New Blender Addons & Updates of Last Month

in this video we're going to talk about some of the new add-ons that were released last month in addition to major updates of popular add-ons we're going to start off with geocm if you want to create cool looking planets in real time you might find this anal useful as you might have guessed it uses shader node groups to help you easily customize your planets it's actually good when it comes to volumetric rendering and it allows you to control density thickness and color using the add-on shader geoseem also includes real-time shadow casting clouds to add a bit more realism to your projects this is possible because the shader can convert an image or procedural textures to volumize your clouds automatically there is also a separate node group to help you handle all the texture maps that will make the planet look cool we're talking about maps such as albedo specular roughness normal and emission next is rbd lab rbd lab is a blender add-on that was released few months ago but the recent update made it way better the add-on helps you take full advantage of blender physics and particle systems from fracturing objects to making them explode adding smoke debris or advanced use of constraints it has a linear workflow from fracturing rigid body constraint simulation particles and more rbd lab not only reduces the time to achieve great results using blender but it can also do more and the recent update brought with it more features related to message details colorization the visualization of low and high fractures in addition to new features related to boolean and subdivision options also rigid bodies chipping smoke etc true vdd if you want to create high quality volumetric effects such as explosions magic and weather effects then you probably will find this add-on called true vdb useful this anal works using vdbs that have been simulated animated and baked out and brought to you with build materials for over 40 vdb sequences so far and the addon itself comes with 10 ready to use vdbs but true vfx developers offer three other packs that combined reach 40 vdbs these assets can be very hard to create in addition to being time consuming as well and the great thing is you won't have to do the work since it is all simulated and baked and ready to use in different scenes extreme pbr nexus this add-on has been around for more than a couple of years now and it is used by many artists because it provides a huge library of ready pbr materials with the new release called nexus it now contains almost 2 000 high quality materials that can be adjusted to any particular case the materials that you will get with extreme pbr nexus can reach a volume of nearly 200 gigabytes but you can decide whether to install all of them or not you can choose based on the resolution you need from the minimum of 0.5 k to the maximum of 8k this is important because different assets need different resolutions also sometimes artist needs depend on the strength of their machine and the scope of the project traffic 1.4 traffic 1.4 was released recently with new updates and more vehicles and assets it is actually a library of 3d vehicles including cars planes boats motorcycles and traffic assets this particular release brought with the 10 assets 4 watercraft vehicles and 6 aircraft vehicles furthermore the developers added a new feature of the wear and tear slider that will allow you to quickly add dirt scratches and add bumps to traffic assets this feature is really important if you want to create scenes with damaged vehicles if you want to do it yourself manually it may take a while to do so but with traffic i believe it's gonna be easier and much faster next is gardener the gardener add-on allows you to create realistic unbelievable types of vegetation that can be found in gardens vegetation such as shrubs bushes and hedges and the good thing is you don't have to do the hard work yourself especially if this kind of stuff is not the focus of your work all the assets come with high quality textures with the pbr workflow and when it comes to rendering they are totally compatible with cycles and ev this animal brings with it 350 assets from 39 varieties of plants as well as 45 models of trunks and 96 biomes these assets have been chosen based on popularity and how often they are used and needed in such visualization projects next is simply wrap pro this is an add-on that was created to solve a problem of wrapping meshes around objects in blender you can actually do this manually but it will be longer and harder the way this analog works is really interesting you just need to select your collision object and start drawing in a zigzag motion or any motion and you continue doing this movement while drawing the mesh or piece of cloth you want to be wrapped around your object after that you can increase the resolution or the number of pawns on the line you can also change the size the offset in addition to whether the mesh is twisted or not and how the add-on brings with it other assets that will be useful to create this kind of stuff human generator version 3. human generator version 3 was released last month and it brought with it many remarkable improvements for example completely new and improved hair that looks more realistic and believable there are now 30 hair styles in total between brand new and improved there is also a new batch mode that will allow you to work on multiple characters at the same time this can be very helpful if you are populating a scene indoors and especially outdoors where a lot of people are needed and the best part is human generator performance is improved to handle the sheer number of characters in the scene next is zen sets this is a new blender add-on that can help you work on your projects while having more clarity the main functionality of zen sets is allowing you to create and manage section sets of the three mesh elements which are vertices edges and faces you can save them modify them and display them by color which makes it a lot easier to manage your collections the add-on also has two modes sets mode and parts mode which can be applied to all the mesh elements these two modes will help you make the process of selecting groups and mesh elements easier and you can do that faster too i hope you found this video useful 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'll see you in the next one you

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Length: 6min 56sec (416 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 04 2021