Texture Layer Manager (TLM) brings a familiar layer-based workflow to Blender materials — without managing the whole shader graph by hand. Stack fills, 3D procedural patterns, painted details, adjustments, and geometry-aware masks. Reorder them, blend them, and route them to any PBR channel while TLM compiles clean, 100% native Blender shader nodes underneath. Image layers get full mapping controls and a Pixelate cell option for LED-screen, pixel-art, and mosaic looks.

Workflow

The stack is the material. Blender stays underneath.

Start with a Fill, add procedural variation, and mask it to cavities or exposed edges. With Auto Composite enabled, parameter changes update node values live without rebuilding the graph. No proprietary shader container: your .blend file renders anywhere, even on machines without TLM installed.

Multi-Channel Routing

More than Base Color. Drive every PBR channel at once.

Route any layer to Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, Emission, Transmission, or Alpha. A single weathering layer can darken Base Color, raise Roughness, and add Bump or true geometric Displacement simultaneously — complete with 19 colour blend modes, 41 Alpha math operations, Clipping Masks, and Height Blend.

Smart Surfacing

11 Geometry-Aware Masks & 24 Procedural Patterns.

Combine two mask slots (A + B) per layer using live shader sources: Edge Wear, Dirt, Curvature, Ambient Occlusion, Pointiness, Wireframe, Fresnel, Light Angle (N·L), Half-Vector (N·H), Voronoi, or painted Images. Pair them with 24 procedural generators (Hex Grid, Cracks, Scratches, Wood, Caustics, Weave, Truchet, Gabor, and more) with Triplanar anti-stretch projection.

Presets & Export

13 Editable Presets & Game-Ready PBR Baking.

Ships with 13 complete layer-stack materials (Anime, Bronze Verdigris Patina, Burn Dissolve, Coral Rock, Galaxy Marble, Holo Card, Mars, Mirror, Oil Slick, Plasma Core, Watercolor, Wireframe, Inverted Checker). Ready to export to Unreal, Unity, or glTF? Bake and channel-pack ORM maps in one click.