What’s New in Mari Extension Pack 5 R3

Jens Kafitz covers some of the new features in Mari Extension Pack 5 R3.

A new release for Mari Extension Pack features new additions to tools and nodes as well as a host of changes and bug fixes. Jens Kafitz quickly covers some of the new features in this brief overview.

What’s New:

  • Automatic Image Reloading / Texture Streaming from other applications.
  • Channel Creation from Node Ports
  • New Shelf Content
  • Hotboxes
  • Backdrops
  • Blurring of Input Images
  • New Manifold Nodes
  • Native Normal Map Orientation Support
  • Normal Map Nodes
  • Material Soloing
  • New ‘Tiled’ Node
  • and more.

Mari Extension Pack.

Extension Pack collects scripts and tools for Mari artists with workflow-enhancing and missing toolsets that may be missing in Mari. For example, if you want to work with text in Mari, the pack offers a new type tool that is new to the pack’s 4R1 and 4R2.