by Wayward Art Company·Rendering
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Mask Tools sits in the superhive library with a 4-star rating from 52 reviews and over 2,500 sales. Its developer, Wayward Art Company, is a Blender Dev Fund contributor.
Mask Tools is a Blender add-on for texturing and creating complex materials, letting you build materials without exporting to other software. Add paint layers and procedural effects such as edge detect, dust, and various types of grunge to produce realistic textures. It can turn low-poly objects into highly detailed models in a few steps, and helps keep node setups organized.
Distortion Masks let you paint procedural grunge on your models and keep customizing the shape, scale, and bump effects after painting. You can also paint additional effects including alpha transparency, emission, and bump. A set of materials ships with the add-on, and each can be customized for scale, roughness, and color.
Whether you're texturing characters or environments, Mask Tools is aimed at game artists working on detailed textures for low-poly game assets. Documentation is provided, and a demo video is available. The add-on supports Blender 3.0 through 3.6 and 4.0, and is released under the GPL license.
Mask Tools is best for game artists texturing low-poly game assets, and anyone texturing characters or environments directly in Blender.
Mask Tools is completely free to download and use.
Mask Tools supports Blender 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, and 4.0, so it covers a wide span of releases across the Blender 3.x line and into 4.0. If you're running one of these listed versions, the add-on is marked as compatible in this catalog. For versions outside this range, or to confirm support on newer Blender releases that came after this listing, check the developer's page for the latest compatibility details before you install. The developer's documentation is also a good place to verify setup requirements.
Mask Tools is built to handle texturing and complex materials inside Blender, so you can add paint layers and procedural effects without exporting your models to other texturing software. It covers procedural effects such as edge detect, dust, and various types of grunge, along with paintable effects like alpha transparency, emission, and bump. Distortion Masks let you paint procedural grunge and keep adjusting the shape, scale, and bump afterward. The add-on also aims to keep node setups organized, so the goal is a self-contained texturing process without hopping between separate programs.
Mask Tools is released under the GPL license, according to this listing. For the specifics of what the GPL permits for your own projects, including how you can use, modify, or redistribute it, refer to the full terms of the license itself. For any current or updated licensing terms tied to this add-on, check the developer's page, and use the documentation included with Mask Tools to confirm details before you rely on it in production work. Licensing terms can change after a listing is published, so the developer's page is the most reliable source.
Mask Tools is listed as free in this catalog, so there's no price shown here. That said, licensing and availability can change after a listing goes up, so the most reliable move is to check the developer's page for the current terms before you download or install. The add-on is distributed under the GPL license, which governs how you can use and share it. If you need to confirm what's permitted for commercial or client work, the developer's page and the included documentation are the places to look.
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