Edge Wear FREE Blender Addon

MK Edge Wear is a free Blender shader pipeline that turns any clean material into a worn, weathered, lived-in surface — instantly. No node-graph wrestling. No copy-pasting. No catch.

Built and battle-tested in production at 3DRedbox Studio. Now released free for the entire Blender community under GPL-3.0.

You spend hours stacking Pointiness nodes, fighting with Color Ramps, and untangling shader trees just to get a believable scuff on a corner. By the time the material looks right, the deadline's gone.

One button. Full procedural shader. Done.

🔘 One-click setup
Hit Make Edge Wear and the addon appends the full procedural network into your active material — wired, isolated, ready to render.

🎨 Dual-color wear system
Set a Main color (the surface) and a Peeled color (what shows through). Edge falloff is handled automatically — peeling appears exactly where it should.

⚙️ Geometry-aware edge detection
Powered by Pointiness. Works on any topology — high-poly, low-poly, sub-divided. Four parameters: Mask Radius, Scale All, Edgewear Size, Mask Power.

🖼️ Custom mask shape with X / Y / Z rotation
Load your own texture as the wear pattern. Auto-converted to Non-Color, wired through a Mapping node, with per-axis rotation control.

🔧 PBR controls in the Material slot
Roughness, Metallic, and IOR exposed directly on the group node — visible in Properties, Material, Surface. No subgroup digging.

🎯 Pre-tuned scratch system
Built-in procedural scratches network with production-ready defaults. Looks hand-rubbed, not computer-generated.

📊 Clean N-panel UI
Five collapsible sections under MK Tools: Info, Colors, Edge Wear, Mask, About.

• Full Blender extension package (zip)
• 13 hand-authored procedural node groups
• Pre-tuned defaults for instant results
• Clean, organized N-panel UI
• Bundled mask textures
• GPL-3.0 license — use commercially, modify, redistribute

• Blender 4.2 / 4.3 / 4.4 / 5.0 / 5.1
• Cycles, Eevee, Eevee Next
• Windows / macOS / Linux
• No external dependencies
• Zero render overhead

• Product designers rendering worn industrial gear and prototypes
• Game artists building hero props that need to look used
• Concept artists who need photoreal mockups fast
• Hobbyists wanting pro-grade wear without the node-graph deep dive
• Educators teaching procedural shading — every group is open and editable
  
  
  

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