Car Paint Studio is a professional Blender material system for creating realistic and stylized automotive finishes in minutes. Build everything from factory paint, metallics, pearls, satin, matte, and metal flakes to comic-book illustration shaders with halftones and ink lines; all from a single intuitive panel. Apply custom liveries, save and share your own paint presets, and quickly switch between production-ready looks without rebuilding complex node graphs. Designed for artists, not node wranglers, Car Paint Studio makes creating beautiful car materials fast, flexible, and completely non-destructive.

• Car Paint Studio is a customizable automotive material library for Blender, covering everything from factory paint finishes to interior surfaces, exterior components and automotive lighting.

  
  

  Material Library

  • Automotive Paints: Glossy, matte, satin, metallic, pearlescent and metal flake finishes.

  • Specialty Finishes: Candy paint, chameleon color shift, holographic flakes, anodized coatings and aged or oxidized paint.

  • Carbon Fiber: Six high-resolution 4K carbon fiber patterns, including woven, twill, forged and specialty weaves.

  • Metals: Chrome, brushed aluminum, anodized metals, cast metal and plated finishes.

  • Interior Plastics: Soft-touch, pebbled dashboard vinyl, injection-molded ABS and satin polymers.

  • Exterior Plastics: Textured bumpers, wheel arch liners, grilles and exterior trim.

  • Rubber: Tire rubber, window gaskets, door seals and flexible rubber components.

  • Glass: Clear and tinted automotive glass, Fresnel headlamp lenses, smoked polycarbonate and aged lenses.

  • Lighting & Emissive: LED headlights, halogen bulbs, turn signals, RGB neon and customizable underglow.

  • Interior Materials: Leather, Alcantara, upholstery fabrics, carpet and other interior surfaces.

  • Illustration Materials: Stylized automotive shaders with halftones, outlines and adjustable graphic effects.

  Material Controls & Workflow

  • Custom livery and decal support

  • Preserve original decal colors or apply custom recoloring

  • Procedural metal flakes with adjustable size and density

  • Adjustable clearcoat, roughness, orange peel and surface imperfections

  • Fresnel reflections, refraction and customizable glass properties

  • Adjustable emission color, intensity and lighting helpers

  • Procedural surface grain, bump and texture scaling

  • Layered rust, peeling paint, oxidation and exposed primer

  • Optional true geometry displacement for extreme close-ups

  • Live material updates while editing

  • Automatic reuse of existing material slots

  • Optional automatic UV unwrapping

  • Unclamped artistic controls where supported

  • Automatically generated shader node networks

  Material Presets

  Car Paint Studio includes a growing library of ready-to-use material presets across its automotive material categories.

  Built-in paint presets include:

  • British Racing Green (default)

  • Nardo Gray

  • Frozen Black

  • Soul Red Pearl

  • Midnight Purple

  • Porsche Chalk Satin

  • Cyan / Purple Pearl

  • Comic Yellow

  Each material category includes its own selection of finishes with adjustable colors, surface properties and material-specific controls.

  Custom Presets

  Create, save and reuse your own material configurations with the dedicated User Presets system.

  Custom presets are stored as JSON files and appear in a separate dropdown, keeping your personal materials organized independently from the built-in library.

  Whether you're building a complete vehicle, developing a custom paint finish or surfacing individual automotive components, Car Paint Studio brings these materials together in one consistent Blender workflow

  Documentation