Thursday, 9 July 2026

Blender 5.2 Release Candidate

The release of a new major Blender release is a good time to complete a fresh installation of all your add-ons. 




Start with mission-critical things. Check it's all working okay before going the whole hog, especially if, like me, you have a dizzying number of add-ons in your stack.


Mission Critical Changes:


Copy Attributes Menu -- an addon that lets you copy and paste attributes, which is really useful for matching stuff like modifiers. (see Docs)

Enable Node Wrangler -- nuff said!

LoopTools -- old stalwart, now added as an extension.

Bagapie -- Archvis toolset 

Sanctus Library -- The amazing procedural material library

Creative Flow ---

Random Flow --- 

Clean Panels Pro ---

Engon ---

Geo-Scatter ---

[Edit] I came back to complete the add-on installation in the evening, but found that Blender 5.2 would crash to the desktop when started. I removed the AppData Roaming directory, after which Blender would start up again. To me, this suggests that one or more of the above add-ons is breaking the installation. Clean install of Blender 5.2 starting again, tomorrow.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       



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Blender 5.2 Release Candidate

The release of a new major Blender release is a good time to complete a fresh installation of all your add-ons.  Start with mission-critical...