Material Maker Devlog - itch.iohttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-makerProcedural textures authoring toolhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1491329/material-maker-16Material Maker 1.6https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1491329/material-maker-16Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:20:56 GMTdevlogMaterial Maker is now available for download, with quite a few new features and improvements. And it seems williamchange has been carrying this release again. Thanks a lot to everyone who support this...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1379282/material-maker-15p1Material Maker 1.5p1https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1379282/material-maker-15p1Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:39:01 GMTdevlogSince 1.5 has a few annoying bugs, here is Material Maker 1.5p1. Most of the fixes in there were contributed by williamchange. As always, thanks to everyone who support this project on Patreon or here...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1312764/material-maker-15Material Maker 1.5https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1312764/material-maker-15Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:59:26 GMTdevlogFirst of all, Happy New Year! May your year be seamless and your nodes well aligned. ;) Material Maker 1.5 is now available for download, with lots of user interface improvements and a few new nodes...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1086470/i-need-your-help-just-2-clicksI need your help (just 2 clicks)https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1086470/i-need-your-help-just-2-clicksFri, 17 Oct 2025 06:34:36 GMTdevlogHi 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1066042/material-maker-14Material Maker 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1066042/material-maker-14Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:19:23 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1037442/material-maker-14rc6Material Maker 1.4RC6https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1037442/material-maker-14rc6Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:02:40 GMTdevlogHere 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1017090/material-maker-14rc5Material Maker 1.4RC5https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1017090/material-maker-14rc5Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:25:56 GMTdevlogAnd 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1003794/material-maker-14rc4Material Maker 1.4RC4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/1003794/material-maker-14rc4Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:27:08 GMTdevlog

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)...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/997658/material-maker-14rc3Material Maker 1.4RC3https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/997658/material-maker-14rc3Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:25:06 GMTdevlogThe 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/985040/material-maker-14rc2Material Maker 1.4RC2https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/985040/material-maker-14rc2Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:50:02 GMTdevlogA 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,...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/979222/material-maker-14-rc1Material Maker 1.4 RC1https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/979222/material-maker-14-rc1Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:30:22 GMTdevlogWith 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/964678/a-third-beta-for-14A third beta for 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/964678/a-third-beta-for-14Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:40:56 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/941737/material-maker-14b2Material Maker 1.4b2https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/941737/material-maker-14b2Fri, 09 May 2025 20:07:01 GMTdevlogA 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/919950/a-first-beta-for-14A first beta for 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/919950/a-first-beta-for-14Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:51:46 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/906875/a-third-and-last-alpha-for-material-maker-14A third (and last) alpha for Material Maker 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/906875/a-third-and-last-alpha-for-material-maker-14Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:43:17 GMTdevlogWe're getting closer to a final 1.4 with this third (and last) alpha release. This release has quite a few bug fixes, as well as many improvements, including a complete redesign of the 3D Preview pane...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/869578/14-alpha21.4 alpha2https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/869578/14-alpha2Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:48:02 GMTdevlogThis 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/828121/a-first-alpha-for-14A first alpha for 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/828121/a-first-alpha-for-14Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:37:01 GMTdevlogThis 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/563973/on-the-road-to-14On the road to 1.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/563973/on-the-road-to-14Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:13:22 GMTdevlogIt 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/520779/material-maker-13Material Maker 1.3https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/520779/material-maker-13Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:09:08 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/495408/material-maker-12p1Material Maker 1.2p1https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/495408/material-maker-12p1Mon, 27 Feb 2023 08:39:44 GMTdevlogDue 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/477280/material-maker-12Material Maker 1.2https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/477280/material-maker-12Sun, 22 Jan 2023 14:07:57 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/441542/material-maker-11Material Maker 1.1https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/441542/material-maker-11Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:03:10 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/425555/the-calm-after-the-stormThe calm after the stormhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/425555/the-calm-after-the-stormSun, 11 Sep 2022 15:00:56 GMTdevlogThe 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/406223/material-maker-10Material Maker 1.0https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/406223/material-maker-10Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:02:25 GMTdevlogI 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/367830/material-maker-099Material Maker 0.99https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/367830/material-maker-099Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:51:14 GMTdevlogMaterial 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'...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/338938/2022-funding-macos-port-and-random-rants2022, funding, macOS port and random rantshttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/338938/2022-funding-macos-port-and-random-rantsThu, 03 Feb 2022 20:00:41 GMTdevlogWhen 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/338298/material-maker-098Material Maker 0.98https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/338298/material-maker-098Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:47:09 GMTdevlogMaterial 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,...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/304806/material-maker-097Material Maker 0.97https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/304806/material-maker-097Sun, 17 Oct 2021 16:17:06 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/300009/randomness-in-material-makerRandomness in Material Makerhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/300009/randomness-in-material-makerThu, 14 Oct 2021 21:12:43 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/280461/material-maker-for-macosMaterial Maker for MacOShttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/280461/material-maker-for-macosWed, 04 Aug 2021 06:39:39 GMTdevlogImportant 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/279091/material-maker-096Material Maker 0.96https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/279091/material-maker-096Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:16:04 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/271263/the-future-of-material-makerThe future of Material Makerhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/271263/the-future-of-material-makerSat, 24 Jul 2021 12:47:31 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/245511/material-maker-095Material Maker 0.95https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/245511/material-maker-095Thu, 22 Apr 2021 19:46:24 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/216572/material-maker-094Material Maker 0.94https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/216572/material-maker-094Sun, 31 Jan 2021 10:44:49 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/195888/3d-model-painting-alpha-release3D model painting alpha releasehttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/195888/3d-model-painting-alpha-releaseSun, 15 Nov 2020 19:57:51 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/187082/tiler-nodes-problemTiler nodes problemhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/187082/tiler-nodes-problemThu, 15 Oct 2020 06:32:25 GMTdevlogA 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/186066/material-maker-093Material Maker 0.93https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/186066/material-maker-093Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:26:02 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/157316/material-maker-092Material Maker 0.92https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/157316/material-maker-092Sat, 27 Jun 2020 12:59:38 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/141004/material-maker-subredditMaterial Maker subreddithttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/141004/material-maker-subredditSun, 26 Apr 2020 10:57:54 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/134179/a-weird-material-maker-experimentA weird Material Maker experimenthttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/134179/a-weird-material-maker-experimentWed, 01 Apr 2020 03:59:18 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/130563/material-maker-09Material Maker 0.9https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/130563/material-maker-09Sun, 15 Mar 2020 08:48:44 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/120610/material-maker-08Material Maker 0.8https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/120610/material-maker-08Wed, 22 Jan 2020 07:32:27 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/111672/material-maker-07Material Maker 0.7https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/111672/material-maker-07Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:49:30 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/107829/material-maker-07-needs-youMaterial Maker 0.7 needs youhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/107829/material-maker-07-needs-youTue, 05 Nov 2019 06:46:44 GMTdevlogTL;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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/106374/creating-custom-shader-generators-with-material-makerCreating custom shader generators with Material Makerhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/106374/creating-custom-shader-generators-with-material-makerFri, 25 Oct 2019 21:00:37 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/104409/material-maker-06Material Maker 0.6https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/104409/material-maker-06Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:40:42 GMTdevlog

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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/48225/material-maker-05Material Maker 0.5https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/48225/material-maker-05Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:22:29 GMTdevlogThis release adds support for the Switch and Remote nodes that can be used to create configurable materials. A Comment node has also been added...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/48029/a-new-feature-for-material-makerA new feature for Material Makerhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/48029/a-new-feature-for-material-makerMon, 10 Sep 2018 09:38:25 GMTdevlogHere is a short video that shows the upcoming Remote node that can be used to create configurable materials...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/47194/linux-versionLinux versionhttps://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/47194/linux-versionTue, 04 Sep 2018 11:57:16 GMTdevlogMaterial 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/46983/material-maker-04Material Maker 0.4https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/46983/material-maker-04Sat, 01 Sep 2018 18:18:16 GMTdevlogThis 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...

]]>https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/46052/material-maker-03Material Maker 0.3https://rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker/devlog/46052/material-maker-03Sat, 25 Aug 2018 07:12:57 GMTdevlogJust 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...

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