Blob Fusion

Blob Fusion is Blender extension organic and hard-surface meshes creation. It can be thought as mix of ZSpheres with Metaballs/SDFs, combining best of both worlds.

Latest version 1.6.x (extension) is for Blender 4.2+ only.

Features/Functionality:

• Supported primitives: Sphere, Round Capsule, Cube, Torus, Mesh and Cylinder Blobs
• Auto-generated hierarchy of objects (rig like), when adding new Blobs
• Colorization of Blobs (introduced in Blob Fusion 1.6.3)
• SDF is converted to mesh in real time (no need for time-consuming meshing first). You can render what you see directly from 3d view.
• Smooth Blobs blending control [Alt+B]
• Subtract and Union modes [-] key to toggle,
• Simple workflow: Extrude, Subdivide, Connect and Duplicate is all you need to model
• Library of Blobs Presets (humanoid and animals)
• One click Armature generation
• Ability to deform Blob domains with Blender modifiers or instance them with Collection Instancing
• Works on: Mac, Linux and Windows

YouTube Blob Fusion playlist

Online Documentation

Character Modeling Timelapse

Addon Discord support channel

How To use:

• Go to right sidebar (N) -> Tools -> Blob Fusion tab -> Click [+] icon (Add Blob Domain)
• Workspace tool will be automatically switched to 'Blob Fusion' - this overrides some hotkeys to the ones listed below
• Shift+A (add menu) -> Add blob (first entry) - this will be first thing you will want to use.
• Select created Blob (empty) - press E - to extrude it into capsule. More hotkeys below:

Hotkeys:

• Shift+A Add Menu Blob
• E Extrude
• Shift+D Duplicate Blob(s)
• Ctrl + MMB Scroll Select adjacent Blobs
• F Connect two selected blobs
• W Subdivide selected blob segment
• P Rip/Separate Selected blob segment,
• Shift+G Select Child Blobs, Select Blobs by Type
• Alt+B Adjust Blob Blend factor
• Ctrl+B Blob Parameters Popup
• M Toggle Mute Blob(s)
• Alt+M Unmute All
• X\\Del Delete
• Alt+S Unify Scale - makes empty Round
• Shift+V Slide Empty towards adjacent Node Ending/Parent
• Y Rip capsule blobs, from adjacent capsules,
  

Artwork by Metin Seven

Update 1.1 (10.08.2022)

• added automated rig generation
• added fast transform mode.

Update 1.2 (11.06.2023) For Blender 3.3 and up

• Fixed Symmetry not working on Blender 3.5,
• Moved all drawing functions to GPU module,
• Fix buggy down resolution not restoring original res sometimes (eg. on redo),
• added dog preset into downloads
• fixed armature generation on more complicated setups

For Blender 3.6 and 4.x - Released 02.11.2023,

• added compatibility with Blender 4.x,
• Simplification option exposed in preferences (for 'Fast Transform'),

Update 1.4.0 for Blender 3.6, 4.x (Released 15.11.2023):

• Mute warnings in Blender 4.0

Update 1.5.1 (For Blender 3.6 and 4.x - Released 12.03.2024),

• Faster Blobs calculations in Blender 4.0 and above,
• Automatic Blob Domain Resize - expand/shrink domain to match size of blobs inside it,
• Added Blobs Library,
• Added 'Move To Index' - to reorder blobs,
• Added gizmos for manual blobs domain resizing and locking faces,
• Added option to change BFusion panel category in preferences,
• Bugfixes,

Update 1.5.2 (for Blender 3.6 and 4.x - Released 13.04.2024),

• Translate, Rotate, Scale (G, R, S) keys, for Blobs objects transformations can now be customized in Blender Hotkeys preferences,

Update 1.6.0 (for Blender 4.2+ Extension - Released 3.08.2024) ,

• compatibility with Blender 4.2 (BFusion is extension now !),
• Added 'Split Capsule' operator ( [Y] - hotkey),
• Added Cube, Cylinder and Torus primitives,
• Improved speed of blobs generation,
• 2 new presets is library - cartoon female and mech.
• bugfixes,

Update 1.6.3 (For Blender 4.2+ Released 20.08.2024)

• Added option to colorize Blobs,
• Added Mesh (to Blob) primitive,
• Added Gradient Tool, for coloring selected blobs,
• Added 'Select By Similar Color' operator