⚡ Procedural Dissolving Effect (PDE) Add-on

Bring cinematic dissolve effects into Blender with one click!
This add-on lets you apply a powerful Procedural Dissolving Effect material, load your textures easily, and control mapping & shader settings directly from the Sidebar.

🖼️ Apply & Manage Materials

• 🎯 One-Click Apply → Append the PDE material from assets.blend and assign it to selected objects instantly.

• 🎨 Three Sub-Textures → Work with PDE_Texture_A, PDE_Texture_B, and PDE_Texture_C.
  

📂 Load Texture Maps (like Node Wrangler Ctrl+Shift+T)

• ⚡ Quick import of Base Color, Roughness, Normal, Metallic, AO, Emission maps.

• 🧠 Smart detection of map types based on file names.

• 🔌 Auto-connects maps to the right Principled BSDF inputs.
  

🎛️ Compact Dropdown Controls

Each texture (A/B/C) has a dropdown menu with mapping options:

• 🎚️ Scale

  • 🔗 Uniform Scale: one slider for all axes (X=Y=Z).

  • 📐 Normal Scale: independent X, Y, Z control.
    

• 🔄 Rotate

  • Full 3-axis rotation (X, Y, Z) in degrees.

• 📍 Position

  • Move textures with X/Y/Z translation.
    

✨ Mapping nodes are auto-created (UV preferred) and reused — clean node trees, no duplicates.

🌈 Shader Controls (Extra)

• 🎨 Edge Colors → Set dissolve edge color A/B.

• 💡 Emission Strengths → Adjust glowing edge intensity.

• 🌀 Noise Settings → Fine-tune dissolve edge scale, detail, and roughness.

• 👻 Transparency → Control how much of the object fades out.
  
  

🧩 Smart Workflow

• 🧭 Mapping nodes automatically use UV coordinates for predictable results.

• ♻️ Mapping nodes are named and reused — keeps the node tree organized.

• 🎮 Optional controller pickers allow using empties to drive material properties via drivers.
  
  

⚙️ Location & Info

• 📍 UI Location: 3D View > Sidebar > PDE

• 👤 Author: S4C

• 🚀 Perfect for: VFX artists, animators, and anyone who loves cool dissolve effects.
  
  

🔥 With PDE Add-on, you can create animated dissolve effects in seconds — no manual node wrangling needed!