Mix two materials together with just one button press!

Features:

• Object Mixing
• Height mixing based on displacement maps
• UV/Object coordinate transfer
• Simple Mixer: Mix materials using linear interpolation.
• Complex Mixer: Mix materials based on displacement height and distance to the ground object (ground object selection required for proper functionality).

Complex Mixer:

Height Mixing:

• Enable Height Mask: When set above 0, height masking is activated.
• Offset: Shifts the displacement maps; 0.5 means no shifting, 0 corresponds to 100% Displacement Map A, and 1 corresponds to 100% Displacement Map B.
• Softness: Smooths the mask for gradient effects.

Object Masking:

• Enable Object Masking: When set above 0, Object Masking is activated.
• From Mix: Minimum distance from the ground object.
• To Max: Maximum distance from the ground object.

Controlls:

New Mix:

1. Material: Choose a material to mix with the current one.
2. Ground Object: Select a ground object that can be used to change the texture mapping.
3. Change Object Coordinates: If true, it uses the ground object's coordinates (a selected ground object is required).
4. Change UV Map: If true, it uses the ground object's UV map (a selected ground object is required).
5. Target UV Map: Select a UV map to sample from (requires 'Change UV Map' to be active).
6. Use Complex Mixer: If enabled, the complex mixer will be used.
7. Mix Materials: Adds the mixer and imports the target material to the node tree.

Mix panel:

8. Color: The mixer node group's color (used only to help identify the node group in the node tree).
9. Update: Apply changes to the material by updating the node group.
10. Delete: Deletes the mix and removes all associated nodes.
11. Enable Height Blending: Activates blending based on the height map.
12. Enable Object Blending: Activates blending based on object distance.
13. Ground Object: Changes the currently selected ground object.
14. Add/Remove Controller: Adds or removes a controller object for object blending.
15. Blending Mode: Adjusts how object blending interacts with height blending.
16. Interpolation: Changes the interpolation method for object blending.
17. Select Max: Selects the Max control object.
18. Select Max: Selects the Min control object.

CHANGE LOG:

Update 1.2:

• Reworked UI
• Improved Object Blending: Changeable interpolation methods and customizable control objects
• Material Update Function: Applies changes to appended materials
• Utility Functions: Easily add material copies to the node tree or insert a mixer group without creating a new mix
• Compatible with Blender 4.3.

Update 1.1:

• Fixed a bug where the shader group was missing after reopening the blend file.
• Compatible with Blender 4.2.

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