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Uv.Scatter is a Blender shader tool that scatters textures and adds decals to your materials. It applies parallax, blur and shadows using shaders alone, without geometry nodes or particle systems.

Super Bump is a Blender add-on that brings material displacement to the Eevee real-time engine, using tightly packed alpha-clipped layers to reinforce Normal and Bump map effects without super-dense geometry.

The Vat Man is a Blender add-on that bakes animations, simulations and particles into Vertex Animation Textures, letting you play them back in Cycles using only a material.