Edge Wear

Milad_Kambari in Materials and Shading

FREE & OPEN SOURCE

One-click photoreal
edge wear for Blender.

Name: Edge Wear
Brand: Milad_Kambari
Availability: InStock
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)

A procedural shader pipeline that turns clean plastic into something real. Peeled paint, scratches, dirt, roughness variation — all from one button. Free forever under GPL-3.0.

HOW IT WORKS

One button. Full control.

Hit "Make Edge Wear" in the N-panel and the entire procedural network wires itself into your material.

SELECT

Pick your object and material. The addon works on any mesh with any topology.

APPLY

Hit "Make Edge Wear" and the full procedural shader network is wired automatically.

TWEAK

Adjust sliders in real time — edge radius, colors, mask shape, scratches, roughness.

CORE FEATURE

Geometry-Aware Edge Detection

Built on Blender's Pointiness attribute, the edge detection works on any topology — high-poly, low-poly, subdivided, retopologized. Four exposed parameters give you full control: Mask Radius, Scale All, Edgewear Size, and Mask Power. All update live in the rendered viewport.

No cooking. No baking. Fully procedural.

CORE FEATURE

Dual-Color Peeled Paint

Set two colors: the main surface color (what the object looks like new) and the peeled color (what shows through where the paint has worn off). The addon handles the blend masks and edge falloff automatically — peeling appears exactly on corners and high-traffic areas where it should, never on protected flats.

Full color control directly in the N-panel.

CORE FEATURE

Custom Mask Textures

Drop in your own wear pattern. The addon auto-converts the loaded image to Non-Color, wires it through a Mapping node, and exposes per-axis rotation (X/Y/Z) so you can spin the texture however you need. Hot-swap mask textures without breaking the chain — every wired node stays intact.

Auto-corrected colorspace on every texture load.

CORE FEATURE

Smart Scratch System

Underneath the surface paint, the addon ships a built-in scratches network powered by procedural Noise Texture and Scatter nodes. Carefully tuned defaults give you sharp, directional scratches that look hand-rubbed instead of computer-generated. No setup required — already wired.

Noise Scale 1.3, Roughness 0.573, Lacunarity 0.72 — dialed in for realism.

WHY IT WINS

Manual shader work vs. MK Edge Wear

	MANUAL	MK EDGE WEAR
Edge wear setup	Hours of Pointiness + Color Ramp node stacking	One click in the N-panel
Peeled paint	Manual mask painting or complex mix nodes	Set two colors, auto edge falloff
Scratches	Build from scratch with Noise + Mix nodes	Pre-wired, production-tuned defaults
Mask textures	Manual load, fix colorspace, wire mapping	Auto Non-Color, auto wiring, hot-swap
Per-material isolation	Manual duplication and management	Automatic private copy per object
Price	Your time	$0 — Free forever (GPL-3.0)

AT A GLANCE

What you get

NODE GROUPS

4.2+

BLENDER VERSION

762KB

FILE SIZE

FOREVER FREE

FULL FEATURE LIST

Everything included.

ONE-CLICK APPLICATION

No copy-pasting node groups. No broken links. The addon ships its own bundled .blend asset and wires everything into your active material output node automatically. Per-material isolation means each object gets its own private copy.

PBR CONTROLS EXPOSED

Roughness, Metallic, and IOR are exposed directly on the Edge Wear Plastic group node. They show up natively in Properties > Material > Surface without digging through subgroups.

AUTO-CORRECTED COLORSPACE

Every custom texture you load is automatically switched from sRGB to Non-Color. No more gamma-distorted masks — one less thing to remember.

CLEAN N-PANEL UI

Five collapsible sections under MK Tools: Info Box, Colors, Edge Wear, Mask, and About. No floating windows, no dialog boxes. Everything lives in Blender's sidebar.

QUICK SETUP

Install. Apply. Done.

Drop the .zip into Blender's extension installer, enable, and start adding edge wear. Works in Blender 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, and 5.1. Cycles, Eevee, and Eevee Next.