Texture Layer Manager brings the layer workflow you already know from image editors into Blender's material editor. Add fill, paint, procedural and adjustment layers; route each one to Base Color, Roughness, Metallic, Emission, Transmission or Alpha; blend, mask, reorder.

TLM compiles the stack into a regular Cycles node graph — no custom engine, no baked snapshots, nothing locked.

Everything stays editable, and the generated nodes are plain Blender nodes: your .blend renders anywhere, even without the add-on.

What's in the box

- 6 layer types — Paint, Fill, Procedural, Adjustment, Group, Reference. Use your own images as material inputs.

- 24 procedural patterns — Noise, Voronoi, Wood, Bricks, Hex Grid, Weave, Cracks, Caustics, Fresnel and more. All parametric, generated in 3D space: no UV unwrap required.

- Per-channel routing and blending — 19 blend modes per channel. Route a layer to Alpha and the dropdown becomes 41 math operations for real mask set-logic.

- 11 mask sources — painted images, AO, curvature, real wireframe, live edge-wear and dirt generators, Fresnel, light-angle for instant cel-shading, and Voronoi. Combine two sources, refine the falloff, bake when you need a texture.

- Material extras — IOR, volume absorption and scatter, true geometric displacement, PNG alpha pipeline, keyframable layer opacity.

- Live editing — sliders edit the node graph in place. No rebuild, no waiting.

- 13 preset materials — every one a real editable stack, not a baked image. Open them to see exactly how each look is built.

- Bake & export — bake composited channels to textures, with channel packing for game engines.

Requirements

Blender 5.0 or newer. Cycles for full coverage. EEVEE handles the core channels. Current limits are listed honestly in the manual.

What you get

- TextureLayerManager_v1.0.0.zip — the add-on, ready to install from Preferences.

- TLM_Manual_v1.0.0.pdf — the full manual.

- The 13 presets are inside the add-on.

- Updates to future 1.x versions included.

Support

Details and demos: https://texturelayermanager.netlify.app/