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With the Mari Extension Pack, the 3D painting and texturing tool Mari from Foundry contains more than 200 feature additions and improvements. The fourth version of the extension by Jens Kafitz has now been released.
Most Important New Features
In total, the new pack adds ovre 50 new features as well as smaller additions. We summarize the most interesting new feautres here:
- Height Blend for mixing displacement maps.
- Packed Channel for easy creation of RGBA channels
- Texture Exporter with presets and Quick Export feature.
- Radio Nodes for bridging node connection lines.
- Image Arrays for simultaneous editing of up to six texture maps.
- Multimixer lets you stack up to eight node inputs and alphas in layers.
- Support for 3D texture scattering
- Duplicate with Connections to create a copy of the selected nodes while retaining all connections to unselected nodes.
You can read a complete overview of all the extension’s new features here.
Tutorials
You can find all video tutorials for the new features here. There is also detailed online help with information about features, past releases, installation, licenses and SDK.
Requirements and Price
Extension Pack 4 requires Mari version 3.2v1 or higher. The Indie and Non-Commercial versions are not supported. The extension is available from €35 here on Gumroad.
