Blender 2.79: Add-ons

New Add-ons

Dynamic Sky

This add-on is in the Toolshelf > Tools Tab
Dynamic sky is an add-on to create Procedural Sun and sky with lots of additional options to tweak
For Cycles Worlds
Authors: Draguu (Pratik Solanki)
Maintainer: Draguu (Pratik Solanki)
Wiki Page (dragoneex.com)

Archipack

Provide a set of parametric objects made to boost CAD users productivity.
Author: Stephen Leger (stephen-l)
Maintainer: stephen-l
This addon is in the Toolshelf > Create Tab

Available objects

Door
Window
Wall
Stair
Fence
Slab
Floor
Truss
Roof

Main Features

Realtime on-screen manipulation
Automatic interactive boolean
Customizable presets graphical menu
Draw a wall / window / door create tools

Wiki Page (github.com)
Issue tracker (github.com)
Blender Artists Thread

Magic UV

Magic UV (a.k.a. Copy/Paste UVs) was available only for the buildbot builds until 2.78.
From 2.79, Magic UV is included to the official release.

Author: Nutti, Mifth, Jace Priester, kgeogeo, mem, Keith (Wahooney) Boshoff, McBuff, MaxRobinot
Task Tracker: https://github.com/nutti/Magic-UV/issues
Wiki Page: https://github.com/nutti/Magic-UV/wiki
GitHub Page(For Development):https://github.com/nutti/Magic-UV
Blender Artist Thread

New Features:

Newly added features since 2.76) are as follows.

Tutorial Video List (All features)
Tutorial Video List (New features since 2.76)

Bounding-Box Manipulator in Image/UV Editor
Edit UV with the Bounding-Box Manipulator.
Translation, rotation and scaling operations are supported.
Move UV from 3D View
Edit UV with the mouse from 3D View.
Texture Projection
Project the texture to the mesh from 3D View while displaying the texture.
Pack UV Extenstion (with same UV island packing)
"Pack UV" and merge the similar UV islands.
Texture Lock
Preserve UV coordinates while editing the meshes.
Mirror UV
Copy/Paste UV with Mirror-inverted
World Scale UV
Scale UV along to the mesh's size.
Unwrap Constraint
Keep U or V coordinate during "Unwrap UV" operation.
Preserve UV Aspect
Restrain changing UV coordinate when the different sized texture will be attached to the mesh.

Bug fixes:

User reported bugs are fixed
Refactor and Adopt style guide.

Mesh Edit Tools

Face Inset Fillet: based completely on add-on by zmj100
Vertex Align: by zmj100
Edge Fillet Plus: by Gert De Roost - original by zmj100
Split Solidify: by zmj100, updated by zeffii to BMesh
Pen Tool: by zmj100
Mesh Cut Faces: by Stanislav Blinov (Stan Pancakes)
V/E/F Context Menu: by Stanislav Blinov (Stan Pancakes)
Edge Roundifier: by Piotr Komisarczyk (komi3D), PKHG
PKHG Face Extrude: by PKHG, based of geodesic domes add-on "faces function"
Set Edges Length: by "Giuseppe De Marco [BlenderLab] inspired by NirenYang"
Edge Tools: by Paul Marshall (brikbot)
Extrude and Reshape: by Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii)
Fast Loop: by Andy Davies (metalliandy)
Multi Extrude: by Liero, Jimmy Hazevoet
Offset Edges: by Hidesato Ikeya
Edge Floor Plan: by lijenstina
Vertex Chamfer: by Andrew Hale (TrumanBlending)
Random Vertices: by Oscurart
Select Tools: by dustractor
Thanks to Macouno & CoDEmanX

Mesh Edit Tool adds several tools to Blender that are not available in the built in tools or provide different methods for similar tasks
Each Menu: Vert, Edge, Face & Utils is a sub panel that is closed by default in the Toolshelf Edit Mode Tools
The Icons in the closed panel headers contain some new/different selection tools & edit mode v/e/f Selection Modes for quick access to some tools, before opening the sub panels
In the ui there's a variety of tools in each category, most tools have a small box to the right to provide some usage information to help users understand each tools basic requirements.
Hotkeys: most significant is in edit mode double right click brings up the Blender Vert/Edge/Face menus depending on v/e/f selection mode
Menu Integration is main tools into the 'w' key edit mode specials, selection tools into the edit mode select menu
Maintainer: meta-androcto, lijenstina
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Skinify

This add-on Skins an armature with a mesh
Supports rigify with hands
Supports BVH
Easy to use & set up quick proxy mesh for animation testing
Fast results for testing poses
Quad mesh created, sculpting is possible.
Author: karab44
Maintainer: karab44
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Display Tools

This Addon is in the Toolshelf > Display Tab
Display Tools is designed to provide several tools to speed your workflow in viewport display related tasks and interaction with multiple objects.
Mostly concerned with wire overlays & viewport display
Including new tools Fast Nav, (unselected objects are displayed in wireframe when moving objects
The add-on works in two ways:
Apply on selected objects.
Apply on all objects if none are selected.
Authors: Jordi Vall-llovera Medina, Jhon Wallace, Jasperge, Pixaal, Meta-androcto
Maintainer: meta-androcto, lijenstina
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Brush Menus

Based off Advanced UI Menus from Imaginer
Hotkey Alt/V
This addon provides fast access to the Brush Menus & settings in the 3dview.
Featuring Small or Large Brush Icons
This menu is not designed to set up your entire sculpt session,
The aim of the addons in to make fast changes to settings whilst you sculpt without opening the toolshelf.
Supports Custom Brushes
Authors: Ryan Inch (Imaginer), meta-androcto
Maintainer: meta-androcto, Ryan Inch (Imaginer),
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Btrace

This addon is in the Toolshelf > Create Tab
Features Object & Particle Trace & Animated curve follow
Authors: liero, crazycourier, Atom, Meta-Androcto, MacKracken
Maintainer: meta-androcto, crazycourier
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Is Key Free

This addon is in the Text Editor Toolshelf
Primarily a tool for addons developers to check the availability & mapping of selected hotkeys also showing editor types they apply to
Secondary use for end users who set up their own keymaps & would like to check again the availability of hotkeys
Author @Antonio Vazquez (antoniov)
Maintainer: Antoniov

Turnaround Camera

Camera Turnaround User Inteface

This add-on is in the Toolshelf > Animation Tab
Quite Simply, it creates a 360 degree animation around the selected Object
Useful for a product turnaround animation setup
Author @Antonio Vazquez (antoniov)
Maintainer: Antoniov
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Auto Mirror

Automatically mirror an object on the Z axis

This add-on is in the Toolshelf > Tools Tab
Automatically add the mirror modifier on the selected axis and optionally enter edit mode ready for editing
Author @Lapineige
Maintainer: @Lapineige
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Camera Rigs

This Addon is in the 3d View header > Add menu > Camera menu
Creating either a Dolly or Crane rig
Note: You need to enable Auto Run Python Scripts in the User Preferences > File Menu
Authors: Wayne Dixon, Kris Wittig
Maintainer: Wayne Dixon, Kris Wittig
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Snap Utils Line

Advanced vertex snap to object & create faces tool
Author: Mano-Wii
Maintainer: Mano-Wii
Wiki Page (github.com)

Add Advanced Objects

Advanced Scene & Object creation suite
Delaunay Voronoi: by Domlysz, Points cloud Delaunay triangulation in 2.5D & cross-sections
Constellation: by Oscurart, Point to Point Constellation pattern generation
Add Light Template: by Rebellion, 3 point light set
Aggregate mesh: by Liero, updated by Jimmy Hazevoet, Object particle arrays
Arrange on Curve: by Mano-Wii, Array objects along a curve
Circle Array: by Antonis Karvelas, Array controlled by an empty
Copy2 vertices: edges or faces: by Eleanor Howick, Copy Any object to the selected verts/edges/faces of a mesh
CubeSter: by Jacob Morris, Takes image, image sequence, or audio file and converts it into a height map based on pixel color and alpha values
Drop to Ground1: by Unnikrishnan(kodemax), Florian Meyer(testscreenings), drop selected or all objects to 'Ground' plane
Strut Generator: by Bill Currie (taniwha), Add struts meshes based on selected truss meshes
Easy Lattice Object: by Kursad Karatas, Quick Lattice for shape editing
Object Add Chain: by Brian Hinton (Nichod), Add Chain Link to & curve path
Laplacian Lightning: by teldredge, Creates Laplace Lightning strikes between objects
Mangle Tools: by Phil Cote, displace the verts on your mesh
Oscurart Chain Maker: by Oscurart, create chain links parented to existing armature
3D Pixelate: by liero, Create a blocky version of your mesh (dupliverts)
Add Random Box Structure: by Dannyboy, random blocks from mesh
Rope Creator: by Jorge Hernandez - Melenedez, Dynamic rope (with cloth) creator
Test Scenes: by meta-androcto, fast test scene creation
Tri-Lighting Creator: by Daniel Schalla
Unfold transition by liero, atom, Animated flipping faces or build

Special mention Authors: Rebellion, lijenstina, Unnikrishnan(kodemax), Florian Meyer, Omar ahmed,
Maintainer: meta-androcto, lijenstina
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Export Paper Model

Export the active mesh into PDF or SVG, including baked textures
Print on paper or cut from plywood, aluminium etc.
Preview and customize the layout, all within Blender
Maintainer: Adam Dominec (emu)
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Kinoraw Tools

Extensive VSE toolkit
Author: Carlos Padial
Maintainer: Carlos Padial
Wiki Page (github.com)

Stored Views

Save & store Views & cameras, create cameras to views, saves view settings per .blend
Add camera markers for animated camera switching
Authors: nfloyd, fsiddi, meta-androcto
Maintainer: meta-androcto
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Render Clay

Simple checkbox to overwrite materials in BI or Cycles to Render clay with choice of diffuse color.
Author: ruesp83 (Fabio Russo)
Maintainer: meta-androcto
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Auto Tracker

addon which introduces autotracking for Blender motion tracking.
Author: Miika Puustinen, Matti Kaihola, Stephen Leger
Maintainer: Miika Puustinen, Stephen Leger
Wiki Page (github.com)

Refine Tracking Solution

automatically set weight of all tracks according error in a single click.
Author: Stephen Leger
Maintainer: Stephen Leger
Wiki Page (github.com)

Materials Library VX

materials library for blender 2.79
Author: Alfonso Serra "Mackraken"
Maintainer: Alfonso Serra "Mackraken"
Wiki Page (google.com)

Mesh Tissue

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Object Tesselation, Duel Mesh, auto weights
Author: Alessandro-Zomparelli
Maintainer: Alessandro-Zomparelli
Wiki Page (blender.org)

Tessellate

Tessellate tool allows you to copy a selected object (Component) on the faces of the active object (Generator), adapting its bounding box to the shape of quad-faces. Once the Tessellate button was pressed, then more options will appear in the Operator parameters. Update allows you to update the active the Tessellated mesh according to Component and Generator changes. You can also change the parameters of tessellation.

Colors-Weight Exchanger

Colors from Weight create a new Vertex Colors channel reading data from Vertex Weight Weight from Colors create a new Vertex Weight channel reading data from Vertex Colors

Dual Mesh

Dual Mesh modify the selected meshes creating dual meshes.

Cell Fracture Crack It

Helper addon for Cell Fracture Displace & materials
Author: Nobuyuki Hirakata
Maintainer: Nobuyuki Hirakata
Wiki Page (gappyfacets.com)
Image by YAFU

Updated Add-ons

Collada

New features

Keep Bind Info
ファイル:Ref release notes 2.79 add-ons collada keep bindpose
The Collada Importer replaces the original Restpose of imported armatures by their Bindpose. This actually destroys information in the bone matrices. This works when all you want is to get an armature into Blender but never export it again.
However there is one scenario where you want to use Blender in the middle of a pipeline. In that case it may be important to keep the original Bindpose and Restpose information. See https://developer.blender.org/T50412 for more detailed info. This information is now preserved
The Collada module now has a new Import/Export option:
- Import: Keep Bind Info : Store the original Restpose and the original Bindpose into the bone custom properties bind_mat and rest_mat (both are 4*4 matrices)
- Export: Keep Bind Info : When the matrices bind_mat and rest_mat are found in the bone custom properties then those matrices are exported instead of the matrices used in Blender.
  Important: When you edit the Armature after import, then you might need to adjust bind_mat and rest_mat, or disable Keep Bind Info during export.
Limit Precision (only available for export)
When exporting then especially the Matrix data often contains floating point values which are exposed in badly readable format like 0.9999999 or even worse like -5.45049e-9 While this is not harmful at all it becomes much harder to spot issues in the data during debugging and comparing collada files. The limit precision option takes care that the exported data is sanitized by reducing the precision to 6 digits.

Bug Fixes

Display of connected Bones
Connected Bones have been given wrong locations for the bone tails. The imported Armatures look odd until you edit them. Then the connected bones snap into place. There was no report for this bug.

Export of multiple Armatures
When multiple armatures are exported which use same bone names, the exported Collada file became invalid. This fix is related to https://developer.blender.org/T50807

Blender Crash during export
When exporting while editing an armature, blender crashes. The fix is related to https://developer.blender.org/D2489

Export of UV Face Textures
In previous releases UV Face textures have been exported only when the mesh object also used Materials. Then the textures had been added silently to the material diffuse channel. To be clear: the exported materials have been modified!. But this resulted in total mix up when a material is reused by other objects. In that case the UV face textures would erroneously be also used in all objects using the same material. Of course the error only appears after you import back the Collada file into Blender or any other application.
In Blender 2.79 we have changed the behavior significantly. Now you can decide to either export textures that are related to materials, or you can export UV Face textures. In the latter case there is no longer the need to have materials defined in the objects. However, we then generate materials on the fly. So when you import back your objects, you see they now have got materials (one material per UV texture).
This topic is related to https://developer.blender.org/T51288

Exporting triangulated Meshes
Blender now uses <triangle> lists when meshes are triangulated upon export, or when they only contain triangles. Previously meshes have always been exported as <polylist>. This topic is related to https://developer.blender.org/T51622

Export of Meshes with multiple UV Maps
The export failed when more than 1 UV map was assigned to a mesh object. This bug is related to https://developer.blender.org/T51288

POV-Ray

New features

Camera normal perturbation
Photon map save/load
charset option available to choose text encoding between:
- SYS
- ASCII
- UTF-8

Some complete POV-Ray scenes are available to Templates menu from the text header.

Colored Syntax Highlight

Activating syntax highlights in the text editor now also supports POV-Ray files. If you load an ini file, you will notice its syntax is different, but all the other three formats are pov sdl with different file names for different uses

pov
inc
mcr
ini

An Insert Menu to add some pov code snippets at cursor's location has been added.

added an operator to render from text editor 3 modes: 3dview, pov text only or both. this property replaces the custompov code (with "both" option) known problem is that some scenes get their rendered image passed to render results while others don't. Still useable for preview anyway.

Added support of empty curves and metaballs represented by empty spheres of zero radius

All Meta elements were no longer export to mesh but as POV-Ray blobs
Added the following pov keywords to object properties tab:
- hollow
- double_illuminate
- sturm (for Metaballs and lathe)
- no_shadow
- no_image
- no_reflection
- no_radiosity
- inverse
- hierarchy

Bugfixes

fixed hair location bug
Fixed texture normal_factor regression
Fixed lighting attenuation for a closer match with Blender Internal
Merging different metaball objects is now possible
Removed automatic activation of Add Mesh: extra objects used for 3d function surface (exported as pov parametric object)
Replaced by a message and easy menu for user to activate it himself to avoid conflicts with other scripts
Use 2D curve for lathe
Fixed an error accessing photon variables
Depth Of Field focal point by specifying dof_object in properties ui input is now possible
Converted some rgb keywords to srgb to better match Blender Internal shading

OBJ (Wavefront)

New features
- Importer can now generate basic Cycles shaders in addition to classical BI materials, when Cycles render is active.

FBX I/O .fbx

New features
- new menu item: drop down selector titled: Apply Scalings.
- various bug fixes
- FBX exporter: Fix broken non-mesh geometry export.
- Fix Blender 2.78a doesn't import user properties from FBX file.

Rigify

Code Refactor
Old rigify types and meta-rigs were merged with the pitchipoy ones. Due to this change all the "pitchipoy" names were removed.

Legacy Mode
In order to keep backward compatibility during the transition to the new feature set a "Legacy Mode" option was added in the add-on preference pane. When enabled rigfy will run with the old 2.77 feature-set.
- Legacy Switcher
  When the system detects an old/unsupported Meta-Rig will ask the user to switch to legacy mode.
- Upgrade Meta-Rig
  When a old but supported Meta-Rig is detected the system will give the user an option to upgrade the Meta-Rig types to the current version. When this is done the user can upgrade the rig too by clicking on generate rig again.

Updated rig-types
All rig types now use the formerly known as "pitchipoy.type" as base. New feature were ported from the original rigify code and merged or updated as listed below:
- super_limb
  Formerly known as 'pitchipoy.super_limb' is the new base type to create Arms, Legs and Paws. All the types now support standard 'pole vector' as an option in the ui after rig generation. All the FK/IK snapping functions were updated to work seamlessly indipendently from the pole type (standard or rotational). Bone rolls are automatically calculated during the rig generation process, so no more eyeballing on the metarig's limbs bone rolls!
- super_spine
  Formerly known as 'pitchipoy.super_torso_turbo' is the new base type to create spines. This new type support the creation of stretchy spines complete systems splitting "head/neck" and "Tail" generation as an user defined option. This sample can generate a full bendy-bones spine (from tail to head). If the distance from head to neck is more than 3 bones will automatically generate an ik-stretchy neck useful for animals rigs. The spine system features rotation isolation modes for head, neck and even the new tail.

Rigify Layers Redesign

Rigify Layers - formerly used to define names in the UI - are now updated to support per-layer automatic creation of user defined bone groups and selection sets on the final rig.

Rig_UI automatic linking
The generated rig_ui.py script is now automatically set as python controller for the armature rig forcing the script to be imported along with the armature when a rigify rig is linked into another blend file.

Advanced Generation Options
Rigify can now handle more than 1 rig generation per scene. Users can now select a specific target rig and python ui to be updated from the metarig generate panel. This feature also addresses the patch proposed in https://developer.blender.org/T51094.

Rigify Animation Tools
When the add-on is enabled rigify rigs will benefit of a new animation tool panel that will allow the user to easily manage animation properties and switches on the whole animation or on a specific frame range. Rigify Animation Tools features are:
- ik2fk pose
  Snaps the current IK pose to the FK pose and insert automatically a keyframe.
- ik2fk action
  Snaps the current IK pose to the FK pose and insert automatically a keyframe on each keyed frame within the selected frame range.
- fk2ik pose
  Snaps the current FK pose to the IK pose and insert automatically a keyframe.
- fk2ik action
  Snaps the current FK pose to the IK pose and insert automatically a keyframe on each keyed frame within the selected frame range.
- clear IK action
  Deletes all the inserted keyframes for the IK chain within the selected frame range.
- clear FK action
  Deletes all the inserted keyframes for the FK chain within the selected frame range.
- switch to pole
  Converts the keyframes animation from the rotational pole to the standard pole vector within the selected frame range.
- switch to rotation
  Converts the keyframes animation from the standard pole vector to the rotational pole within the selected frame range.
- Quaternion/Euler converter
  Converts any rotation order f-curves to the desired one (i.e. Quaternion > XYZ Euler).

New Metarigs
Along with the 0.5 featureset a bunch of new metarigs are added to the armatures list:
- Basic Human
  A generic Human Meta-Rig, no fingers, no face.
- Basic Quadruped
  A generic Quadruped Meta-Rig including the new tail option in the spine.
- Cat
  A complete Cat Meta-Rig including claws, face bones and the new tail option in the spine.
- Wolf
  A complete Wolf/Dog Meta-Rig including claws, face bones and the new tail option in the spine.
- Horse
  A Horse Meta-Rig including the new tail option in the spine, hairs, tails and the bend&stretch ik neck option.
- Bird
  A basic Bird Meta-Rig including wings, feathers, claws, beak and the new tail option in the spine
- Shark
  A basic Shark Meta-Rig including fins, jaws, and the new tail option in the spine.

Bug Fixes
- fixed typo errors in various part of the old pitchipoy code
- fixed eyes bones/widgets size
- upgraded limb types to avoid the errors in legs generation when bones were not aligned https://developer.blender.org/T50500
- upgraded limb types to correctly show all animated properties in the graph editor as requested in https://developer.blender.org/T50511
- upgraded limb types to allow user defined foot orientation as requested in https://developer.blender.org/T50502
- All bone widgets shapes are now created as child of the 'WGTS' empty.

Ant Landscape

Overview of the User Interface

Presets Overview

Vertex Groups and Weights

New in A.N.T.Landscape v.1.8
- Landscape settings and refresh button are now available in the Properties shelf (View 3D > N).
- Presets for fast start creating various landscape/noise mesh.
- Use Blender Internal Texture Data Block - Texture Nodes as source for displacement.
- New Noise types/variations.

Landscape Tools in Toolshelf (View 3D > T):
- Mesh Displace: Displace selected mesh vertices along normal or x, y, z direction.
- Weight from Slope: Generate vertex weight slope map from z normal value.
- Landscape Eroder: Apply various kinds of erosion to a landscape mesh.
- Eroder also available in Weight Paint mode > Weights menu.
- ErosionR by: Michel Anders and Ian Huish

Author: Jimmy Hazevoet
Maintainer: Jimmy Hazevoet

Add Curve Extra Objects

New features
Update Curves Galore > 2d Curve Profiles By Jimmy Hazevoet
Redesign UI by meta-androcto
Catenary by Jimmy Hazevoet
Spirofit by Antonio Osprite, Jimmy Hazevoet
Bounce Spline by Liero, Atom, Jimmy Hazevoet
Celtic links by Adam Newgas
Braid Knot by Jared Forsyth
2d Curve objects by Spivak Vladimir
Curly Curve by Cmomoney
Bevel Taper Curve by Cmomoney

Viewport Pie Menus

New features
General Clean up
New split Snap/Origin pies to individual addons
Fix for edit mode select menu usability
Author: meta-androcto

Blender ID

The Blender ID add-on was upgraded to version 1.3.0:

Show a message after logging out.
Store token expiry date in profile JSON.
Show "validate" button when the token expiration is unknown.
Urge the user to log out & back in again to refresh the auth token if it expires within 2 weeks.
Added a method validate_token() to the public Blender ID Add-on API.
Author: User:Sybren

Node Wrangler:

The Node Wrangler add-on was updated to 3.35

An Operator for batch image import and auto texture setup for the new Principled BSDF was added.

Shortcut: ctrl-shift-T

Supported sockets

If the image files are sensibly named the following slots will be connected:

Base Color
Subsurface Color
Metallic
Specular
Roughness
Normal

For the roughness slot an invert node is added if the image is a glossy map (according to image name). The normal slot will either add a normal node or a bump node according to image name.

Displacement maps

In addition if a displacement image is added a displacement setup is also added.

User Preferences

The tags for assigning textures are editable in the add-on preferences

MeasureIt

MeasureIt 1.70 update

Redesign of Mesh Debug, Configuration, and N-panel settings layouts
Added option to rotate text and measurements by angles specified in degrees
Added option to horizontally align text to left, center, or right
Added option to expand or collapse all Number panel measure settings
Added options to Mesh Debug to display indexes of scene objects and mesh edges
Added options to Mesh Debug to display object and vertex global locations

Themes

new themes committed:
North theme by TimoShch
24x_blues by meta-androcto
Dark Blue Gradient by olson
Modern Minimalist by JonathanLampel
SandySlate by Vicki
True Blue Menu by meta-androcto
Default++ by aermartin

renamed softimage to Softblend (needs more work)
removed ubuntu ambience to contrib & nightly builds.

Thanks to participants here:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?416156-2-79-Final-Themes-competition!

Result is 4 lightish themes, 4 darkish themes, 4 color themed themes & 4 loud or high contrast themes

Thanks.

Addons Contrib

Addons contrib is the addons section in Blender nightly builds for developing addons.
Most of the addons are very stable and several are being developed with the aim of including in Blender 2.8
You can download a snapshot of all addons contrib addons here:
Download Snapshot (Add-ons Contrib)
You can manually install the addons by copy paste the addons_contrib folder to your Blender/2.79/scripts folder directory (the same folder as the Addons folder)
This will install all of contrib at next startup.
If you wish to install individual addons:
The folder addons can be individually zipped & then use install from file button.
The .py addons can use install from file button.
there's some really good & new addons in addons contrib, it's well worth the effort of checking out.

New Behaviors

Panel & Tab Cleanup:
Since 2.78 release, the Add-ons panels & Tabs have had a clean up
Add-ons in 2.79 that use panels & create their own tabs now have better grouping & context sensitivity
Panels are now only visible in the the correct contexts
Add-ons that use Panels all have a function to change the panel location in the Add-ons preferences
Add-ons that use Tabs have been restricted to use built in Tab names or to use similar ones as other add-ons
A clear example of this is the "Display Tab" is activated by Measureit, Display Tools & 3d Navigation add-ons
This has greatly reduced UI clutter with regards to Panels & Tabs with built in add-ons

Special Mentions

Several addons did not make it to Blender 2.79 release that deserve a special mention.
These addons have been developed outside Blender addons but are significant and the developers have been active participants in Blender Addons Development.

Ctools by Chromoly
- https://github.com/chromoly/ctools
- Includes Screencast keys addon
Scripts by Dairin0d
- https://github.com/dairin0d/blender-scripts
Sverchok
- https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok
Animation Nodes
- https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes
Manuel Bastioni Lab
- https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?391401-Addon-Manuel-Bastioni-Lab-turns-Blender-in-a-laboratory-for-3d-humanoids-creation
Mifth Tools
- https://github.com/mifth/mifthtools
Asset Management by pitiwazou: http://www.pitiwazou.com
- https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?391114-Addon-Asset-Management
Hard Ops
- https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?387735-Hard-Ops-Thread
These addons have been actively developed for several years & full credits to the authors for providing such inspirational works & tools.

Special thanks to the Blender devs that made all this possible
- meta-androcto
- lijenstina
- mont29
- ideasman42
- italic
- the irc regulars

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