Devlog

• I need your help (just 2 clicks)
  October 17, 2025 by RodZilla

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  Hi everyone! I could use a little help today, just two quick clicks: One to open this video One to give it a thumbs up Here’s the deal: the sound designer/composer who helped me with the new Materia... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.4
  October 05, 2025 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker 1.4 is now available for download... I would like to apologize for all the time it took, I seriously underestimated the effort needed to port everything to Godot 4 and the temptation to... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.4RC6
  September 21, 2025 by RodZilla

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  Here is a new Release Candidate for Material Maker 1.4, with a bunch of fixes (mostly for non critical problems). Thanks a lot to williamchange who contributed quite a few of them. As always, I would... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.4RC5
  August 25, 2025 by RodZilla

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  And here comes another Release Candidate for 1.4. Maybe I was very optimistic with RC1, but it seems we're finally getting there. As usual, many bug fixes for this release were contributed by williamc... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.4RC4
  August 07, 2025 by RodZilla

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  A new release candidate for Material Maker 1.4 is now available for download, and it could very well be the penultimate (or maybe the last) in the series. Indeed, less bugs have been found (and fixed)... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.4RC3
  July 30, 2025 by RodZilla

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  The third (and hopefully last) release candidate for Material Maker 1.4 is now available for download. It has quite a few fixes for (mostly minor) bugs. Thanks a lot to everyone who support this proje... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.4RC2
  July 12, 2025 by RodZilla

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  A second release candidate for 1.4 is now available. Quite a few bugs have been fixed since RC1 (mainly thanks to williamchange) and we should now be pretty close to the final 1.4 release. As always,... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.4 RC1
  July 03, 2025 by RodZilla

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  With this first release candidate, we're now a few bugfixes away from the final Material Maker 1.4. This release has quite a few bug fixes over 1.4b3, most of which have been contributed by williamcha... Continue reading
• A third beta for 1.4
  June 11, 2025 by RodZilla

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  We're getting a bit closer to the final 1.4 release with this third beta, that fixes quite a few bugs and adds a few improvements. As always, thanks a lot to everyone who support this project by donat... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.4b2
  May 09, 2025 by RodZilla

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  A second beta is now available for Material Maker 1.4. It has quite a few fixes and improvements over the previous release, most of which have been contributed by williamchange and NotArme. Thanks a l... Continue reading
• A first beta for 1.4
  April 06, 2025 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker 1.4b1 is now available for testing. It has just a few new nodes and features, and fixes quite a few bugs that have been detected in 1.4a3. Thanks a lot to everyone who support this proj... Continue reading

  
• A third (and last) alpha for Material Maker 1.4
  March 16, 2025 by RodZilla

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• 1.4 alpha2
  January 16, 2025 by RodZilla

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  This is the second alpha release that (I hope) brings us a few steps closer to the final 1.4. As always, thanks to everyone who support this project here on itch.io or on Patreon , contribute new feat... Continue reading

  
• A first alpha for 1.4
  November 04, 2024 by RodZilla

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  This is the first of a (I hope) short series of alpha and beta releases leading up to Material Maker 1.4. Porting Material Maker to Godot 4 has been a lot more work than I initially thought, mainly du... Continue reading

  
• On the road to 1.4
  December 07, 2023 by RodZilla

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  It seems I have been silent about Material Maker for way too long, so here is the current status. In the last 3 years, I committed to release a new version of Material Maker every three months, and so... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.3
  April 24, 2023 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 1.3, with a bunch of new nodes and features such as easier interaction with the website and custom node sharing. As always, please don't hesitate to report bugs and... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.2p1
  February 27, 2023 by RodZilla

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  Due to an embarassing number of regressions reported on 1.2, Material Maker has been updated to 1.2p1. This release is also the opportunity to introduce a new Unreal Engine 5 export target for most ma... Continue reading
• Material Maker 1.2
  January 22, 2023 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to version 1.2, introducing a host of new features, including support for variadic nodes and more flexible material export targets, as well as several new nodes. I am g... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.1
  October 25, 2022 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 1.1, with quite a few new nodes and features such as coloring and node parameters in the EasySDF editor, as well as many bug fixes. As always, please don't hesitate... Continue reading

  
• The calm after the storm
  September 11, 2022 by RodZilla

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  The month following the 1.0 release has been absolutely crazy in terms of downloads. And by crazy, I mean Material Maker 1.0 just reached 15k downloads, way beyond all other releases. I guess this is... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 1.0
  July 22, 2022 by RodZilla

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  I started this project on the 22th day of July, 2018. 4 years later... Material Maker has finally been updated to 1.0, with many bug fixes, as well as some new features and new nodes. As always, pleas... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.99
  April 10, 2022 by RodZilla

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  #Release

  Material Maker has been updated to 0.99, with a bunch of new nodes and features such as jitter in painting tool and environment sharing on the website as well as many bug fixes. As always, please don'... Continue reading

  
• 2022, funding, macOS port and random rants
  February 03, 2022 by RodZilla

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  When I started this project in 2018, I absolutely didn't anticipate it would one day have more than 7 users. Three years later, Material Maker has thousands of downloads per release, and a small but a... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.98
  January 23, 2022 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.98, with a quite a few new features and improvements, including undo/redo, a new painting engine and more painting tools, and a whole lot of new nodes. As always,... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.97
  October 17, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.97, with a major update to how randomness is handled in material graphs, a tool to export animations as PNG files or spritesheets, and many other improvements and... Continue reading

  
• Randomness in Material Maker
  October 14, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker 0.97 should be available in a few days, and its main new features are related to randomness. I always tried to avoid exposing random seeds in the user interface, because I don't think t... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker for MacOS
  August 04, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Important update: it seems installing the itch application on your Mac and using it to install Material Maker completely solves the problem. Please read below for a description of the problem and a ma... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.96
  July 31, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.96, with a huge new feature (Material nodes can now be edited) and quite a few smaller improvements and new nodes. As always, please don't hesitate to report bugs... Continue reading

  
• The future of Material Maker
  July 24, 2021 by RodZilla

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  The upcoming release of Material Maker should be available in a few days, maybe a few weeks (depending on how much time it will take to finish testing and fix remaining bugs), but I wanted to share ab... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.95
  April 22, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.95, with many new features, including an editor for 3D environments (for the 3D preview and the mesh painting tool), and a major nodes/brushes library management u... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.94
  January 31, 2021 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.94, with many improvements including a new 3D model painting tool and a website where you can share materials. Please don't hesitate to report bugs and submit idea... Continue reading

  
• 3D model painting alpha release
  November 15, 2020 by RodZilla

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  The next release of Material Maker will have an exciting (at least it is for me) new feature that makes it possible to paint 3D models. This release should be available before the end of the year, but... Continue reading

  
• Tiler nodes problem
  October 15, 2020 by RodZilla

  A problem has been spotted in the Tiler and Tiler Color nodes (that occurs when used with atlas inputs) in Material Maker 0.93, and a patch is available for download. The files it contains ( tiler.mmg... Continue reading
• Material Maker 0.93
  October 11, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.93, with user interface and performance improvements as well as new nodes. Please don't hesitate to report bugs and submit ideas for new features and new nodes for... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.92
  June 27, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.92, with user interface, performance improvements and quite a few new nodes. Please don't hesitate to report bugs and submit ideas for new features and new nodes f... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker subreddit
  April 26, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker now has its own subreddit . Please don't hesitate to join and show all fantastic materials or textures you created with Material Maker, ask questions or share tips or custom nodes you d... Continue reading
• A weird Material Maker experiment
  April 01, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material maker 0.91 is an unofficial, experimental and very special release of Material Maker. If you intend to use Material Maker to, well, generate PBR Materials, I'd strongly recommend that you ski... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.9
  March 15, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.9, with user interface improvements, a bunch of new nodes and a full rewrite of the export system. Please don't hesitate to report bugs, submit ideas for new featu... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.8
  January 22, 2020 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.8, with user interface improvements and many new nodes. I have to admit that implementing some of those features has been a lot of fun and I hope you will enjoy th... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.7
  November 25, 2019 by RodZilla

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  Material Maker has been updated to 0.7, and includes all features from 0.5 that were missing in 0.6 (blur, emboss and export nodes). And much, much more. Please don't hesitate to post feedback, report... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.7 needs you
  November 05, 2019 by RodZilla

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  TL;DR We're now about half way to Material Maker 0.7, so if there are node types you really think are missing in Material Maker, please just describe them in a comment to this post . Of course I canno... Continue reading

  
• Creating custom shader generators with Material Maker
  October 25, 2019 by RodZilla

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  #Material Maker, #Procedural, #Textures, #Shaders

  Here is a small guide that shows how to create new GLSL-based texture generators. Please don't hesitate to ask questions in comments so I can update it. First, let's clarify about the shader language... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.6
  October 13, 2019 by RodZilla

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  More than a year after 0.5, 0.6 is finally here. There are quite a few new features in this release, including a major refactoring of the engine that aimed at making it a lot more generic. Regressions... Continue reading

  
• Material Maker 0.5
  September 11, 2018 by RodZilla

  This release adds support for the Switch and Remote nodes that can be used to create configurable materials. A Comment node has also been added... Continue reading
• A new feature for Material Maker
  September 10, 2018 by RodZilla

  Here is a short video that shows the upcoming Remote node that can be used to create configurable materials... Continue reading
• Linux version
  September 04, 2018 by RodZilla#linux

  Material Maker now has a Linux version. I expect that most entries in the Help menu will not work under Linux. As a workaround: The documentation is in the doc directory Bugs can be reported here Plea... Continue reading
• Material Maker 0.4
  September 01, 2018 by RodZilla

  This is a minor update of Material Maker. I wanted to release it before more serious developments (mainly the possibility to create compound node). Added AdjustHSV node Added export size selection in... Continue reading
• Material Maker 0.3
  August 25, 2018 by RodZilla

  Just uploaded Material Maker 0.3. Please don't hesitate to test it and send feedback (bug reports, ideas for next release, or nice textures you created with this software). Here's what changed since 0... Continue reading