3D Resources: Software, Assets, Tutorials & Tools for 3D Artists

A curated collection of free and paid 3D resources: software, assets, textures, HDRIs, tutorials, plugins, and learning material for Blender, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Maya, ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and more. Covers 3D modeling, animation, VFX, rendering, game development, motion graphics, and digital art.

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Assets & LibrariesEdit

Models, textures, HDRIs, audio, stock. Everything downloadable. Asset-first lookup lives here.

Model Libraries: Free & General

General-purpose 3D model libraries with free downloads.

• 3DExport Freemium. Marketplace.
• 3Dshaker. Free models.
• 3Dzip. Free downloads.
• Blend Swap. blend file asset source, not an addon. The one place for Open Source Blender files.
• Blender 3D models. 3D models, particle systems/effects
• CadNav. Architecture, furniture, vehicle models.
• Casual Effects Data. Graphics research datasets and test scenes.
• CGHEVEN. Free CC0 3D and VFX assets.
• CGTrader Freemium. Community marketplace.
• Chocofur Free. Free section of Chocofur premium 3D model store.
• Free3D. Large free collection.
• Free3D.io. Free models.
• Free3DBase. Download high quality free 3d models.
• Funes. 3D cultural heritage.
• Keenan Crane's Model Repository. Clean test meshes for shader and subdivision work.
• Mantissa/resources. Free Blender files, resources.
• MyMiniFactory Scan the World. Scan the World collection of scanned heritage objects.
• Open3DModel. Free model archive.
• OpenTopography/datasets. Facilitates community access to high-resolution, Earth science-oriented, topography data, and related tools and resources. Registration required.
• Oyonale Paid. Sells 3D models for various industries.
• PBRPX. A huge library of free PBR materials, and some 3D models.
• Poly Haven. CC0 models, textures up to 8K+, HDRIs up to 16K.
• Poly Pizza. Low-poly models (Google Poly archive).
• Polycam Explore. User-uploaded photogrammetry scans.
• Quaternius's Ultimate Low-Poly Models. Ultimate low-poly model packs (CC0).
• RigModels Freemium. Rigged models.
• rileyb3d Library. Free packed.blend files ready to use.
• Sketchfab Freemium. Massive downloadable library.
• Stanford 3D Scanning Repository. Classic academic 3D scans (bunny, dragon, etc.).
• The Base Mesh. Base meshes for sculpting and rigging.
• Three D Scans. Free 3D scan archive.
• TurboSquid Freemium. Professional models with free section.
• XYZed3D (Gumroad). CC0 (non-AI) asset packs. Models, props, misc. By artyusufpatel.

Model Libraries: Specialized

Specialty model sources: characters, scans, anatomy, museums.

• 3D MDB. Model database.
• Anatomy 360 Paid. Artist reference models.
• Anatomy For Sculptors Paid. Anatomical references.
• Anything World Gallery Freemium. Animated models.
• Artec 3D. Download high resolution 3D scans for free. (CC-BY)
• British Museum (Sketchfab). Scanned artifacts.
• Cleveland Museum of Art (Sketchfab). Museum 3D scans.
• Emojiz Paid. 77+ animated 3D emoji illustrations with Blender source files
• Insect 3D Models. Insect models.
• Mixamo. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).
  See also: Animation & Rigging → AI Motion Capture & Animation
• Models Resource. Video game model rips.
• Models Resource (3D). 3D model rips from games. Sister site to Spriters Resource.
• NASA 3D Resources Mixed. Spacecraft, planets, terrain models (mixed CC0 / CC-BY. Check per-asset license; mirror at GitHub).
• Quaternius. Free low-poly game assets.
• Scanned Female Head Model by EISKO. Scanned 3D People from Renderpeople, Scans from Louvre Museum
• Smithsonian 3D. Historical artifacts.
• Smithsonian Open Access. Millions of 2D/3D museum assets, CC0.
• Wire Wheels Club. Vehicle models.

Model Libraries: Architecture & Furniture

Arch-viz, furniture, and BIM asset libraries.

• 3asky. 3DS Max and general library.
• 3D Warehouse. SketchUp library.
• 3ddd. Design and architecture models.
• 3DSky. Architecture models.
• BIMobject. BIM objects.
• Design Connected. Furniture.
• Dimensiva. Furniture models.
• Evermotion. Scenes and models.
• Syncronia. CAD and BIM objects.
• Viz-People. Archviz scenes, 3D people, vegetation, HDRIs.

Asset Marketplaces

General asset marketplaces across multiple engines and tools.

• ArtStation Marketplace Paid. Professional assets.
• Blender Market Paid. Blender-specific assets and addons.
• Cubebrush Paid. Art and game assets.
• Fab (Epic) Freemium. Unified marketplace (UE, Sketchfab, ArtStation).
• gumroad/juliosillet Freemium. Pixar/CommunityResources, Nikola Damjanov's 100 PBR Texture Sets
• Quixel Bridge. Connects Megascans to all your favorite tools including Blender.
• RenderHub Free Freemium. Daz Content, 3D models, textures and materials.
• Unity Asset Store Freemium. Game-ready assets.
• Unreal Marketplace Freemium. UE-optimized assets.

Free Asset Giveaways

Recurring free asset drops. Bookmark these.

• Sonniss GDC Bundle. Massive free SFX bundles (~30GB+) annually around GDC and Christmas.

Software-Specific Asset Libraries

Official asset libraries tied to specific DCCs.

• 3DCoat Smart Materials Paid. Official materials library.
• Blender Demo Files. Official demo scenes.
• Blender Extensions. Official addons and themes repository.
• Maxon Asset Browser Paid. Cinema 4D built-in asset library.
• Maya Content Browser Paid. Official example scenes and assets.
• Nomad Sculpt Resources. Community brushes and matcaps.
• SideFX Content Library. Official Houdini assets.
• Substance 3D Assets Paid. Adobe materials library.
• Substance 3D Community Assets. User-shared materials.
• ZBrush Download Center. Alphas and brushes.

HDRIs

HDR environment maps for lighting and reflections.

• Adobe Stock HDRI Paid. Studio HDRIs.
• HDR Maps. Free HDRI packs.
• HDRI Hub Freemium. High-quality HDRIs with backplates.
• HDRI Skies. Free sky HDRIs.
• Maxime Roz HDRI Pack. Free studio and outdoor HDRIs for product viz.
• Open HDRI. 50 free CC0 HDRIs.
• OpenFootage. Free HDRIs, VFX plates, and backplates.
• Poly Haven HDRIs. CC0 HDRIs up to 16K.
• RenderMan HDRIs. Pixar's HDRI collection.

Textures & Materials: Free PBR Libraries

Free PBR texture libraries for materials authoring.

• 3D Textures. Free PBR library.
• 3DAssets.one. Search-engine which allows you to explore the largest free texture sites all at once.
• 3DXO. Free 3D Models, Textures, Backgrounds, Photos & Graphics.
• ambientCG. 2000+ CC0 PBR materials.
• Arroway Textures Freemium. Digital textures for 3D rendering and real-time use.
• C4DCenter Material Library. Free C4D Materials created with High Quality Texture Maps for instant download and no limits, Free for Personal and Commercial Use.
• Celestia Motherlode. Repository for various addons like textures, models or celestial objects.
• CG Bookcase. Free PBR textures.
• Free PBR. Hundreds of free materials.
• Kaimoisch. 3D scanned textures.
• LotPixel. A huge assets library. Photogrammetry and PBR Textures, 3D Models, Decals. 1500+ Free Texture Available.
• Matcaps. A Huge library of matcap textures in PNG and ZMT, organized by color.
• MaterialX Library. AMD launched a free MaterialX-based Material Library. It allows users to download the materials and encourages them to upload their own.
• PlainTextures. Free high resolution textures, brushes and photos
• Share Textures. CC0 textures.
• Substance Source/freebies Freemium. [$] : Hundreds of high quality PBR materials.
• Texture Fabrik. Textures and patterns.
• Texture Fun. Free PBR texture sets of common architectural materials, including some nice tile textures.
• Texture Labs. Free texture resources.
• Texture Supply (Gumroad). Free textures.
• Texture.Ninja. Public domain photographic textures, reference images, cutouts. (CC0)
• TextureCan. Free PBR textures, high scan quality.
• TextureKing. Free material stock textures
• Textures.com Freemium. Massive professional texture library.
• Texturify. Free texture collection.
• The Blendersauce Vault Materials. Abstract, Bricks and Walls, Concrete, Fabric, Fluids, Food, Manmade, Metal, Metal painted Materials, Nature, Plaster, Rocks/Stones, Tiles, Wood.
• The Pixel Lab Freebies. Free 3D models and textures.

Textures: Specialized

Specialty texture sources: displacement, patterns, sprites, terrain.

• CGI Moon Kit. NASA Scientific Visualization Studio CGI Moon Kit providing high-resolution moon textures and elevation data for rendering and visualization.
• NASA 3D Resources Mixed. 3D models, textures, and images from NASA. Mixed CC0 / CC-BY, check per-asset license. GitHub
• Shaded Relief. Natural Earth data and terrain reference.
• Solar Textures. These textures represent real planetary maps in equirectangular projection. Textures in this pack are based on NASA elevation and imagery data. (CC-BY)
• Spriters Resource. Game sprite textures.
• Subtle Patterns. Tileable web patterns.
• Texturing.xyz Paid. MicroSkin displacement maps.

Textures: Premium

Professional paid texture libraries.

• Poliigon Paid. PBR textures.
• Quixel Megascans + Bridge Freemium. Scanned materials and import plugin. Free with Unreal Engine.
• Texture Box Paid. Mixed library.

Stock Images & References

Free and public-domain stock images, and 2D references.

• All Free Download. Free design downloads.
• David Rumsey Maps. Historical maps archive.
• LACartoons. Animation cel and model sheet archive.
• Neurascapes. Free surreal/AI-generated reference imagery.
• Pexels. Free stock photos and video.
• Pixabay. Free stock media.
• PNG Images. Transparent PNG images.
• Public Domain Review. Public-domain image collections.
• Settei Dreams. Anime model sheets and settei archive.
• Story Set. Edit and animate customizable illustrations to enhance your projects totally free.
• The Blueprints. Vehicle, aircraft, ship blueprints.
• Unsplash. Free photography.

Stock Footage

Free and archival video footage sources.

• ActionVFX Practice. Free practice VFX footage.
• Internet Archive / Prelinger. Public-domain archival footage.
• Open Visual FX. Free VFX footage.
• videvo Freemium. actionvfx/free-vfx, videezy, pixabay

Audio: SFX & Music Libraries

Free and paid SFX and music libraries for games, reels, and film.

• Artlist Paid. Subscription music and SFX.
• BBC Sound Effects. BBC's archive of free SFX.
• ccMixter. Creative Commons remix community.
• Ende. Curated free audio library.
• Free Music Archive. Free music, varied licenses.
• Freesound. Collaborative database of CC-licensed sounds.
• Freesound Add-on. Blender VSE addon to browse, preview, and insert sounds from freesound.org.
• Knell. Free procedural sound effect synthesizer for games, UI, and prototypes.
• Moby Gratis. Free Moby music for indie creators.
• Motion Array SFX. Free SFX collection.
• Sapphire Paid. Suite of 270+ GPU-accelerated VFX effects with integrated Mocha tracking and a custom effect and transition builder.
• Sonniss Paid. SFX library. Releases massive annual free bundles.
• Uppbeat Freemium. Music for creators.
• ZapSplat. Large free SFX library.

Fonts

Font libraries, pairing tools, and type references.

• Adobe Fonts Paid. Premium font library bundled with Creative Cloud subscription.
• Creative Market Fonts Paid. 300k+ premium fonts with worry-free perpetual commercial licenses.
• Font Bundles Freemium. Premium font marketplace with regular freebies; clear commercial license.
• Font Library. Open-source and free fonts.
• FontPair. Font pairing inspiration.
• Fontshare. Free quality fonts from Indian Type Foundry; Satoshi, General Sans, Clash Display.
• Fontz Freemium. Free and premium 3D fonts with Blender source files
• Free Faces. Curated directory of free fonts from independent foundries and designers.
• Future Fonts Paid. Buy in-progress fonts directly from indie designers at lower early-access prices.
• Google Fonts. Largest free open-source font library; SIL OFL / Apache licensed.
• Indestructible Type. Open-source foundry by Owen Earl; variable font families like Jost, Besley, Bodoni.
• Lilex. Programming font with ligatures.
• MyFonts Paid. Long-running premium font marketplace; perpetual desktop, web, app licenses.
• Pangram Pangram Foundry Freemium. Indie foundry with high-end typefaces; free personal-use trials available.
• The League of Moveable Type. Open-source foundry; well-curated bold typefaces, free for commercial use.
• UNCUT.wtf. 160+ contemporary open-source typefaces, all free for commercial use.
• Usable Google Fonts (Figma). Curated Figma set of usable Google Fonts.
• Velvetyne Type Foundry. Paris-based non-profit foundry releasing open-source experimental typefaces.

Icons

Icon libraries and animation sets.

• Bootstrap Icons. 2000+ official open-source SVG icons from the Bootstrap team.
• Flaticon Freemium. Massive icon library.
• Font Awesome Freemium. Classic icon font library.
• Game Icons. 4000+ SVG game icons.
• Handy Arrows. Hand-drawn arrow sets.
• Heroicons. Hand-crafted SVG icons by Tailwind CSS team; outline and solid.
• Hugeicons Freemium. 36k+ icons in multiple styles; free tier plus premium plans.
• Iconify. Unified framework aggregating 200k+ open-source icons from 150+ icon sets.
• Iconoir. 1600+ open-source SVG icons; React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Figma support.
• Icons8 Glyph Freemium. Glyph-style icon set.
• Lineicons Freemium. 30k icons (4k free); SVG, JSX, TSX, Figma, PNG; React/Vue/Svelte support.
• Lucide. Open-source icon library.
• Lucide Animated. Animated version of Lucide icons.
• Material design icons. Official icon set from Google
• MDI Icons. Material Design Icons, huge set.
• Noun Project Freemium. 5M+ curated icons and photos; subscription unlocks royalty-free use.
• Phosphor Icons. 9000+ flexible icons in thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone styles.
• Remix Icon. 2800+ neutral-style open-source icons on 24x24 grid; line and fill.
• Streamline Paid. Massive premium icon and illustration library; consistent design systems.
• SVG Repo Mixed. 500k+ free SVG vectors and icons across many styles and packs.
• SVGL. Brand logos in SVG.
• Tabler Icons. Open-source SVG icons.
• typicons.font. 336 pixel perfect, all-purpose vector icons in a web-font kit
• Use Animations Freemium. Animated icons for web UI.

Game Assets

Free and paid game-ready asset sources. Cross-listed from §7.

• 2D Pixel Art Character Template Asset Pack Paid. 2D character Art Assets to start your game off the right way. Perfect for sidescrollers, platformers, or metroidvania.
• 2D Pixel Dungeon Asset Pack. 16x16 pixel character and tileset
• 420 Pixel Art Icons for RPGs. Set of 420 RPG icons, free for commercial use.
• 8000+ Raven Fantasy Icons - RPG Icons, Pixel Art Icons, Textures and Sprites. 8000+ colorful pixel art icons for your fantasy and RPG game
• Ansimuz Legacy Collection. Free 16-bit Pixel-Art Assets
• Asset Creation Toolset. Asset Creation Toolset is many tools for game asset creation.
• Brackeys' Platformer Bundle. Make your first game using this small collection of pixel-art characters, tiles, sounds and music.
• Craftpix Freemium. 2D game assets, free and paid.
• Cute Fantasy RPG - 16x16 top down pixel art asset pack. 16x16 assets for your top-down game.
• Free - Pixel Art Asset Pack - Topdown Tileset - 16x16 Sprites. 500 Sprites, 3 Heroes, 8 enemies, 50 Weapons
• Free Game Assets. Curated free 2D/3D/audio assets.
• Fx Effects Pixel Art #91 - 64x64 | 32x32 Paid. RPG FX Effects Asset Pack. 64×64 & 32×32
• GameArt2D. Free 2D game art pack collection.
• GameDev Market Freemium. Game dev asset marketplace.
• Humble Bundle Game Dev Paid. Periodic game dev bundles.
• itch.io Assets Freemium. Indie game asset marketplace.
• Kay Lousberg. CC0 low-poly game assets.
• KayKit - Character Pack : Adventurers. 3D lowpoly rigged and animated character model game assets
• KayKit - Forest Nature Pack. 3D stylised low poly trees, rocks, grass.
• Kenney. CC0 game assets ("Asset Jesus").
• Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 Paid. Includes 60,000+ game assets including 2D sprites, 3D models!
• Liberated Pixel Cup assets. Free graphic assets of the Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) held by the OpenGameArt forums
• Modern Farm - RPG Tileset Paid. Tons of props, animals and a character generator tool
• Mystic Woods - 16x16 Pixel Art Asset Pack. Create the cutest game with this playful asset pack!
• NativeBlend CLI. AI-powered CLI tool to generate and edit low-poly 3D game assets in Blender from natural language prompts
• Ninja Adventure - Asset Pack. Assets for topdown game with ninja theme
• Open Game Art. Community hub for free game art.
• Oryx Design Lab Paid. Cheap high-quality royalty-free sprite packs.
• Pixel Adventure. Assets for a fun Platform Adventure
• Pixel Art Top Down - Basic. 32x32 sprites and tilesets for top down games
• Pixel Frog Freemium. Pixel art assets.
• Pixel Planet Generator. Showcase of shader code for Godot game engine
• Reiner's Tilesets. Free 2D and 3D graphics, classic game assets blog.
• Sprout Lands - Asset Pack. cute pixel pastel farming asset pack
• Sprout Lands - UI Pack. cute pixel pastel UI pack
• Stylized Nature MegaKit. 110+ Unique nature models. Ideal for creating enchanting, Ghibli-inspired scenes. With projects in UE, Godot and Unity.
• Synty Studios Paid. Stylized low-poly asset packs.
• Tech Dungeon: Roguelite - Asset Pack. Animated top-down assets for your futuristic project
• Tilemancer. A quick procedural tile creator designed for pixel-art games.
• Tiny Farm RPG - Asset Pack. Itch.io listing: Tiny Farm RPG - Asset Pack.
• Tiny RPG Character Asset Pack v1.03. 20 Animated Characters for you game.
• UAssetAPI. A low-level.NET library for reading and writing Unreal Engine 4 game assets.
• Universal Animation Library. More than 120 animations, ready to retarget in any engine
• UnluckyStudio. Free game art for 2D games.

Modeling, Sculpting & TexturingEdit

Per-DCC learning plus texturing and material-authoring toolchain. Per-renderer learning lives in §4.

Blender: Plugins & Addons

Notable addons extending Blender.

Related:

• 3 D Machine Learning. A resource repository for 3D machine learning.
• 3DN BIP. A Python library for Blender. Blazingly fast preview loads in Blender. Images of arbitrary size. bpy.utils.previews drop-in replacement.
• Advanced Blender Add-on. This repository intends to give a starter kit as well as to illustrate and intensively comment design patterns commonly used in advanced Blender add-ons.
• AMD Radeon ProRender. AMD’s physically-based rendering engine that lets creative professionals use open industry standards to use GPU and CPU performance to produce stunningly photorealistic images in B
• AnimAide. Free add-on for Blender that has some helpful tools for animation.
• Array Tools. Addon for Blender to create translation, scale, rotation array with offset or global parameters in any direction and mix them. GitHub
• Arsenal. Blender integrated game engine written in Rust. GitHub
• Auto Terrainer Paid. Automatic Blender Terrain Generator is a and easy-to-use tool that lets you turn any low poly mesh into realistic and customizable terrain. You can use it to create mountains, valleys, isl
• AutoMask. A Blender Add-on for automatic rotoscoping with the help of Machine Learning.
• Awesome 3D Human. A curated list of papers & resources linked to 3D Human research including face, body, hand and motion modeling.
• Awesome 3D Printing. A curated list of awesome 3D printing resources.
• Bangingcuts. Cut up audio and video clips based on peaks in the audio track removing silences. Last Blender versions: don't install the zip, install.py file instead.
• Blender Addon Tester. The blender addon tester is a test harness to enable pytest hook to allow addons to be tested inside a defined version of blender.
• Blender Addons. Helpers for Blender
• Blender CLI Rendering. Python scripts for rendering images using Blender from command-line interface.
• Blender Colab. Render on Google Colab, this is a Python script that allows you to render Blender scene using Google Colaboratory. Only Cycles.
• Blender Data Visualisation. Load data into Blender and create visualisations.
• Blender Debugger For Vscode. Blender addon for remote debugging Blender with VS Code (and Visual Studio).
• Blender For Unreal Engine. This Add-on allows you to export content created with Blender to Unreal Engine 4.
• Blender Kitti. Render large point clouds and voxel grids with blender.
• Blender Launcher. Standalone client for managing official builds of blender.
• Blender Manager. Auto-Update, Project Management and Time Tracking, Addon Control, Version Handling, Render Management.
• Blender Metaverse Addon. Blender toolset for creating content for Metaverses like High Fidelity.
• Blender NLA Midi Copier. Blender add-on for creating midi-driven animations from the Nonlinear Animation view.
• Blender Pyblish. Blender Addon to integrate the Pyblish framework
• Blender Scripting. Introduction to blender scripting. This is a collection of simple to more involved examples to scripting in Blender with Python.
• Blender Sculpt Tools. Addon for help sculpting base mesh like Zbrush with Zsphere.
• Blender to Unity FBX. Unity export addon.
• Blender Updater CLI. Command line version of BlenderUpdater.
• Blender Version Manager. Minimalistic download manager for blender.
• Blender Vscode. Visual Studio Code extension for Blender development.
• Blender XR. A free virtual and mixed reality user interface for Blender that enables artists to edit scenes within the software using a suitable headset and controllers.
• Blender2Godot. Addon that exports a Blender scene to a Godot Engine project.
• BlenderCAM. An Open Source solution for CAM with Blender 3D. GitHub
• BlenderSynth. Blender scripting for generating synthetic datasets at scale.
• BlenderUpdater. Download and install nightly builds with one click.
• BlendyPose. Blender Motion Capture using your camera.
• Blign. Alignment and distribution tool for Blender. It allows users to align and distribute shapes with many different options.
• Bone Widget. Blender addon to assist with making custom bone shapes.
• Bonsai. Beautiful, detailed, data-rich OpenBIM add-on for Blender (formerly BlenderBIM). GitHub
• BookGen. Free book-generation addon for Blender.
• Building Tools. Building generation addon for blender.
• Bystedts Blender Baker Paid. This addon streamlines the texture baking process in Blender.
• CAD Sketcher. CAD Sketcher is a free and open-source project looking to enhance precision workflows in blender by bringing CAD like tools, features and usability. GitHub
• Camera Shakify. An addon for Blender that lets you easily add realistic camera shake to your cameras.
• Capsule. Blender addon to export, manage and automate to share between Blender and Unreal/Unity or other real-time engine.
• CharMorph. An open source character creation tool for Blender. It's a rewrite of MB-Lab, which is now unmaintained. GitHub
• COA Tools. 2D Animation Suite for blender. It offers a 2D cutout animation workflow similar to programs like spine or spriter.
• Crowdrender Freemium. Distributed rendering across machines.
• Curtis Holt Store Paid. Curtis Holt's storefront for Blender addons and learning products.
• Data FX. Loads and visualizes different types of data within Blender from.csv files.
• Daz to Blender Bridge. This easy-to-use Bridge transfers your Genesis 8 and 3 characters from Daz directly to Blender.
• DreamUV. Collection of tools that allow you to manipulate UVs in the 3D viewport.
• Drop It. Designed to drop fast and simply Objects to Ground or Surface. GitHub
• Easy HDRI. HDRI management addon.
• Easy Proxy. Blender addon to create proxy files for Video Sequence Editor (VSE) easily using FFMPEG.
• EasyBake. Texture baking UI for Blender that lives in the 3D Viewport. Small but powerful! Fast one-click baking and iteration.
• EdgeFlow. This addon adds two operators to blender which both work on edgeloop selections.
• Embark Blender Tools. A Blender add-on containing workflow tools for game development. Includes tools for standardized import/export workflow, 3D modelling and new object types. [[medium]](https://medium.com/embarkstudi
• Engraver Paid. Blender addon with set of few tools designed to help carving decals in 3D models.
• Export Paper Model from Blender. Add-on for creating paper models. GitHub
• EZ Baker. An easier alternative to blender's default bake system. GitHub
• F Spy Blender. Official fSpy Blender importer.
• FaceBuilder Paid. [$] : A Blender add-on that lets you create photorealistic 3D models of human faces and heads using a few photographs with a neutral face expression. [[medium]](https://medium.com/keentools/facebuild
• Fake Bpy Module. Collections of the fake Blender Python API modules for the code completion in commonly used IDEs.
• FLIP Fluids Paid. liquid simulation plugin that gives you the ability to create high quality fluid effects all within Blender, the free and open source 3D creation suite. [![market]](https://blendermar
• FontSelector. Easy font management inside Blender.
• Gaffer (Blender addon). Blender add-on that helps you light your scenes by presenting all the right settings in convenient panels for quick access and experimentation. [![market]](https://blendermarket.com/products/g
• Geometry Nodes Pipes Paid. Addon for blender which helps generating complex pipe layouts.
• Geometry Script. Scripting API for Blender's Geometry Nodes. It makes complicated node trees more manageable and easy to share.
• Glsl Texture. Create textures from Glsl fragment shaders on Blender (2.8)
• GoB. GoZ-alike tools for simple ZBrush-Blender interchange.
• Graswald Paid. Grass and plants library.
• GreaseWriter. A Blender Add-on for auto-animating grease pencil strokes and emulating hand-drawn text.
• HDRI Sun Aligner. HDRI Sun Aligner is a Blender addon for automatically rotating an object (e.g. a sun) to match the brightest point in a HDRI environment texture.
• Hi Phy Engine Paid. Fully-coupled high-fidelity physics engine addon. Unified solver for rigid body, cloth, hair, soft body, and MPM snow/sand with intersection-free continuous collision detection.
• INOX. Rust Game engine integrated in Blender.
• IOR Reference. A blender addon that display IOR values in a list.
• JARCH Vis. Add-on for Blender 3D that helps create commonly used object for architectural visualization. GitHub
• Jet Fluids. Jet fluid simulator integration in blender.
• JewelCraft. Jewelry design toolkit add-on for Blender.
• Kaleidoscope. The add-on adds two new nodes, Spectrum and Intensity, which essentially improves your workflow inside Blender when creating materials.
• KeKit. Brings some much needed functionality to Blender, with a whole array of production tools.
• Laser Slicer. Cuts up a Blender object and exports the slices to SVG files for cutting on a laser cutter or other post-processing.
• LeoMoon LightStudio Paid. Lighting system for Blender. ![market]
• Lib SM64 Blender. This add-on integrates libsm64 into Blender and provides various additional integrations with Fast64.
• Lodify. LOD(Level of Detail) and Proxy system for blender. GitHub
• Loom. Add-on to simplify the rendering process of image sequences and certain frames, allows batch rendering and comes with some handy utilities that help in production.
• Lumiere. Interactive Lighting add-on for Blender.
• Magic UV. This is a blender add-on Magic UV consisted of many UV manipulation features which Blender lack of. GitHub
• Maps Models Importer. A Blender add-on to import models from Google Maps. [more info]
• MB Lab. Character creation (archived, succeeded by CharMorph).
• MDSANIMA RenderTime. Blender add-on estimates and calculate how long your animation will take to render done based on the rendering time of the only one frame.
• Mesh Align Plus. Precisely align, move, and measure+match objects and mesh parts in your 3D scenes.
• Mesh Heal. Add-on for Blender, it includes additional Blender operators for healing surface meshes.
• Mesh Maze. Blender add-on to generate a maze on any mesh.
• MeshSync. Live link plugin for Unity. supported blender and other 3D software.
• MifthTools. 3Dcoat, Houdini, Modo mesh exchange tools.
• Mixer by Ubisoft. Blender addon developed at Ubisoft Animation Studio for Real Time Collaboration in 3D edition.
• Modeling Cloth. Create real-time cloth-like behavior in meshes in Blender.
• Modifier List. Blender add-on with enhanced UI layout for modifiers with handy features. Replaces the regular modifier UI and adds a tab in the Sidebar and a popup.
• MPFB. MPFB2 is an open source human generator for Blender. It's complete rewrite of MakeHuman as a Blender addon. GitHub
• Mr Mannequins Tools. Blender add-on that gives the ability to export animations and weighted meshes that are directly compatible with the third person mannequin without re-targeting anything in Unreal Engine!
• Multi User. Enable real-time collaborative workflows inside blender. GitHub
• Needle Engine Freemium. Allows you to create highly interactive, flexible and lightweight web applications right inside Blender.
• OctaneRender Prime for Blender Freemium. Fully integrated Octane Render, free tier. (blender plugin manual)
• Parallel Render. Render the output from the Sequencer multithreaded through the Render sidebar.
• PBR Texture Mapper. Create PBR node setup with one click.
• Phobos. An add-on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models.
• Point Cloud Visualizer. Display, edit, filter, render, convert, generate and export colored point cloud PLY files.
• Poliigon Blender Addon. This addon allows you to browse, purchase, download, and import Poliigon assets from inside Blender. It supports loading textures, models, and HDRs recently supports generating Blender materials from Poliigon texture sets.
• Power Sequencer. Brings smart new editing features to edit faster with Blender's Video Sequence Editor. It is completely Free and Open Source.
• PresetterProfessional. View and visibility presets, 3d cursor presets, snap presets, etc. presets.
• Principled Baker. Bake PBR textures with a few clicks.
• Projectors. A blender add-on for simple projector creation and modification.
• ProSidebar. Add additional properties and operators to the 3D View Sidebar.
• PSOFT Pencil+ 4 Paid. NPR line rendering.
• QBlocker. Interactive object creation tool for Blender.
• QuickSwitch. A helper to quick switch workspaces and view render menu in viewport.
• RandoMesh. A blender addon to add randomized geometry to any mesh.
• reflow. Blender addon to change fps.
• Render Useful. Command-line tools for Blender renders.
• Rig on the Fly. Rig on the Fly is a Blender dynamic rigging tool used to simplify and speed up animation workflow.
• Rigid Body Bones. Blender addon which adds rigid body / spring physics to bones.
• Scene Strip Tools. Preview Scene Strips directly in the 3D View.
• Screencast Keys. Status Add-On for Blender.
• Screenwriter. Write screenplays in Blender Text Editor in Fountain markup syntax view/export with correct screenplay formatting.
• Sculpt Alphas Manager. This addon provides a simple solution to be able to quickly switch alpha textures for the sculpt brushes.
• Search Online References. Search current text in API Reference, Python Reference, Blender Stack Exchange, Blender Source Code and Github.
• Shot Manager by Ubisoft. Add-on that introduces a true shot entity in Blender scenes.
• Sketchfab Blender Addon. Directly import and export models from and to Sketchfab in Blender.
• SliceMesh. Simple script for Blender to automate mesh slicing.
• Spaceship Generator. Procedurally generate 3D spaceships.
• Spring Bones. Blender addon to add spring/bouncy dynamic effect to bones.
• Subsimport. Addon for Blender that allows users to create and edit subtitles for movies or music.
• SuperPoke. Iterative poking tool for Blender.
• Sverchok. A parametric Blender tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes.
• TextCounter. LeoMoon TextCounter is an easy to use text animation plugin for Blender that can be used to make GUI simulations.
• TexTools. TexTools is a Free addon for Blender 3D with a set of professional UV and Texturing tools. GitHub
• The Grove 3D Paid. [$] : Grow natural 3D trees for visualisation and film. Grow, bend, prune, interactively simulate the seasons year by year.
• Theme Switcher. Addon to quickly change active theme not leaving 3D View.
• Tilecam. Render repeatable images.
• Tissue. Blender's add-on for computational design.
• Transform Tools. Quickly transform, crop and fade video strips in Blender's Video Sequence Editor.
• Tree Gen. Procedural generation of tree models in blender.
• Typewriter. Typewriter text animation for font objects.
• UcuPaint. A addon to manage texture layers for EEVEE and Cycles renderer.
• Usage in Science, Academia, and Industry. Curated list of resources about the usage of Blender in Science, Academia, and Industry.
• UV Packer. Automatic and free UV-Packer Add-on for Blender.
• V HACD. Library decomposes a 3D surface into a set of near convex parts. GitHub
• Verge3D Paid. yet cost-efficient solution for creating interactive 3D web experiences.
• VSEQF. Overhaul for Blender's VSE that can completely change your workflow. Designed for quick, mouse and keyboard balanced editing with a focus on real-time feedback.
• Welder. Welds generator for Blender.
• Wiggle Bones. Jiggle bone implementation for Blender with realistic physics. GitHub
• WoT Tank Viewer. Package of plugins for Blender, which allows you view 3D models from World of Tanks.
• WritingAnimation. This add-on generates writing animation for the selected Bezier curves in blender.

Blender: Tutorials

Blender learning resources, beginner to advanced.

• 📖 User Manual. 🔗 Python API | ⚙️ Developer Wiki
• Animation & Rigging Manual. Animation & Rigging Manual.
• Blender Checklist. Checklist of Blender features and workflows.
• Blender Python API Documentation. Official Blender Python API Documentation.
• blenderscripting. Blender related python snippets to get you started.
• Compositing Nodes List. Compositing Nodes List.
• Developer Documentation. Here you can find information about Blender's development process, design and architecture, as well as instructions for Building Blender.
• Motion Tracking Manual. Motion Tracking Manual.
• Programming Add-ons for Blender 2.8. It shows how to set up a professional IDE for writing Python programs for Blender, on the example of a simple plugin. It is an ebook, published freely on Creative Commons license.
• Realistic Hair in Blender Paid. Hair creation course.
• Texture Paint Manual. Texture Paint Manual.

Houdini: Getting Started

Beginner-friendly Houdini intros.

Related:

• Houdini Donut in Any Shape. Procedural donut by Lewis Orton.
• Houdini in Five Minutes. Quick intro by Entagma.
• SideFX Learn. Official curated learning hub.
• SideFX Learning Library. Searchable content browser for all official Houdini tutorials.

Houdini: Essential Learning Resources

Long-form Houdini learning hubs.

• Applied Houdini Paid. Stephen Knipping's FX-focused course series (ILM).
• CGWiki (tokeru.com). Matt Estela's CGWiki. The most Houdini reference (Joy of VEX, LOPS, particles, everything).
• Entagma (site) Freemium. Advanced design and mograph tutorials. Also Unreal and Blender.
• Farmfield (Vimeo). Setups and hip files from Johnny Farmfield.
• John Kunz (site). Weekly streams. FX, coding, Redshift (Twitch | YouTube).
• SideFX Tutorials. Official tutorials.

Houdini: VEX & Coding

VEX, Python, OpenCL, and scripting in Houdini.

• 1 Minute VEX. Bite-sized VEX lessons.
• HouPy Wiki. Houdini Python wiki. Packages, shelf scripts, menu customization, node graph hooks.
• OpenCL in Houdini. OpenCL notes for Houdini.
• Python Snippets for Houdini. Python snippets wiki.
• Python Startup Scripts. Python startup scripts guide.
• VEX Manager Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.
  See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools
• VEX Wrangle Cheat Sheet. Quick VEX reference by Mr Kunz.
• VFXBrain VEX. VEX tutorials blog.

Houdini: FX & Simulations

Vellum, FLIP, Pyro, and other simulation workflows.

• Custom Smoke Solver. Custom smoke solver walkthrough.
• Smart Crown Splash FLIP. FLIP splash technique.

Houdini: Rigging & Animation (KineFX)

KineFX rigging, animation, and crowds.

• Secondary Motion in H19. Paul Esteves. Secondary motion workflows.
• Space Girl Rigging. Legacy rigging series.

Houdini: Grooming

Hair and fur grooming workflows.

Houdini: Miscellaneous Tutorials

Additional Houdini tutorials across topics.

• AI For Artists. AI techniques applied to Houdini.
• Art Directing Paint Splashes. Art-directed paint splashes.
• Building Growth Animation. Building growth animation technique.
• Cloner Object. MoGraph Cloner tutorial.
• Extracting Transform Matrices. How to extract transform matrices.
• For Loops Tutorial. For loops and animated subdivisions.
• Houdini for Astronomy. Astronomy and scientific viz in Houdini.
• Muscles Masterclass. Advanced muscles masterclass.
• MysteryPancake Houdini Fun. Fun experimental Houdini repo.
• Node Studies. Node study slide deck.
• Point Cloud to Mesh (Microsoft). Point cloud to mesh guide.
• Procedural Modeling with VEX Paid. Tighe Rzankowski procedural modeling course.
• Procegen by Konstantin Magnus. Konstantin Magnus tutorials on procedural modeling, texturing, and tool building in Houdini.
• USD Basics with Solaris. Official tutorial on USD basics in Solaris.
• Writing Your Own Polywire. Jake Rice on custom polywire.

Houdini: Plugins & Tools

Toolkits, pipeline tools, and HDAs.

• .hips. Various Houdini tools.
• AElib. Free tools by Nick Taylor (ManVsMachine).
• Axiom Paid. Sparse fluid solver by Matthew Puchala.
• CamRig Pro Paid. Camera rigging tool HDA by Shir Manor.
• EarthMesh Houdini. Real-world meshes via Google API.
• Ffmpeg. Flipbook to MP4 conversion tool (setup guide).
• Houdini Attributes Cheatsheet. Houdini Attributes Cheatsheet.
• Houdini Engine for Unreal (AdrianPan optimized fork). Rebuilt Houdini Engine for UE, 2x-15x faster.
• Houdini Tech Art Challenge Winners 2021. HPaint, Polyline Creator, Poly Slice Tool
• JDB Houdini Toolkit. JDB Houdini Toolkit.
• Microbot VDB Painter Paid. MbPainter for Sidefx Houdini is an Artist Friendly Set of Tools for interactive Manipulation of OpenVDB (www.openvdb.org) SDF Volumes.
• MOPS. Motion graphics toolkit by Toadstorm.
• ODTools Paid. Pipeline tools by Oliver Hotz.
• qLib. Open-source HDA library.
• Rich Lord's Tools. Tools from ex-Valve animator.
• SideFX Labs. Extended official toolset.
• Tighe Rzankowski's Tools Paid. Feather grooming.
• TrembleFX Paid. Procedural noise generator HDA by Shir Manor.
• VEX Manager Paid. VEX snippet/code manager HDA by Shir Manor.
  See also: Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: VEX & Coding
• VFX Fractal Toolkit. Set of tools for generating fractal and generative art.
• Wormhole Content Browser Paid. The Wormhole Content Browser is a custom UI for Houdini that enables quick browsing, previewing, and importing of content into Houdini.
• ZENO. Node-based 3D system that can produce cinematic physics effects at high efficiency.

Houdini: Courses & Free Content

Structured courses for Houdini.

• Rebelway Freemium. FX, procedural modeling, VEX, pyro, destruction, fluid, fur, muscle, lighting, ML courses. Many free tutorials.

Houdini: Communities

Forums, Discords, and tip archives.

• Daily Hip. Tips from Eetu.
• Houdini Nerd Discord. Christopher Rutledge's Houdini community.
• Houdini Tricks. Quick tips archive.
• OdForce. Most active Houdini forum.
• r/Houdini. Houdini subreddit.
• SideFX Houdini on Bilibili. Chinese Houdini tutorials.
• Think Procedural Discord. Procedural-focused Houdini Discord.
• VFX Arabia Houdini Tools. Houdini tools blog.

Cinema 4D: Learning

C4D tutorials and learning hubs.

• Cineversity. Official Maxon tutorials.
• School of Motion (site) Paid. C4D, motion graphics, animation, After Effects, design courses.

Cinema 4D: Plugins

C4D addons and bridges.

• AEC4D Paid. After Effects ↔ Cinema 4D bridge.
• Video Copilot. VFX tutorials, Element 3D, Optical Flares.

Cinema 4D: Tips & Workflows

Productivity blogs and shader workflow tricks.

• Rolando Barry (Gumroad) Freemium. C4D assets and presets.
• Rolando Barry Blog. C4D tips, shader switch workflows, productivity tricks.

3ds Max: Plugins

3ds Max plugins.

• TyFlow Freemium. Advanced particle/dynamics system. Destruction, cloth, fluids.

Fusion 360: Learning

Fusion 360 courses.

Material Creation Tools

Texture authoring, procedural materials, and baking tools.

Related:

• Agisoft De-Lighter. Free stand-alone tool designed to remove shadows from model textures. !download
• Architextures - Create Freemium. Web app allows you to create textures, bump maps and CAD hatches. Select any of the parameters to get started.
• Imogen. GPU Texture generator using dear imgui for UI.
• NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter. Allows users to create highly compressed texture files (that stay small both on disk and in memory) directly from image sources using NVIDIA’s CUDA-accelerated Texture Tools compressor technology.
• ShaderExpo. Dependency free shader editor featuring inline error logs, auto completions, models and textures loading.
• SmartNormal 2.0. Normal map generation from images.
• TexGraph. A procedural texture creation tool that lets you create textures by connecting nodes in a graph.

CAD Software

Also in Software Reference → CAD Software

Material & Texture Creation Software

Also in Software Reference → Material & Texture Creation Software

Photogrammetry & Scanning Software

Also in Software Reference → Photogrammetry & Scanning Software

Retopology & UV Software

Also in Software Reference → Retopology & UV Software

Animation & RiggingEdit

Technical animation, rigging, motion capture. Animation principles/theory live in §8.

Animation: YouTube Channels

Channels covering 2D/motion animation technique.

• 📺 Make Films 10x Faster in UE ~ Josh Toonen. [video,animation,post-process,blueprint] - cinematic environments, animated decals.
• Alan Becker Tutorials. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.
• Alex Grigg. Animation for Anyone series.
• Alex Kunchevsky. Motion design.
• Olof Storm. Animation and motion.
• School of Motion (YouTube). Motion design education.
• The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition. "We've had a ton of fun experimenting with an animation of a cat in a washing machine."
• Toniko Pantoja. Animation industry and technique.

Animation: Courses

Structured animation courses.

AI Motion Capture & Animation

AI-powered mocap and character animation tools.

Related:

• ActorCore Freemium. Motion-capture library from Reallusion.
• AnimateDiff + ControlNet. Open-source controlled video animation from poses.
• Bandai Namco Research Motiondataset. R&D division of game publisher and developer Bandai Namco, has released a massive library of free motion-capture data for research and personal use.
• Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions. Contains 2500 free human motion captures.
• Mixamo. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).
  See also: Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized

AI Motion Capture Software

Also in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software

Lighting, Rendering & ShadersEdit

3D lighting, rendering theory, shader theory, and renderer-specific learning. Render engine software lives in §12.

3D Lighting: Fundamentals

Core lighting tutorials for beginners and generalists.

• 10 Tips for Better Lighting. Helloluxx lighting tips.
• Creative Shrimp. High quality CG tutorials and Blender tutorials, digital art and lighting tutorials with Gleb and Aidy.
• Get Better Lighting in C4D. Improve C4D lighting.
• School of Motion Lighting Blog. Shadows, volumetrics, HDRI, and area light techniques.
• The Digital Revolution. Beginner C4D lighting.

3D Lighting: Redshift-Specific

Redshift lighting tutorials, primarily in C4D.

• Creative Product Lighting with Redshift & C4D. Jarred van de Voort, NAB 2023.
• How to Art Direct Lights in a Cloner. Art-directing lights across cloners.
• Redshift Interior Materials & Lighting. Interior materials and lighting.
• Redshift Lighting Techniques (Essential MoGraph). Redshift lighting techniques.
• You And Me Academy. Light groups workflow.

3D Lighting: Production

Production-focused lighting talks.

Related:

• CNDL Freemium. An IES lighting creation toolset. Improve your renders with custom IES lighting.
• UE5 Product Viz. IPhone Lighting Breakdown. UE5 product viz iPhone lighting breakdown.

Rendering & Shader Theory

Foundational rendering and shader theory references.

Related:

• (2014) Ray tracing with OpenGL Compute Shaders. By Kai Burjack - Detailed tutorial series about ray tracing using OpenGL (LWJGL).
• 📺 Advanced Cel Shader ~ Pitchfork Academy. [material].
• 📺 Cel-Shader playlist ~ many. [post-process,Lumin,msc-ue] - 17 videos.
• 📺 Manga/outline Shader playlist ~ many. [post-process,shader] - 18 videos, outlines, toon shaders.
• 📺 Moebius-style 3D Rendering ~ Useless Game Dev. [pre-process,post-process,shader] - Sorbel filter on depth map, crosshatch, fader, etc.
• 📺 stylized comic book shader ~ Chris Folea Makes Things. [pre-process,blueprint] - WITHOUT post processing.
• 3D Game Shaders (source). Open-source project with resources on learning 3D game shaders.
• 3D Game Shaders for Beginners. Clear breakdowns of SSAO, bloom, SSR.
• 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development. A must-read book to be
• 3D Programming Weekly Articles. Great collection of shader and math related resources.
• A Gentle Introduction to Shaders in Unity3D. Series of posts introducing shader coding, oriented to developers with little to no knowledge of shaders.
• A Pixel is not a Little Square!. Classic paper on misconception of "a pixel is a little square." It also serves as an introduction to sampling.
• A Rapid Hierarchical Rendering Technique for Translucent Materials. Jensen & Buhler. SIGGRAPH 2002
• A Survey on Participating Media Rendering Techniques. Cerezo et al. Visual Computer, 2005
• A Trip Through The Graphics Pipeline. A-trip-through-the-graphics-pipeline.
• Advanced Creative Coding with WebGL & Shaders. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers that go deeper into graphics programming, math and shaders.
• Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial. Advanced Materials in Blender - Shader Editor Tutorial.
• Alan Zucconi's Blog. Shaders and maths. Well explained and very interesting.
• An introduction to Shader Art Coding. Video tutuorial showing the basics of creating art with shaders.
• Anatole Drupat (XT95). Recognized shader artist with a big trajectory ST Profile
• Anime/Toon/Cel Shading Model (Envieous, UE5). Custom UE5 anime/toon/cel shading model. Works with launcher engine versions.
• apitrace. Tools for tracing OpenGL, Direct3D, and other graphics APIs.
• Appleseed. Physically-based global illumination rendering engine.
• Bart Wronski's blog. Bart Wronski shares insights into real-time rendering, post-processing effects, and advanced graphics techniques
• bgfx. Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
• Blender & ACES. Setup Blender to work with ACES using OpenColorIO.
• Blender Addon PBR. Provides a material panel that creates Metallic/Roughness or Specular/Gloss Nodes using the Principled BSDF shader.
• Blender Interplanety Storage (BIS) Freemium. Online material/shader storage add-on for Blender. Save node groups to a personal library and search/upload from inside Blender.
• BNPR Shaders. Collection of NPR shaders for Blender (EEVEE Comics Shader, Erisdraw3D, EEVEEToon).
• Bonzomatic. Live-coding editor for OpenGL pixel shaders, where the results appear on background as you edit the code.
• Brandon Fogerty's blog. A blog focused on real-time rendering, shader programming, and game engine development
• Canvas Debugger. Quick tutorial how to use Firefox's developer tools to debug WebGL Shaders.
• Car Paint Shader Paid. Simple shader setup that lets you easily create a variety of different car paint finishes.
• Casual effects by Morgan McGuire. Morgan McGuire's site is a great resource for those interested in learning about real-time rendering techniques. It provides a wealth of information on various rendering techniques, making it an exc
• Catlike Coding. Focuses on C# and shaders in Unity.
• CelShader. Advanced CelShader project for Unreal Engine 4
• Cesium. Open-source library for world-class 3D globes and maps.
• CineShader. Real-time 3D shader visualiser. Uses the Shadertoy API to bring thousands of existing shader artworks into a cinematic 3D environment.
• Circular Color Picker Unity. Just a shader and a script for a circular color picker.
• CodeXL. AMD's tool suite that includes debugger, profiler and frame/shader analysis.
• Compact YCoCg Frame Buffer. Paper on compact YCoCg frame buffer for small IBL buffers.
• ComputeToys. Innovative and experimental WebGPU compute shader editor designed to help developers explore the capabilities of the WebGPU API for creating high-performance graphics applications in the browse
• CopperLicht. JavaScript library and WebGL 3D engine for creating games and 3D applications.
• CppCon 2018: Valentin Galea “Rapid Prototyping of Graphics Shaders in Modern C++”. Also implemented swizzling with similar techniques.
• Cracked Ice Shader. Cracked Ice material tutorial.
• Creative Coding with Canvas & WebGL. Workshop by Matt DesLauriers that teaches you about generative art, interactive animations, 3D graphics, and shaders.
• Custom shaders with Three.JS. Introduction to custom shaders, uniforms, textures and lighting in three.js.
• Cyanilux. Unity shader tutorials (URP focus). Intro to Shader Graph, HLSL, depth, vertex displacement, dissolve, portals, water, fire. Beginner to advanced.
• Cyos. Online shader editor.
• DreamWork's MoonRay. MoonRay is a physically based path-tracing renderer; it includes a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework. GitHub
• Efficient Gradient-Domain Compositing Using Quadtrees. ACM Trans. Graph. 2007
• Embree. High-performance ray tracing kernels that help engineers improve photorealistic rendering performance.
• Everything (or most things) wrong with learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory. Everything (or most things) wrong with learnopengl.com/PBR/Theory.
• Experimental analysis of BRDF models. Ngan et al. Proceedings of the 2005 Eurographics Symposium on Rendering
• Extra Lights. Plugin for Blender that adds physically based, photometric lighting presets to the Add menu. ![market]
• Fabian 'ryg' Giesen's Blog. Fabian Giesen's blog covers topics like rendering, optimization, and low-level programming, with a focus on practical techniques
• Fast Filter-Width Estimates with Texture Maps. GPU Gems 1 - Chapter 25.
• Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping. Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping.
• Fast Volume Rendering Using a Shear-Warp Factorization of the Viewing Transformation. Lacroute & Levoy. SIGGRAPH 1994
• Fft Ocean. Fast Fourier Transform ocean rendering for Three.js
• Filament. PBR engine, available on all platforms (desktop, mobile).
• Flow Map Shader. Flow Map Shader for Unity3D. Used with sprites.
• FogSprites. Modification of Unity's sprite shaders supporting Fog.
• Fragment Foundry. Interactive fragment shader tutorial.
• Fragmentarium. Program to edit and visualize GLSL shaders, mainly focused on fractals and generative systems.
• Framer Motion. A nice animation library for react, and can be used with react-three-fiber too through the framer-motion-3d package usage. Very nice for bindin
• fSync. Unofficial fSpy/Maya bridge which also creates projection shaders.
• Glass for EEVEE. Shader that lets you make realistic glass with EEVEE.
• Global illumination using photon maps. Jensen, H. W. Rendering Techniques 1996
• Glow. Unity ShaderGraph effect test.
• GLSL Sandbox. Online live editor for fragment shaders.
• GlslEditor. Simple WebGL Fragment Shader Editor.
• glslViewer (GitHub). Console-based GLSL Sandbox for 2D/3D shaders by @patriciogv. Battle-tested by its creator, it enables to build a creative pipeline agnostic to the target platform a
• glslViewer (write-up). Live-coding console tool that renders GLSL Shaders.
• GPU Zen Blog. A blog dedicated to GPU programming and advanced rendering techniques, often featuring excerpts from the GPU Zen book series
• Graphics for Games. Introduction to 3D graphics programming including shaders, math post-processing etc. from Newcastle University.
• Graphics Programming Resources. Papers, talks, implementations aggregated by community.
• GrassBending. A replacement for Unity's terrain grass shader with alpha blended rendering and touch bending effect. (#TERRAIN)
• gsap. A mastodon for animations in CSS and for three.js too, backed up by awesome plugins like ScrollTrigger, Flip,.. and mostly framework agnostic.
• GSLS Optimizer. GLSL optimizer based on Mesa's GLSL compiler. Used in Unity for mobile shader optimization. (#SHADERS)
• Houdini Gaussian Splatting Viewport Renderer. A HDK/GLSL implementation of Gaussian Splatting in Houdini
• How does a GPU Shader work?. How does a GPU Shader work?.
• How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL. How to Create a Fake 3D Image Effect with WebGL.
• How to read shader assembly. How to read shader assembly.
• ibreakdownshaders. Explore the math behind shaders.
• Íñigo Quílez. Hardcore math applied to computer graphics, one of the best shader makers out there. ST Profile
• Instanced Line Rendering Part II: Alpha blending. Continue of the above article, and introduces a way to do alpha-blending with triangulated lines.
• Intel Open Image Denoise. Open-source library of high-performance, high-quality denoising filters for ray-traced images.
• Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with Shader-Based OpenGL, 6/E. [Currently can be bought here] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Interactive-Computer-Graphics-Top-Down-Shader-Based/dp/0132545233)
• Intro Three.js. Introduction to Shaders in Three.js
• Introduction to shaders. Part 1 of an introduction to shaders using threejs.
• IOR List. Index of Refraction values list for use with 3D applications.
• ISF. GLSL shaders for use in interactive applications.
• Jendrik Illner's blog. Ubisoft 3D programmer posts a weekly summary of articles on 3D graphics. Shader tutorials, real-time rendering papers, etc.
• Khrnos: Streamlining Render Passes. Introduces the VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering extension.
• Kick.js Shader Editor. Formal Tool the WebGL engine Kick.js
• KodeLife. Real-time shader editor that supports GLSL, HLSL, and Metal, with a user-friendly interface for creating and testing shaders.
• Learn OpenGL. Deep rendering concepts from scratch (lighting, shadows, PBR, SSAO).
• Learn OpenGL: Skeletal Animation. Learn OpenGL: Skeletal Animation.
• Learn OpenGL: Text Rendering. Learn OpenGL: Text Rendering.
• Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine. Introduces Rotors in Geometric Algebra.
• Light field rendering. Levoy & Hanrahan. Siggraph 1996
• Light House 3D. By Light House 3D
• Lightning Boy Studio. Toon shader, npr.
• Lily Surface Scrapper. Import shaders in Blender from a single URL.
• Lygia (GitHub). Granular and multi-language shader library designed for performance and flexibility by @patriciogv. A cross platform library that will help you iterate on your s
• Lygia (site). Shader library of reusable functions.
• Magnum (GitHub). It is a 2D/3D graphics engine for modern OpenGL.
• Makin' Stuff Look Good. YouTube channel about shaders case studies.
• Marmoset Resources. Baking guides, PBR theory, technical articles.
• Matcap - Spherical Environment Mapping Shader. Matcap - creating a spherical reflection/environment mapping shader.
• Memory Management section on Pbrt. Memory Management section on Pbrt.
• Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces. Walter et al. Eurographics Symposium on Rendering 2007
• Mitsuba. A research-oriented retargetable rendering system, written in portable C++17 on top of the Enoki library.
• Multitexturing using a Blendmap. How to use a blendmap to multitexture a terrain.
• NEORT. Digital art platform for creative coders (Fragment Shader, JavaScript Canvas).
• NeRF-Tex: Neural Reflectance Field Textures. Baatz et al., EGSR 2021 | bibtex
• Node To Python. Convert Geometry, Shader, and Compositing nodes to legible Python scripts and add-ons.
• NodeToy. The shader tool for the web. NodeToy provides creators a editor to create incredible new shaders and visual effects. If you are a react-three-fiber user, consider checking
• OpenGL 3D Game Tutorials. Beginners tutorial series about creating 3D games OpenG.
• OpenGL 4 Shaders. Short and sweet introduction to OpenGL shaders by Anton Gerdelan.
• OpenGL/GLSL Shader Programming. Deck on OpenGL/GLSL shader programming.
• Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering. Veach & Guibas. SIGGRAPH 1995.
• Path tracing fractals. By Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen|Arlo.. in a fragment shader by Inigo Quilez|
• Patricio Gonzales Vivo. Main contributor for the magnificent learning site "The book of shaders"
• PBRT v3. Source code for pbrt, the renderer from the third edition of "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory To Implementation".
• PBRT v4. Ray tracer from "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" book.
• Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D. Snavely, Seitz, Szzeliski. Siggraph 2006
• Physically Based Rendering (3rd ed online). Third edition of the PBR book online, with the ray tracer implementation.
• Physically Based Rendering (PBR Book). Full book free online. Definitive PBR reference.
• Physics-Based Animation. Contains learning resources and papers.
• PicoGL.js. Minimal WebGL 2-only rendering library.
• Pixel Shaders. Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming.
• PixelSpirit Elements Deck. This is a tarot deck for learning GLSL shaders. Each PixelSpirit card has a visual element and its GLSL shader code. The cards are ordered from simplest to most complex, building a library of code f
• PixelSpirit GitHub. Library associated with the PixelSpirit Elemens Deck by @patriciogv
• Practical Rendering of Multiple Scattering Effects in Participating Media. Premoze et al. Rendering Techniques 2004: 15th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering
• Procedural Stochastic Texturing. Modified Unity Standard shader implementing Procedural Stochastic Texturing.
• Ptex. A texture mapping system developed by Walt Disney Animation Studios for production-quality rendering.
• Pyro Shader for Redshit, ARnold, Renderman. Pyro Shader for Redshit, ARnold, Renderman.
• Ray Tracey's blog. Sam Lapere's blog, leads the scientific team at EPFL Blue Brain Project. Lots of post about real time rendering
• Ray Tracing Gems. Like other "gems" book, it contains standalone chapters on various ray tracing topics.
• Ray Tracing Gems II. Ray Tracing Gems II.
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend. Peter Shirley's free book to get you implementing a basic ray tracer in C++ in about 40 pages.
• Ray Tracing in One Weekend series. Those three short books explain basic concepts of path tracing and implement a software renderer from scratch.
• Ray Tracing: The Next Week. By Peter Shirley, builds on top of the first books' project, adding more effects, like textures and motion blur
• Ray Tracing: The Rest of Your Life. Peter Shirley's last book in the series, covering more mathematical themes for complete renderers.
• Raymarching On Unity 5. Raymarcher in Unity 5.
• React Spring. An awesome library about physically accurate animations. Works smoothly also for react-three-fiber using the package
• Real-Time Rendering. Companion site to the book, massive curated link collection.
• Real-Time Rendering Blog. A blog associated with the "Real-Time Rendering" book series, featuring updates on rendering techniques, industry news, and research papers
• Real-Time Rendering recommended books. List of recommended books on the Real-Time Rendering site.
• Realistic water shader. There are also some links with explanation of the approach
• Reddit Two Triangles. General discussion and showcase for shaders.
• RenderDoc. Free and open-source graphics debugging tool that allows developers to capture and analyze frames from DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL applications. It provides a user-friendly interface to inspect
• Rendering Resources - Benedikt Bitterli. Scenes in Tungsten, Mitsuba and pbrt-v3 formats.
• Resources for Writing Shaders in Unity. For the UNITE Boston 2015 talk titled Writing Shaders: YOU can do it!
• Scene.js. Extensible WebGL-based engine for high-detail 3D visualisation.
• Scratchapixel. Ray tracing, rasterization, math foundations from first principles.
• SDFs by Inigo Quilez. All you need to know about SDFs and other shader magic.
• Semi-Automatic Generation of Transfer Functions for Direct Volume Rendering. Kindlmann & Durkin. IEEE Symposium on Volume Visualization 1998
• Shader Derivative Functions. Useful for normals.
• Shader Designer. TyphoonLabs' OpenGL Shader Designer
• Shader Displacement for EEVEE Paid. Using a few modifiers and a nodegroup, realtime shader displacement in EEVEE is now possible.
• Shader Editor. Quick tutorial how to use Firefox's developer tools to debug WebGL Shaders.
• Shader Effects. Unity shader effects.
• Shader Graph Tutorials. Project files for our tutorials on using Shader Graph in Unity.
• Shader Lab Lab. A system using T4 Templates to generate Unity ShaderLab code in the Editor.
• Shader Park. A JavaScript library for creating interactive procedural 2D and 3D shaders. Helpful for raymarching shaders (the raymarcher is already built-in, SDFs and boolean operation between them already avail
• SHADERed. Lightweight tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders.
• ShaderForge. A node-based shader editor giving you the artistic freedom of shader creation, with no need to code. (Was :moneybag: but now is open source and not maintained).
• ShaderFrog. Online shader editor and asset manager that allows users to create, edit, and export shaders for use in Three.js, Unity, and other game engines. It supports visual shader editing and also offer
• ShaderGif. Open source home for art made with code (WebGL1/2, JavaScript Canvas & P5.js).
• Shaderific for OpenGL. Documentation on GLSL
• Shaderific GLSL. OpenGL ES shading language reference.
• ShaderProject. A container for all sorts of handy shaders.
• Shaders Laboratory. YouTube channel about shaders.
• ShaderShop editor. Visually impactful editor to work on shaping.
• ShaderShop videos. Some awesome videos about ShaderShop.
• ShaderTool. [Win] - Modern shader IDE for programmers and FX artists.
• ShadowDrawer. Shadow matte shader for Unity.
• Shadowing by Non-Gaussian Random Surfaces. Garry S. Brown, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagaion (1980)
• Shaping functions. Awesome set of shaping functions for shaders
• SHDR Editor. Live GLSL shader editor, viewer and validator.
• Stack.gl. Site that approaches Shaders from WebGL
• Stanford Bunny Fur With Unity. Using the Geometry Shader to generate fur on GPU.
• Static Object Intersections - Real Time Rendering Resource Page. A collection of intersection algorithms.
• Substance Academy. Free official Substance Painter/Designer tutorials.
• Synthclipse. Synthclipse is a GLSL shader prototyping tool.
• Takua Renderer. Karl Li's hobbyist physically-based renderer project page with technical write-ups.
• Temporal light field reconstruction for rendering distribution effects. Lehtinen et al. SIGGRAPH 2011
• Terrain Rendering Using GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps. GPU Gems 2 - Chapter 02.
• The Art of Code (channel). Tutorials on shaders using ShaderToy, mostly videos on procedural generation.
• The Book of Shaders. Interactive intro to GLSL fragment shaders.
• The Book of Shaders Glossary. Shader glossary by theme.
• The Interactive Shader Format (ISF) Editor. Online tool for creating and editing GLSL shaders in the ISF format, which is commonly used in VJ software, live performance applications, and interactive installations.
• The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?. The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 1: How Did We Get Here?.
• The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?. The Shader Permutation Problem - Part 2: How Do We Fix It?.
• Three Blender. Blender based tool, to convert your Blender files directly to threeJS.
• Tungsten. High performance physically based renderer in C++11.
• Twigl. Free online shader editor.
• Unity Compute Shader Ray Tracing Practice. Raytracing shader tutorial for Unity.
• Unity Fluid Simulation 2D. Using extended camera to render particles then metalball processing with shader.
• Unity Outline Shader. Source code for Outline Shader tutorial for Unity. Detects edges in a scene using the depth and normals buffers.
• Unity Raymarching Collision. Raymarching x Rigidbody interaction example.
• Unity Shader Cheatsheet. Collection of Unity shader copypastas and gotchas.
• Unity Shader Sketches. Sketches made with ShaderLab in Unity.
• Unity Shader Tutorials. Full project and code for all of my shader tutorials.
• Unity Shaders. Unity project about reseach on shaders and particle system.
• Unity3D Shaders Learning. Ust learning Unity3D shaders here.
• UnityGPUNoise. A set of shaders to help perform various Noise functions on the GPU.
• USD Arnold. USD Schemas and tools for exchanging Arnold shader information between multiple 3rd party packages.
• Vertex Shader Art. Platform for creating and sharing vertex shaders, with a focus on artistic and experimental uses.
• Vertexshaderart. YouTube playlist about vertex shaders.
• VerticalDissolve. Procedural vertical dissolve shader. Highly customizable. Tweak edge color, noisiness & waviness, rim light, emission scrolling.
• VFX good night reading. Curated collection of good reading about VFX and CG.
• VilarVRC. Vilar's Shaders for VRChat.
• Virtual ray lights for rendering scenes with participating media. Novak et al. 2012 SIGGRAPH 2012
• Virtual Terrain Project. Creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real part of the real world in interactive, 3D digital form.
• WebGL 2 Basics. Blog post about getting started with WebGL 2.
• WebGL 2 New Features. Blog post about whats new and cool in WebGl 2.
• WebGL Fundamentals. This resource provides a thorough understanding of WebGL and its underlying principles, ensuring that you grasp the latest techniques and approaches such as 3D rendering, lighting, 2D transformation
• WebGl Playground. The editor lets you work on the JavaScript code and the GLSL vertex/fragment shaders (if you have any) at the same time in a convenient way. Everything is organized, formatted and highlighted prope
• Whitestorm.js (site). Framework for developing 3D web apps with physics.
• Wind Waker Shader. Cel Shading of two thresholds with a blur/gradient between them for Unity.
• Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer. Writing an efficient Vulkan renderer.
• xeokit. Web Graphics SDK for AEC/BIM applications with 3D-tiles, real-world coordinates and double precision.

Renderer-Specific Learning

Deep-dives for specific render engines.

• Ariev Visuals Resources. Octane tutorials and assets.
• Polymesh to Volume (Arnold). Arnold polymesh to volume conversion.
• Veach Thesis (Stanford). Light transport theory. Foundational PBR thesis.

Render Engines

Also in Software Reference → Render Engines

VFX, Compositing & Virtual ProductionEdit

VFX tools learning, compositing, virtual production stacks, and tech art channels. Software tables live in §12.

Virtual Production

Real-time engines and hardware stacks for virtual production.

Related:

• NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprints. Omniverse blueprints and reference pipelines.

Tech Art

Tech art breakdowns, procedural art, and tutorials.

• AFX. Everyday compositing for Nuke
• Bino. 3D video player with support for 180°/360° video and Virtual Reality.
• CasparCG. A Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio, and video to multiple outputs as a layer-based real-time compositor.
• Jam2go. Procedural art and creative coding.
• Kiko. DCC-agnostic animation curves storage (works between Maya and Nuke, with more DCCs to come).
• max rose. Tech art breakdowns on YouTube.
• Nuke Tools (VS Code). VS Code extension for Nuke Python/BlinkScript development.
• Nuke Tools ST. Sublime Text package to send Python/BlinkScript code into Nuke.
• NXT. A layered code compositing application.
• OpenWalter. USD Plugins Arnold, Houdini, Katana, Maya and USD.
• Simon Schreibt. Game Art Tricks and Workflow Tricks. Technical breakdowns of how games achieve effects (mirrors, fog, rendering tricks).
• Visual Tech Art. Tech art tutorials.
• xComp. Image Render comparing.

Compositing Learning, Books & Industry

Nuke creators, comp theory books, VFX breakdown sites, and industry magazines.

• Befores & Afters. Ian Failes. Shot breakdowns and artist Q&As across VFX features.
• Book: Compositing Visual Effects (Lee Lanier) Paid. Lee Lanier. Applied, project-based comp instruction.
• Book: Digital Compositing for Film and Video (Steve Wright, 4th ed.) Paid. Standard text on digital compositing. Math + practical workflow.
• Book: The Art and Science of Digital Compositing (Brinkmann, 2nd ed.) Paid. Ron Brinkmann's theoretical canon for digital compositing.
• Cinefex (archive). Legacy VFX-making journal archives.
• CompositingMentor Paid. Tobias Wiesner's paid mentorship-style Nuke courses. Deep compositing focus.
• Foundry Learn (Nuke). Official Foundry training. Free tutorials plus certification tracks.
• Hugo's Desk (Hugo Guerra) Mixed. Pro Nuke compositing tutorials and breakdowns from CG Supe Hugo Guerra.
• NukePedia. Canonical Nuke community library. Gizmos, scripts, tutorials, plugins.
• Steve Wright Training Paid. Steve Wright (author of the standard Nuke text) structured comp course series.
• The Art of VFX. VFX supervisor interviews per film.
• VFX Apprentice (Allan McKay) Paid. Paid VFX career courses. Nuke + Houdini overlap.

VFX & Compositing Software

Also in Software Reference → VFX & Compositing Software

Matchmoving & Camera Tracking Software

Also in Software Reference → Matchmoving & Camera Tracking Software

Virtual Production Software

Also in Software Reference → Virtual Production Software

Motion Graphics & VideoEdit

Motion graphics tools, inspiration, AE / Fusion learning, and video editing. Stock footage lives in §1 Assets.

Motion Graphics: YouTube Channels

Motion design learning channels.

• Ben Marriott. After Effects and motion design.

Motion Graphics: Courses

Structured motion graphics courses.

After Effects: Learning & Templates

AE expressions, templates, and workflow resources.

• Jitter Templates. Free motion graphics templates.
• Top 5 Expressions (graymachine). Essential AE expressions.

Fusion (DaVinci Resolve): Learning

Fusion references and EXR workflow.

• Multichannel EXR (Fusion forum). Multichannel EXR workflow in Fusion.
• Split EXR in Fusion. Split EXR in Fusion guide.
• VFXPedia. Reference wiki for Fusion.

Motion Graphics: Inspiration

Showcases, style frames, title sequences, ad references.

Related:

• Ads of the World. Advertising reference.
• AEJuice Freemium. Free and premium motion presets, transitions, and effects packs installable directly via a panel inside After Effects.
• After Effects Facebook Group. Join the After Effects community on Facebook.
• Animation Nodes (GitHub). A node-based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
• Animation Nodes (site). A node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender.
• Art of Style Frame. Style frame showcase.
• Art of the Title. Title sequence deep dives.
• Behance Motion. Motion design gallery.
• Commotion. Blender add-on for motion graphics.
• Eyecannndy. Visual effects and motion inspiration.
• Film Grab. Film frame reference.
• Flim AI Freemium. Film frame search engine.
• Houdini 2 AE. Tool for exporting camera and locators from Houdini to After Effects.
• John Berube. Motion design portfolio and resources.
• Mobox Graphics. Offers in-depth After Effects tutorials, especially in the field of motion design.
• Motionographer. Motion design showcase.
• nexrender. Data-driven render automation for After Effects.
• Opening Titles (Vimeo). Title sequence collection.
• PlayPhrase.me Freemium. Phrase-based film clip search.
• RailCut Paid. Multi-track clip editing directly in After Effects with NLE-style tools like ripple edit, rolling edit, slip, and slide.
• React UMG. A React renderer for Unreal Motion Graphics with Unreal.js.
• Reddit - r/AfterEffects. The After Effects subreddit for community discussions and sharing.
• Rubberhose 2 Paid. Shape-layer-based IK limb rigging system for fast character animation with one-click rig creation.
• ShotDeck Paid. Film shot reference database.
• Stash Magazine Freemium. Motion design and animation showcase.
• Trapcode Suite Paid. A set of 3D motion graphics and visual effects plugins for After Effects.

Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities

MG-specific tools and utilities.

Related:

• Caddis Paid. Motion design app with layer timeline and node compositing.
• Element 3D Paid. A 3D plugin for After Effects that allows you to import and animate 3D models.
• Jitter Freemium. Browser-based collaborative motion design tool.
• Lottielab Freemium. Editor for Lottie animations targeting apps and websites.
• Nukepedia Lens Engine. Lens simulation gizmo for Nuke.
• Nw Wrld. Experimental motion tool.
• PixelCrash Paid. Creative motion and visual tools.
• Plate Paid. WebGPU motion design tool running in the browser, with macOS and Windows builds.

Video Editing: Courses

Editing-specific courses.

2D & Animation Software

Also in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software

Video Editing Software

Also in Software Reference → Video Editing Software

Audio Software

Also in Software Reference → Audio Software

Game DevelopmentEdit

Engines, per-engine resources, game dev tools, game assets (dual-listed from §1), design theory, learning, communities, and jams. Engine software tables live in §12.

Godot: Official Resources

Official documentation and asset libraries.

• Godot Asset Store. Official addon, plugin, and asset marketplace (beta). Replaces the legacy Asset Library.
• Godot Documentation. Official docs. GDScript, C#, 2D/3D, shaders, physics, networking.
• Godot Proposals. Feature request tracker and roadmap.
• Godot Shaders. Community shader library with visual previews.

Godot: Key Plugins & Addons

Essential Godot addons.

• Dialogic 2. Full-featured dialogue and timeline system.
• GdSpy. Unofficial fSpy importer for Godot.
• Godot 4 glTF runtime import. Godot 4 glTF runtime import.
• Godot Package Manager. Package manager for Godot using npm.
• GodotSteam. Steamworks SDK integration.
• Gut. Unit testing framework for GDScript.
• Limbo AI. Behavior trees and state machines.
• Phantom Camera. Dynamic camera system (Cinemachine-inspired).
• SmartShape2D. Intelligent 2D terrain/shape tool.

Godot: Learning

Godot-focused learning channels and courses.

• Brackeys (Godot). Returned in 2024 with Godot content.
• DevDuck. Dev logs and tutorials.
• GDQuest Freemium. Premium courses plus free YouTube tutorials.
• GDScript.com. Interactive GDScript learning.
• HeartBeast. RPG and action game tutorials.
• Introduction into the new Godot OpenVR Asset. Introduction into the new Godot OpenVR Asset.
• KidsCanCode Godot Recipes. Clear beginner-friendly guides.
• Miziziziz. Tutorials and game dev challenges.
• The Shaggy Dev. Godot-focused tutorials.

Godot: Communities

Godot forums and chat.

• Godot Discord. Official Discord.
• Godot Forums. Official forum.
• r/godot. 350k+ members, very active.

Unity Engine: Resources

Unity community add-ons, tools, and learning resources.

Related:

• 2D Rope System Paid. Scripts for creating any type of 2D ropes in the editor or during runtime. :moneybag:
• 2D Tech Demos. Tech Demos for Unity 2D Features.
• 3DBuzz. A video tutorial providing an in-depth explanation of Unity's new UI system.
• 50 Unity Tips. A collection of 50 tips for Unity (focusing on Mobile) ranging from editor tools to serialization to UI shortcuts.
• A Crack In The Slab. An exploration to recreate an effect from Dishonored 2 in Unity.
• A Star Pathfinding for Unity. A Star Pathfinder, 3 axis, multithreaded for Unity.
• A* Pathfinding Project Pro Paid. Lightning fast pathfinding for Unity3D. :moneybag:
• Actors Unity3d Framework. Ease the pain of decoupling data from behaviors in Unity.
• Adic. Lightweight dependency injection container for Unity.
• AdMob Unity Plugin. An extension for Unity3d to place AdMob banners in your Android games. (#PLUGINS)
• AI Companion. Created in Unity 5 for the purposes of learning AI techniques. Features behaviour trees and A* pathfinding.
• AirPeer. A WebRTC based networking plugin for Unity.
• Akka.Unity.Sample. Akka.Net 1.3.0 Running in Unity3D.
• AngryBots2. An example Unity Project, developed by Unity Technologies, used to demonstrate several features.
• Animation Texture Baker. Bake Legacy Animations into Textures. Targeting ECS. (#ANIMATION)
• Animator Timeline. Timeline Editor for Unity. (#ANIMATION)
• AR Foundation.
• Artimech. Open source visual scripting system for Unity.
• Asset Auditing Tools. A set of Editor tools to audit project assets and correct errors.
• Astar Pathfinding. 2D pathfinding for Unity.
• Atlas Unity. This plugin provides tasks to run unity batchmode commands in gradle. It runs and reports unity unit-tests and is able to export.unitypackage files.
• AudioRecorder. Audio recorder component for Unity.
• AudioTexture. Generate Unity Texture2D from AudioClip. (#AUDIO)
• Augmented Reality. Unity’s AR Foundation Framework , Unity MARS
• Auto Save Scene. Unity editor helper for auto saving scene & minimizing lost work.
• Autoya. Thin framework for Unity.
• Barebones Master Server. Master Server framework for Unity.
• Beautiful Text Outline for Unity UI. Beautiful Text Outline for Unity UI.
• Bep In Ex. Unity game patcher and plugin framework.
• Better Defines. An easy and elegant way to manage your preprocessor directives in Unity3D.
• BetterDefines.cs. Better Defines for Unity3D.
• BezierCanvas. Adobe Illustrator's pen tool style bezier editor on Unity.
• BitpackingTools. Bitpacking/serialization libraries used interally for Unity Store NetworkSyncTransform and TransformCrusher Assets.
• Bitstrap. BitStrap is BitCake's collection of Unity tools that improve our workflow.
• Bolt Paid. Brings complete visual scripting to Unity, empowering artists, designers and programmers to create gameplay mechanics and interactive systems without writing a single line of code. (:moneybag: with
• Bona Data Editor. Unity plugin editor for easier manipulation of assets of certain types. (#ATTRIBUTES)
• Bullet Pattern Editor Unity. Easily create shoot em up bullet patterns.
• CAFU Core. Clean Architecture For Unity. See sample.
• CameraLib4U. A third person camera system for Unity using Chase Camera.
• CarPaint. Material for the Unity Standard Assets Car.
• Chanquo. Golang-channel partial implementation for Unity.
• CharacterController2D. A 2D controller that behaves very similarly to Unity's CharacterController component.
• Charon Unity3D. Charon Game Data Editor Plug-in for Unity3D. Charon is a software for managing game's data. It is used for creating data structure, editing data and accessing this data in the code.
• Cheatografy Cheatsheet. Hotkeys for Unity editor.
• Chest Of Property Drawers. A collection of small reusable Unity3D property drawers.
• ClassTypeReference for Unity. A class which provides serializable references to System.Type of classes with an accompanying custom property drawer which allows class selection from drop-down.
• CO2. Android plugin generator for Unity.
• ColorPalette. Light version of the ColorPalettes Asset for Unity.
• Colorus. Coloring book game for Web/iOS made with Unity.
• Command Terminal. Unity Command Terminal: In-Game Console.
• Complete Unity 2018 Game Development. Explore techniques to build 2D/3D applications using real-world examples.
• Constellation. Constellation is a visual scripting language for unity that gives you the tools of a programmer without having to write a single line of code.
• Coop Design. A prototype for runtime cooperative level designing in Unity 3D.
• CoroutineChain. Unity3D, Coroutine, scripting.
• CosineGradient. Cosine gradient generator for Unity.
• Cpp Unity TCP Client Server. Test project Unity client, C++ (with boost) server (TCP).
• CropTexture. Crop and resize texture in Unity editor!
• Crystal AI. Crystal is a fast, scalable and extensible utility based AI framework for C# and Unity.
• CUDLR. Console for Unity Debugging and Logging Remotely. (#DEPRECATED)
• CurveTexture. Easily encode arbitrary curves into textures and apply them to materials or global shader properties.
• Custom 2D Colliders. A set of custom 2D colliders for Unity. (#2D)
• DataRenderer2D. Make mesh like line, polygon, etc in Unity3D.
• DeadSimple Pixel-Perfect Camera. An exceedingly easy-to-use pixel perfect orthographic camera script for 2D scenes in Unity. Punch in a few specs and you've got a working pixel perfect camera. It's that easy.
• Deform. A fully-featured deformer system for Unity.
• DeltaDNA Unity SDK. Add support for deltaDNA's platform and smartads mediation to your Unity games.
• Devdog UnityTips Compilation. Tweets gathered by Devdog with tips and tricks posted by developers.
• Dissonance. Unity Voice Chat Asset
• DownloadManager.cs. Download manager for Unity.
• DT Compile Time Tracker. Unity editor extension which tracks compile time.
• DTCommandPalette. Command palette for Unity - run methods, open scenes!
• Dual Quaternion Skinning for Unity. Dual Quaternion Skinning for Unity.
• EasingCore. Simple easing implementation for Unity.
• EasyMOBA. MOBA game template for Unity.
• ECS Tween. Simple Unity tweening system using ECS that works with GameObjects!
• ECSRx.unity. A simple framework for unity using the ECS paradigm but with UniRx for fully reactive systems.
• Edge Detect Post Processing Unity. Unity legacy Edge Detect image effect ported to Post Processing Stack v2.
• EDITORVR EXPERIMENTAL BUILD BLOG Unity. EDITORVR EXPERIMENTAL BUILD BLOG Unity.
• Enhanced Scroll View. Cool 3d scoll view for Unity(NGUI 3D UGUI support).
• EnumDispatcher. ECS backed C# enums as Flux/Redux action in Unity.
• Ep Path Finding3 D.cs. A 3D jump point search algorithm for cube based games in C#.
• EZ Item Editor. A game data editor for unity that provides a simple solution to entering, maintaining, and consuming game data.
• EzySlice. An open source mesh slicer framework for Unity3D Game Engine. Written in C#.
• Firestorm. Makeshift Cloud Firestore C# API that works with Unity via REST API. Contains only basic functions.
• FlexibleUI Unity. A Unity System to Implement Multiple GUI Themes.
• Fluid Behavior Tree. A pure code behavior tree micro-framework built for Unity3D projects. Granting developers the power to dictate their GUI presentation.
• Flurry Unity Plugin. The Flurry Library for Unity3D. support Android and iOS.
• foo.md. Controlling fixed function states from materials/scripts in Unity. By aras-p.
• FrameDump. A small utility for exporting image sequence from Unity.
• Fungus. An easy to use Unity 3D library for creating illustrated Interactive Fiction games.
• Futile. A super simple Unity 2D framework.
• Game View Maximizer. Maximizes the game view window with a Shortcut. See related.
• GameAI Movement. Movement Algorithms for NPCs developed with the Unity Engine for the Artificial Intelligence for Games class @ IST.
• GameFramework (EllanJiang). This is literally a game framework, based on Unity game engine. It encapsulates commonly used game modules during development, and, to a large degree, standardises the process, enhances the develop
• GameFramework (FlipWebApps). A free framework for Unity that will help drastically increase the development speed and feature set of your games.
• Gamekit3D. Official Unity 3D gamekit sample project from Unity Technologies.
• Gendarme. From inside the Unity editor.
• Get Social Deep Linking Activity.java. This activity is created because we cannot get Activity.onNewIntent callback in Unity when the app is running in background.
• GetSocial Unity SDK. This is the demo application for GetSocial SDK.
• GitHub: mob-sakai. Unity tools and effects.
• GitHub: mrzapp. Unity tools and utilities.
• GOAP. Goal Oriented Action Planning AI in Unity.
• Good Coding Practices in Unity. Trello board with good coding practices in Unity.
• Google Analytics Plugin for Unity. Google Analytics plugin for the Unity game creation system.
• Google Mobile Ads Unity Plugin. Official Unity Plugin for the Google Mobile Ads SDK
• Google Sheets Unity. Get data from your private Google Sheets to Unity! (Read-only).
• Graphmesh. A graph-based solution for procedural mesh inside the Unity editor.
• Green Mamba Stealth. An advanced stealth system for Unity that detects how well-lit a character is, allowing characters to hide in dynamic shadows.
• Guitar Hero Unity. Guitar Hero fan game made in Unity.
• HermodToolkit. A set of 2D tools for Unity.(#2D)
• HexTiles. Unity Hex Tile Editor.
• HiSocket. It is a lightweight socket solution, you can used it in Unity3D or C# project.
• Hogwarts. Hogwarts (Harry Potter) open sandbox game made in Unity.
• HOW TO SET UP UNITY'S VR EDITOR (EditorVR) !. HOW TO SET UP UNITY'S VR EDITOR (EditorVR) !.
• Hydrogen CSharp. C# framework for Unity providing collections, utilities, and helpers.
• I OS Unity Vuforia Guide. Integration of Unity + Vuforia into native iOS application.
• Ico Sphere Creator. Create Ico Sphere Mesh Tool for Unity.
• Imgui Unity. Integration dear imgui to Unity.
• In-Game Editor UI. Unity3D in-game UI, which shows at runtime a Hierarchy and an Inspector like the built-in Editor.
• InfinityScroll. These scripts will make your UnityGUI ScrollRects scroll infinitely.
• iOS and tvOS. View playmode on final devices. See more.
• iTween Expansion. An expansion of Bob Berkebile's Unity 3D tweening plugin.
• Jitter Physics. Engine into Unity.
• JourneySand. An Unity project to reproduce the sand rendering in Journey's style.
• JSONObject. The JSONObject class/library for Unity.
• JWT for Unity. JWT (JSON Web Token) implementation for.NET 3.5+ (Public Domain).
• KEngine. A Unity3D asset bundle framework with LGPL license.
• KinoBloom. Bloom effect for Unity.
• KinoObscurance. Screen Space Ambient Obscurance image effect for Unity.
• KlakHap. HAP video player plugin for Unity.
• KlakSyphon. Syphon plugin for Unity.
• Knight Windjson. A Json Parser used in Unity3D engine.
• Knowledge Representation. Small Unity project showcasing AI responding to changes in the game world.
• Koch's Fractals. Koch Fractals Demo for Unity.
• kode80SSR. An open source screen space reflections implementation for Unity3D 5.
• L Systems In Unity. L-System is a rewriting system used mainly to model the development of plants. L-Systems in Unity enables you to rapidly create plants in your Unity games.
• Leading Ones (LeadingOnesVR). Unity VR: EditorVR Quick Look.
• Lib Pd Integration. A libpd wrapper for Unity. See Pure Data
• Light Probes Placement. Unity project showing how to use the custom Package LightProbesVolumes for placing lightprobes automatically.
• LINQ to GameObject for Unity. Traverse GameObject Hierarchy by LINQ.
• Live2D with Unity. Import Live2D and read mtn file In Unity3D.
• Lochie Westfall. GitHub repo
• log4net.unity. Some log4net helper classes and UnityEngine.Debug appender for Unity.
• Loxodon Framework. Unity3D MVVM Loxodon Framework Databinding Localization UGUI.
• LuaProfiler For Unity. Profiler for Lua inside of Unity.
• MafiaUnity. Open-source Mafia game framework.
• Marschner Hair Unity. Implement Marschner Shading Model In Unity.
• MassiveNet. Unity3D UDP networking library focused on high-CCU, multi-server architecture.
• Master Unity Handles. Unity custom handles examples.
• MeshDecimator. A mesh decimation library for.NET and Unity.
• Message Pack Grid View. MessagePack Data Viewer built on MessagePack Csharp and Unity TreeView.
• MessagePack CSharp. Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET,.NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).
• Metaverse Standards Forum. Metaverse Standards Forum 5/6/2025
• Minesweeper. Tile based Minesweeper game with highschores made in Unity.
• MiniMap. Unity3D minimap (radar) system (Asset Store link - https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/33729).
• Missing References Unity. A Unity editor extension for finding missing object references.
• MLAPI. A game networking framework built for the Unity Engine to abstract game networking concepts.
• MMD for Unity. MikuMikuDance for Unity.
• MOBA C Sharp Unity. Framework for MOBA games. The server does not depend on Unity. Run on Linux.
• Msgpack Unity3D. MessagePack and JSON serializer for Unity3D.
• MVPScriptGenerator4Unity. MVP Script Generator for Unity Editor.
• My S7 Pro Sim Lib. Imported S7PROSimLib type library. To connect unity3D with Siemens PLCSim using COM Interop.
• Nakama Unity. Unity client for Nakama server.
• Naphier Gists. Useful gists for Unity3D.
• NATPunchthroughClient. An example implementation of NAT Punchthrough combined with Unity's UNet HLAPI.
• NAudio Unity. Port of NAudio to the Mono subset used by Unity3D.
• NaughtyAttributes. Attribute Extensions for Unity.
• NaughtyCharacter. Third Person Controller for Unity.
• NDocumentation. A documentation window for Unity Editor that displays rich text pages.
• Net Peeweek Console. An interactive runtime console for unity available as package.
• NGTools. Unity Editor Extensions and Tools by Napland Games.
• Node Inspector. Unity graph editor extension.
• NPBehave. Event Driven Behavior Trees for Unity 3D.
• NVIDIA Hair Works Integration. NVIDIA Hair Works Integration for Unity.
• OpenConvo. Open source conversation framework for Unity.
• OpenEd. Open source runtime editor for Unity.
• OpenFile. Open source serialization for Unity.
• OpenFramework. A Lightweight framework for unity with dependency injection.
• OpenGUI. Open source GUI framework for Unity.
• Openpath. Open source pathfinding for Unity.
• OpenStash. Open source inventory framework for Unity.
• OSMTrafficSim. TrafficSim using Unity ECS.
• P2P.NET. (Formerly UnityP2P) Peer to peer networking in Unity using WebRTC and a free Heroku server for signaling.
• Pacman. A Pacman clone with original AI made using Unity.
• Path. Pathfinding library for the Unity engine.
• PBD Fluid in Unity. A PBD fluid in unity running on the GPU.
• Pedometer API. Pedometer is a native pedometer API for Unity Engine.
• PerfAssist. Various performance-related components for Unity development.
• Perfect Spheres. A system for rendering spheres cheaply and accurately.
• Physical Camera. Unity Component that can describes a physical camera's attributes. (#Physics)
• Pitaya. Scalable game server framework with clustering support and client libraries for iOS, Android, Unity and others through the C SDK.
• Pixel Camera 2D. A simple pixel perfect camera with scaling options for 2D Games.
• Pixel Render Unity3D. PixelRender is a complete system for realtime rendering of 3D scenes as 2D pixel art in Unity3D. (#2D) (#EFFECTS) (#UTILITIES)
• Pixel Sprite Generator Unity. A port of the PixelSpriteGenerator to C# for use with the Unity3D game engine.
• PNGCS. Complete PNG encoding and decoding for Unity.
• Pomelo Unity Client. A client for Pomelo distributed game server in Node.js.
• PPOL. A crowd simulator based on Unity's ML Agents and using PPO Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.
• ProbePolisher. Light probe editor for Unity.
• Procedural Level Generator Unity. Unity plugin from procedural dungeon generation.
• ProceduralMesh. Simple procedural mesh generation for the Unity game engine.
• ProjectRider Unity. IntelliJ Project Rider integration for Unity.
• Protobuf3 for Unity. Google Protocol Buffers runtime library version 3 for Unity (targeting.NET 3.5).
• Psd2UnityImporter. An advanced PSD importer tool for Unity.
• QuadWarp. QuadWarp sample code for Unity.
• Quickfracture. A unity destruction effect.
• Ray Marching. Experimenting with using ray marching to render signed distance functions in Unity.
• Raywenderlich.com Unity Cheatsheet. Cheatsheet with some common problems when developing with Unity.
• RecyclerKit. Object pool manager for Unity.
• Reflected Inspector. Reflected Inspector is a system for Unity that works very much like Serialized Properties but works with non-Unity types and can serialize the values.
• Reign Unity Plugin. This Reign API is a cross-platform, unified API for the Unity game engine.
• Render Queue. Render Queue Unity Extension.
• Reorderable Inspector. Automatic reorderable lists for Unity game engine components.
• Reorderable List Editor Field for Unity. Reorderable List Editor Field for Unity.
• Resharper Unity. A proxy App to be able to open Unity 5 C# classes using the new Project Rider from Jetbrains, in Mac OS X.
• RestClient (proyecto26). Simple HTTP and REST client for Unity based on Promises, also supports Callbacks!
• RestClient (Unity3dAzure). REST Client for Unity with JSON and XML parsing. (Features JSON helper to handle nested arrays and deserializing abstract types).
• Restifizer Unity3D. Restifizer SDK for Unity3d. A way to significantly simplify creation of full-functional RESTful services, using MongoDB as a database.
• RiderProxy. Unity support for both ReSharper and Rider.
• RPGCore. RPGCore is a framework for producing RPG games and mechanics in Unity.
• Runtime Unity Editor. In-game inspector and debugging tools for applications made with Unity3D game engine.
• San Andreas Unity. We're porting GTA: San Andreas to Unity!
• SceneHistory Unity. Open scenes quickly from a custom history of scenes. Supports scene addition.
• Script Templates for Unity. A little window which automatically generates C# source code stubs for Unity.
• ScriptableObject Architecture. Makes using Scriptable Objects as a fundamental part of your architecture in Unity super easy. (#PATTERNS)
• ScriptFinder. A Unity editor extension to find script references within your project in seconds.
• SDF Gen Unity. A signed distance function generator running inside Unity.
• SearchTools. Search Tools In Unity.
• Selection History Navigator. Unity editor extension to navigate between object selections.
• SerializableCallback. UnityEvent and System.Func had a child.
• Serialized Parameter Unity. Persist data between play mode sessions attribute.
• SetProperty. A PropertyAttribute/PropertyDrawer combination that allows for properties in Unity.
• Settings Unity. Settings utility for Unity3D.
• Shapes. Hand-drawn meshes and vector shapes for Processing and Unity, and a few handpicked colors.
• Shortcuter. Shortcut utility for Unity. (#SHORTCUTS)
• Show Toast Unity Android.cs. Shows toast on Android.
• Signals (UnityPatterns). A simple, easy to implement, editor-driven signal/event system for Unity. See author's repositories.
• Signals (yankooliveira). A typesafe, lightweight messaging lib for Unity.
• Simple ECS. An example using the core features of the Entity Component System (ECS) for Unity, inspired by Roll-a-ball.
• Simple Light Probe Placer. It is simple tool for Unity3d and it help you easily place Light Probes in your scene.
• SmartData. A designer-friendly, editor-driven Unity3D framework for connecting data and events.
• Smrvfx. An example that shows how to pass data from a skinned mesh renderer to a visual effect graph.
• SonarFx. Sonar effect for Unity.
• SpacePuppy Unity Framework 3.0. A framework of various tools to facilitate making games in Unity 2017.
• SpatialOS GDK for Unity. Scalable game server framework with clustering support and client libraries for iOS, Android, Unity and others through the C SDK. (Terms of Service discussion alert!)
• Spine Runtimes. Collection of Spine runtimes including with Unity3d version.
• SpriteDicing. Unity extension for reusing sprite texture areas.
• SpriteMaker. Tool for making sprites in Unity.
• Sproto Unity. A demo show how to use sproto-Csharp in Unity.
• Static Blured Screen. Non-realtime (=static) screen blur for Unity. Easy to use background for dialogs. (#CAMERA)
• Strange Io C. Strange is a super-lightweight and highly extensible Inversion-of-Control (IoC) framework, written specifically for C# and Unity.
• StyleBrowser. A browser editor window to view all Unity built in styles.
• Super Character Controller. Unity custom character controller. (#ARCHIVED)
• Super Mario Bros AR Game. AR game built with Microsoft HoloLens and Unity3D
• Swiss Army Lib. Collection of helpful utilities we use in our Unity projects.
• Terrain Tool Samples. New Terrain Tools and Brush Assets for the Unity Terrain system.
• Texture3DPreview for Unity. This package enables interactive previews of Texture3D assets in Unity's Inspector window.
• TexturePanner. This repository hosts a shader for Unity3D whose main goal is to facilitate the creation of neon-like signs, conveyor belts and basically whatever based on scrolling textures.
• ThreeDScans. Scanned statue models from the Three D Scans project, optimized for real-time rendering use.
• Tidy Up. Neat little tool! to help you keep your Unity projects organised by throwing assets in their designated folders.
• Time Flow Shiki. Unity Editor Timeline GUI skeleton.
• TsiU AIToolkit CSharp. AI Toolkit for Unity.
• TTConsole. The Best Debuger & Runtime Console For Unity3D.
• Typogenic. Signed-distance field text rendering for Unity.
• U Net Voice. Tiny voice chat implementation for Unity.
• U Texture Send Receive. Unity network texture sender and receiver for video and frame streaming.
• UDBase. Module-based game template for Unity. Modules in UDBase are called Controllers, their implementation can be replaced without changing your project source code.
• uGUI LinkImageText. Unity uGUI Text support insert link and image.
• uMVVM. A simple Unity MVVM framework.
• UndoPro. UndoPro is a command-based undo system integrated into Unity's default system. This allows devs to use actions for their undo/redo operations without forcing the user into a new undo-workflow!
• UNet Controller. A Character Controller based controller for Unity's new Networking system. (#NETWORKING)
• Uni Android Vibration. Unity Android plugin JUST execute device vibration.
• Uni Ios Audio Service. Unity iOS plugin JUST playing iOS system sound. (#PLUGINS)
• Uni Version Manager. Simple Version Getter for Unity, it can be used for iOS, Android and unity editor platform. It can also get build version.
• UniClipboard. Simple clipboard plugin for Unity.
• Unidux. Redux Architecture for Unity.
• UniGif. GIF image decoder for Unity.
• UniLua. A pure C# implementation of Lua 5.2 focus on compatibility with Unity3D.
• UniteBerlin. Repository for my Unite Berlin talk - Become a Speed Demon: Being faster at everything you do in Unity.
• Unity 2D Platformer Controller. A customizable 2D platformer motor that handles mechanics such as double jumps, wall jumps, and corner grabs. Includes a player controlled prefab that can be dropped into any scene for immediate su
• Unity 5 Effects. Effect storage space for Unity 5.
• Unity A Star Navigation. An A* navigation system for Unity using burst compiled jobs for performance.
• Unity Ableton Link. An Ableton Link plugin for Unity. (#PLUGINS)
• Unity Ads. Unity3D Official Ads SDK.
• Unity AI. AI Behavior Tree Framework.
• Unity Asset Usage Detector. Find usages of the selected asset(s) and/or Object(s) in your Unity project, i.e. list the objects that refer to them.
• Unity Async Routines. An extremely lightweight Unity library for creating and managing asynchronous coroutines for easy, straight-forward multi-threading and parallellism.
• Unity Atoms. Tiny modular pieces using the power of Scriptable Objects.
• Unity Auth Manager. An example of using a Javascript Web Token (JWT) based authentication system for an app built with Unity.
• Unity Beat Detection. Musical beat detection and audio spectrum analysis for use with the Unity game engine.
• Unity Bezier Solution. A bezier spline solution for Unity 3D with some utility functions (like travelling the spline with constant speed/time).
• Unity Bitmap Drawing. Bitmap Drawing API extension methods for Unity 3D's Texture2D class.
• Unity BitmapFontImporter. An Unity editor extension for bitmap font.
• Unity Camera Follow 2D. Script to make 2d camera follow players in an interesting way.
• Unity Camera Shake. Generates pseudo-random camera shake using Perlin noise.
• Unity CameraSizeToVelocity2D. Simple script to change the cameras size depending on the velocity of the target.
• Unity Character Customization. A character customization demo for Unity.
• Unity Color Picker. A standalone color picker asset for Unity.
• Unity Color Wheel. Color Picker Element for the newer Unity GUI System.
• Unity ColourLovers Importer. Unity editor tool to load colours and palettes directly from COLOURlovers.com.
• Unity Compact Field Attribute. Lets each property label have their own width, to prevent the labels from getting cut off.
• Unity Delaunay. A Delaunay/Voronoi library for Unity, and a simple destruction effect.
• Unity Documentation for VR. Unity Documentation for VR.
• Unity Dynamic Scroll View. Dynamic scrollView based on UGUI.
• Unity ECS Instanced Sprite Renderer. An example of a simple performant sprite renderer using Unity's new ECS system.
• Unity Editor Helper. An organized bunch of scripts to make editor scripting in Unity easier.
• Unity Editor Hotkeys. Unity manual's page with editor hotkeys.
• Unity Editor Icons. Unity version: 2018.3.0f2 Icons what can load using EditorGUIUtility.IconContent.
• Unity Editor Junkie. Editor scripts to make working with the Unity Editor better
• Unity Editor Snippets. Collection of different editor things that help with productivity.
• Unity Editor Spotlight. MacOS-like Spotlight file search in Unity.
• Unity Editor Texel Density. Texel density editor for Unity.
• Unity Elevator Compiler. A plugin that plays elevator music while Unity compiles your code. :cool:
• Unity Engine Analyzer. Roslyn Analyzer for Unity3D.
• Unity EventBinder. User Interface Event decoupler.
• Unity Events. A code focused strongly typed event system with global system and per GameObject system.
• Unity Extensions.Inspect Inline. Enables you to inspect and edit object references, and easily embed such objects as subassets.
• Unity Extensions.Selection History. Adds navigation menu items in Unity Editor: "Edit/Selection/Back", "Edit/Selection/Forward".
• Unity File Debug. Enhanced debug logging for Unity, with JSON/CSV export and HTML viewer.
• Unity File Extension. Shows file extension in 1 column project window.
• Unity First Person View. An asset that allows you to have a First Person Perspective where first person objects do not clip through the environment, have a separate field of view from the environment and can receive shadow
• Unity Flurry SDK. Unity plugin for Flurry SDK.
• Unity Framework. An application framework for C# Unity3D game projects.
• Unity Frosted Glass. Frosted glass material made in Unity.
• Unity Good Practices. Github repository with Unity best practices.
• Unity Inmediate Color Picker. Color picker for Unity in immediate GUI mode.
• Unity Interface Reference. A serializable class that holds the reference to an interface.
• Unity Jobs View Frustum Culling. A simple collection of jobs used for view frustum culling
• Unity Logs Viewer. Using this tool you can easily check your editor console logs inside the game itself! No need to go back to the project and do any tests to track the problems!
• Unity LoMenu. Stylish UI package for Unity engine.
• Unity Main Thread Dispatcher. A simple, thread-safe way of executing actions (Such as UI manipulations) on the Unity Main Thread.
• Unity Math Reference. Math reference for games. All visualized in Unity3D.
• Unity Mecanim VR IK vs Final IK. VR IK using native Unity Mecanim IK
• Unity Mesh Counter. Shows counters for mesh data.
• Unity Mesh Simplifier (Unity-Technologies). Mesh simplification for Unity. Official Unity-Technologies fork.
• Unity Mesh Simplifier (Whinarn). Mesh simplification for Unity.
• Unity Mesh Triangulator. A modified version of alexmuab's unity-mesh-triangulator.
• Unity Movement AI. A library of common movement AI scripts known as Steering Behaviors. You can use these scripts to help your NPCs move around your game.
• Unity Native Scripting. Unity Scripting in C++.
• Unity Neural Network. Simple neural network implemented in C# for Unity3D.
• Unity Non Null. [NonNull] attribute to fields and classes in Unity.
• Unity Object Pool. An elegant object pool and manager implementation for Unity.
• Unity Object Pooler. Simple object pool for Unity.
• Unity Open API. Unity friendly RESTful API client generator.
• Unity Optix Plugin. An example of a Unity plugin that allows you to use the power of NVIDIA Optix.
• Unity Package Manager 2018.3+. Unity Package Manager 2018.3+.
• Unity Path Finding. Shortest path finding with Dijkstra's algorithm for Unity.
• Unity Pause Menu. This is an open source Unity pause menu created for the game New Horizons, and it's completely free because of how a pause menu is a core component of a game, while the unity asset store was lackin
• Unity Physics CSP. Basic implementation of client-side prediction in Unity, so real networking happens, all network traffic is simulated in a single Unity instance.
• Unity Pixel Camera. A resolution independent pixel perfect camera for Unity.
• Unity Plane Mesh Splitter. A simple script which let's you split any mesh into smaller chunks.
• Unity Preview Generator. Generates preview textures for sprites, icons of Unity models.
• Unity Procedural Flower. Procedural flower generator for Unity.
• Unity PSD Layout Tool. A tool used to import a Photoshop Documents (.psd files) into the Unity Game Engine.
• Unity QuickPool. Simple pooling toolkit for Unity game engine.
• Unity Raytracer. This project demonstrates ray tracing in Unity, which is a real time rendering engine.
• Unity Resource Checker. Editor utility for unity to help check resources in the current scene (including active textures, their sizes, materials, meshes and which objects are using them).
• Unity Routines. Replacement for Unity coroutines that supports hierarchical routines and pooling.
• Unity Rulers. A ruler editor to measure distances between game objects in the Scene view.
• Unity RuntimeCodeExecuter. A simple program that uses NET 2.0 library to execute any code in runtime. Specifically oriented for usage in Unity.
• Unity Rust Plugin. An example showing how to write a Unity native plugin in Rust.
• Unity Scene Camera Controller. Control a camera or any other object like SceneView camera.
• Unity Scrolly. A Touch/Drag scroll list implementation using Unity GUI (4.6+).
• Unity SemVer. A SemVer 2.0.0 implementation for Unity.
• Unity Serializer NG. Resurrection of the discontinued Unity Serializer by Mike Talbot from WhyDoIDoIt.com (Unity 5).
• Unity Simple File Browser. A uGUI based runtime file browser for Unity3D (draggable and resizable).
• Unity SimpleUsefulGizmos. Additional Gizmos showing information on your scene view like colored colliders, rotation indicator lines.
• Unity Singleton MonoBehavior. An implementation of Singleton pattern for Unity MonoBehaviours.
• Unity Snippets. Unity3D snippets for differents IDEs.
• Unity Socket IO. Socket.io client for Unity.
• Unity Stb Easy Font. A port of stb_easy_font.h to Unity/C#.
• Unity Symlink Utility. A small extension that adds a menu item to add folders as symlinks in Unity.
• Unity Texture Packer. Utility to combine color channels from different textures into a single output.
• Unity Timeline Conditions. Experimental port of Animator conditions interface to Timeline events.
• Unity Timeline Sync. Synchronize multiple Unity Timeline via UDP.
• Unity Timelord Blender. Timelord is a demo for custom blending of Unity3D Timelines.
• Unity Tools. A Visual Studio Code Extension to provide some tools for Unity development.
• Unity UI Extensions. An extension project for the new Unity UI system (uGUI).
• Unity UI Polygon. Polygon renderer for the new Unity UI.
• Unity Unet Movement. This repository contains Unity3D UNET based server-authoritative movement script with client-side prediction and reconciliation.
• Unity VariableTileLayout. UI Extensions for tile layout like Pinterest.
• Unity Virtual Reality. Unity's official documentation on developing virtual reality applications.
• Unity Visual Behavior Tree. Reactive Visual Scripting Behavior Tree Tool for Unity 2018.x+.
• Unity Voxel Tools. A collection of Voxel utilities for Unity. (EXPERIMENTAL)
• Unity VS Toolbox. Included in this project is a VS toolbox for most of the Monobehaviour events listed in order of execution. You'll also find a bunch of templates that can be installed so they will show up in the A
• Unity Wave Function Collapse. Fork of WaveFunctionCollapse.
• Unity Web Socket. Web Socket client for Unity.
• Unity Webview. A plugin for Unity 5 that overlays WebView components on Unity view. It works on Android, iOS, Unity Web Player, and OS X (Windows is not supported for now).
• Unity.Library.eppz. Collection of libraries for Unity.
• Unity.ProceduralContentGeneration Terrain. (#TERRAIN)
• Unity2 D Components. A constantly evolving array of Unity C# components for 2D games, including classes for pixel art cameras, events & messaging, saving & loading game data, collision handlers, object pools.
• Unity3 D Sound Manager. Simple but decent sound manager for Unity3D, with AudioSource pooling, 3D positioning support and completion callback.
• Unity3D Async Await Util. A bunch of code to make using async-await easier in Unity3D.
• Unity3D Automatron. An automation tool for Unity3D.
• Unity3D ComponentAttribute. An attribute that let's you auto-load components.
• Unity3D Extensions. Extension and utility methods for the Unity game engine.
• Unity3D Official Blog. News and deep insights involving Unity development.
• Unity3D PerlinCameraShake. Perlin noise based camera shake MonoBehaviour script for Unity3D, ready to attach to a Camera. Uses a coroutine-based execution that exits after the job is done. Should be relatively performant.
• Unity3D Prefab Pool. Simple Prefab Pool for Unity3D.
• Unity3D Quick Search. A Command Palette for Unity.
• Unity3D Script Library. A Script Library of Unity3D.
• Unity3DPolylineEditor. 2D Polyline Editor for Unity3D.
• Unity3DVim. Unity Vim Editor Integration for Linux.
• UnityComponent. Unity Resource Component.
• UnityEffects. A collection of free to use effects for Unity3D.
• UnityExtensions MeshIntersection. Perform a raycast against one or more meshes.
• UnityGameFramework Template. A common Unity template Project base on UnityGameFramework.
• UnityGraphicsProgramming Vol.2. Unity Graphics Programming vol.2
• UnityHelpers. A collection of random scripts related to Unity.
• UnityHTTP. A TCP client-based HTTP library for Unity.
• UnityIO. An easy to use API that allows you to manipulate files inside of Unity without the headache of using AssetDatabase.
• UnityOctree (Nition). Same as the previous resource.
• UnityOctree (Unity-Technologies). A dynamic, loose octree implementation for Unity written in C#.
• UnityPhysics2D. Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.
• UnityPooling. An optimized approach object pooling.
• UnityRandom. Random library in C# for Unity3D.
• UnitySpline2D. A free 2D simple spline library for Unity. (UNMAINTAINED)
• Unitystation. Remake of the simulator Space Station 13.
• UnityStudio. Unity Studio is a tool for exploring, extracting and exporting assets from Unity games and apps. (#ASSET-STORE)
• UnitySVG. SVG renderer for Unity3D.
• UnityTetris. Tetris clone written in C# and using Unity engine to render.
• UnityTile3D. Simple 3D Tile Editor.
• UnityTimer. and convenient library for running actions after a delay in Unity3D.
• Universal Unity Hooks. A framework designed to hook into and modify methods in unity games via dlls.
• UniVoice. P2P VoIP in Unity.
• UVPreview. Preview your UV islands in inspector window for your textures.
• UXF. Framework for human behaviour experiments in Unity.
• Variable Infinite Scroll. Variable infinite scroll in Unity UI.
• VariableAssets. Variable assets for Unity3D.
• Vector Graphics Samples. SVG and Vector Graphics Sample Project.
• Vexe Framework (VFW). An editor extension that offers much more advance editor extensibility features than what comes out of the box with Unity.
• Volumetric Clouds. Volumetric clouds in Unity.
• Volumetric Lines Unity. Source of the Volumetric Lines Asset from Unity's Asset Store.
• VoxBlend. BlendShape Controller Plugin for Unity.
• Voxel Mesh Generator. Unity3D C# project that generates a voxel 3D mesh using the greedy mesh technique.
• Voxelmetric. An efficient voxel framework for Unity3D. Legacy code is here.
• VoxelWorld. Training Unity on a Voxel World.
• VSCode Unity Code Snippets. All snippets for Unity3D development.
• VSCode Unity Debug Support. Unity debugging support for VS Code.
• VSCode Unity Integration. Unity Visual Studio Code Integration.
• Warfest Voxel Unity. A voxel game prototype made with Unity.
• WaveformProvider. Provide a texture to simulate waves with Unity.
• Weaver. Weaver is a code weaving framework built right into Unity Engine. Based heavily off of Fody.
• Web View Hook. Exposed UnityEditor WebView API.
• WebRTC Unity Plugin. Cross-platform Webrtc support for Unity apps.
• Xamarin.Forms.Unity. Xamarin.Forms for Unity (Platform implementation for Unity Game Engine).
• xNode BehaviourTree. Some log4net helper classes and UnityEngine.Debug appender for Unity.
• yaSingleton. A singleton pattern implementation for Unity3d. Based on ScriptableObjects instead of the conventional MonoBehaviour approach.

XR, AR & VR: Resources

AR/VR/XR SDKs, frameworks, tools, and references across ARKit, ARCore, WebXR, and VR platforms.

Related:

• A-Frame VR. Blender add-on allows you to model your scene in Blender and export it to an A-Frame VR project with a single click.
• Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 1. Mirror - Mirror 2
• Advanced VR Mechanics With Unity and the HTC Vive Part 2. Mirror - Mirror 2
• Building an AR game with ARKit and Spritekit. Building an AR game with ARKit and Spritekit.
• Capturing Body Motion in 3D | Apple Developer Documentation. Capturing Body Motion in 3D | Apple Developer Documentation.
• HOW TO CREATE A MINIMAP FOR VR IN UNITY. Mirror
• How to support GearVR and Google Cardboard in one Unity3D project. How to support GearVR and Google Cardboard in one Unity3D project.
• HTC Vive VR Input. Mirror - Mirror 2
• I3D Past Projects. Virtual 3D teleportation in real-time by Microsoft Research
• Medium by Adobe. Medium is a dedicated VR sculpting and painting package for users of Oculus headsets, capable of exporting models to DCC applications in OBJ or FBX format.
• North Star Kit Paid. The device is an implementation of Leap Motion's Norh Star reference design - an open source specification for an AR headset with two 1600x1440 displays with 120 FPS, a visual field of 100 degr
• Oliver Kreylos's blog. Good resource to get started learning about VR / stereo rendering.
• RealityKit. High-level AR framework by Apple. Comparable to Unity and Unreal Engine but specific for AR solutions.
• Rendering | Oculus Developers. Rendering | Oculus Developers.
• Rigging a Model for Motion Capture | Apple Developer Documentation. Rigging a Model for Motion Capture | Apple Developer Documentation.
• Sceneform Android SDK Maintained. ARCore Android SDK with Google Filament 3D engine. Continuation of Google Sceneform
• Tensorflow2 Ue4 AR. Augmented Reality Computer Vision Application using TensorFlow 2 and the Unreal Engine 4.23
• Three.js Editor. Online 3D editor with AR export capabilities.
• Ultraleap Paid. Former Ultralhaptics & Leap Motion
• Unity VR Video Recording Test. Test project to record VR sessions. (#VIRTUAL-REALITY)
• ViroCore: A cross-platform AR/VR renderer. And ViroReact: The AR/VR library for React Native
• VR Development - Unity Learn. Unity guided learning Pathway will prepare you for a job in the VR industry |
• Vuforia Freemium. AR SDK that is directly integrated in the Unity Editor. Proprietary license, free to develop with

Unreal Engine: Resources

Unreal Engine resources and marketplace picks.

• 📄 Recommended Asset Naming Conventions ~ epicgames. Naming folders & files.
• 📺📜 Control Rig ~ Ask A Dev. [character,animation] - 22 vids.
• Acl Ue4 Plugin. The official Animation Compression Library Unreal Engine 4 plugin
• Alex Forsythe. Game Framework, Replication Tutorials by Alex Forsythe** (🆓 🥇)
• ALS Community. Replicated and optimized community version of Advanced Locomotion System V4
• ALS Refactored. Completely reworked and improved C++ version of Advanced Locomotion System V4.
• AndroidNative. Android Native plugin for Unreal Engine that makes it easy to call Java functions via JNI.
• Animated Crosshairs UE4. Animated Crosshairs for Unreal Engine 4 provides 17 ready to use animated UMG widgets including demo scene to test their combination
• Articy Importer For Unreal. Articy Importer plugin for the Unreal Engine 4.
• Async Loading Screen. Async Loading Screen is a free and open-source plugin for Unreal Engine. Async Loading Screen allows you to easily configure a Loading Screen System in the project settings, and automatically add a
• Audio Analysis Tools. Audio Analysis Tools plugin for Unreal Engine. Provides a variety of functions for analyzing audio data. Works in conjunction with the Runtime Audio Importer plugin.
• Ble Utilities Unreal. This is Unreal Engine plugin that allows to scan for BLE devices with Cycling Power service running, connect to one of them and subscribe for its notifications
• blueprintUE. Blueprint sharing.
• cashgenUE. Runtime Procedural Terrain Generator for UnrealEngine
• CensoredUE4. World space area censoring solution for Unreal Engine 4. It is using blueprint actor for censoring and can be attached to any other blueprint actor like characters
• Cesium for Unreal. Bringing the 3D geospatial ecosystem to Unreal Engine
• Code Like Me. A wide variety of Unreal Engine-focused tutorials.
• DataConfig. Serialization framework for Unreal Engine Property System that just works!
• DungeonGenerator. An Unreal Engine 4 Dungeon Generator
• Easy Json Parser. Json parse library for unreal engine
• EasyXMLParser. Xml parse library for unreal engine
• Fairy GUI Unreal. A flexible UI framework for Unreal Engine
• FastSwitcher. Fast Switcher UMG for Unreal Engine 4 loads only the needed widget
• Fresh Cooked Tweens. A tweening library for Unreal Engine that provide convenient curve equations to ease a value between a start and end, like a position, scale, color, anything you want to smoothly change.
• Game Development & Unreal Engine Programming Guide. Game Development & Unreal Engine Programming Guide https://ikrima.dev
• GameDev.tv Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games Paid. GameDev.tv Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games.
• GASP ALS. Game Animation Sample with ALS Layering
• GASShooter. Advanced FPS/TPS Sample Project for Unreal Engine 4's GameplayAbilitySystem plugin
• GGPOUE4. Unreal Engine 4 plugin port of GGPO
• Ghost Mesh Plugin. This is a UE4 plugin that can create ghost mesh in Unreal Engine 4
• Global Event System Ue4. A loosely coupled internal global event system (GES) plugin for the Unreal Engine. Aims to solve cross-map and cross-blueprint communication for reliable and inferable event flow.
• Gorka Games. Tons of great content Gorka creates lengthy tutorial series, short tutorials and covers Unreal Engine news.
• Greebler. UE4 and Unity plugin to automatically add rubble in the nooks and crannies of your scene
• Hermes. An Unreal Engine plugin that allows direct (deep) links into the UE4 editor
• Horizontal 360 Radar. Horizontal 360º rich featured radar system, typically seen in games like Skyrim, for Unreal Engine 4
• Houdini Engine for Unreal. A plugin to allow integration with Houdini Digital Assets workflows.
• InfraworldRuntime. A solution that enables Unreal Engine 4 to work with Google gRPC services from either C++ or Blueprints.
• Inventory + Equipment System. Generic and fully featured multipurpose inventory container and equipment system for Unreal Engine 4
• Japanese Village (Marketplace) Paid. Japanese medieval village pack.
• KawaiiPhysics. Simple fake Physics for UnrealEngine4
• Kotlin Unreal. Kotlin-unreal: Use the amazing Kotlin language with UnrealEngine 4
• LeapUnreal. Leap Motion SDK for the Unreal Engine
• LocalizationUE4. Translation Editor for Unreal Engine 4
• Locus Replication Graph. Simple Unity Addressables Alternative That Supports Synchronized API And Memory Management.
• LuaMachine. Unreal Engine 4 Plugin for Lua APIs implementation
• MassSample. Community Mass Sample
• Mathew Wadstein. Easily one of the most useful channels for Unreal Engine. Videos going over just about every major class and Blueprint node.
• MD Meta Data Editor. Unreal Engine 5.1+ plugin to enable editing meta data of Blueprint Properties, Functions, and Function and Event Parameters
• Medieval Houses (Marketplace) Paid. Modular medieval house pack.
• Mixed Reality UX Tools Unreal. UX tools and components for developing Mixed Reality applications in UE4.
• MobileUtils. A plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that lets you integrate mobile utilities into your project
• mod.io. Unreal Engine Plugin for easily integrating mod.io into your game - the UGC management service for game developers.
• Morphs Player. A plugin that allows to play Morph Targets directly on the animation track of your skeletal mesh.
• Mqtt Utilities Unreal. MqttUtilities is a plugin for Unreal Engine intended to expose MQTT client functionality to blueprints
• My SQL Connector UE4 Plugin. MySQL Database Connector Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• Myo Ue4. Myo Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• Nano. A tiny template for tiny Unreal games.
• NiagaraUIRenderer. Niagara UI Renderer | Free Plugin for Unreal Engine
• nimue4. Nim language integration for Unreal Engine 4
• Nuke.Unreal. C# scriptable workflow for automating Unreal Engine project tasks embracing the Nuke target graph and fluent API tool bindings.
• ObjectDeliverer. Data transmission and reception library for Unreal Engine.
• OceanProject. An Ocean Simulation project for Unreal Engine 4
• OpenCL.uplugin. OpenCL Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• OpenLand. An OpenSource Landscape Auto Material
• OSVR Unreal. OSVR plugin for Unreal Engine
• PBCharacterMovement. HL2-style, classic FPS movement for Unreal Engine implemented in C++.
• PluginTemplate. A basic Unreal Template with Editor and Runtime Module.
• Prefabricator Ue4. Prefabricator - Prefab plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• ProjectExodus. Project Exodus - Unity to Unreal scene/project transfer tool.
• Ps Facebook Mobile. Just a simple Unreal Engine 4 integration of Facebook authorization for mobile devices
• Ps Real Vehicle. PsRealVehicle is the plugin for Unreal Engine 4 with simple force-driven vehicle simulation.
• Ps Replay Kit. Unreal Engine 4 plugin for iOS to record or stream video from the screen, and audio from the app and microphone
• Ps Web Server. Civet web server integration plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• puerts. Write your game with TypeScript in the ue4 or unity
• Quests. Efficient and rich featured quests system for Unreal Engine 4
• Realtime Mesh Component. Unreal Engine 5 plugin component for rendering runtime generated content.
• RedTalaria. Unreal Engine plugin providing a set of Hermes endpoints
• RemCommon. Common utilities for gameplay in UnrealEngine
• RemRanges. Combination of IGRanges and ranges-v3 for Unreal
• Runtime Audio Importer. Runtime Audio Importer plugin for Unreal Engine. Importing audio of various formats at runtime.
• Runtime Files Downloader. Runtime Files Downloader plugin for Unreal Engine. Downloading files over HTTP / HTTPS at runtime.
• Runtime Mesh Component. Unreal Engine 4 plugin component for rendering runtime generated content
• Runtime Mesh Loader. A pluging for Unreal Engine 4, which allows to import meshes during runtime.
• Runtime Speech Recognizer. Cross-platform, real-time, offline speech recognition plugin for Unreal Engine. Based on Whisper OpenAI technology, whisper.cpp.
• Ryan Laley. Primarily Blueprint-based Unreal Engine tutorials.
• SCUE5 Plugin. SCUE updated to Unreal 5.
• SilvervineUE4Lua. A Lua Scripting Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• sluaunreal. Lua dev plugin for unreal engine 4
• Socket IO Client Unreal. Socket.IO client plugin for Unreal Engine.
• Socketer. A TCP socket blueprint library for Unreal Engine.
• Socketio Client Ue4. Socket.io client plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• SQLite3UE4. SQLite3 Database Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• Stats + Attributes. A stats, attributes, leveling system and much more for Unreal Engine 4!
• Street Map. Import OpenStreetMap XML data into your Unreal Engine project.
• Sublime Unreal Snippets. A collection of Sublime Text 3 snippets for writing Unreal Engine 4 game code.
• Swipe. A plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that exposes swipes on mobile devices as events in blueprint
• Tcp Ue4. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4
• TCP Unreal. Convenience TCP wrapper for Unreal Engine.
• Tensorflow Ue4. TensorFlow plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• Tom Looman UE5 Tutorials Freemium. Various Unreal Engine focused tutorials.
• Udp Ue4. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine 4
• UDP Unreal. Convenience UDP wrapper for Unreal Engine.
• UE BUI Tween. UI Tweening Libary for Unreal Engine UMG UI. Create simple tweens for UMG widgets from C++.
• UE DSS Plugin. Scalable MMO servers instantiation, dungeon instantiation and player balancing subsystem for unreal engine
• UE Easy JWT. JWT wrapper (Engine Sub-system) for Unreal Engine.
• UE Easy Kafka. EasyKafka is a Kafka/Redpanda client sub-system for unreal engine. It supports producing and consuming records through blueprint and C++.
• UE4 Aurora Effect. A raymarched aurora borealis effect for Unreal 4
• UE4 Binary Builder. An application designed to create installed Unreal Engine builds (aka Rocket builds) from Unreal Engine GitHub source.
• UE4 BYG Localization. Simple CSV localization system for Unreal Engine 4
• Ue4 Canvas GUI. It's a simple Canvas GUI for Unreal Engine 4 with mouse operation
• UE4 Custom Gravity Plugin. Unreal Engine 4 : Custom Gravity Plugin
• Ue4 Docker. Windows and Linux containers for Unreal Engine 4
• UE4 Env. project. An Environment Simulation project for Unreal Engine 4.
• UE4 EOS Plugin. A plugin and sample project, built for Unreal Engine 4, that implements the Epic Online Services SDK
• UE4 Game Lift Client SDK. Gamelift Client SDK for Unreal Engine 4
• UE4 Node Graph Assistant. A plugin to help you to create node graph faster and easier in unreal engine 4.
• UE4 Plugin Resources. A list of community resources for Slate, Graphs, and UE4 Plugin Development.
• Ue4 Protobuf. This is an Unreal Engine 4 plugin that integrates Protobuf into the project without requiring you to add system PATH or anything else.
• Ue4 Uitween. Unreal 4 UMG UI tweening library in C++
• UE4GamepadUMG. Unreal Engine 4 gamepad plugin so you can use a gamepad like a mouse in UMG
• Ue4MarchingCubes. 3D Perlin Noise using Marching cubes algorithm for Unreal Engine 4
• UE4MasterServer. This is a plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that adds server registration, deregistration etc with a master server.
• UE5 Styleguide. Guidelines for making Unreal Engine projects more consistent.
• UE5 Stylized Post Process. Stylized Post Process for Unreal Engine 5
• ue5coro. A C++20 coroutine plugin, offering integration with Unreal Engine 5.
• UELlama. Llama plugin for Unreal Engine 5
• UEWebsocket. Unreal engine 4 websocket plugin for both c++ and blueprint developer
• Ultraleap SDK. Enables data produced by Ultraleap's hand tracking to be used by developers inside their Unreal projects.
• UMG Resizable Widget. Resizable Widget for UMG for Unreal Engine 4
• Unreal Bp Csv Parsing. Unreal Engine plugin that adds CSV parsing blueprint nodes
• Unreal Docs: Game Features And Modular Gameplay. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Gameplay Ability System. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Gameplay Camera System. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Gameplay Targeting System. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Getting Started With Texture Graph. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: InstancedStruct. Isn't available yet!
• Unreal Docs: Mass Entity. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Metahuman Documentation. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Modeling And Geometry Scripting. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Motion Design. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Mutable Overview. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Procedural Content Generation Framework. & Electric Dream Documentation (🆓 🥇)
• Unreal Docs: Scriptable Tools System. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Smart Objects. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: State Tree. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Umg Viewmodel. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Docs: Water System. Unreal Engine Documentation.
• Unreal Engine. The official Unreal Engine YouTube channel with weekly live streams.
• Unreal Engine Advanced Functions. Handy functions by Mridul Sharma.
• Unreal Engine Learning. Unreal Engine Learning.
• Unreal Engine Official YouTube. Unreal Engine Official YouTube.
• Unreal Engine Python. Embed Python in Unreal Engine 4
• Unreal Fast Noise. Modular, Blueprint-friendly noise generation for UE4
• Unreal Fast Noise2. A plugin that wraps FastNoise2, allowing you to use the FastNoise2 library in blueprints.
• Unreal Fetch. Fetch API-inspired HTTP client for Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Im GUI. Unreal plug-in that integrates Dear ImGui framework into Unreal Engine 4.
• Unreal Library. UE Explorer's library for parsing data from games built with the Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Magic Nodes. Custom Kismet Node System that enables C++ code to be written on Blueprint Graphs.
• Unreal Rust. Opinionated Rust integration for Unreal Engine.
• Unreal Sandbox Terrain. Smooth voxel terrain plugin.
• Unreal Signal R. SignalR client for Unreal Engine.
• Unreal UMG 3 D Object In Widget. A simple Unreal Engine 4 project (precisely 4.7.4) showing how to render a 3D object/mesh in a UMG widget
• Unreal Version Changer. Simple tool for faking UE version for Epic Games Store so we can install outdated / non-upgraded plugins to newer UE version without installing old UE
• Unreal.hx. Unreal.hx: Haxe Integration for Unreal
• Unreal.js. Javascript runtime built for Unreal Engine.
• UnrealCLR. Unreal Engine.NET 6 Integration.
• unrealcpp. Unreal Engine 4 C++ examples
• unrealcv. UnrealCV: Connecting Computer Vision to Unreal Engine
• UnrealLive2D. UE4 plugin for live2d model
• USharp. C# plugin for Unreal Engine 4
• Va Fog Of War. A clear and simple solution of Fog of War for Unreal Engine.
• Va Tex Atlas. Simple way to use texture atlases for Unreal Engine 4 UMG
• VaRest. REST API plugin for Unreal Engine.
• Velocity Grid Export. A tool to export vector fields out of Houdini.
• ViewportManager. A C++ based plugin for Unreal Engine that allows for multiple customizable viewports
• Virtus Learning Hub. Unreal Engine-focused tutorials with several lengthy courses.
• Voxel Plugin. Create fully volumetric, entirely destructible, infinite worlds in Unreal Engine.
• VS Code Setup for UE. Official VS Code setup guide.
• Vscode Unreal Snippets. Unreal Engine snippets based on https://github.com/awforsythe/sublime-unreal-snippets.
• Weapon Trace Unreal. WeaponTracing plugin for reliable melee combat.
• WindowCapture2D. Library for capturing and displaying windows in real time with UnrealEngine
• Working with Data (Unreal Engine Learning). Working with Data (Unreal Engine Learning).
• XJ music. XJ music plugin for Unreal Engine. XJ is the first end-to-end solution for adaptive music in video games built specifically and only for music, enabling composers to realize new possibilities.
• ZipUtility Plugin. Event driven 7zip utility plugin for Unreal Engine 4

Game Dev Tools: Level Design

Level editors and blockout tools.

Related:

• Chisel.Prototype. Work in progress prototype for the Chisel Level Editor, for Unity.
• Editor2D. Tile based level editor for Unity
• GILES. A Runtime Level Editor for Unity3D.
• Sprytile (GitHub). Blender add-on for building tile based low-poly scenes with paint/map editor like tools. [more info]
• Sprytile (itch.io). Blender addon for tile-based 3D levels.
• Tiled2Unity. Export Tiled Map Editor (TMX) files into Unity.
• Unity2D TMX. A small library to import and render tilemap in Unity2D, only support TMX file format.

Game Dev Tools: Dialogue & Narrative

Dialogue, narrative scripting, and IF tools.

Related:

• Ink. Narrative scripting by Inkle (Heaven's Vault, Sable).
• Ink Unity Integration. Unity integration for the open source ink narrative scripting language.
• Prototype. Prototype component pattern for Unity.
• Twine. Free, open-source interactive fiction.
• Yarn Spinner. Dialogue tool for Unity/Godot (Night in the Woods).

Game Dev Tools: Audio Middleware

Adaptive audio and spatial audio middleware.

Related:

• Wwise Unreal Plug-in Freemium. Plugin for integrating Wwise assets for realtime playback in-engine.

Game Dev Tools: Networking & Multiplayer

Multiplayer frameworks and game servers.

Related:

• Basic Multiplayer Unity. Fast-Paced UDP Client-Server implementation.
• Bomber. Open-source Bomberman multiplayer game made in Unreal Engine 5.
• Colyseus. Node.js multiplayer framework.
• Colyseus Unreal. Colyseus Multiplayer SDK for Unreal Engine
• Fish Net. High-performance Unity networking.
• Forge Networking Remastered. In short, Forge Networking is a free and open source multiplayer game (multi-user) networking system that has a very good integration with the Unity game engine.
• Gambetta_Networked Demo. Fast-Paced Multiplayer: Sample Code and Live Demo - Gabriel Gambetta's Multiplayer Network Demo in Unity C# as Networked using Lidgren Network.
• GameDev.tv Unreal Multiplayer Master: Video Game Dev In C++ Course Paid. GameDev.tv Unreal Multiplayer Master: Video Game Dev In C++ Course.
• Mirror (GitHub). A community replacement for Unity's abandoned UNET Networking System.
• Mirror (site). Open-source Unity networking.
• Unity Multiplayer Packages. Unity multiplayer packages and samples.

Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX

Sprite animation, 2D VFX, texture packers.

Related:

• Cheetah Texture Packer. High efficient and fast 2D bin packing tool
• Ez Sprite Sheet. Creates sprite sheets from animated GIFs
• Fusion Character Animator. Small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.
• GlueIT. Free Simple Spritesheet Tool
• Kavex's Spritesheet Maker. Free spritesheet maker to replace GlueIT. Has much newer export formats.
• Laigter. Free normal/specular/AO map generator for 2D.
• Leshy SpriteSheet Tool. HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases
• Libgdx Texture Packer. Texture Packer built into Libgdx
• Make Your Own Pixel Art Paid. Walks you step-by-step through the available tools, pixel art techniques, the importance of shapes, colors, shading, and how to turn your art into animation.
• Owlboy. Explore a detailed steampunk world in the clouds. With it's range of endearing animations and expressions the world and it's characters come to life.
• Paul Robertson. Australian, creating cute, sometimes cosmic and psychedelic, and sometimes weird nightmarish pixel art.
• PixelCraft. Open source and free, works in the browser. Easy to try out in the browser and as a PWA offline.
• ShoeBox. Adobe Air based app with game and ui related tools.
• Sprite Sheet Maker. Sprite Sheet Maker is a handy no fuss utility to pack sprites
• Sprite Sheet Slicer. Sprite Sheet Slicer is a handy no fuss utility to slice sprites
• SpriteLib. Collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
• SpriteUV2 Paid. Tool for creating optimal meshes for textures/sprites and packing them into an atlas.
• Starbound. Travel across vibrant, colorful and expansive galaxies, including creative dynamic animations.
• Stitches. An HTML5 sprite sheet generator
• Talos VFX. Node based, open source VFX Editor with interface and a ready to use libGDX runtime.
• Tilesplit. CLI text-based tilesheet splitter and namer. Turn a spritesheet into many separate files with names you pick, or not if you don't care. Support templates and textures that are not all the same size
• Walking animation cycle in games. Walking animation cycle in games.
• Wobblepaint. Pico8 editor that give life to pixel art with a little wobble.

Game Dev Tools: AI & Procedural Generation

WFC, noise, procedural pipelines, economy design.

Related:

• DotRecast. A port of Recast & Detour, navigation mesh toolset for games, Unity3D, servers, C#.
• Fast Noise Lite. Fast noise generation (Perlin, Simplex, Cellular).
• Machinations Paid. Visual tool for designing and simulating game economies.
• Procedural GL JS. Based on Three.js, this framework is dedicated to generating a 3D Map experience on a web service.
• Wave Function Collapse. Procedural generation from example patterns.

Game Dev Tools: Physics Engines

Open-source physics engines.

• Box2D v3. 2D physics engine rewrite by Erin Catto.
• Box2D.NET. A port of Box2D, is a 2D physics engine for games,.NET C#, Unity3D, servers.
• Cannon.js. Lightweight and simple 3D physics engine for the web.
• Jolt Physics. Open-source 3D physics (used in Horizon Forbidden West).
• Lockstep Framework. A framework designed for games that need lockstep simulations. It includes a deterministic 2D physics engine, pathfinding, behavior system. LSF is integrated with Unity.
• Rapier. Rust physics engine (2D/3D, used with Bevy).
• UnrealJolt. Jolt physics integration (Plugin) for Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)

Game Dev Tools: Version Control

Version control for binary-heavy game projects.

Related:

• Git LFS. Large file storage for Git.

Game Dev Tools: Analytics & Playtesting

Analytics and playtesting services.

• Steam Playtest. Free playtesting on Steam.

Game Design & Theory

Design fundamentals, patterns, and references.

• Deconstructor of Fun. F2P game design and business.
• DevianArt7Soul1. Offers a specific set of 420 pixel art icons designed for RPG games.
• Epic Games. Epic Games on GitHub. Official Unreal Engine and related repos.
• friflo ECS. High-performance C# ECS with simple API. Supports.NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, Unity, Godot, MonoGame,..
• Game Development Essentials: Game Level Design. Game Development Essentials: Game Level Design.
• Game Programming Patterns. Lots of great game development patterns useful when making games with or without Unity.
• Game UI Database. Interface reference.
• GDC Vault (Free). Hundreds of free GDC talks.
• How To Market A Game. Marketing strategies for indie games.
• LWF. Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit.
• Open 3D Engine (O3ED). Successor to Amazon Lumberyard, an open-source, real-time, multi-platform 3D engine to build AAA games
• Phototiler. Lightweight photorealistic map renderer that allows quick rendering of 3D maps for creative cartography.
• Pixel Composer (GitHub). node-based VFX editor for pixel art
• pixeldudesmaker. Small character generator, including basic animation.
• Red Blob Games. Interactive visual explanations (pathfinding, hex grids, noise).
• Slynyrd. American, game designer with tons of material, game specific knowledge and mini-tutorials.
• SpriteKit. SpriteKit code to make your game work on iOS, macOS, and tvOS without a hitch.
• Spritemate. Online Editor for Commodore 64 Sprites
• Timanthes. A pixel art editor for the Commodore 64 computer running on Windows
• Turbulenz. Turbulenz offers the ability to build, publish, iterate and monetise high-quality games that react like no others, with immersive 3D effects and real-time physics that open up a whole new world of
• Unity Audio Manager. Plugin, that allows to easily play/change/stop/mute/.. sounds in 2D/3D
• Unity Game Programming Patterns. Game Programming Pattern Examples in Unity3D.
• Unity in Action (book). Unity in Action (book).
• Unity Technologies. Unity Technologies on GitHub. Official Unity repos and samples.

Game Dev: YouTube Channels

Channels covering game dev technique, design, and industry.

• 📺 Learning All IN ORDER ~ Game Dev Cave. [animation,character,GAS] - 160 vids: newbie, blueprints, quests, C++.
• Aarthificial. Pixel art devlogs.
• Acerola. Graphics programming.
• Blackthornprod. 2D art and design.
• Cain On Games. Tim Cain (Fallout creator) on game design philosophy and war stories.
• Freya Holmer. Math for game devs, shaders.
• Game Maker's Toolkit. Game design analysis.
• GDQuest (YouTube). Godot tutorials.
• Jonas Tyroller. Indie dev logs.
• Libgdx Wiki. Libgdx documentation wiki (includes Texture Packer page).
• Lincoln Margison. Procedural animation tutorials. Step by step walkthroughs for game dev rigging and motion.
• Masahiro Sakurai. Game design philosophy, 250+ episodes.
• MFGD - Fragment Shaders. YouTube playlist about fragment shaders.
• Pontypants. Animation for games.
• Sebastian Lague. Procedural generation and simulations.
• t3ssel8r. Stylized rendering.
• The Cherno Project. While not specific to Unreal Engine, Cherno has tons of great C++ and general game engine content.
• Thomas Brush. Indie business and marketing.

Game Dev: Courses

Structured game dev courses.

• CS50 Game Development (Harvard). Free, covers Love2D, Unity.
• Polyglot Gamedev Mastersheet. Massive community-curated master list of game dev resources across engines, art, audio, and design.

Game Dev: Communities

Reddit, Discord, forums, indie job boards.

• Brackeys Discord. Brackeys Discord community.
• Game Dev League. Game dev Discord.
• Games Artist. Game art community with breakdowns, tutorials, and showcases.
• IndieDB. Indie game database and promotion.
• r/gamedesign. Game design subreddit.
• r/gamedev. 1.5M+ game dev subreddit.
• r/IndieDev. Indie developer subreddit.
• r/indiegaming. Indie gaming subreddit.
• r/pixelart. Pixel art subreddit.
• r/unrealengine. Unreal Engine subreddit.
• TIGSource Forums. Long-running indie forum.
• Unreal Slackers. Unreal Engine Discord community.
• Work With Indies. Indie game job board.

Game Jams

Recurring game jams.

• Brackeys Game Jam. Beginner-friendly jam.
• Global Game Jam. Annual, in-person worldwide.
• GMTK Game Jam. Largest jam by entries.
• itch.io Jams. Hundreds of active jams.
• JS13KGames. 13KB size limit JavaScript jam.
• Ludum Dare. Oldest jam, twice yearly.

Game Engines: Free & Open Source

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Game Engines: Commercial Free Tiers

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