Material Maker 1.4RC2

General

• Preview3D mesh UV scale is now saved in settings (contributed by williamchange)
• Removed RZLogo TextureRect in about.tscn (contributed by williamchange)

Nodes

• Fixed noise node banding artifacts

Bug Fixes

• Fixed connections shown in front of nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed render counter context menu position (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed missing top-level label in hierarchy panel (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed small default window size on hidpi displays (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed unlit material doc on inputs (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed hierarchy panel previews (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed reroute context menu (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed a problem that caused buffers and materials not to updating correctly
• Fixed add node filter context pos on hidpi displays (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed add node popup size not updating correctly (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed preview3d that did not immediately apply 3D scale (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed comment color popup scale and position on hidpi display (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed propagating node changes (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed CodeEditor errors (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed crash that occurred when hovering param linked to minimized nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed ShowTree button size when entering subgraph (contributed by williamchange)
• Added missing parameter types in shader nodes documentation (contributed by williamchange)
• Added image check when exporting materials
• Fixed Font problem on Text node
• Fixed layout on multicolumn nodes
• Fixed comment node documentation and images (contributed by williamchange)
• Various code format and warning fixes (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed scale factor for flexible layout subwindows
• Fixed growing export menu problem on Mac

Material Maker 1.4RC1

General

• Fixed shader exports for Unity and Unreal engines (HLSL generation for array uniforms)

Nodes

• Fixed FBM noise and kaleidoscope nodes compatibility (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed switch node input tooltips (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed classic reroute (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem that caused the menu to update repeatedly when moving a node
• Adjusted File Dialog minimum size (contributed by williamchange)
• Made load from website dialog exclusive (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed comment line node min size not updating (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed hdri download error dialog scale on hidpi displays (contributed by williamchange)
• Removed Ctrl+R shortcut for 2D/3D buttons (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed SDF builder param size not updating (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed and updated tip text mouse icons (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed float edit drag focus bug (contributed by DevFika)
• Removed Show/Hide side panels menu item
• Small fixes in Splines editor

Material Maker 1.4b3

General

• Added Graph view preferences for connection styles (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated graph zoom level UI
• Added X shortcut to delete selected nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Added duplicate with inputs (Control+Shift+D) command (contributed by williamchange)

Nodes

• Added Comment Line node (contributed by williamchange)
• Made float edit control smaller (contributed by Jowan-Spooner)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed comments behavior when moving through hierarchy
• Show webpage when clicking website url on splashscreen
• Fixed export node
• Fixed SDF editor problem with polygon parameters
• Fixed generated cylinder tangents
• Fixed generic node layout
• Many fixes in EasySDF editor (renaming, hide button, many 3D primitives)
• Fixed dialog placement under Linux (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed scroll to item buttons in Library panel (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed 2D preview reset tooltip (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed environment list size (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed camera controller reset (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed crash that occurred when loading a mesh without UVs (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes in Add Node popup (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes in About dialog (contributed by williamchange)
• Made tip text translatable (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes in light theme (contributed by williamchange)
• Miscellaneous UI fixes (contributed by williamchange)

Material Maker 1.4b2

General

• Animation export parameters are now saved (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a keyboard shortcut (H) to minimize nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated gradient color picker to focus hex field when shown (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a shortcut (Control+,) for the Preferences dialog (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a limit of 5 custom models shown in the list in Preview 3D UI
• Improved DMG generation for macos (contributed by williamchange)

Nodes

• Made RGBA transform nodes variadic (contributed by williamchange)
• Allow dragging curve parameter to tonality node (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed artifacts in FBM nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes missing nodes descriptions (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes typos in node labels (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated math aliases with new operators (contributed by williamchange)
• Improved Splines parameter editor (contributed by NotArme)
• Improved node labels alignment
• Added a Unity URP lit export target for static material types (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed kaleidoscope variations (contributed by williamchange)
• Added axis parameters to Extrude/Revolution nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Added more primitives to the EasySDF editor (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed tonemap/exposure fields not showing when environment is set (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixes in export editor
• Fixed EXR file format support
• Fixed documentation access from Material Maker (contributed by NotArme)
• Fixes in environment editor (contributed by wojtekpil)
• Fixes in the About dialog (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed the curve preset icons (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed aliasing problem in TEX3D preview (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed division-by-zero errorrs in SDF3D preview (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed Alt-drag on editors for fine-tuning float values (contributed by williamchange)
• Made the license uneditable in the About dialog (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed weird presets of Shape node (contributed by williamchange)
• Documentation fixes and updates (contributed by NotArme and williamchange)
• Fixed graph screenshot feature
• Fixed Unity HDRP export target (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed the scale of dialogs for hi-dpi displays (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed the HDRI download dialog title (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed environment panel minimum size (contributed by williamchange)

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