DECALmachine: Work with Decals in Blender

DECALmachine is a Blender add-on by Gumroad user machin3 that simplifies and automates work with mesh based decals, bringing quick design thinking, iteration and exploration. The toolkit is all about non-committal, non-destructive way. DECALmachine should be used with Blender’s Cycles renderer.

FEATURES

• use decals on flat surfaces and project them on curved surfaces
• ‘cut’ decal panel lines in a boolean-like manner
• parallax adds convincing depth to normal mapped decals
• retain sharp details at all scales, independent of texture resolution
• decal and panel UV creation is automatic and base meshes don’t need UVs
• change panel decal width and panel type after a panel has been ‘cut’
• change the panel decal shape and direction after it has been ‘cut’
• retrieve the original un-pojected decal sources at any time
• retrieve the cutters of panel decals at any time
• material cutting and material decals
• separate decal subset materials
• separate panel materials for each side side and panel flipping to switch those sides
• match decals to target materials
• panel unwrapping for custom drawn or modified panel decals
• quickly rotate decals in 45 degree steps without leaving face snapping
• 104 decal assets supplied

Suggested tools for the best experience:

• Asset Management for quick access to the decal assets
• Hard Ops
• Batch Operations
• mirror mirror and multi mirror mirror
• shading switch
• center cube
• filmic

Get DECALmachine for $12+