Hard Ops & Boxcutter Bundle

"Hard Ops was made to expand on the boolean workflow that booltool started. The quest to make hardsurface easier has opened the box for what could be possible. Our toolkit encompasses, boolean, non-destructive modelling, assistive helpers for working optimally and many systems extending into sculpt and grease pencil sketching. Our goal is to make Blender more accessible while also keeping close to the vision of Blender itself and what makes it great and continue to be great. Our endeavor is to provide a first class AAA experience with comprehensive learning a thriving community and extensive documentation to help you get the most out of blender and hopscutter."

"We guarantee to have at least one tool or system you won't be able to live without. These reasons are why hardOps / Boxcutter are the best-selling plugins for Blender and continues to evolve with each iteration. We are committed to ensuring we are providing users the most versatility and control in blender usage and problem solving. No matter if you are a brand new 3d beginner or a hardened professional looking to save on keystrokes, our tool can offer you the workflow enhancements to make the most out of your Blender experience. Our goal is to be useful to anyone of any modelling discipline."

- TeamC (creators of the Hard Ops & Boxcutter modeling addons)

Blender Bros fully endorses the Hard Ops & Boxcutter hard surface modeling addons, and are the only ones we use in our workflow.

Mesh Machine

"MESHmachine is a blender mesh modeling addon with a focus on hard surface work without subdivision surfaces.

Fuse and Unfuse Surfaces, create Variable Fillets and Washouts, edit and fix Bevel geometry, Unbevel and Unchamfer, create and clean up Boolean Intersections and create perimeter loops, keep earlier mesh states around as Stashes and use them for Normal Transfers, flatten and straighten normals, symmetrize and mirror custom normals, and detail surfaces flawlessly using Plugs - incl. your own custom made ones."

- Machin3 (creator of Mesh Machine, Decal Machine, & Machin3 Tools addons)

Mesh Machine is the only tool we use to bring a CAD-based workflow into Blender. Working destructively? No problem. You can easily undo any changes you make to your mesh. In addition, you can manage topology much more naturally via the Offset Cut and Boolean Cleanup features.

Decal Machine

"DECALmachine is a blender addon, which through mesh Decals, allows for surface detailing in a very non-committal, non-destructive, UV-less way. As such it represents an alternative approach to hard surface texturing.
In addition DECALmachine has deep Trim Sheet support, and supports Atlasing, as well as Baking to facilitate exporting to game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine etc.

Decals can be projected, sliced, created from grease pencil or edges. They can be material matched, and you can easily create your own.
Trims can be easily placed, cut, manipulated or removed - all directly in the 3D view.

- Machin3 (creator of Mesh Machine, Decal Machine, & Machin3 Tools addons)

Decal Machine is fantastic for quickly adding additional details to your mesh without the need for modeling. With built-in parallax mapping, the decals contain a 3-dimensional look making it hard to distinguish the difference between an actual model and a decal.

This is the main tool we use for detailing in Blender.

Machin3 Tools

"MACHIN3tools is a free, continuously evolving collection of blender tools and pie menus in a single customizable package."

- Machin3 (creator of Mesh Machine, Decal Machine, & Machin3 Tools addons)

Machin3 Tools is our preferred way to work efficiently inside of Blender. From robust pie menus to quick operations, Machin3 Tools is great for speeding up your overall Blender workflow.

Definitely Eevee Materials System

"CMF stands for Color, Materials, and Finish. And do you know Apple employees hire even more CMF designers than they do industrial designers? That is how important CMF is to product design. And, having the right materials only a click away is the best way to quickly find the right decorative identity for any object."

- Chipp Walters (creator of the Kit Ops 2 pro Kitbashing addon & Definitely Eevee Materials System)

Ryuu and I personally use this material pack to quickly texture our models in 1 click. In addition to a nice material finish, these materials have realistic PBR-properties giving your models that natural feel.

We'd recommend picking up this pack for texturing your models and giving them that realistic look (and yes - it works with Cycles).

Kit Ops 2 Pro

"KIT OPS, with over 25,000 downloads, is the preeminent kitbashing addon for Blender. It allows you to quickly create and kitbash your hard surface models– And it also fulfills many of your asset management needs including the ability to quickly store and apply materials."

"When used properly, KIT OPS can create objects and scenes with extreme efficiency and speed. Doors and windows can be inserted and cut through walls. Complex industrial designs can be generated in a single sitting. KIT OPS uses the power of the Blender Modifiers to accomplish all of this."

- Chipp Walters (creator of the Kit Ops 2 pro Kitbashing addon & Definitely Eevee Materials System)

UV Pack Master 3

"UVPackmaster is the most efficient UV packer out there in terms of packing on CPU, but it also provides a Cuda-accelerated variant of the algorithm. When running on a GPU, it significantly outperforms all other packers available."

"But what can be faster than running an algorithm on a GPU? Running it on the CPU and all GPUs in the system simultaneously! UVPackmaster will do exactly that to reduce the time needed to perform even the most advanced packing scenarios to seconds."

"UVPackmaster 3 is a milestone that moves the tool towards more general UV applications. UVPackmaster is now not only a state-of-the-art UV packing solution – it also introduces an advanced UV aligning/stacking algorithm and other auxiliary tools, greatly simplifying your UV workflow."

- Glukoz (creator of the UV Pack Master 3 UV packing addon)

Cablerator

"Cablerator is a Blender addon (2.8+) for creating and editing hanging cables:

• create cables by clicking on geometry
• create cables between points of curves
• draw cables on geometry or planes
• create cables from edges
• create hanging cables from objects
• create massive numbers of cables between selected faces
• use Blender physics to simulate cables
• create insulation between selected cables or objects
• create simple rope-like structures between selected cables or objects
• edit multiple cables width, assign profile quickly
• add geometry as segments and end points for cables
• create cables based on meshes
• split cables with multi-curve profiles to separate cables
• add and remove hooks to cable points"

- Sergey Kritskiy (creator of the Blender Cablerator addon)