BLEND NORMALS | FREE Blender Add-On

This Blender Addon makes soft, seamless shading transitions from one mesh to another, without having to join them together or change their geometry. This addon works by setting custom normals to allow one mesh to appear as if it is blending into another, which is particularly useful when working with character meshes, accessories, hard-surface parts, and many other types of meshes where multiple separate meshes meet.

Blender Version: 4.5.0+

Tested in blender 4.5.0 & 5.0.0

Main Features

Base Mesh & Blend Mesh

Select your Base Mesh to be used as the source of the normals and your Blend Mesh as the target.

Your objects can be completely independent while still appearing as if they are seamlessly connected.

Adjustable Blend Distance

You can control the distance over which the normal influence applied to the Blend Mesh from the Base Mesh. A smaller value would give more of a sharp transition, whereas a bigger value would give a more gradual transition.

Strength control

You can control the strength of the influence that the Base Mesh has on the Blend Mesh.

This gives you the ability to have more subtle shading transitions, as well as stronger transitions.

Several Falloff modes

You can choose from several falloff curves to dictate how the normal influence falls off:

• Linear
• Smooth step
• Smoother step
• Stepped linear

Bake Normals

Bakes the current normal result directly into the mesh.

Clear Baked Normals

Removes the baked custom normal data from the mesh.

Please note: Baking isn't required if you want to keep the setup editable. Instead, you can enable Apply Modifiers when exporting your FBX.

Terms of Use

• You may modify the addon for your own personal use. Modified versions may not be redistributed or sold without permission from me!
• Blend Normals may not be sold, sublicensed or included as a paid download or part of another paid addon
• Copyright notices and the "Made by Jvliette" attribution included in the addon may not be removed from redistributed or modified copies.
• Blend Normals is provided "as is" without guarantees that it will work with every Blender version, project, or future Blender release. Use of the addon is at your own risk. Jvliette is not responsible for data loss, corrupted files or other issues resulting from the use of the addon
• Blend Normals is an independent third-party Blender addon and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Blender Foundation.

• By downloading or using Blend Normals, you agree to these Terms of Use