by Pidgeon Tools·Rendering
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Pidgeon Tool Bag earns its place in the superhive library by collecting the separate Pidgeon Tools addons under a single addon, with the Super Image Denoiser as its most fleshed-out component and documentation plus a tutorial playlist to back it up.
Pidgeon Tool Bag brings the individual Pidgeon Tools addons together into one addon for Blender, built to cover the entire pipeline. Inside you get Super Image Denoiser, Super Fast Render for scene optimization and render-time savings, Super Advanced Camera for color grading, effects and camera control, Super Resolution Render for large-format output like posters, Super Project Manager for one-click project setup saved to a preset folder, Super Image Upscaler for AI upscaling directly in Blender, and the beta Super Render Farm.
The most developed piece is the Super Image Denoiser. It comes in SID-Regular for still images and animation and SID-Temporal for animation with more stability between frames, each with Standard, High and Super quality levels. You control which passes get denoised, both modes support Multilayer-EXR, and SID can detect the passes in your scene for you.
Further tools are in development, including Super Organized Nodes, Super Real Sound and Super Easy Analytics. A tutorial playlist and a demo video are available.
[Addon] Pidgeon Tool Bag is best for blender artists who want the Pidgeon Tools addons in one package to handle denoising, render optimization, color grading, upscaling and project setup.
[Addon] Pidgeon Tool Bag is completely free to download and use.
Pidgeon Tool Bag's Super Image Denoiser ships in two modes. SID-Regular suits still images and animation, producing clean, detailed renders at lower samples than the built-in denoiser. SID-Temporal is aimed at animations, delivering the same quality as SID-Regular with more stability between frames. Because SID-Temporal works with multiple frames at a time, it needs a Working Directory to store rendered and denoised frames, defaulting to a folder beside the saved blend file. You choose the mode that fits your scene.
Pidgeon Tool Bag's Super Image Denoiser offers three quality levels so you can match output to the task. Super is intended for final renders at the highest quality with no sacrifices. High is the setting for a quick preview of a scene. Standard denoises frames the quickest and is described as suited to lookdev. Alongside the quality choice, SID lets you control which passes get denoised, and it can detect the passes in your scene and set those options for you.
Pidgeon Tool Bag's Super Image Denoiser supports Multilayer-EXR in both SID-Regular and SID-Temporal. You can save your render as a .exr file containing all the separate passes SID used, which gives you more control over individual layers of the image afterwards. Note that temporal data is not yet used for Multilayer-EXR denoising. This sits alongside SID's per-pass control, so you decide which passes need denoising before writing them out to the layered file.
Pidgeon Tool Bag is listed as free in this catalog. For the most accurate and current licensing details, check the developer's page from Pidgeon Tools, since terms can change over time. The bundle brings the individual Pidgeon Tools addons together into one addon, including the Super Image Denoiser, Super Fast Render, Super Advanced Camera, Super Resolution Render, Super Project Manager, Super Image Upscaler and the beta Super Render Farm, so you get the collection rather than a single tool.
Pidgeon Tool Bag's SID-Temporal stores its frames in a Working Directory, which by default is a folder where the blend file is saved. Because temporal denoising works across multiple frames at once, it needs this place to keep the rendered and denoised frames. For fast camera movement, SID-Temporal renders some extra pixels around the frame to keep results artifact free, and because it can't denoise the first and last two frames, frame compensation fills those with SID-denoised frames.
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