Node Pack for MARI Sees a New Release of the Popular Extension Pack

The MARI IdeaScale site is a great resource for tools and add-ons for The Foundry’s MARI where there is often quite a bit of activity on some great tools and workflow enhancements for the high-end texture painting application.

a compilation of free & open-source Add-ons consisting of Adjustment Layers, Geometry Masks, Noises, Fractals and Shaders

Typically, the best and most effective new items are thrown into an easy downloaded “pack” that users can download and install, this is the MARI Node Pack release that features milestone additions for MARI’s toolset.

The MARI Node Pack includes MARI adjustments, Procedurals, and shaders that will extend MARI’s functionality. Recently the MARI Node Pack has updated to version 1.5 including some of the new cylindrical projection tools, and photoshop-like color selection tools, as well as some new organic procedural noise patterns.

MARI Node Pack New Features

  • A full Cylindrical Projection Node, optimized for easy setup in 3D Space.
  • Color Range to Mask – a powerful Adjustment Shader similar to Photoshop’s Select Color Range.
  • Squid Skin Procedural – organic Noise Pattern
  • Cavity Map from Tangent Space Normal – Using a Tangent space normal map will help you generate Cavity Information from the map information similar to XNormal.

Node Pack Improvements

  • Military Camo – a more flexible Camo procedural was added allowing for 3 color steps. Layer them up by setting Color A to transparent for more elaborate effects
  • The original Camo Procedural with 2 Colors has been deprecated. You can use the new Military Camo with a Spacing of 0 for the same effect.
  • A variety of interface improvements have been made, collapsing less used node groups by default (Mari 2.6v2+ only)

The node pack is free for download and use and requires MARI 2.5 or higher. Check out the MARI Node Pack 1.5 here for more information.