What are your favorite add-ons?

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I never heard of RBF drivers, but that sounds really handy.

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I highly recommend checking it out if you do any kind of rigging. It’s more on the pricey side so it may or may not be worth it based on your use case

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Time is money, so if it saves time, it pays for itself in a sense.

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Absolutely rbf drivers, I always thought I will never tackle drivers and stuff until this add-on comes along…and suddenly now I can do it, doing it all the time and now wondering…wow, why was it so badly designed in the first place.

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Merged with previous topic, to avoid multiple threads about this subject.

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Being predominantly active as a character modeler / sculptor, here are the external add-ons I always add right after a fresh Blender install:

In case I’m working with the Octane Blender build, I always install Node Wrangler Octane.

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Oh Yes yes yes !
Retopolizing Manually now, EDGEFLOW IS A MUST !!!
I will DIE and Quit Blender if EdgeFlow is no longer supported.
Support the Edge Flow Developer !!!

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My favorite add-ons are B music player, Pomodoro Timer and To-Do Tasks Manager Pro.

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Yes Quad Remesher is a must have !

If can just bolean stuff and remesh automagically.
Does an almost perfect job.

Hope there would be something as good one day in Blender. Cause at least for a hobbyist like me, I don’t really have time/patience to do manual retopo and don’t care if topology is not 100 % perfect.

Here is a very good comparison of Auto vs Manual retopo. By Arrimus 3D.

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I haven’t tried this, but it looks pretty intriguing…basically a cross between rigify and auto-rig pro, but comes bundled with LOAds of animations. 3.1 + not supported as of yet…

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Looking at it, it looks like they took all the (free) Mixamo animations, re-targeted them for the Rigify rig, and are now selling those for 30 USD? If you want to buy that, I’d buy it now, before it gets DMCA’d by Adobe…

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Interesting. I was wondering where all those actions came from.

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Come to think of it, I recognize one of those actions from “The Sims” game. The action that occurs when the stove sets the house on fire.

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Oh that’s even worse for the add-on developer… EA is nasty with their DMCA notices :thinking: I’m getting off-topic so I’ll restrain myself here to saying I’m surprised that add-on has lasted this long

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actually also rbf-driver, but depends on whether it is developed further.
My favorite is Clean Panels,
because it avoids the N-panel chaos.

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RBF Drivers says it only works with 2.8 or 9, I forget which, but it works perfectly with 3.1.2. It definitely could use some indication that it’s still alive though

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FRom the Pupa doc: “This Plugin makes creating animation an easy and straight forward process. Taking inspiration from the well-known mixamo pipeline, we bring this into Blender and so much more.”

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josephhansen:
" Oh that’s even worse for the add-on developer… EA is nasty with their DMCA notices :thinking: I’m getting off-topic so I’ll restrain myself here to saying I’m surprised that add-on has lasted this long"

Something like this would be devastating if exposed, I sincerely hope this is not true, and it would put into danger the people who uses that add-on for their animation.

edit: too many subjects in one post, modified to address only one issue.

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There are already two no three!,
who would be happy about a further development!
Maybe call a Save the Rbf-driver campaign, it would be such a shame if it was discontinued!

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Added this to my external add-on list:

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