1.4b1

Material Maker 1.4b1

General

• Added AgX tonemapper and tonemap exposure and white parameters in the 3D preview (contributed by williamchange)

Nodes

• Added a Custom Tiles node that can accepts the shape of a tile as SDF input
• Added a Fill Select node that can select a single area in a Fill result
• Fixed the smooth curvature node by increasing blur quality
• Fixed Japanese Glyphs nodes
• Updated the reroute node's color so it's more visible

Bug Fixes

• Fixed single click edit of float parameter edit control (contributed by wojtekpil)
• Fixed icons problem in undocked panels
• Added missing file options in export editor
• Fixed shadertoy shader export for polygon/polyline parameters
• Fixed texture filtering and repeat problems
• Fixed status bar tip on 3D preview
• Fixed comment highlighting in code editor
• Fixed message when closing with unsaved projects (contributed by williamchange)
• Small fix for the meteor rain splash screen (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed preview export for non-image types
• Fixed spline edit dialog
• Fixed Preference window, that vanished when trying to download languages
• Show locale as english if it's not found

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 4.4.1
• Updated documentation to include Blender export (contributed by williamchange)

Material Maker 1.4a3

General

• The 3D preview panel has been completely redesigned (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• The Create Library dialog has been updated (contributed by NotArme)
• When uploading materials, it is now possible to select the preview
• Camera controls are now consistent in all 3D views

Nodes

• The default nodes library now has more consistent node names (contributed by NotArme)
• The wavelet node now loops correctly (contributed by NotArme)
• The Pixelize node now has support for Bayer matrix dithering
• The Japanese Glyphs node now has a normalized bevel range (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a few bugs in shader generation
• Fixed problems in the EasySDF node and editor
• Fixed greyscale images export
• Fixed export of images with transparency (contributed by karmaral)
• Fixed problem with saving environments
• When saving, errors will now be showed to the user in an alert window (contributed by NotArme)
• Messages in the status bar have been improved (contributed by NotArme)
• Fixed window scaling problems with high DPI screens
• Fixes in several Bricks nodes and Tones node
• Fixes in the Generalized Kuwahara node (contributed by williamchange)

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 4.4
• The MacOS disk image background has been improved (contributed by williamchange)

Material Maker 1.4a2

Material Maker 1.4a2

General

• The Add Nodes popup has been improved (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• The 2D preview and References panels have been redesigned (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Themes have been improved (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Default layouts have been added for material authoring and painting
  modes (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Added new splash screens (Crown Gambit, DroppedBeat)

Nodes

• Updated the Roman Numerals node (now supports values upto 3999 and
  has an align parameter)
• Rewrote the comment node
• Added Reverse, Evenly Distribute and Simplify tools to the Gradient editor
  widget (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)

Bug Fixes

• Started fixing material exports (Godot and static materials for Unreal)
• Fixed user libraries problem (contributed by NotArme)
• Fixed splashscreen position with multiple screens (contributed by NotArme)
• Fixed problems in environment editor
• Fixed popup menu locations

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 4.4dev7

Material Maker 1.4a1

Material Maker 1.4a1

Known problems

• User settings are saved in a different directory (so using 1.4 alphas should not
  affect your 1.3 configuration)
• Subwindows are not scaled correctly if the UI scale is not 1

General

• Added flexible UI layout: panels can be moved anywhere in the window or
  undocked (Material authoring and Painting have different layouts)
• Improved theme support (especially made many custom UI components themeable),
  added a new Modern theme and improved old themes (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Added basic support for GLTF 3D models
• Dropping a .obj or .glb file into the 3D preview panel will use it as preview model
• In the 3D preview replaced the default cube mesh with a chamfered cube and the
  plane with a bent plane (chamfer and curvature can be modified in the mesh
  configuration popup)
• Improved the Add Node popup so it's themeable, more performant and has better search
  capabilities (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Improved the Library panel's design (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Added an editor for polygon parameters in the 2D preview
• Added a shader error diagnostic tool
• Added easy stylus pressure configuration in painting tool
• Added a Find/Replace tool to code editor
• Added an option to delete rescued unsaved projects at startup
• Added support for hover copy+paste on float, color and gradient editors

Nodes

• Added a MeshMap node that automatically bakes maps (position, normal, tangent,
  curvature, occlusion or thickness) for the current custom mesh.
• Added many new 2D and 3D SDF nodes (contributed by Theaninova and williamchange)
• Added new operations to the Math and Vec3 Math nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a Shard FBM noise node (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a Tex3D Uniform node (contributed by williamchange)
• Added Classic, Generalized and Anisotropic Kuwahara filter nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Redesigned the Float and Gradient parameter editor widgets (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Improved the image picker UI (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)
• Added a new Splines parameter type (that can be edited in the 2D preview directly)
  and a new Splines node
• Added a new Pixels parameter type, that can describe tiny images with 2, 4, 8 or 16 colors,
  and can be edited in the 2D preview directly. Added new Pixels and Smooth Pixels nodes
• Added a new Lattice parameter type and a new Distort node
• Added a new Webcam node that can output a Webcam feed (MacOS only)
• Added a density input to the Noise node
• The 2D and 3D SDF Boolean and Transform nodes, the 3D SDF Color node and the
  Tex3D Transform, Blend Select and Shape Select nodes are now variadic (contributed by williamchange)
• The Blend node now has Hue, Saturation, Color and Value blend modes (contributed
  by williamchange)
• The Spherize node has been improved (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated documentation for many nodes (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Small fixes in the GLSL parser
• Optimized polygon/polyline parameter

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 4.3. While porting to Godot 4, many features
  have been rewritten completely, including shader code generation and shader rendering
• The MacOS export has been modified so Material Maker can be installed
  easily (contributed by williamchange)

Material Maker 1.3

General

• Updated interface to the website to login and upload assets without the need
  of a web browser
• Added custom nodes sharing on the website (connect to the website and right
  click a custom node to share it)
• Added support for the $rndi (that returns a random integer value) parameter
  expression function (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added an option in the 2D Preview panel to export non square textures

Nodes

• Added a Random Weave node (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added variations controls to all SDF repeat (2D and 3D, grid and circle)
  nodes (contributed by Arnklit)
• Updated the Normal Blend node to make it variadic (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added Cairo tiles node
• Added a Spherize node (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an update problem in the Iterate Buffer node
• Fixed a NaN problem in the sdArc node (contributed by myaaaaaaaaa)
• Fixed a problem where the recovery file was not deleted when closing a tab
• Fixed an export problem in the Painting tool
• Fixed a problem with the Fill nodes where areas could leak though corners

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 3.5.2

Material Maker 1.2p1

New features

• Added Unreal Engine 5 export targets that generate a Python script for UE5 to
  build automatically the generated material (it's necessary to setup a path for
  Python in UE, this is described in the documentation)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several small problems in the Export Editor window
• Fixed a problem that caused the 3D preview to update incorrectly
• Fixed a problem in the Tones Map node that could cause incorrect shader code generation
• Fixed a problem in the animation export tool that occurred when exporting graphs with buffers
• Fixed Histogram panel (not updating correctly) and improved histogram rendering
• Updated the Math nodes to improve parameters consistency (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed a bug that caused Material Maker to crash when entering an expression as parameter in the Text node

Material Maker 1.2

General

• Added a dependency manager that handles all parameter changes, buffers and previews to
  avoid useless renders (myaaaaaaaaa helped hunting and fixing memory leaks on this).
• Material export has been updated:
  • custom export targets can now be added to predefined Material nodes,
  • a new Export again menu item has been added to repeat the last export operation.
• Unsaved projects are now rescued when Material Maker crashes and automatically reopened
  at startup.

Nodes

• Shader nodes can now be variadic, i.e. have a number of parameters, inputs and outputs that
  are repeated. A new icon in the node titlebar shows the variadic aspect and can be used to
  increase or decrease the number of occurences of those parameters and ports.
  A few nodes have been updated accordingly, so Blend now supports several layers,
  Transform can apply to several channels and workflow nodes can mix more raw materials.
• A new Normal to Height node has been added.
• Parameters have been added to the Image node to keep the image's aspect ratio (contributed
  by myaaaaaaaaa).
• New colorspace related nodes have been added, such as Colorspace Roundtrip that
  make it possible to perform computations in other colorspaces (contributed
  by myaaaaaaaaa).
• The Fast Blur node now has high pass and sharpened outputs (contributed
  by myaaaaaaaaa).
• A snap operation has been added to Math nodes (contributed by williamchange).
• The Blend node now has additional modes: Linear Light, Vivid Light, Pin Light, Hard Mix
  and Exclusion (contributed by paddy-exe).
• The interpolation code has been improved in the 3D FBM node (contributed by Arnklit).
• The random color output of the Triangle Voronoi node, that did not always tile, depending
  on the scale parameters, has been fixed (contributed by williamchange).
• The Dilate node can now create (optionally) a non-tileable result.

Miscellaneous

• An experimental HTML5 version has been added.
  Although it has a lot of limitations, it is a good way of trying Material Maker without
  installing it.
• Self-connections of subgraphs are now allowed if they don't form a loop, and loop
  detection has been optimized (contributed by myaaaaaaaaa).
• The .mmg format (used for predefined nodes) has been modified to be more Version Control
  System friendly (contributed by myaaaaaaaaa).

Fixes, optimizations

• Files are now removed from the recent projects list when they fail to load (contributed by Arnklit).
• The Comment node now selects correctly its children, regardless of the current zoom level (contributed
  by Zhibade).
• The alignment of inputs in the Uneven Bricks 2 node has been fixed (contributed by Arnklit).
• Command line exporting has been fixed (contributed by myaaaaaaaaa).

Material Maker 1.1

General

• Updated renderer to limit the size of rendering viewports (big textures are rendered in chunks and reassembled).
  This can be used to avoid crashes on lower end GPU and/or when generating high resolution textures. The maximum
  render size can be configured in the progress counter context menu.
• Added GPU memory information near the progress counter, with a tooltip that shows the GPU interface name (this
  can be used to know if Material Maker runs on the integrated graphics on a laptop).
• In Graph views, added support for arrow keys to scroll in all directions (useful when connecting nodes that
  are far from each other).
• Buffer nodes and nodes that contain buffers are now shown with a specific icon. Right clicking that icon
  show a context menu that can pause and resume the buffers (making it possible to disable useless rendering
  of parts of the material).
• The FPS counter, the GPU memory counter and the rendering progress bar have been moved to a status bar at
  the bottom of the user interface.
• Added a small icon in the status bar that shows the status of the clipboard (and if it can be pasted into
  a graph view).
• Started adding tips to the status bar.
• Added an option for Tonemaps in the 3D Preview panel.
• Added an option to overwrite existing material files (.tres for Godot engine, .mat and .meta for
  Unity engine) when re-exporting materials.
• Added Godot 4 export targets to all material types (contributed by Arnklit).

Nodes

• Updated the EasySDF node with support for coloring (of albedo, roughness, metallic and emission channels)
  and node parameters, and added more shapes and operators.
• Added additional modes to Math node (contributed by williamchange).
• Updated the Iteration Buffer with an autostop parameter. When set, the Iteration Buffer will stop iterating
  as soon as 2 consecutive results are identical.
• Added a Fill port type that is used as output of the Fill node (and nodes that generate fill information)
  and input of the Fill companion nodes.
• Removed the Iterations parameter from the Fill node, and added parameters to remove the edges and adjust
  the generated bounding box.
• Added a new Fill from colors node that generates fill information from the color islands in its input.
• Updated the Beehive and Voronoi nodes to output Fill information instead of a random color.
• Added Spiral Gradient node (contributed by Theaninova).
• Added Diagonal Weave node (contributed by williamchange).
• Added Triangle Voronoi node (contributed by williamchange).
• Added Sixteen Segment Display and Roman Numerals nodes (contributed by williamchange).
• Added Japanese Glyphs node (contributed by williamchange).
• Added Uneven Bricks 3, Skewed Bricks and Skewed Uneven Bricks nodes (contributed by Arnklit).
• Added Swirl node.

Miscellaneous

• Material Maker is now based on Godot 3.5.

Material Maker 1.0

General

• Added an option to automatically size new comment nodes to current selection (contributed by Zhibade)
• In the Reference panel, it is now possible to scan an average color by dragging the mouse cursor around
• When creating a new painting project, MM now checks the model can be painted (i.e. has a single surface and correct UVs)
• The configuration of 2D preview and graph editor panels is now saved
• Added support for gestures in 2D and 3D preview as well as painting panels
• Added a new Download button for translations in the Preferences dialog
• Pasting a list of HTML colors (in hex format) into the graph editor now creates a new Colorize node

Nodes

• Added 3D SDF shapes, primitives and transforms to EasySDF node and corresponding editor
• Added Seven Segment Display node with variable length/width (contributed by williamchange)
• Added Smooth Mix (a mix-by-height node with smooth transition between materials) Worflow node
• Updated Dilate node to improve precision in higher resolutions (contributed by Arnklit and wojtekpil)
• Added new Morphology node that provides dilation and erosion operations
• Added White Noise, Clouds Noise and Directional Noise nodes (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added new Make Tileable Square node (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added Slope node, that generates slopes from the highest areas of a heightmap
• Added AlterHSV node that can be used to modify the Hue, Saturation and Value of its input using
  input maps
• Added new Mesh node (contributed by Arnklit)
• Updated Normal Map node to improve precision when the buffer option is used
• Added new Additive and AddSub modes to the Blend node (contributed by Arnklit)
• Added new packing/unpacking nodes that can store 1 (or 2) values into 2 (or 4) when using buffers
  for better precision (contributed by Arnklit and wojtekpil)
• Added a flip parameter to the Mirror node:w

Miscellaneous

• MacOS port is now signed and notarized
• Material Maker is now based on Godot 3.4.4

Material Maker 0.99

General

• The 3D preview had several improvements including better parallax mapping quality,
  debanding applied by default and better control of scale factor to avoid decreased
  rendering quality (contributed by Calinou)
• Environments can now be downloaded from and uploaded to the website

3D model painting

• Brushes now have default jitter parameters (position, angle, size and opacity)
• Painting on seams has been improved

Nodes

• Added an EasySDF node that can be used to describe complex SDF shapes with a dedicated editor
• The Tesselated Material type has been fixed and renamed to Static PBR Displacement (contributed by Arnklit)
• Tiler and Splatter nodes now have a new custom UV output (contributed by Arnklit)
• Non uniform scale nodes have been added for 2D and 3D SDF (contributed by Paulo Falcao)
• Circle splatter nodes now have support for variations (contributed by Arnklit)
• A new Fill to Gradient node has been added (contributed by Arnklit)
• A new color conversion node (that between linear and sRBG) has been added (contributed by Arnklit)
• A new 3D SDF FBM node that adds FBM noise on top of an existing SDF shape has been added (contributed by Arnklit, based on an article by Inigo Quilez)