Blendit - Blender 2.83+ Add-on

Full dynamic one-click solution for material blending of objects

in Blender 2.83+ (2.83.0 - 4.3.0)

Main features:

• Easily create material blend of selected objects with active
• Non-destructive operations: create, apply, remove material blends
• Option of executing the operations for all blends of source object
• Real time dynamic blends works in viewport, Eevee and Cycles
• Option automatic create material from blended objects
• Option to Blend Normals of objects
• Easily tweak individual blend of object
• Easy tweaking of all blends of source object
• Blend styles: Height maps blending, Noise and Custom texture masking
• Preserve texture scale from source object with mapping options:

     1. World space: Geometry node - Position output

     2. Object space: Texture Coordinate node - Object output

     3. UV v1: Texture Coordinate node - UV output + Blendit Transfer UV

     4. UV v2: UV Map node + Blendit Transfer UV

Note that for the version 1.7 there are many limitations and restrictions.

I plan to figure out most of it in new versions.

Limitations:

• Only one blend per object supported
• Two source objects can't be blended together
• The add-on only works with the first material slot
• You shouldn't rename Blend materials for proper functionality
• You shouldn't remove original materials for proper functionality
• You shouldn't rename Blendit modifiers for proper functionality
• The quality of the blend depends on mesh density and topology
• Only an UV map with Active Render can be transferred
• Multi-user material doesn't support different blend source objects
• Auto Smooth turns on when Blend Normals is used
• You must use UV mapping and Transfer UV to blend Normal maps
• Used simple inaccurate blending of normal maps
• Automatic connected Displacement and Volume outputs aren't supported
• Limited support for input nodes depending on the source object
• Blender 2.90.x bug, crash when switching to UV Edit of source object
• Blender 2.90.x bug, crash when switching to Edit Mode of source object
• Mappings inside node groups are not affected
• Using AutoSmooth with Blend Normals in Cycles may cause terminator artifacts
• Smooth linear blending gradients of solid colors are difficult to set
• The use of subsurface scattering in the source material may show seam for Cycles

Changelog:

Blendit v1.1

• Implemented full support of Frame Nodes
• Fixed issue with Reroute Node and full support of these nodes
• Fixed issues caused by incompatibility with other add-ons affect material nodes

Blendit v1.2

• Automatic linking of unconnected node mapping input
• Basic warning if unsupported mapping is used
• Basic warning if unsupported nodes are used
• Fixed blended material doesn't work in Cycles
• Fixed transfer of active UV Map instead of UV Map with Active Render

Blendit v1.3

• Full support of material nodes (ColorRamp, RGB Curve, Vector Curves)
• Small performance improvement through better modifiers settings
• Auto Smooth option added to Settings (recommended to turn-off in Cycles)
• Added switches for Simple and Advanced blend modes
• Advanced mode - added option to tweak the minimum blend distance
• Advanced mode - added option to tweak the gradient of the material blend
• Advanced mode - added option to tweak the blend of normals
• Fixed issue and added warning if objects have no materials
• Fixed Transfer UV doesn't have ideal mapping when Blend Normals disabled
• Fixed Auto smooth did not return when blend was removed
• Fixed UV Map node could have non-existent UVs assigned
• Fixed applied blend shows sliders without influence

Blendit v1.4

• Added Blend Styles: Noise dithering, Height map blending, Custom map dithering
• Added Preview Modes for blends: By gradient and By gradient with thresholds
• Added Show / Hide blend switcher
• Added UV Mapping Scale option for non transferred UV mapping
• Blendit modifiers have closed details by default
• When blend is created or Blend Style is changed, source init values are used
• Added warning icon for enabled Blend Normals setting when it should be disabled
• The add-on no longer disappear when an unsupported object is selected
• Renamed Distance to Max Distance for consistency
• Improved UI states of enabled / disabled buttons
• Fixed wrong behavior when material linked to object / data was used
• Fixed and improved parenting inside Frame nodes, broken in v1.3
• Fixed wrong mapping when non-image texture nodes use default mapping
• Fixed issue when materials have multiple output nodes or wrong output setup
• Fixed not appearing of Material Warning in specific case
• Fixed availability of the Individual Scale parameter for non blended objects
• Fixed issue with removing blends on objects Excluded from View Layer

Blendit v1.5

• Added missing support for Float Curve shader node
• Fixed API compatibility issue for Blender 3.2.0

Blendit v1.6.2

• Fixed issue with new Mix Node in Blender 3.4
• Fixed attributes naming collision
• Fixed Modifier compatibility in Blender 3.5 and 3.3.4+ LTS

Blendit v1.7.1

• New Custom Source Material option
• Supports the new interface of nodes for Blender 4.0+
• Auto Smooth is not needed for Blender 4.1+
• Fixed Removing Blends when Source Mat is missing

Planned features for next versions:

• Tweak multiple normal blends of objects at once
• Option to create a unique material per object
• Option stack and handle multiple blends on objects
• Operations for individual blends in the stack
• Accurate blending of normal maps
• Option to use template materials
• Option to deform geometry at the intersection
• Supported blend with multiple material slots
• Support for different blend sources for multi-user material
• Supported automatically connected Displacement output
• Supported automatically connected Volume output
• Supported transfer of multiple UV
• The next stage of performance improvement
• New Blending Engines (Pro version only)
• And more...

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