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Free Blender Extension: SceneTrace Finds What Made Your Scene Slower

This extension helps you optimize your Blender render times. Dustin Hanke writes: I recently released SceneTrace, a free and open-source Blender extension for tracking scene performance over time and...

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Light It Up — Blender Lighting Addon: 37 Rigs, Fog, and Your Own HDRI Library

Your render looks flat because it is lit too evenly. Light It Up fixes that in one click, and then lets you take the result apart. It builds a real lighting rig around your object: 37 studio and...

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299 Tools – Free Blender Tools for Figure 3D Printing

A free Blender add-on suite for preparing figure models for 3D printing. 299 MODEL WORKS writes: The tools were developed from repetitive tasks I encountered while turning AI-generated figure meshes...

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Prism Suite Beta brings a magnifying interface layer to Blender

Prism Suite is a paid Early Access interface layer for Blender. It does not replace Blender’s modeling, animation, rendering, or file format; it changes how you reach the native controls you already...

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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 7 September 2026

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-08-31 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting 2026-08-31 Grease Pencil Module Meeting Notes 2026-08-31 Modeling...

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Fusion to Blender Bridge – keep your Blender materials when the CAD changes

This free add-on syncs your Fusion 360 models straight into Blender with one click, keeping materials, modifiers and light links intact through every re-sync. Jimin Kim writes: I model in Fusion 360...

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Frame Perfect: put your Blender camera exactly where you’re looking

VeeVeeVee’s new add-on lets you quickly set up a camera to match your current view. I have been using Blender for years to create 3D models for printing, and I always struggled with the camera. I would...

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CCC Matcher: A free Extension for Colour Chart Matching

Blender has a lot to offer for VFX work – but falls a bit short when it comes to plate preparation and colour matching. This free extension is intended to fill that gap. Paul Schlichter writes: With...

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Render Control – Remote Blender Addon

Monitor, preview, and control Blender renders from a phone or browser, from anywhere. A Blender add-on plus Android / web companion apps. Everything is handled on the server, so there’s no port...

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Blender 5.2 LTS: Physics Just Got Insane!

Blender 5.2 LTS is about to drop and it contains a LOT of updates! The full list of changes is available here, but let’s zoom in on the changes in the physics: new cloth and hair options, effectors...

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Free Download: Blend Project Packer

This free add-on makes Blender projects self-contained for sharing in one click. JohnnyCake writes: I released a free Blender extension called Blend Project Packer. It packages a saved Blender project...

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Stop Wasting Days Rendering in Blender

Boost your render times with Render Optimizer Pro. Introducing Render Optimizer Pro for Blender 5.x A professional-grade intelligent render analysis and optimization system designed specifically for...

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Free Download: Blender Cobweb Generator

Thomas Kole shares this geometry setup to generate cobwebs for any mesh in Blender. It includes a physics simulator with an interactive mode, allowing you to tweak the result. Source

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PHENIX – a GPU-native particle system for Blender

Issanou updated his Blender particle system to run entirely on the GPU. I just released the GPU version of Phenix: the result of a full year of dedicated development to finally complete the vision I...

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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 18 May 2026

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-05-11 Grease Pencil Module Meeting 2026-05-12 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-05-12 Sequencer Meeting...

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Clean up your Blender Data with Scene Auditor Pro

Large Blender scenes become messy fast. Duplicate materials pile up silently. Hidden orphan datablocks inflate file sizes. Massive textures destroy memory usage. Dependencies become impossible to track...

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Clock Face Generator – Blender Extension

A clock generator/configurator extension using the Blender Python API. Create and customize clock faces by playing around with the parameters. This is still a work in progress, but there’s already a...

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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 4 May 2026

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Google Summer of Code: Google granted us 8 projects for this year’s edition. Modules & Projects 2026-04-28 Render &...

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Free Add-on: Subdivide Select New

Subdivide a face, edge loop, or face ring and have only the new vertices and edges selected: ready for the next operator. Funkworks writes: When you run Subdivide, the midpoint verts and inner edges...

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Citigen 2026 Released

After almost a year of development, Citigen 2026 is finally out with the Sci-fi Asset Pack. Check out what took it so long and what you can do with it. All previous purchasers of “Citigen” can get a...

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