New Blender Addons You probably Missed!

in today's video I'll be sharing with you guys a bunch of new and useful dender anons that will help you improve your workflow these anons range from modeling rigging animation and of course geometry nodes so I'm sure you will find something interesting in to this's list and without further Ado let's jump right into it we're going to start with a super interesting add-on which is all about modeling but not the type of polygonal modeling that we are used to because contra SDF has its own twist so thanks to the SDF which is a mathematical representation of shapes with unimited details so in simple words you can easily use The Primitives that come with this add-on to perform all bullying sorts of operations like Union subtract difference and intersect for example and on top of that you can get a couple of blending modes when performing your bullying operations so you can choose to get a smooth result a chord Edge and so much more and once you're done with all those fun stuff you can easily convert your SDF based model into a mesh that you can play around with which is necessary to have but on a side note I have to tell you that this add-on is still in Alpha and it currently only functions with a 3.3 version of blender because I think this is something necessary to keep in mind still with the topic of modeling we have an add-on called Trace genius with its latest update to 2.1 and this one makes every feature better and more useful because not only you can convert 2D images into 3D shapes but you can also fine tune your effects very easily for instance you can add outlines to your selected shapes and even invert your image selection giving you more possibilities to play around with another notable feature is ability to refine extracted shapes using color and brightness thresholds which I think makes your models look cleaner and more professional moreover the allows you to separate individual parts of your 3D model after the mass generation step which also adds more flexibility to your workflow plus the ano lets you extrude and bevel your extracted shapes which is great I think because it makes the process fully automated and let's not forget that it uses an advanced algorithm to clean up any messy geometry now sometimes when you finish modeling a high poly model you want to transfer all those details to a low poly model using textures and certain materials and this is where this new add-on called gber bake comes in because it is all about baking your Gable details using textures that you can simply plug into your displacements and normals one thing worth mentioning is that this tool was developed by no other than blender guppy who's the guy behind many famous heart surface modeling animals such as random flow and creative flow and although this anal was specifically designed to go hand inand with the r random flow add-on don't worry because it works for any type of gble I mean any use case that you can think of and to make it even better it allows you to bake all sorts of maps for you to use like normal Maps ambient inclusion depth Alpha color emission and someone and it is not just a box that can be checked because you also get a couple of adjustable parameters that you can play around with which gives you more desirable results for your textures like distance control brightness contrast and so much more next up we have something that is really interesting W plx Lobby is a brand new K pack for kups Pro 2 but it is unlike any other pack since it uses a very complicated note setup or note setups to achieve the results that you see on the screen and if you thought that room setups that you're looking into are 3D scenes then you're wrong because it is just a couple of polygons since the materials are doing all the work and I can go on and on telling you about the Parallax mapping but that is not the purpose of this video so all you have to know is that the pack contains over 15 unique highly detailed interior maps that you can use for your buildings streets and whatever you like and just like mentioned it is super light for your computer since it is just a bunch of textures that are implemented together in interesting ways to get a realistic 3d effect there is also a new add-on called Dimensions ruler and precision scaler so we talked about modeling in this video and this Aron right here can go hand inand with your modeling projects the addon I think is self-explanatory because the tool brings a couple of features that enable you to get the dimensions of your 3 object right within the viewport and it is actually interactive because you can see the change of your dimensions in real time as you are making the adjustments and it doesn't just work on the overall dimensions of your object because it has a specific specific mode that lets you calculate the length between the two different vertices another feature that you need to know about is that once you get the distance between your different points you can set that distance to be a specific value and what happens next is that the addon will automatically scale your object based on the distance between those two points which I think is just amazing to have the next addon called procedural generators pack is basically a collection of over 50 geometry generators and I don't think anyone can understand how good this deal is because with over 50 different generators there are a lot of things that you can accomplish and before mentioning these generators I first need to tell you that each and every generator is fully customizable either by playing around with the values in the modifiers tab or just by adjusting the values provided in the anal interface and now let's give you a little bit of a preview of what you expect from this collection for example we have veget R ation damage magic sand feathers hologram a sword generator ice and snow ruins and rocks water and droplets spider webs and IV Dungeons and crates volumes trees bushes and so much more so as you can see there is a lot of value in this one and there are a lot of things that you can do with it next up we have something a little bit different with the add-on called image stock search which is all about stock images so image stock search is a blender add-on that does exactly as its name suggests it's like to Simply and quickly search for all sorts of stock images to be used right inside of your viewport and if you don't want to open your browser for such a task this addon can do it for you which is the whole point so a practical use case of this add-on could be to get images that you use in the background of your renders or you could for example aent images to be used as paintings or if you just need a reference to look at and if you need something like that then this addon is going to be great for this purpose oh and I have to tell you that using the addon will require a stable internet connection which I think is kind of obvious and the resolution of the imported images is currently set to a limit of 1880 pixels so you probably need to keep that in mind and last but not least we're going to talk about something really important especially in animation with this add-on called foot lock which is is great for rigging and map cleanup I think anyone who's ever done map animations will realize that getting the feet of your character stick to the ground and unlight perfectly is going to solve a lot of problems and this is where this foot lock iton comes in handy it is basically a tool that addresses the common challenge of foot sliding in lowbudget moap setups by allowing you to quickly lock your character's feet in place and adjust the lock duration with ease using a foot lock actually allows you to find foot position by adjusting the location and rotation of the associated empty object which ensures Precision of foot placement and the best thing about this add-on is that it is non-destructive because it preserves the Integrity of your original map data while at the same time refining the foot placement also it is compatible with both ik and FK rigs making it integrate easily with various moap setups and there you have it guys if you are interested in one of these new add-ons you will find all the necessary links in the description I hope you guys 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 watching and I will see you in the next one

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Keywords: Blender, Blender addons, Blender modeling, ConjureSDF, TraceGenius Pro, Greeble Bake, Wparallax Lobby, Dimensions Ruler, Precision Scaler, Procedural Generators Pack, Image Stock Search, Foot Lock, 3D modeling, animation, rigging, geometry nodes, Blender Market, 3D artist, Blender tutorial, Blender tools, Blender plugins, 3D textures, Blender 3.3, Blender updates, Blender workflow, 3D scenes, mocap cleanup, 3D design, 3D rendering, Blender tips, Blender techniques

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Length: 9min 1sec (541 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 12 2024