rileyb3d Recommendations

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All Recommendations

Recommendation
Link
Type
Tier
Short Summary
Fluent: Materializer
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Incredibly useful procedural texturing toolset for Blender.
Uvpackmaster 3
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
A suit of UV pack tools. This addon has saved me countless hours.
Simplebake
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Greatly improve and simplify the baking process in Blender.
Flipped Normals
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Curated and trusted resource for assets and trainings of all types.
Ian Hubert Patreon
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
From the mind of Ian Hubert, it's hard to sum up, but lots of useful stuff. I've learned a ton of deep info tricks from his videos.
Textures.com
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
One of my favorite and most long-standing texture resource websites. I prefer simple, straight image files where I don't need to juggle with .sbsar files.
Edit Linked Library
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
This one ships with Blender! Easily track down linked blend-file, make modifications, save, and return to your original scene file.
Camera Shakify
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easily add organic camera shake to any Blender camera. Quickly animate or edit properties like speed and intensity.
ToOptimizer
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly analyze, resize, optimize Blend file images.
Poly Haven
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Public 3D asset library containing HDRIs, textures, and models. The largest collection of free HDRI images on the web.
Efficient Environment Design
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Exceptional blend of artistry and technical insights. Some lack of structure, but valuable content. A rare glimpse into high-level environment art in Blender.
Poliigon
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Poliigon is a long-standing staple in the 3D asset community. I trust their quality standards and have personally used their assets in many different productions.
Terrascape Collections
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
I've used these so much in various productions! "Indoor Scapes", "Jungle Scapes", "Creeper Scapes". Each comes with a usefully categorized collection of vegetation for dressing different biomes.
Offroad Rig Generator
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Easy automated car rig setup utilizing geometry nodes. Expandable for many car types.
UV Squares
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly reshape UV selections into a grid.
Photogrammetry Course
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
An in-depth look at photogrammetry providing insight into everything from bootstrap budget to more "professional" workflows.
Retopoflow
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Essential addon for anybody tackling extensive retopology within Blender.
rileyb3d
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Shameless self plut
VirtuCamera
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Turn your iphone into a virtual camera, directly within Blender
botaniq
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of vegetation. Sorted well, and organized for quick import.
Gobos Light Textures
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Drag and drop asset library collection of various light textures, both still and animated.
Dust Particles
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly add optimized animated 3D dust particle animations to your scene. To be fair, with it's interface, this is just as much an addon as it is an asset.
Geo Scatter
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful collection of preset scatter operations for adding procedural variety to the set-dressing process in Blender.
Graswald & Gscatter
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Library & addon to create and edit scatter systems within Blender. Very useful for procedural vegetation.
Shape Key Selector
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Very useful tool and accompaning free tutorial for creating convenient shape-key rigs for stylized facial animation. Tutorial → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Is3oUvHwdM
Physics Dropper
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Quickly automate and streamline the process of dropping objects into a scene with rigid body physics. Basically a better and faster interface for physics already within Blender.
Move One
S (Must Have)
A (Extremely Useful)
B (Highly Beneficial)
C (Helpful)
D (Worth a look)
Motion capture from your phone