TOP 20 FREE Add-Ons That Come With Blender!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about the list in the comments below! :)

[@djedishadowslayer2076]

Great explanations, and I appreciate that you have quick-reference chapters sectioned out so that I can quickly go back and find relevant parts to review when I want to experiment with the features you're demonstrating. Thank you very much for taking the time to share this information with us.

[@godwords7811]

Is ivv genrator is free

[@EIendir]

This dude is so underrated honestly i solved some issue afterward watching this tutorial so many thanks !!!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Trying my best! :)

[@ThisIsDownstate]

As someone who has just got to the stage where i can start making things myself without following tutorials, these are going to be so useful to implement into my workflow. thanks a lot for the video !

[@Everyday_Foreman]

I just started using the tri-light addon and it is wonderful and quick for a scene setup. The node Wrangler has been around for a long time and it should be turned on by default because it does so many function that you only touched on

[@TheCGEssentials]

Totally agree!

[@HrafnNordhri]

Most of these have been around for a long time.

[@quarryspanish]

that discombobulater definitely wins the name of the year award in blender 👏

[@laurenshamberg5703]

Great info. Learned something new today! Tip: You can quickly change values of the XYZ at once by click and drag the valueboxes instead of clicking each one like @ 17:50

[@macronomicus]

yes indeed, you can also type math into most fields & hit enter to have the total be your value

[@NitehawkGaming]

This is very helpful as a beginner! Going into 3d is a daunting task so seeing what I can instantly do with these plugins makes the task alot less harder than it seems.

[@Kuziminski]

It's funny how I've been using blender since 2.78, and I only came across this vid to send to a friend because they asked for some helpful vids on Blender. I needed a video to show them how to enable some of my must activate freebies. Only to be looking at so many more that make wanna try them out. Thanks for this!

[@TheKevphil]

Thanks, Justin! That Sapling Tree Generator looks like a lot of fun.

[@mahxm7631]

"Don't Forget to Like this video" - this is one of the videos I would never forget to give it a like! Great stuff! Really, really helpful. Thanks a lot!

[@TheCGEssentials]

LOL - glad you liked it!

[@pleochroic]

Node Wrangler and Tri Lighting I found out about really early in my Blender discovery (so, a few weeks ago ;) and have been using them by default. MeasureIt I went actively looking for because I am very much wedded to modeling to known sizes instead of winging it and then resizing (not really a good thing but I just feel more comfortable that way for now). Carver is gonna be my new favourite. After seeing you show it, I looked it up, and it can do non-destructive work, which is SO MUCH cooler even then just the quick cuts. I do a fair bit of boolean operations (I got my start in solid modeling and can still think more easily in that mode), and this looks like it might be able to make my life even better. Thanks!

[@user-jt8qn6bn9i]

Along w/ discombobulator, have you tried the By-gen addon?

[@edwardplace503]

Thanks for the review. I've been importing trees into scenes not knowing I had a tree generator. Also a rock generator and especially the Tri-Lighting. Lighting has been my week point. Maybe this will help. I've been using some of the others you highlighted. The Node Wrangler I've only been using the CTRL-T to add the mapping and coordinate nodes but I will make it a point to read the manual to start taking advantage of some of it's other features. All in all I'm glad you did this video. I once spent a couple hours trying to make a screw not knowing there was an add-on for bolts.

[@drumboarder1]

I'm so sad I started using gaffer, now I have no use for ctrl+shift+T :(

[@bassemb]

Awesome reference video, I will be linking this to many people!

[@jeremiaharmstrong5899]

Love your channel. You answer so many of my questions. Carver will be a game changer. Blender is a pretty awesome resource. But a person could spend a lifetime trying to figure it out. Makes you appreciate the work that went Into creating it. Also the effort you put into making these videos . Thanks man.

[@jeremiaharmstrong5899]

Is there a simple way to realign one path of vertices in a single object after you get the exterior shape you want? Or better yet not move them to begin with?

[@kainv.9221]

I absolutely did not expect this video to be soooo useful! Thanks.)

[@georgboesner8936]

Thank you so much. Just a week ago I stumbled over the Stored Views Addon after I struggled a few days with an six-sided object where I often needed orthogonal views on each of the sides. With each of your videos I learn something new.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad they're helping!

[@ckgaming2428]

The snow one is super helpful (as well as sap gen, nw, tri-light). It's takes me so long to see up realistic snow coverings within my snowy scenes.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Definitely - really like that one!

[@TheGraphicsgriffin]

Love your videos!

[@Ultralistic]

Really appreciate all your helpful videos! If it's not too much trouble then a VR demonstration would be awesome.

[@JosefRapaport]

dear Justin...thanks so much for all of your useful tutorials..it is a great help for me as newbie to Blender...for some reason i couldnt activate the node wrangler addon eventhough i have enabled it in preferences..is it something to do with the latest blender 3.5 version?

[@EricTViking]

Great video Justin, I just enabled most of those after watching!

[@MorrisseysMonkey]

The tree generator is a god send! Saves me a load of time.

[@philipmcdonnell7168]

I use some already: node wrangler, measureit, etc. I don't us Carver though and that could be very useful as could the Sapling Tree Gen. Whether my mid-2012 MBP will want to play remains to be seen...

[@sladusthegreat]

I am new to Blender. I was wondering if the free assets like the brick wall for example, are royalty free to be used in projects commercially?

[@maryvitetta5661]

This is awesome! Quick and clear, thank you for making my modeling easier! 😍

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad I could help!

[@Seeitmove]

Thank you! Wounderful stuff!

[@markferrick10]

Super video. Was really fun looking at some of the fantastic add ons that Blender has. It (Blender ) really is a super tool. Thanks for pointing these out. Several will be useful.

[@PoollShietz]

Without it being open source You might just have to learn code/math to create all these addons by yourself instead the community modder unless the devs update the software. So let just hope Mark Zuckerberg doesn't suddenly bought blender and make it a close source O_o

[@Stenveel]

Will be great to see add-ons for architecture.

[@jakavozlic718]

Cool video! I will get all the add-ons but you forgot about a good add-on for lazy peuple Blender kit.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Thanks. This is great. I'm just starting to learn Blender.

[@letsd0good]

wow!!!! thnak you for this. really saved me a lot of time .... keep up the great work!!

[@intothevoid2046]

Still no modelling history/parametric primitives/operators? :( (not talking about nodes). I'm talking about changing the extrude/edgeslide etc. parameters after finishing the model.

[@chatterjeejoyjit]

Love it, it's incredible! ❤

[@argusbargus4301]

I finally know what half of these do, lol. Thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@MrWeetbixNZ]

As usual, great video, you show enough to get you to try them out. Top marks on presentation, never fail to educate. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks 👍

[@josephvanwyk2088]

Oh my soul. Thanks for this review. Can always count on your demonstrations !

[@TheCGEssentials]

😎

[@cioccolata12]

Weird question. I like the tree creator and all the options inside it, but would it be possible to keyframe the creation and adding and subtracting of leaves and branches for visual effects, or would you have to do that in nodes? I know, weird question but just learning Blender.

[@robwahl]

Thanks! Which keystroke input overlay were you using in previous tutorials? ...why no longer? Edit: Nevermind, found it, "Screencast keys"

[@MaDmonkey3311]

Hello, When I tried Discombobulator, I have to press OK in order to see whats happening but I cannot edit anything so I have to UNDO and try again. Basically Control panel for addon dissapears so I cannot edit anything real time

[@mango_wm]

Thank you very much. Very useful presentation.

[@Meryem-jx8yq]

Hi, ...All you have said is great, but I have an important question for you. Why isn't the editing window on the bottom left appearing again when we create an object for the first time? Is there any way to achieve this?

[@ianmcglasham]

Enjoyed that. I only really use f2 and looptools but these were all really interesting. Good video.

[@drumboarder1]

Wait they added real snow as an official addon? Grats to the maker, I've had that downloaded for ages but hadn't found a use for it

[@mrhollywood5285]

Nice one mate !!! Really look forward to your informative tuts. Cheers MR H

[@Faygris]

Great video, as always! There are some I didn't know before and will definitely use in the future 🤩 Does anybody know why Node Wrangler isn't activated by default in Blender? 😄

[@Voreoptera]

I was going to say, because it was a community addon, but then I remember that WEB3D is enabled by default in Blender 3.4.1, apparently.

[@boredguynextdoor9159]

Awesome video man. Thank you

[@richardconway6425]

Using Node Wrangler is very hit and miss, sometimes it doesn't work properly, other times it refuses to work at all. I find it very frustrating to use, and so sometimes I won't even bother, cos I can't deal with the frustration. It seems to have an aversion to metalness maps, always ignoring them, and bringing in the colour map twice - ? The missing add on was Bool-Tool. I love that. If you don't have some slick cutting add on like Boxcutter or Grid Modeler, the Bool Tool is a fantastic fall back. The completely vanilla boolean setup in blender is awful.... clunky and unintuitive. Otherwise, great video, thanks for that. Learnt some new things there.... Some of your list have already been supplanted by really good add-ons, for me at least, like eg Random Flow, which makes Discombobulator irrelevant, and if you have things like Kit-Ops or Decal Machine then you're less likely to use Bolt Factory, but I was still impressed by that, because it seemed to offer good functionality whilst being easy to use. The Tri-Light thing, that's cool, I like that, I'm definitely going to have a play with that. Import Image as a [mesh] Plane is VERY cool. It allows you to take a photograph or 'background' type of image, and bring it into your scene, and actually use it as a background element, and even make it emissive if you want, to add night time illumination effects to the objects already in your scene. I was wondering, perhaps you might like to do a little tutorial on that Justin?

[@Undeathspawn]

Wow some mind blowing addons! :-) thanks a lot

[@katachiganai]

Good hunting , Stalker!

[@w5picklevevo688]

Loop cuts, carver, real snow, ant landscapes, scatter objects, sapling tree generator, tri lighting

[@TheCGEssentials]

Good list :)

[@w5picklevevo688]

@@TheCGEssentials thanks bro just writing down things for me to addon wasn’t expecting anyone to see it lmao

[@hexagonredgames7054]

Huge help. Thank you very much!! SUBSCRIBED

[@metalgearbas4]

Some excellent add-ons here! Super useful for a noob like myself, thank you! :D

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad to hear it!

[@singanddance-q9b]

Thank you for this

[@loofa4775]

Tri lighting. Lighting is my current weak area. Enabling this add-on now.

[@TheCGEssentials]

For sure - that one is SO good!

[@OldTimeShoppe]

excellent channel

[@kenmorris2858]

Many thanks for this. You rock!

[@TheCGEssentials]

You're welcome!

[@gauravjain5688]

Nice one 👍🙂

[@skywatcher71]

where do you see its free what you recommend?

[@bobabooey8367]

Thanks Justin..

[@Gabykk]

Hey thanks for the breakdown

[@TheCGEssentials]

No problem!

[@mfrazeehvacc5012]

Great tutorial!

[@kuyucaklicoskun]

Thank you. It was very useful.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MikeGeorgia]

Great video!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Dustin-nd6tm]

Thankyou this video is very helpfull

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it was helpful!

[@sudipto30]

Very very useful !!

[@killzann7757]

insane!

[@octopusfly]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.

[@TheCGEssentials]

No worries!

[@ThemetalicGhost]

How do he get the menu when editing the tri lights part. I dont have that (tri-lighting creator)tab when i add tri lights.

[@TheCGEssentials]

It's in there when you first add the lights

[@ThemetalicGhost]

@@TheCGEssentials Thanks! I noticed it goes away once you click something else.

[@voguelapsha]

Thank you !!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Welcome!

[@acecea9174]

Am grateful for seeing this because I was about create a monstrosity😂

[@larykenobi]

You are the best thank you!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@paulbirkpowlly]

Tri-Lighting didn't know bout that built in add on ether.

[@johnhaynes9910]

Excellent and thanks :)

[@TheCGEssentials]

No worries!

[@elbolerobabuino720]

awsomeeeeee!!!

[@EROSNERdesign]

Great stuff

[@TheCGEssentials]

Thanks!

[@ramirorodriguez3976]

Tremendo!!!!!

[@Fast7]

Loop tools 17 Real Snow 15 14 discombobulator Measure it 10 Carver 8 Align tools 7 Ant landscape 4 2 Tri-Lighting

[@Voreoptera]

Could you please give me me a video that shows the overview of every single addon in Blender. This is the closest I found.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Ummm...probably not? That's hundreds of add-ons....

[@rebellion1193]

perfect

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@hameddesign70]

the whatsup guys intro causing people heart attack , so they'll leave your channel

[@TheCGEssentials]

Seems like they're staying to me

[@toapyandfriends]

😆'first comment!!!!

[@toapyandfriends]

@@brightanimations4253 😆'dammit!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - good work :)

[@hosseinse4079]

like it

[@Сергей-р9у6к]

More info about Virtual reality, is a future

[@Bythegallon]

this doesn’t work on Mac for anyone that wants to use this. it hasnt been updated in months so not very reliable

[@TheCGEssentials]

I don't understand - what doesn't work on Mac? Blender? The Add-Ons?

[@daadood100]

you need to be more specific when you discribe and add on, A.N. T. Landscapes Not ANT Landscapes

[@TheCGEssentials]

Sounds like you found it just fine

[@cdromance2705]

HUwats up guys

[@TheCGEssentials]

:)

[@jefj]

Humm, I guess we don't have the same definition of free!

[@TheCGEssentials]

They’re literally built in to Blender 3.0, which is 100% free, and so are they, so I have zero clue what you’re talking about here

[@jefj]

@@TheCGEssentials sorry I mean the one in your description. My bad!

[@1.25nuclear3]

Ooooooowatsup guys ......

[@Rabbitron]

measure it carpet

[@JacobKinsley]

Am I the only one that hates f2... Like it's only useful when you have a grid that the tricksy hamburglar took parts from

[@dripmusic_rolx]

flip fluids not free

[@TheCGEssentials]

Curious - where in the video did I say that Flip Fluids is free?

[@dripmusic_rolx]

@@TheCGEssentials your title says literally TOP 20 FREE Add-Ons. i see you dont need my subscription

[@TheCGEssentials]

@@dripmusic_rolx Once again - where in the video did you see this? Honestly, if you're not actually going to watch the videos, it's probably better if you don't subscribe here anyway

[@atternok]

Mark Zuckerberg ?

[@l0stc0st]

Why do we exist?

[@red1monster_]

Your face at the start is overexposed

[@TheCGEssentials]

Sort of - really it was just that the monitor and my lights were just too bright this day

[@l0stc0st]

Why do we exist?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Why not?