Logan FairbairnMatLayer is an add-on that drastically speeds up and simplifies the material editing workflow by providing a wrapper user interface for Blender’s vanilla material nodes. It helps create optimized, professional quality materials and textures for game engines, VRChat, still renders, movies, and more.
Key Features:
- PBR Material Layer Stack UI
- One-Click Mesh Map Baking for high poly to low poly normals, ambient occlusion, curvature, thickness, and world space normals
- One-Click Texture Exporting for common formats and software
- Appendable Workspace ideal for material editing with MatLayer
- Fast Texture Set Importing
- Triplanar Projection
- Merge Materials with automatic mesh map application (smart materials)
- Export All Materials on an Object to a single texture set
- Full Global and Per Layer Texture Set Control
- Integrated Default Filters for material channels
- Multi-Masking for material layers
- Custom Export Templates with texture channel packing
- Non-Destructive Decal Layers
- Auto-Corrections for Normal Map Rotations
- Blending Modes for Normal Maps (including re-oriented normal blending)
- Support for Adding Custom Group Nodes to layers
- Integrated Blurring for textures
- Basic Brush Presets
- Automatic Image File Management Options
- HDRI Setup for rendered view
- Custom Atlasing Support
