Tabs interface
Updated and tested in Blender 4.0
Tabs interface add-on takes whole Blender UI and changes all panels to draw as tabs, with a fixed order.
Try it for a few hours, and you'll never come back to default UI.
- become much faster at interacting with blender panels
- save a lot of mouse moves
- avoid visual searching for properties
- use your muscle memory in the interface
- save space for your work
- save time by avoiding scrolling
FEATURES
- fixed order - never ever search for you panel again
- fixed columns - Tabs will be always the same
- panel pinning if you need to see several panels at once
- row or grid layout.
- hide tabs and categories you don't need at all. Save these to your startup file.
- several layout options
- possibility to fold the tab panel (optional) and switch the add-on off for specified areas (toolbar, UI, properties)
POSSIBLE DRAWBACKS
- since some add-on developers do a lot of non-standard things with panels, some add-on panels might draw differently. If you encounter any bugs, please let me know.
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Cobweb
Updated to Blender 4.0.
This procedural cobweb generator helps you quickly fill your scene with beautiful subtle cobwebs.
If you are doing any abandoned or fantasy interiors, this add-on will save you a lot of time while improving the quality of your renders dramatically. Filling a scene with the customized cobwebs can take only minutes.
- is very simple to use
- creates a cobweb that can accommodate to your meshes
- you can now paint the cobwebs, which is much faster - see last video in header.
- sets up a lightweight simulation so that the cobwebs can be animated
- simulation can further be used to tear the cobwebs
- creates a simple but useful material that is easy to tweak and renders relatively fast
- if you need to connect several meshes with face selection method, duplicate them and join them. You can delete the joined mesh afterwards
- by now, you have to switch to the Cycles renderer, Blender Internal renderer isn't supported
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Optiloops
Updated to Blender 2.8
Add-on for optimising face counts.
Optiloops goes through loops of the mesh and removes loops selectively either when only whole loops get deleted or when max face angle is present on the loop, so the shape is kept as much as possible.
You can keep loops by these properties:
- UV seams
- loops essential for subsurf shape (sometimes called offset edges)
You can either run optiloops on whole mesh, or on the selection. The selection is 'grown' from selected edges, so whole loops get removed.
It's possible also only select edges for removal, and then decide if they should be removed.
Sometimes, the operator can be run several times to get to the desired result.
Find the optiloops operation in mesh cleanup or mesh delete menus.
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Profiler
Profiler add-on greatly improves the workflow for any artist, especially for architectural visualizations.
This simple add-on allows you to create beautifully shaped profiles just in a few clicks and you will have a bunch of options to tweak it as you like.
By installing this add-on you will get 70+ unique profiles with the following tweaking options for each one:
- Gamepad for profile origin alignment
- Profile dimensions
- Offset options for the curve
- Profile rotation
- Mirroring by X and Y
- Swap normals of the profile
- Shading options
- Resolution for the curve and the profile
You can adjust these options anytime as you selected the corresponding curve. If you want to learn more, please check out the video tutorial.
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Final Topology for Artists
Blender 3D addon that introduces subdivision snapping, retopo and modeling tools from the 21st century.
This Blender 3D addon features many tools that were missing and also organizes some simple, but essential tools for polygonal modeling. Enhanced version adds extra tools for professional CAD and automotive industry modellers.
Features:
- Inverse subdivision snapping: snaps mesh vertices in edit mode so that if the subdivision modifier is used, the resulting surface is as close as possible to the surface. Live, or 'Simulation' mode of this tool, which works realtime during modeling Neighbours levels, Number of iteration settings
- Single step operator that can be called with a shortcut with arbitrary number of iterations.
- Unsubdivide - takes a mesh that resulted from a subdivision modifier being applied (In blender or in any other application) and recreates the original low-resolution mesh. -has settings for number of subdivisions, number of iterations of the algorithm. Higher interation numbers yield precise results.
- Shape Freeze - Enables to change topology of Subdivision surface model while keeping the resulting shape as same as possible. (TODO)
Basic instructions:
Read tooltips directly in the add-on. Every button should have enough info to use the tool.
You need to have a mesh that has Subdivision surface modifier on. Any other modifiers will turn off during interaction.
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