The open source nature of Blender encourages hobbyists and professionals alike to contribute their time and expertise in the name of making a better Blender.This is widely seen in the large number of plugins you can find on the web for Blender.These plugins extend the program and improve its functionality.And new plugins seem to pop up every day.

Today Deadcat will lead you through a discussion of the new Blender add-ons and updates.They vary from ui add-ons and shaders to vegetation assets, lighting textures and more.

1. True Sky

First, we have True Sky.If you are tired of finding the perfect sky high dynamic range image for your scene.Real Sky is fully loaded to help you create fully customizable photorealistic skies within Blender.Since you can control the atmosphere, clouds, fog and haze, it comes with a long list of parameters that you can use to adjust the sky.However, you need it to also come with adjustable sky presets with different tabs.A physically accurate animated cloud that interacts with sunlight and casts shadows on the ground.You can also use the volume quality presets to save performance if you want, or max them out for best results.

2.Santos Add-ons

Sanctus Library V2.0

It's a growing library, currently containing 160 high-quality procedural materials, and of course adjustable settings.In the case of a stone tile floor material, you can change its offset surface water level, etc... For a weathering tile material, you can control the amount of cracks, lack of debris, dirt and litter.They add new materials to the library every month and organize them into different categories in the m panel.For quick access, two shaders are also provided in the library as well as some special shaders such as the animated rain effect.

3.Clay Doh

Clay Doh

This is the ultimate clay shader, recently made from scratch using the new shader node, with the latest release.Now it's ready for blender 3 with 13 accessible presets.The post master node of the add-on allows you to customize the clay shader in a user friendly way.It will give you multiple possibilities for clay looks, fingerprint cracks, stone mapping and even animation.As a bonus, you also get an add-on text tool for creating class-style photography with only two nodes, and for all fonts supported by Blender.

4.Clean panels

Clean panels

Next, we've updated Clean panels, an add-on that helps you organize add-ons into groups and categories.This latest release comes with several bug fixes and updates, including workspace panel reordering.Finally, one of the things the autosave feature plugin offers is the ability to open the plugin panel in a sticky window.It's also used to load panels to open them wherever you want on the screen.

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