Gator Material Studio 1.3.0

Designer

• Added the new Mesh Map Input node for creating materials that react to baked mesh data.
• Mesh Map Input supports:
• Curvature
• Ambient Occlusion
• Position
• Thickness
• World Space Normal
• Normal
• Bent Normal
• Object ID
• Material ID
• Height / Displacement

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Built-in preview meshes now generate and cache preview mesh maps for Designer.

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Custom preview meshes can bake and rebake their own preview maps.

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Preview maps automatically update when changing preview meshes.

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Published Designer materials retain semantic mesh-map dependencies instead of embedding preview-specific data.

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Fixed Cube preview UV mapping so each face uses the full material UV range.

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Edge Generator

• Added a unified Edge Generator node with multiple behavior modes:
• Edge Wear
• Edge Damage
• Edge Notch
• Edge Chipping
• Edge Cracks
• Edge Roughness / Breakup
• Edge Bevel / Rounding
• Edge Dirt / Accumulation

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Added controls for combining Curvature, AO, auxiliary inputs, breakup, edge width, threshold, softness, amount, scale, and strength.

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Existing edge-node aliases remain compatible with older saved graphs.

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Bake

• Improved Curvature baking for more reliable hard-edge detection.
• Reduced false curvature from mesh tessellation.
• Improved smooth-shading handling to prevent artifacts such as sphere pole seams.
• Improved Curvature output for use with procedural edge effects and Smart Materials.

Painter

• Published Designer materials can now consume the active model's baked mesh maps.
• Exposed Designer parameters remain editable after applying a published material.
• Materials that require baked mesh maps now list those requirements in their tooltips.
• Applying a material with missing required maps now displays a warning identifying which maps need to be baked.
• Materials without mesh-map dependencies continue to work without Bake requirements.
• Improved 2D painting performance when the UV overlay is enabled by caching UV overlay geometry instead of rebuilding it during every brush movement.

Performance and Stability

• Cached Designer preview maps are reused when possible instead of being regenerated unnecessarily.
• Improved mesh-aware material evaluation and preview behavior across different models.