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Overview

What it is ?

Ghost Matter is a Blender add-on that makes mixing materials simple, inside a dedicated node editor kept separate from the shader graph.

Blending materials in the standard Shader Editor quickly turns into a tangle of Mix Shader, math and mapping nodes. Ghost Matter replaces that with a clear, purpose-built tree: drop your materials in, stack masks and textures with a per-node mix mode, and get a ready-to-use material out — no shader spaghetti. Any material works, with no special setup — all kinds of materials are compatible.

It also ships a library of quality-of-life nodes that shortcut the tasks artists hit again and again in the Shader Editor, each designed to keep your node tree small and readable:

  • Smart masks — edges, scratches, dirt, damage, oxidation, splatter…
  • Procedural inputs — curvature / pointiness, fabric, gradients, glitch, mograph reveals…
  • Decals & UV tools, and baking tools (to image or vertex colors).

You still get all the standard Blender material nodes (except the shader ones), plus Ghost Matter's own material-mix and tool nodes.

This documentation covers only the nodes specific to Ghost Matter.

Note

Ghost Matter can't be animated, except with the Time Interpolation Node

How it works ?

Any blender materials can be input in the Ghost Matter node tree with the Material Input node. Materials are then converted into a compatible format for the Ghost Matter system.

Ghost Matter generates or update automaticly the Ghost Matter Material contained in the output node when combining nodes in the GhostTree Editor. The Update can be done manualy clicking , or the eyes icons on the nodes outputs...

Alert

You don't have to interact in this material. Only use GhostTtree and double click on the material input materials to edit them.

Tip

Resulted materials can be used without the addon. You don't have to interact at this level while using Ghost Matter.

The GhostTree:

The hidden part generated by Ghost Matter. A combination of standards blender material nodes updated on the fly. Don't interact at this level.

Ghost Matter Tools

Ghost Matter contains some tools like

  • Texture baking to image or vertex colors

  • Decals projection

  • etc..

See Object tools and Node tools pages