This is a list of useful and good Blender plugins, both free and paid. There are many plugins available for Blender nowadays, but these are some of the ones the author found to be practical and helpful.
1. Road Path Creator - A new plugin that allows you to easily create custom roads and paths in your scene. You simply draw a line and the road is created for you, then you can add PBR textures and adjust UV parameters, transformations, and shader properties.
2. Vera Product Light - This plugin allows you to easily render product images without having to set up complicated lighting. Simply import your object, adjust the materials, and you have a polished product image.
3. Rain.Water - A shader node system that creates procedural rain and water drops without using particle systems or fluid simulations. It simulates realistic ripples and refraction and can be used in Blender Cycles.
4. Dream Textures - An integrated plugin in Blender's shader editor that allows you to create textures, concept art, and background resources quickly by using AI-generated patterns.
5. Camera Shaker - An add-on by Ian Hubert that simulates realistic handheld camera movement in Blender. It's free and can be added to any camera in your scene.
6. Building Nodes - A new plugin that generates buildings procedurally, saving time in the modeling process.
7. Crystaline - A plugin that creates highly customizable and realistic procedural crystals in Blender. It comes with a crystal geometry node tree and two programmatic materials.
8. Edge Wear - A plugin that simplifies the process of adding edge wear and damage to your models. It's easy to use and compatible with Blender 3.0+.