Gator Material Studio v1.1.0

Gator Material Studio v1.1.0

This update adds a new guided onboarding experience designed to walk new users through the core Gator Material Studio workflow from material creation to use in PAINT.

Guided Onboarding

• Added a new first-run guided experience.
• Introduces the PAINT, DESIGN, BAKE, and RENDER workspaces and explains what each is used for.
• Guides users through creating a procedural marble material in DESIGN.
• Demonstrates procedural nodes, tiling, generated normal maps, roughness, and metallic values.
• Explains how to expose material parameters for later editing.
• Guides users through exposing marble colors and modifying those exposed properties after applying the material.
• Explains the differences between:
• Export Textures
• Export Godot
• Publish

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Explains the difference between Save Material and Save Project.

• Save Material stores the reusable editable material graph.
• Save Project preserves the complete project, including meshes, PAINT data, texture sets, and Designer graphs.

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Guides users through publishing a material to the User Library.

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Introduces the Asset Library and its Material and User filters.

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Guides users through applying the published material in PAINT.

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Prompts users to load a model when one is not already available.

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Automatically skips the model-loading step when a model is already loaded.

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Introduces collapsible PAINT panels and requires unnecessary panels to be collapsed before continuing.

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Finishes by having the user modify an exposed material parameter and see the result directly on the model.

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Onboarding Controls

• Added Start Guided Tour, Not Now, and Don't Show Again options.
• Added Help > Getting Started so the guide can be launched again at any time.
• Added Back, Skip Step, and Exit Tutorial controls.
• Tutorial completion and dismissal state are remembered between sessions.
• Recovery continues to take priority over first-run onboarding.

This update is focused on making the first experience with Gator Material Studio clearer while demonstrating the complete DESIGN to Library to PAINT workflow.