Layer System

• Add, remove, duplicate and reorder layers
• Layers stack top to bottom, newest on top
• Hide and solo buttons per layer
• Opacity slider per layer
• 19 blend modes per layer
• Copy and paste layers between materials

Effects

• Base Color  two tone stylized shading with color balance controls
• Ambient Occlusion darkens crevices and contact areas
• Curvature highlights or darkens edges based on mesh curvature
• Inner Edge targets inside edges of the mesh
• Gradient directional gradient across the mesh
• Subsurface adds a subsurface scattering color pass
• Bottom Light gradient based on mesh normals, lights from below

Masking

Each layer supports a vertex color mask. Paint directly in Blender's vertex paint mode to control where the layer appears.

• Create new masks from the layer panel
• Preview any mask directly on the mesh
• Enter and exit paint mode without leaving the panel
• Remove masks without losing the layer

Materials

• One-click Generate STG Material with all effect nodes set up automatically
• Works on fresh installs, no manual setup needed
• Register any existing material as an STG material
• Assign materials to objects from the panel

Node Tree

• Clean Nodes button auto arranges the shader node tree into readable columns