Layered materials is a growing library of procedural materials and smart layers

Simply add dirt, snow, mud, scratches, dead leaves, puddles, rain effect ... alien parasite and much more on your materials whether they are procedural or PBR.

A WORKFLOW  DESIGNED WITH SIMPLICITY IN MIND

Let's "drag and drop" somme streaks on this stone wall material, then add an alien parasite layer, just connect the displacement outputs with the inputs, adjust with a height mask, and that's it !

Let's take a look closer to some of the 48 layers with the...

...SCI-FI LAYERS

Alien parasite :

Bloated parasite :

NATURALS ELEMENTS LAYERS

Puddles (it will adapt to the height map of the base material) :

Rain (on objects, windows) :

Incandescence 🔥 and Frost ❄ :

And much more...

MASKS

Layered materials comes with 11 masks which you can use to adjust exactly where you want the layer to appear or not.

With the vertex paint mask you can paint your mask directly on the mesh using the color black in the vertex paint mode (no need for UV unwrap as it use the vertices instead of an image) :

BONUS : VOLUMETRICS

LM comes with 5 volumetrics that you will be able to drag and drop directly into your scenes like this stylized camp fire below :

TOOLS