Released: Material Blending Shaders for Marmoset Toolbag 3

radiancef0rge

Hey Everyone! 

I am happy to announce my blended material shader for Marmoset Toolbag 3 has been released! You can find the link to the shaders on Gumroad here. The downloadable zip contains shader extensions allowing for 3 layer material blending on your existing Toolbag 3 shaders.  Inside you will find two PBR shaders one for the Metallic / Rough workflow and one for Specular / Gloss. 

Features:

• 3 Layer Material Blending. 
• 2 Channel Texture Based Mask for Layer Interpolation. (Allows For Use of 2nd UV Set)
• 2 Channel Vertex Color Based Mask for Layer Interpolation. (Can Be Combined with Texture Mask)
• Blend Threshold Softness and Depth Controls for Each Layer.
• Custom UV Tiling for Each Layer.
• Heightmap Inversion.
• Blend Visualizer View to Debug Masks. 

Required Texture Packing:

Metallic / Rough Workflow:

• Metalness Map Channels
• Red - Metallic Mask.
• Green - Roughness Map 
• Normal Map Channels
• Color - Normal Map
• Alpha - Height Map
• Albedo Map Channels
• Color - Albedo Map

Specular / Gloss Workflow:

• Specular Map Channels
• Color - Specular Map
• Alpha - Gloss Map
• Normal Map Channels
• Color - Normal Map
• Alpha - Height Map
• Albedo Map Channels
• Color - Albedo Map

Install Instructions:

1. Download "material_blending_shaders.zip" from Gumroad
2. Unzip file to your "C:\Program Files\Marmoset\Toolbag 3\data\shader\mat\custom" folder
3. Launch Toolbag 3 
4. Select a shader and scroll to the bottom section of the material attributes tab. 
5. Click the triangle on the right and select "Custom"
6. Click the triangle next to "Shader" and select "material_blending_metallic" or "material_blending_specular"

UI Images:

@Kazperstan Made a great SBSAR for packing textures for the blend shader! Download it here.

EGGO

That'll be really great helper!

polypassion

Another step towards proper presentation of game environments in toolbag. Can't wait to try it out!

Nini

I miss that so much!

Ootrick

Super duper hot damn. 

radiancef0rge

Thanks everyone! Very close to release! Just added a version to support metal/rough workflows and a splat map in case you don't want to use vertex color. 
Expect news next week!

radiancef0rge

Shaders are up on Gumroad!
https://gumroad.com/l/bzitA

nathdevlin

Very awesome and a much needed addition to Marmoset ( and a fair price ). Kudos for putting this together.

radiancef0rge

Updated the OP with a video!

stoli

Awesome! Can you use the vertex alpha for blending?

radiancef0rge

stoli said:

Awesome! Can you use the vertex alpha for blending?

Vertex Red is used for the Red Layer and Vertex Green is used for the Green layer, yeah

GhosTDoG

Nice one, waiting for an implementation since version 1.
Is it possible to add AO (Cavity) Blending for the material/ channels?

Christian Cunningham

So Im trying to blend some moss over some stones, I have vertex painted in maya but when I adjust the "Red Material Mask Deph" it just covers the entire rock no matter the settings. Also I tried using a mask just to get some variation and when I plug that in nothing happens either. If anyone could help me that would be great.

Christian Cunningham

I just tried to re set everything up and now nothing is working at all, no base material nothing..

radiancef0rge

Hi Christian Cunningham, 
Can you post a picture of your material attributes and also ensure that your maps are correctly packed like in the example file and documentation? 

radiancef0rge

Hi GhosTDoG
Glad you like it!
Unfortunately not at this moment. There is a limit to the number of textures that can be bound to a shader and the current setup is at 15 out of 16 max samplers. 

Christian Cunningham

Here is a screenshot of my materials, I have it set up just like the example file as far as I'm aware. 

radiancef0rge

Can you show the settings for the Green Channel? It looks like your Green Material Mask Depth may not be set to 0
And can you confirm that you have a heightmap in the Alpha channel of your Red Normal Map

Christian Cunningham

I dont have anything in the Green material mask depth because on the example scene there was nothing in there. I also put a height in the alpha of the red normal map and it didn't change anything.

radiancef0rge

Okay no problem, can you package up the scene go to File->Scene Bundle and send me a zip file?
Feel free to PM it to me if you don't want to post it here. 

Christian Cunningham

I have it figured out now, the only last question I have is how do I use vertex colors. I am using maya and when vertex painting I usually paint white and black and export as an fbx. How do you do it for this plugin?

radiancef0rge

Cool can you post your solution for other people to see? 
Vertex color is supported, simply paint Red and Green vertices in Maya and export the mesh via FBX. 
On the shader enable Vertex Color and you should see the  the blends being influenced by vertex color. 

Christian Cunningham

For my fix, I insured I had an alpha in the Spec and Normal Map. When I created my own shader in order to make it work I had to check invert height map to make sure everything works.

darthjosh

Would it be possible in a future release to have blending modes between the base texture and the blended textures?

radiancef0rge

@darthjosh - Hey! Can you expand on what you are interested in? Are you talking about blend modes similiar to PS like multiply/softlight etc? 

The top post has been updated with a link to a sbsar texture packer made by the great @Kazperstan! Thanks!

Demon891

Hey there, realy great shader! I want to animate the blending but it doesn't work
Would be great if you have a solution for that
Thank you

Macebo

I definitely will be grabbing this once i have some money saved!

horrorente

Wow, exactly what I was looking for for a while now. TOP! bought!

Benkeeling

Hey Man, 

Just had a chance to check this out. Really nice shader. Is there a way to blend between multiple displacement maps. Because at the moment I can only set up one displacement and not two?

Cheers

Ben 

Cody

Wondering if this is capable of doing a set af tiling uVs for diffuse, and another set of uvs for normal map details?  Similar to technique shown in image below, but without the lightmap uvs?  Thank you.

http://www.torfrick.com/Art/WIP/microscope.jpg

battlecow

hey , I just bought the shader on gumroad, i can't find the shaders for marmoset 3.04.
cheers

radiancef0rge

hey - its listed under this option. 

battlecow

yea I tried but I just get the 3.03 ones.
Do you sell both seperatly? I looked at my reciept it says 3.03 that's probably it

radiancef0rge

shoot me a PM with your email 

fabian roldan

Hi i sent you a MP regarding a purchase that culd not be completed thnx.

radiancef0rge

hey fabian, if you are having problems with your payment method youll need to contact gumroad directly 

fabian roldan

Thnx, i managed to solve it already.

Great work with the shader man, i was not expecting it to have wind animation, thought it was just some sort of sub surface scattering shader, it is exactly whay i needed, thnx for making this, any chance you can make some sort of particle  shader for it? to make fire for example.

fabian roldan

I am having a problem with the blending shader, basically in makes the objects invisible, when i open the example scene the objects is invisible and i just simply can not make it work, i think i may have the 3.03 version, i am using marmoset 3.04, is there a way i can get the 3.04?

radiancef0rge

sent you an im

obijohnkenobi

I too am having the invisible problem. Any fix for that?

radiancef0rge

Do you have TB 3.04 and you downloaded 3.03 shaders? Shoot me a PM

B_P_L

Hi - is this working in 3.05?
Cheers,
B.

radiancef0rge

It should be if you grab the 3.04 shaders

Br41nbear

Hi,

i just bought this and have some feature requests:

1. World space normal blend support.
2. Tessellation map slot for RG channels
3. Triplanar projections for blended maps.

Liaw Soon Aun - has done a FREE version of a shader which has triplanar projection: https://gumroad.com/l/AXfVz

Thanks!

mrgesy

Does this work for toolbag 3.07?

radiancef0rge

It should, yes

hoangkun

Hi, i very like material blending shader and i was buy it 
but i have a issue i can't keyframe for custom control like Red Material Mask Depth 
Can you show me how to do that ?
Thank you so much

RockNBurn

Hey radiance, how are you?

I just got your shader, and I'm having some issues. I'm trying to make an environment using 3 different materials. For that, I need to tile all 3 of them, but also I need to separate them by region. Like a patch of grass, dirt, and a dirt road. But I can't use a mask for that. the mask implemented in the shader use the same tiling option as the base material.
Any ideas?

Oh, wait, I think I got to make the color vertex to work.

remon

Is it possible to get an alpha/ Transparency map added?

pimpleberry

Hello Radiance.  I'm using your very cool shader on a small terrain in Marmoset.  I'm hoping to use masks generated in Substance Painter to blend in materials on top of the base material.  My problem is, although I can increase the tiling of the top two materials, when I increase the tiling on the base material my masks tile with it. I noticed this feature in the product description-

2 Channel Texture Based Mask for Layer Interpolation. (Allows For Use of 2nd UV Set)

Is the purpose of the second uv set to allow the base and masked materials to tile separately?

Thanks!

  -EDIT-

After banging on this a little more I think I can say yes, the second uv set is for tiling the base material separately from the masked/blended materials.

Thumbs Up.

morrisonl

Hey pimpleberry: can you tell me what you did to get the second UV set to work? I have two UV sets for my model, but when I turn on "UV Set 1" my masked region just disappears. 

Edit: Ok never mind, I figured it out too

For anyone else who stumbled upon this thread and has the same question, here's how I solved it: I was exporting my model as an obj which I think wasn't saving the UV set data. I exported as an fbx and everything worked.