Fusion 21 · Krokodove
Krokodove in DaVinci Resolve 21
Krokodove is a Fusion tool collection developed for more than 20 years as a third-party project. In DaVinci Resolve 21, Blackmagic Design integrates a substantial Krokodove set directly into Fusion and Edit Effects. This cluster separates what Resolve 21 officially documents from the legacy external plug-in, then connects those tools to practical guidance and our detailed node encyclopedia.
What Resolve 21 actually includes
We separate Blackmagic's official counts: over 70 new graphics on the Resolve 21 product page, more than a hundred motion-graphics effects and tools in the feature guide, and 61 tools explicitly named in its brief table.
Install Krokodove
DaVinci Resolve 21 needs no separate install for the integrated set. Legacy external Krokodove v8.30 remains a separate version-specific path.
Documented node list
Resolve 21 categories, concise explanations and direct links into our detailed Fusion node encyclopedia.
Best practical tools
The standout nodes for motion graphics, text, loops, pixel work, procedural backgrounds, warping and 3D.
Krokodove vs native
Where a dedicated Krokodove tool can simplify a graph, and where standard Transform, Duplicate, Displace or time tools remain the better fit.
What changed in Resolve 21
Krokodove is no longer just an obscure third-party add-on
Blackmagic uses two different counts for the integration: the main DaVinci Resolve 21 product page says Krokodove adds over 70 new graphics, while the New Features Guide describes more than a hundred motion-graphics effects and tools. The brief table that follows explicitly names 61 tools and modifiers. These counts describe different scopes, so 61 should not be presented as the total size of the integrated set.
The official guide describes an integrated Krokodove toolset, but it does not state that every historical external Krokodove tool was ported one-for-one. For that reason our encyclopedia marks as Krokodove only the tools Blackmagic explicitly names in the Resolve 21 feature guide, rather than assigning the label from a familiar or overlapping node name.
Krokodove does not replace standard Fusion. Its value is specialization: procedural patterns, segment warps, seamless loops, pixel sorting, mapped duplication and parameter modifiers that can reduce the amount of generic graph-building required for a specific effect.
Important
DaVinci Resolve 21 needs no separate Krokodove install
In current DaVinci Resolve 21, Krokodove ships with Fusion. Reactor-era instructions, manual plugin copying and separate downloads describe legacy versions and should not be mixed into a Resolve 21 setup.
Toolset structure
What kinds of Krokodove tools are in Fusion 21?
These groups follow Blackmagic Design's Resolve 21 guide, but each is described from a workflow perspective rather than as a bare feature list.
3D
1Procedural 3D duplication with image-driven control over transforms and timing.
Image Tools
14The broadest Krokodove group: structural image processing, fragmentation, stylization, edge extension and procedural line work.
Image Color Tools
5Focused color and luminance operations: replacement, range isolation and palette remapping.
Image Create Tools
5Procedural sources for backgrounds, textures, lines, tiling and concentric graphics.
Image Pixel Tools
15Pixel transforms, temporal blending, edge cleanup, duplication, extrusion, looping and pixel sorting.
Image Position Tools
1Tools that derive and manipulate spatial structure from image content.
Image Vector Tools
1Inspection and visualization of motion-vector data.
Image Warp Tools
12A broad family of directed and procedural warps, often reducing the manual setup needed with generic Transform and Displace chains.
Modifiers
3Parameter-behavior generators rather than image effects: rhythm, palette switching and controlled randomness.
Text Modifiers
4Ways to generate and animate text without long expression chains or manual per-frame work.
Primary sources
Version status and documentation
The version matrix and documented-tool list in this cluster are grounded in Blackmagic Design's Resolve 21 documentation and the original Krokodove developer page. We distinguish Blackmagic's over-70-graphics product wording, its more-than-100 effects-and-tools guide wording, and the 61 tools explicitly named in the brief guide table. The legacy external plug-in is kept separate from the Resolve 21 integration.