Texture Creator Add-on Documentation

Texture Creator is a Blender add-on that introduces a node-based procedural texture system. With it, you can generate a wide variety of realistic PBR materials using nodes designed specifically for physically based rendering. If you are just starting out, the Quick Start Guide below will walk you through the basics, and you can also find tutorials on our YouTube channel.

Installation

Requirements

• Blender version 4.2 to 4.5

Download

• After purchasing from Superhive (formerly Blender Market), download the add-on as a .zip file.
• Do not extract the .zip file

Steps

1. Download the add-on .zip file.
2. Open Blender.
3. Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons.
4. Click the drop-down arrow in the top-right corner.
5. Select Install From Disk.
6. In the file browser, locate the .zip file you downloaded and select it.
7. Click Install From Disk in the bottom-right corner.

After these steps, the add-on will be installed successfully.

Quick Start Guide

Node Tree Workspace

• Switch to the Texture Creator workspace to begin
• This workspace is a node tree editor, similar to Blender’s default node system.
• The default workspace includes both image and 3D view panels for convenience

Creating Nodes

• Click the Add in the top right corner in the Texture Creator node editor space.
• Or click the Add in the menu, by right click in the Texture Creator node editor space without selecting any node.
• Or open add node menu with Shift + A.
• Nodes are organized into categories. Select a node to add it to the tree.
• Nodes can be manipulated just like Blender’s default nodes.

Node Sockets

There are 4 socket types, each represented by a color:

• White: Binary Image (black and white only)
• Gray: Grayscale Image (used for height maps, density, probability, etc.)
• Yellow: RGB Image (commonly used for albedo maps)
• Purple: Vector Image (used for normal maps)

Connection rules:

• Binary → Grayscale (allowed)
• Grayscale → RGB (allowed)
• RGB → Grayscale (allowed, but ensure the image is grayscale or use a “Color to Grayscale” node for correct results)

Texture Creator Panel

• Open the panel with Ctrl + N.
• Options available:

Preview Node

• Use the Preview Node to see results in the Image Editor.
• Assign or create an image in the node.
• The preview updates automatically when inputs change.
• Resolution of the assigined image will be updated automatically according to the resolution of the node tree.
• Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Left Click on a node to connect it to the preview node.
• Note: Only one preview node can exist per node tree.

Material Output Node

• Similar to the Preview Node, but outputs to a material.
• Assign a material, and Texture Creator will generate a shader node tree to the material with the textures applied.
• Enable Auto Update to automatically reflect changes in the node tree.

Shortcuts

Texture Creator is using the same node system as shader node, geomtety node and composition node provided in blender. So most of the shortcuts key in blender default node system can be used in Texture Creator Node Editor space. Also, parts of the operators from the node wrangles are supported. But do not assume all of them are working properly. Some will raise error, as they are not supported. Here are some example.

• Ctrl + J: Join the selected nodes in new frame
• Shift + Right Mouse Drag: Add a reroute to links. (Supported by Node Wrangler addon)
• Ctrl + Right Mouse Drag: Cut links.

Currently, there is some feature that is not supported. Here are some example.

• Ctrl + Alt + Right Mouse Drag: Mute Links (The links will still work as normal, it will not be muted)

Available Nodes

Primitives

Basic 2D Shapes

• Circle
• Rectangle
• Polygon

Advanced 3D Shapes

• Sphere
• Capsule
• Torus
• Cylinder
• Frustum
• Sphere 3D
• Torus 3D

Textures

Noise

• White Noise
• Preline Noise
• Voronoi Noise
• Gabor Noise
• Fractal Noise

Patterns

• Gradient
• Wave
• Brick
• Floor Pattern

Surface Details and Imperfections

• Dust Texture
• Speckle Texture
• Scratches Texture
• Wood Texture
• Grunge Texture

Image

• Image Texture

Tranform

Basic

• Translte
• Rotate
• Scale
• Shear
• Mirror
• Transform

Advanced

• Warp
• Directional Warp

Color

Color Adjustment

• Brightness Contrast
• Hue Saturation Value
• Invert

Color Blending and Mapping

• Color Ramp
• Mix
• Mask

Filter

Blur

• Blur
• Non-Uniform Blur
• Anisotropic Gaussian Blur
• Non Uniform Directional Blur
• Anti Aliasing

Detection

• Sobel Edge Detection

Effect

Flood Fill

• Grayscale Flood Fill
• Gradient Flood Fill
• Image Flood Fill

Scattering

• Scattering
• Tile Scattering
• Checker Scattering
• Circular Scattering

Surface Enhancement

• Ambient Occlusion
• Bevel
• Round Corner

Input

• Float
• RGB
• Grayscale

Converter

Textre Type

• Height to Normal
• Normal to Curvature
• Grayscale to Binary

Math

• Math
• Image Math
• Float Curve
• Image Map Range

Output

• Image Output
• PBR Material Output
• Preview

Layout

• Node Frame
• Node Reroute

Getting Support

Our Media

• Blender Market
• YouTube
• Discord