GhostMatter — Make shader design easier than ever ! 

Combine any materials, build procedural looks, and bake everything to textures — in one fast, non-destructive dedicated node editor.

Online Documentation  ·  also available directly from the addon UI.  Requires Blender 5.0+.

Who it's for

GhostMatter is for artists who need to mix, layer and bake materials fast:

• Game & real-time artists exporting clean PBR texture sets.
• Look-dev & motion-design artists building procedural, animated materials.
• Anyone tired of rebuilding shader graphs by hand — GhostMatter keeps everything non-destructive.

Why GhostMatter

• A dedicated node editor, not the Shader Editor. No more digging through generic BSDF math — GhostMatter gives you purpose-built nodes with clear names, grouped inputs and readable controls. Anyone can open a material and immediately understand what it does.
• Mix any materials, no setup required. Drop in your existing materials — of any kind — and blend them in that same clear, dedicated editor. Fully non-destructive.
• Stays fast on heavy scenes. Incremental updates rebuild only the nodes that actually changed, so editing never grinds to a halt.
• Procedural material & mask library included. Wood, Leather, Fabric, Rust, Concrete, Skin, X-Ray… plus a growing set of smart masks.
• One-click bake to textures. A universal baker exports full PBR sets, or bakes to vertex colors — and can batch a whole list of setups.

What it is

GhostMatter is a Blender addon for mixing materials in its own dedicated node editor — separate from Blender's Shader Editor. The materials you mix need no special configuration — every kind of material is compatible.

Instead of the Shader Editor's generic BSDF plumbing, GhostMatter gives you specialized nodes built for the job: named inputs, grouped controls, and a layout designed to be read at a glance. The result is a material graph that stays simple and clear even as it grows — no more tracing wires to figure out what a node does.

You get all of Blender's standard material nodes (except the shader nodes themselves), plus GhostMatter's own material-mixing nodes and tool nodes.

New users: the Templates menu ships ready-made setups to get you started in seconds.

Features

• Material mixing — all standard Blender material nodes (except shaders), mix nodes, and key-based mixing (mix materials / factor by color keys).
• Procedural materials & smart masks — a growing library driven by simple, intuitive controls.
• Motion-design toolkit — a Text node, procedural Shapes (arc, disk, polygon, star…), a Random Timer, Mograph masks and GhostMat controllers to animate and drive your materials.
• Bake & Export pipeline — universal texture baker, multiple export formats, decal projection, and vertex-color baking.
• Palette tools — import palettes, distribute them onto ramps, and drive colors by object index.

Bake to Textures

An extremely effective, universal texture-export tool — two modes to fit any workflow:

[ To Joined Mesh ]   [ To Low Mesh ]

See the baker in action:

Motion design & Mograph

Animate and drive your materials with Mograph masks, procedural shapes, a Text node, a Random Timer and GhostMat controllers.

GhostMatter Tools

GhostMatter ships with extra production tools:

Decal projection

Texture baking — to image or vertex colors

Tutorials

Built for Blender 5

• Blender 5.0+ / EEVEE Next support, with automatic migration of your existing files.
• Works with Cycles and EEVEE. GPL license.
• Trusted by 100+ artists — and actively developed. Full feature list in the online docs.

What's new in GhostMatter 2

A major update — full details in the online docs.

• Incremental updates — only the changed nodes rebuild, so editing stays fast on heavy setups.
• Motion-design focus — Text node, procedural Shapes, Random Timer, Mograph masks and GhostMat controllers.
• Procedural-material library — Wood, Leather, Fabric, Rust, X-Ray, Concrete, Skin, and more.
• More nodes & Vector FX, a Bake-to-Textures pipeline with multiple exports, and a palette generator.
• Batchable baker — export a whole list of setups in one go.
• Blender 5 / EEVEE Next support with automatic file migration.

Got feedback or a feature request? We'd love to hear it.

Roadmap

Short term — new procedural smart masks & materials.
Mid term — dynamic & animated masks.
Long term — texture-based materials and masks.

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