With tools like Blender and Unreal Engine you certainly can accomplish amazing things without buying anything. However, there are some really cool addons and plugins, that can make your life easier and help you achieve truly amazing results in a fraction of the time!
On this page you will find some cool addons for Blender, plugins for Unreal Engine and other products, which we can wholeheartedly recommend.
In case you have a small budget you want to spend on improving your workflow, here are some products created by talented people. Some are free, but some are paid products (definitely worth their money).
Some of those are affiliate links, so if you purchase anything via the link you also support this project. 🙂
COLORBOX – Blender Addon
Colorbox is a cool addon that introduces a completely new way of working with colors in Blender. Create your own color palettes, automatically convert them into color ramps, use the color picker with any image and much more…
Check out Colorbox on BlendermarketTERRESCULPTOR – Free landscape generator
TerreSculptor is a wonderful tool to create all kind of landscapes. You can simulate erosion, create flowmaps and mask maps for blended landscape materials in Unreal Engine.
Its 100% free to use for personal or commercial or academic use.
Help support the development of this software by becoming a Patreon subscriber: Demenzun Media Patreon Page
Check out Terresculptor
ULTRA DYNAMIC SKY – UE plugin
Ultra Dynamic Sky & Ultra Dynamic Weather is for us one of the best plugins for Unreal Engine. It literally saves a ton of time when setting up outdoor scenes. You just drag and drop the blueprint into your level and change the weather with just one mouse click!
Check out Ultra Dynamic Sky on the UE marketplaceBOTANIQ – Blender Addon
The vegetation library “Botaniq” is an ever-expanding library of optimized & realistic 3D vegetation – mostly trees, shrubs and grass. It features a variety of Trees, Grass, Flowers, Weeds, Ferns, Ivy, Palms, Succulents, Shrubs, Weeds, Plants, Pots, Rocks, Lilypads, and Garden assets for Architectural Visualization, Environmental Design, Rendering Forests, Landscaping, or any other scenes that could use a bit of varied greenery.
Check out Botaniq on Blendermarket
TRAFFIQ – Blender Addon
Creating cars from scratch is a hard and time-consuming task. Use this car library to save time and don’t waste time on making cars!
“Traffiq” is an ever-expanding library of realistic, optimized assets of various vehicles (mostly cars for now) as well as traffic-related assets for architectural visualizations, environmental design, rendering streets, or other scenes.
Check out Traffiq on BlendermarketG-Scatter – Free Blender Addon
The geometry nodes feature in Blender is amazing! Learning how to use it, can however be quite difficult and time consuming. The guys from Graswald have released a completele FREE addon that lets you scatter all kind of objects in your scene with a few clicks. The addon also comes with some free grass models from their library, so you can start making your meadows and gardens right away. 🙂
Check out G-Scatter
Physical Atmosphere – Blender Addon
Ever wanted a procedural sky system in Blender, like the atmosphere feature in Unreal Engine? Well, you found one.
“Physical Starlight and Atmosphere” is a full outdoors lighting simulator that can simulate sun (and night sky) in real-time. The sky is not only static sky dome, but the whole atmosphere – from ground to the space and beyond.
And you can add procedural clouds! 🙂
Check out Physical Atmosphere on Blendermarket