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Improvements and fixes Update

• Blender 5.0 FIX: key "Anisotropy" not found'
• FIX + QOL: MatOverlay func optimizations and fixes of potential issues. Right now, works with Modifiers on objects.
• FIX + QOL: Automatic application of the latest Preset in the scene with UI update

Special thanks "phillipganske" for finding a bug with Key "Anisotropy" in blender 5.0

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Changelog BAM Automat v1.2.0 — Major Update, Blender 5.0 Support

✨ Highlights, Improvements

• Blender 5.0 Support!
• A new Displacement MidLevel parameter (Default: 0.0) has been added to the UI.
• Added auto IOR assignment based on base material names + Default IOR 1.45

    IOR_DEFAULT = 1.45

    # Glass & transparent
    "glass": 1.5,
    "window": 1.5,

    # Liquids
    "water": 1.325,
    "liquid": 1.325,
    "ice": 1.309,

    # Asphalt / road
    "asphalt": 1.635,
    "road": 1.635,
    "tar": 1.635,

    # Plastics
    "plastic": 1.46,
    "rubber": 1.519,  

• Reworked Presets system. Custom presets will now be created in the Config folder and will not be replaced when the addon is updated. Blender\x.x\config\BAM\presets. + You can also overwrite default presets.
• Shader Graph Enhancements: merged duplicate Separate XYZ nodes. Displacement Nodes Position Improvements

🔧 Fixes, Misc changes

• Fixed editing the Texture Folder Path
• Blender 4.5 - 5.0 Now use SeparateXYZ instead of LegacySeparateRGB

Developed by AlexeyHRDesign For feedback: alexeyhrdesign@gmail.com

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BAM Automat v1.1.6 — Major Update

✨ Highlights

• Alpha Channel Definition Support

  • Added the ability to select the Alpha Channel for packed textures

• MatsAsset [BETA]

  • Add materials to your Asset Library with just a few clicks - including automatic asset tagging and preview generation.

• Relative Path Texture Creation Support

  • Now supports relative paths when creating materials from textures, ensuring portability across projects.

• Specular Tint Controls

  • Fixed incorrect Specular Tint value — now white by default, or 0.5 for older Blender versions.
  • Added Specular Tint default value UI control for manual adjustment.

💡 Improvements

• Displacement Value Control
  Default value set to 0.01 with a dedicated UI control.

• Emissive Map Behavior
  Emissive value now defaults to 1.0 for materials with emissive maps.

• Preset Switching Stability
  Switching presets no longer alters the state of checkboxes in the filter list.

• Shader Graph Enhancements

  • Added Mapping control nodes.
  • Improved node alignment for cleaner and more readable shader graphs.

Developed by AlexeyHRDesign
ArtStation Profile For feedback: alexeyhrdesign@gmail.com

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Utilities:

• Reworked Create MatSpheres Grid function to create a grid with materials and their names. Now the Grid takes into account already created MatSpheres and is able to continue the grid when called again without creating duplicates.

Material manager:

• (Blender 4.5 Vulkan) Fixed an error related to materials thumbnails leading to blender crashes.
• Add, Delete, Duplicate material buttons they were replaced with buttons located in a new vertical panel to the right of the materials list.
• Add Material: Added Set Fake User parameter checkbox
• Fake User controls were added to main material list

AutoMat:

• Redesigned Presets UI
• Set Fake User checkbox it was added to the right of the Create and update Materials button.
• Color Space btn and Definitions now they are available even without specifying a folder with textures.
• Added *.TIF format to default addon preferences. It is added on the first clean launch of the addon. Everyone else can add any image formats to the Addon's Preferences.

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• Minor fixes related to the bug of missing UI in the Material Manager.
• The Options drop-down list has been renamed to Utilities

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Improvements

• Material Overlay now works for objects with modifiers
• Presets system now creates separate preset files and should not replace custom ones when updating the addon.

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WHATS NEW:

• Code refactoring
• Performance improvements
• New preference UI and functions
• Preferences: Images Format Manager
• Material Overlay
• Delete material button new Mode. Delete Material + Textures Data
• Material Preview
• Option: Clean unused mat slot new Mode. (Action for whole scene or only for selected objects)
• ColorSpaces profiles : Added all potential options
• Material Pipette
• Roughness Invert Mode
• Duplicate Material btn
• Better logs presentation/decoration

FIXES:

• Filter bug. After Scan of the materials in the folder, the checkboxes of the existing materials in the scene will be turned off by default.
• Scene ColorSpace Match fixes
• Custom Property fixes

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• Some code refactoring
• Fixed a problem causing conflict with other addons in some cases, in particular with xDecal. Thanks to the xDecal community for the feedback and for helping to provide debugging information.

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• Addon Preferences changes
• Added Customizable: Category, Space Type, Region Type in addon preferences.

Now it will be even easier for you to place the addon panels where you will be more comfortable ;).

Addon panels do not support display in all possible Regions Types and Space Types

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• Changes in the blender_manifest
• Category of addon changed to Material
• Minor UI changes: added new icons and now the Materials Create/Update filter block can be collapsed.
• Minor UI changes: added Force Refresh button near Textures Folder input

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• Fixed code issue with Transmission map setup, that could lead to a material creation error.
• Added support for Blender 4.2 (fixed a bug that caused an error in the new version)

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Version 1.0.0 - Release

• Added Show Selected list and Custom values for shader inputs