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Simplify+ Add-on - Viewport Performance for Blender ($0) Free Limited Edition!

Simplify+ Addon - Viewport Perfomance For Blender

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DISCLAIMER: If your projects don’t rely on the use of Blender’s modifiers, your chances to enhance performance are lower. Nevertheless, Isolate in Collection can be a good friend even for projects that don’t abuse on the use of modifiers.

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The add-on extends built-in Simplify functionalities by adding plenty of other modifiers to batch toggle other than only subdivision levels. Viewport overlays and features that tend to cause bottleneck in the viewport are also quickly accessible. It also has a custom utility operator (Isolate in Collection) for performing computationally demanding operations in an optimum scenario.

Overall, Simplify+ improves the 3D Viewport experience in Blender so you can work happier, better and faster!

The add-on is located and operated by the Side Panel (N-panel) in the 3D Viewport, in the Simplify+ tab.

Installation

The standard way to install any add-on in Blender:

Steps:

1. Go to Add-ons in Blender’s Preferences Window
2. Click Install…
3. Choose the downloaded .zip (keep it zipped!)
4. Click Install Add-on
5. Toggle it on

Done! ✅

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Blender 4.2 and up you can simply drag and drop the .zip on Blender’s interface and confirm the installation! Shout out to all the Blender developers!

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Side Panel

1. Toggle Simplify+ and modes of operation;
2. Built-in Simplify options;
3. Batch toggle modifiers visibility in the Viewport & other functionalities;
4. Execution time⁽¹⁾: At the top, the button 🔄 will refresh the Execution Time for every type of modifier taking in account all the objects in the active view layer(s).
5. Extra toggles for Viewport performance;
6. Expose Wizard.
7. Utility Sub-panel.

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In the far right of the Viewport sub-panel, you can press the down arrow icon and expose/hide certain buttons according to the needs of your scene/project. To define a default preset, go to the Add-on Preferences.

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<aside> 💡 Let’s elaborate the above functionalities that are not self explanatory:

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1. Toggle Simplify+ and modes of operation

Active in Pose Mode: Simplify+ is active only while in Pose Mode.

disabled

enabled

Active during playback⁽²⁾: Simplify+ is active only during playback.

disabled

enabled

<aside> ℹ️ Above options can be turned on simultaneously and they act like override states in which conditions Simplify+ should be active. When both are disabled, the add-on settings will be active all the time, as long as Simplify+ is toggled ON.

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toggled ON

toggled OFF

3. Batch toggle modifiers visibility in the Viewport & other functionalities

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Selects all objects containing the modifier

From the version 1.1.0 and up: Shift + Click, on the toggle button, now selects all objects containing the respective modifier!

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