Free · MITv1.0.0Select T_Rock_BaseColor, T_Rock_Normal and T_Rock_ORM, click once, and get MI_Rock with every map in the right slot, the texture settings fixed and the material onSM_Rock.
Interactive demo with the plugin's test textures. Click a set, toggle options, then press Create.
No textures selectedSelect textures or folders in the Content Browser, then click Use selection.
Numbers from the test project in the screenshot above.
No renaming before import. Material Smith knows 97 name endings used by the tools and libraries your textures come from, ignores resolution and file type tokens, and reads packed maps in any channel order.
T_Rock_BaseColor · T_Rock_N · T_Rock_ORMChair_Wood_BaseColor · Chair_Wood_Normal · Chair_Wood_OcclusionRoughnessMetallicT_Cliff_vdzkbf_2K_D · _2K_N · _2K_ORDpbrick_wall_001_diff_2k · _nor_gl_2k · _rough_2k · _ao_2kMetal049A_2K-PNG_Color · _NormalDX · _Roughness · _MetalnessSee which texture sets and maps Material Smith finds. This runs the plugin's default name table right here in your browser.
The first run creates M_Smith_Standard in /Game/MaterialSmith. Only the switches a set needs are turned on, so unused maps cost nothing. Virtual textures get their own variant. Remove the plugin any time; your materials keep working.
sRGB, compression (Normalmap, Masks, BC4 for single channel maps), Flip Green for OpenGL normals and virtual texture streaming. No more sampler type errors.
Pick any material as the parent. Material Smith guesses which parameter takes which map and remembers it as a Master Profile.
SM_Rock gets MI_Rock. Substance exports land in the matching material slots. Static and skeletal meshes.
Existing instances are updated, not duplicated. Parameters you tweaked by hand stay. Imported textures are never overwritten.
For every set, What will happen lists the packing, texture changes, instance path, mesh slots and any problem.
Import a texture set and a notification offers to create the material instances. Masked foliage becomes two-sided automatically.
Find sets, preview, create instances and pack channels from your own pipeline scripts and Editor Utility Widgets.
Material Smith packs separate roughness, metallic and AO maps while it creates instances, or by hand on itsChannel packer page. This is the same idea as a free tool in your browser: drop your own maps, pick channels, download the PNG.
Packed in your browser. Your images never leave your computer. In Unreal, Material Smith also sets the result to Masks compression with sRGB off.
Select a set to edit its instance name and folder, blend mode, two-sided, the type of each map, the channels of packed textures, OpenGL and glossiness flags, and which mesh slots get the instance.
Panel walkthrough
Separate maps have a Use ... Map static switch, so only what a set needs is compiled. Edit the master, move it or replace it with your own.
| Group | Parameters |
|---|---|
Base Color | Base Color Map, Base Color Tint |
Normal | Normal Map, Normal Strength |
Roughness | Roughness Map or packed channel, Invert Roughness (Glossiness), Roughness Min/Max, Roughness (without a map) |
Metallic | Metallic Map or packed channel, Metallic Intensity, Metallic (without a map) |
Ambient Occlusion | Ambient Occlusion Map or packed channel, Ambient Occlusion Strength |
Packed Map | Packed Map and one channel selector each for AO, roughness, metallic and opacity |
Emissive | Emissive Map, Emissive Color, Emissive Intensity |
Opacity | Opacity Map, packed channel or base color alpha, Opacity Strength |
Height | Height Map, Use Height Map (Parallax), Height Ratio |
UV | UV Tiling, UV Offset |
The editor subsystem exposes the whole workflow to Python and Blueprint: find texture sets in folders, preview what will happen, create or update instances and pack channels.
Python APIimport unreal
smith = unreal.get_editor_subsystem(unreal.TAMaterialSmithSubsystem)
sets = smith.find_texture_sets_in_folders(["/Game/Props"])
for s in sets:
notes, warnings = smith.preview_texture_set(s, smith.get_default_options())
print(s.name, "->", s.instance_path, s.instance_name, warnings)
options = smith.get_default_options()
options.pack_channels = True
result = smith.create_material_instances(sets, options)
print(len(result.created_instances), "created,",
len(result.updated_instances), "updated", list(result.errors))import unreal
smith = unreal.get_editor_subsystem(unreal.TAMaterialSmithSubsystem)
request = unreal.TAMaterialSmithPackRequest()
ao = unreal.TAMaterialSmithChannelSource()
ao.texture = unreal.load_asset("/Game/Props/T_Box_AO")
rough = unreal.TAMaterialSmithChannelSource()
rough.texture = unreal.load_asset("/Game/Props/T_Box_R")
request.red, request.green = ao, rough
request.package_path, request.asset_name = "/Game/Props", "T_Box_ORM"
texture, error = smith.pack_channels(request, True)Material Smith is finishing its release on Fab and GitHub. Join Discord or drop us a line to hear the moment it ships.
Yes. It is free and open source under the MIT license, including for commercial projects, and it ships with its full C++ source. Channel packing is part of the free version.
No. The first run creates the master material M_Smith_Standard and its small default textures in /Game/MaterialSmith as regular assets of your project. Your instances depend on those assets, not on the plugin, so you can remove the plugin at any time.
Existing instances are updated, not duplicated. Textures and switches are refreshed, and parameters you tweaked by hand stay as they are.
Unreal, Substance Painter, Fab / Megascans, Poly Haven and ambientCG names work out of the box, including packed maps like ORM, ARM, MRA, RMA and Megascans ORD. Resolution and file type tokens such as _4K or -JPG are ignored, and the name table is editable in Project Settings.
Yes. Pick any material as the parent. Material Smith reads its texture parameters and static switches, guesses which map goes where and saves the mapping as a Master Profile in Project Settings, where you can correct it.
Imported textures are never overwritten by packing; packed textures are new assets. With Fix texture settings on, Material Smith changes texture settings such as sRGB, compression and Flip Green so each texture fits its parameter.
Names like _nor_gl are recognized as OpenGL normal maps and get Flip Green Channel, and you can set the flag by hand for any normal map.
Sets with an opacity map become Masked and two-sided by default.
Unreal Engine 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8, in the editor on Win64, Mac and Linux.