7 Blender addons for Material Libraries

if you don't want to spend eternity creative materials for your projects then you are thinking the right way because thousands of artists agree with you so in today's video we're going to show you guys some of the best blender animal that will provide you with high quality materials and textures that are practically worth thousands of dollars of your own time and effort but before we continue I want to remind you guys that we are going through Black Friday to Cyber Monday sales so this is a great opportunity to get yourself some of the best blender anons courses shaders you name it especially on the blender Market because they are having big discounts up to 30 and 35% if you don't know where to start I have in the description of this video a list of the best blender animal and courses that you will ever need so without further Ado let's jump right into it right off the bat we have one of the best anals when it comes to material libraries and it is is called sanus Library currently the addon has over 440 procedural materials which are easily applied to any project additionally each material has adjustable parameters that allow you to customize the materials appearance to your liking the materials are divided into various categories ranging from buildings floor glass Fabric and More in addition to the materials the ano comes with a non-destructive real time decal placement tool that can replace decals in real time and add procedural damage to any decal which is a great addition it can also be used to move decals in real time and perform a variety of other tasks as of right now the tool has 352 images sangu Library also includes a number of geometry node generators and tools that will help you accomplish a variety of tasks that will speed up your workflow some of these tasks include adding procedural assets and tailoring them to your needs like drawing cable creating a brick transform and more Sanu library is great for all sorts of materials but if you want to create clothes and close Fabrics that look great you probably want to check the next add-on and it is called simply material unlike the other anons it focuses solely on texturing clothing items and fabrics with it you can quickly and simply generate high quality materials for a variety of use cases such as fashion design 3d character design design and even some architectural visualization projects the atom functions somewhat differently because it works firstly by letting you select the base texture which serves as the primary texture pattern for the material next you can add a micro texture which offers final details at a closer range finally it allows you to apply overlay textures like folds wrinkles or noise to give the material a more realistic appearance and it also allows you to apply additional image textures like logos or Graphics once your clothes are styled you can further customize the texture using a variety of settings and controls you can change the emission Sheen Alpha subsurface and many other things in addition you can add dirt frizzles tearing glitter wearing and so on and this will make your fabric appear more realistic and even more believable one more benefit of this addon is that once you're finished creating the material you can easily export it to an output p path of your choice thanks to each intuitive texture bake feature that lets you easily select the textures that you want to bake but if you want an add-on that provides a variety of assets we have true assets true assets is an add-on that is widely known as one of the best tools to manage your asset browser it has many features like Fast object swiping support for fbx and obj files and integration with ambient CG which gives you access to a huge collection of excellent materials and sdis with over 1,900 assets additionally TR asset offers a variety of material options with each Shader having unique controls for adjusting attributes like metallic level subsurface scattering roughness color values and more moreover the kit support of this add-on is what really sets it apart it helps with a lot of tasks like finding Collections and files joining all the message for the groups I mean to which they belong in addition to rotating the meshes and dropping them into your library as a single mesh in addition to other stuff transet is fantastic but if you want a good library from an artist who actually does what he preaches especially for product Design interior design and motion design projects you can take a look at real time materials for blender from ducky 3D it contains over 290 procedure materials divided into tons of categories such as paint leather cloth and a lot more all the materials have high quality and they are made based on the materials needed by 3D artist for day-to-day activities so it comes with practicality in mind the best thing about the add-on is the customization level it has you can pretty much control and adjust everything about the material for example for the cloth materials you can edit the color of each strand in addition to changing the direction of the pattern and you can match with the amount of color variation across the whole material in addition to other settings also the procedural leather material have a long list of controls such as color variation scale of the shape color of the lines and shapes and roughness and all the other categories come with their own list of settings and controls that you can adjust to fine-tune the materials that you need but if you want quantity and variety I recommend extreme PBR add-on which is known for having the largest library of materials with over 1,800 materials although the add-on has been around for a while it underwent development and updates in the last few years to meet all the needs of blender users and relieve them of the burden when it comes to managing blender nodes these days it has a ton of extra features that make shading and texturing inside the software much simpler and it no longer consists of material assets for example you can easily texture paint between materials with any material from the library and you also can seamlessly blend between the materials along the z-axis to top it off the Anon has two more materials a realistic car paint material with metallic flakes that matches real life textures and automatic animated water material that is easy to adjust extreme PBR also allows you to create worn edges in cycles and Eevee and you can add realistic imperfection such as scratches and fingerprints talking about large libraries let us now talk about poly Haven an Anon which has one of the biggest asset libraries for blender users it contains over a th000 assets ranging from models hdis and materials and a new asset is being added to the library almost daily holy Haven is known for having high quality and optimized assets which can be utilized in any scenario it has enclaved hdris full PBR texture sets and really well crafted 3D models this addon is also special because of how simple it is since it integrates directly within the asset browser so all you have to do is drag and drop any asset you want to use from the asset browser into your 3D viewport which makes it a very convenient tool another fantastic anal that we are looking at today is called material and trust me it is not less impressive its anet library is expanding and currently has over 370 distinct materials organized into 12 categories including concrete wood metallic in addition to other stuff the iton also includes a bunch of features such as texture boming where it ensures that no matter the area of the material covers it remains irregular and you can effortlessly swap out materials on numerous objects at once with this add-on and you can stop worrying about having to redo the mapping whenever you make changes to the geometry because it generates the mapping automatically furthermore the ad recently received an update that included some neat features for instance the blender asset browser is now integrated into the add-on making it much easier to use and you can now add height maps for concrete materials with ease the library now also has 20 new materials and four new water materials also the displac is supported and textures are now in 8k with a material preview in high resolution which is just fantastic so guys if you are interested in one of these anons you will find all the necessary links in the description I hope you found this video useful and informative if you did please give it a thumbs up you can also check some of our previous videos thank you very much for watching and I will see you in the next one

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Length: 9min 45sec (585 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 26 2023