Material Maker 1.6

Material Maker is now available for download, with quite a few new features and improvements. And it seems williamchange has been carrying this release again.

Thanks a lot to everyone who support this project, by donating here or on Patreon, wishlisting Material Maker on Steam, contributing changes or bugfixes or submitting great materials on the website.

General

• Allowed closing named parameter dialog via window button (contributed by williamchange)
• Implemented vertical tabs in the Preferences dialog (contributed by williamchange)
• Improved debug console link navigation (contributed by williamchange)
• Enabled tab rearrangement for projects panel (contributed by williamchange)
• Made tab styles more consistent (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated icons to use SVG when possible (contributed by williamchange)
• Configured default FileDialog path to user's home directory (contributed by williamchange)
• Added a menu item to show examples folder (contributed by williamchange)

Graph view

• Updated graph navigation to retain subgraph offsets (contributed by williamchange)
• Added circuit/metro style (diagonal) connections (contributed by williamchange)
• Implemented node grabbing via G key (contributed by williamchange)
• Added drag and drop support for image parameter (contributed by williamchange)
• Made the close/minimize node buttons optional (contributed by williamchange)
• Improved node interaction when zoomed out (contributed by williamchange)
• Added port previews for group input nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Improved remote parameters rearrangement (contributed by williamchange)
• Added edge scrolling when dragging connection (contributed by williamchange)

Library

• Show top-level section labels in the Library panel in bold (contributed by williamchange)
• Modified the "Update library item" action to keep the thumbnail (contributed by williamchange)

2D Preview

• Improved $node to use node title in 2D export (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated 2D preview to gizmos during transform until LMB is released (contributed by williamchange)

3D Preview

• Added alternative inputs for graph panning/camera orbiting (contributed by williamchange)

Nodes

Documentation

• Added documentation for user interface shortcuts (contributed by williamchange)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when adjusting BPP in pixels node (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed Morphology node Y dilation to use resolution (contributed by DevFika)
• Fixed SDF FBM node not displaying correctly (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed opaque background for tooltip/popup menu panels (contributed by williamchange)
• Reintroduced AO export for Blender export target (contributed by williamchange)
• Placed graph UI (hierarchy and subgraph controls) above nodes (contributed by williamchange)
• Updated reroute/preview2d bg checker to match defaults (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed console meta navigation on multiple clicks (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed group parameters using default values from linked widgets (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed hierarchy/subgraph UI position (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed crash when opening named parameter editor (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed zoom in/out buttons conflicting with node align (contributed by williamchange)
• Added check to prevent self-referencing in float parameter editor (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed lattice, pixels, polygon views not centering (contributed by williamchange)
• Fixed default lattice point positions (contributed by williamchange)