Layered materials

Layered materials is a growing library of procedural materials and smart layers.

Simply add dirt, snow, mud, scratches, dead leaves, puddles, rain effect ... alien parasite and much more on your materials whether they are procedural or PBR.

A WORKFLOW  DESIGNED TO BE AS SIMPLE AS IT CAN BE :

MASKS

Layered materials comes with 11 masks which you can use to adjust exactly where you want the layer to appear or not.

With the vertex paint mask you can paint your mask directly on the mesh using the color black in the vertex paint mode (no need for UV unwrap as it use the vertices instead of an image) :

Let's take a look closer to some layers with the ...

...SCI-FI LAYERS :

Alien parasite :

Bloated parasite :

NATURALS ELEMENTS LAYERS

Puddles (it will adapt to the height map of the base material) :

Rain (on objects, windows) :

Incandescence 🔥 and Frost ❄ :

PROCEDURAL MATERIALS

Layered material comes with 20 procedural materials ready to be combined with the layers :

NEW in the 2.0, the 4 mix materials nodes will allow you to texture complexe landscapes easily

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TOOLS

The asset library comes with 2 tools :

1. Randomize per object node : With these node you will be able to randomize values, or the color of different objects with the same material in order to create variety.
2. Height map mixer node : With the layers you can directly connect the displacements together, but you will probably need to generate a new height map with all the layers you want.

Here is an overview list of the library :

So, in brief what's inside :

An asset library containing more than 90 nodes ready to be combined, even with PBR materials :

Change logs :

V2.0 (02/25) :

New layer :
Burning object

New procedural materials :
Hammered steel
Old steel
Pisé – French earth wall
Old wood floor
Wood floor
Stone field
Flagstone
Chimney smoke (volume)
Cooking smoke (volume)

New tools :
Mix material  - Cliff
Mix material  - Height
Mix material  - Noise
Mix material  - Area

Major improvements on :
Camp fire
Fire tornado
Torch fire
Candle fire
Snow
Dust

Minor improvements on :
Brown rock
Ground fog
Sand

V1.01 (09/24) :

Improvement of Rain on object
Small various improvements

V1.0 (initial release) :

Procedural materials :  13
Volumetrics : 5
Layers : 48
Masks : 11
Tools :  2

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Online documentation

License :
You are able to use this product for educational, personal and commercial use as long as this use do not violate what follows : You may not sell, sublicence, redistribute, repackage the purchased product.

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