Shakify
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easily add organic camera shake to any Blender camera. Quickly animate or edit properties like speed and intensity.
ToOptimizer
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly analyze, resize, optimize Blend file images.
Offroad Rig Generator
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easy automated car rig setup utilizing geometry nodes. Expandable for many car types.
UV Squares
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly reshape UV selections into a grid.
Retopoflow
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Essential addon for anybody tackling extensive retopology within Blender.
VirtuCamera
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Turn your iphone into a virtual camera, directly within Blender
Geo Scatter
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of preset scatter operations for adding procedural variety to the set-dressing process in Blender.
Graswald & Gscatter
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Library & addon to create and edit scatter systems within Blender. Very useful for procedural vegetation.
Shape Key Selector
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful tool and accompaning free tutorial for creating convenient shape-key rigs for stylized facial animation. Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Is3oUvHwdM
Physics Dropper
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly automate and streamline the process of dropping objects into a scene with rigid body physics. Basically a better and faster interface for physics already within Blender.