BlenderMarket Black Friday / Cyber Monday Sale

That whole Black Friday / Cyber Monday thing could be considered the pinnacle of consumerism, but why deny yourself a nice discount if you planned on purchasing something from BlenderMarket ? They are having a sale from Friday, November 25th 12:01am - Monday, November 28th 11:59pm CST
This means serious discounts on participating products and of course my add-ons are on sale too!

Check out BlenderMarket to see if that special product on your wish list now has an 'on sale' label.

Blender Market Fall Sale

 

To celebrate the Blender Conference there is a sale on at BlenderMarket ! The sale runs from Thursday 27 October - Sunday 30 October. 

This means serious discounts on participating products and of course my add-ons are on sale too, including Snap!

Check out BlenderMarket to see if that special product on your wish list now has an 'on sale' label.

I am pleased to announce that NodeSet Pro has been tested on Blender 3.3 LTS and is available from my BlenderMarket store.

NodeSet Pro is an add-on that greatly simplifies the process of importing sets of textures to create a node based material.

It allows you import a set of related texture maps by simply pointing to one of them, takes care of setting the color data attribute correctly, adds bump nodes and normal map nodes where needed and wires up everything to the principled shader or a shader node group you have defined, all with a few simple clicks.

Instead of importing textures like basecolor, normalmap, roughness, etc. one by one, with NodeSet Pro you will only need to select a single texture and textures with the same base name will be loaded as well. NodeSet Pro will also apply non-color data options to texture maps that need this, create normal map and bump nodes and wire everything up to a shader.

Besides individual texture sets NodeSet Pro also offers panels that let you manage collections of textures sets in a straight forward manner.

NodeSet Pro works out of the box with substance painter textures but every aspect of it can be configured in the preferences to seamlessly adapt to your workflow and these preferences can be saved as presets.

Snap! September 2022 bugfix release

Snap! has been updated to fix an annoying bug that might occur when you would try to flip an object that only shared extra points with other objects.

Snap! was also tested on Blender 3.3.

For an introduction to Snap! see this article and for the new functionality added in the April 2022 release, see this article. Both articles have links to demo videos as well.

Snap! is a time saving tool for people who often work with modular assets packs or creators of asset packs who want to make there product easier to use.

Snap! allows you to define snap-points with a predefined location and orientation on objects which can then be used to interactively snap objects together without the hassle of precise positioning.

Snap! is available in a personal and a redistributable version on my BlenderMarket shop.

Blendermarket Summer Sale

 

A summer sale is on at BlenderMarket ! They are having a sale from August 3 - August 8.

This means serious discounts on participating products and of course my add-ons are on sale too, including Snap!

Check out BlenderMarket to see if that special product on your wish list now has an 'on sale' label.

IDMapper ported to Blender 3.3 beta

IDMapper has been ported to Blender 3.3 beta

That may sound a bit premature, but I am confident no changes will be needed for the official release of Blender 3.3. However, if necessary we update the add-on again of course.

Note that this version will not run on older versions of Blender.

 

IDMapper simplifies creation and editing of vertex color layers that can be used as ID-maps in texturing software like Substance Painter or Quixel. It aims to reduce the time it takes to create an ID-map significantly, especially for complex hard surface models. It uses powerful heuristics to create an ID-map from scratch and lets you interactively adjust the results. It offers options to use existing information, like uv-seams, but can also intelligently assign the same color to similar mesh parts. 

The new version is available on BlenderMarket.

Snap! July 2022 release

The release of 3 July 2022 adds no new functionality but does fix a number of  small bugs. This release is also tested on Blender 3.2.

For an introduction to Snap! see this article and for the new functionality added in the April 2022 release, see this article. Both articles have links to demo videos as well.

Snap! is a time saving tool for people who often work with modular assets packs or creators of asset packs who want to make there product easier to use.

Snap! allows you to define snap-points with a predefined location and orientation on objects which can then be used to interactively snap objects together without the hassle of precise positioning.

Snap! is available in a personal and a redistributable version on my BlenderMarket shop.