

You just need to turn it on in the user preferences. You won’t need to download it though, since it ships with Blender by default. It would be difficult to explain all the different features here so I would encourage anybody reading this to check out the link where they are illustrated and explained. My favorite feature is that with a single click you can see how each node is affecting the model, which is incredibly useful for debugging the network. The second I discovered Node Wrangler I knew jumping over to Blender was a good idea… It’s incredible! Managing nodes with this addon is such a nimble experience. Node Wrangler (free - ships with Blender) The abundance of addons not only fill the gaps found within vanilla Blender, they put the software above and beyond any I’ve used to date.ġ. That was before I discovered the world of Blender Addons. My initial impression was that in areas where Blender falls shorts against other 3D apps, which in some cases it does, I can forgive it since it excels in others. If this checkbox is off, duplicates will remain in the scene with 0 users and will be deleted using regular Blender tools during the scene saving.This year I made the jump from Maya to Blender and have been completely blown away by how powerful this free software actually is. If the "Remove unused" checkbox is on, duplicates will be removed from the scene immediately."Merge by name" cleans materials only by their names (destructive!).M-Cleaner will automatically clear your scene of duplicates.Just press the "Clear materials" button."M-Cleaner" finds the equal materials in the scene and removes duplicates, reassigning the single unique material to the objects.

When you add objects from previously saved blend-files, external libraries, various asset- and kitbash- sets to the scene, your scene is filled with a large number of identical materials. Blender add-on for automatically finding and removing duplicates of materials from the scene.
