MaterialTextures

A plugin for Godot 4.7+ that adds new texture resources, which can bake shaders to textures.

The scripts use the DrawableTexture2D resource added in Godot 4.7 to render the materials, hence the version requirement.

Usage

The plugin adds Material-prefixed versions of the following texture types:

• Texture2D
• TextureArray2D
• Cubemap
• Texture3D

To use any of them, simply create the corresponding resource and assign the material you would like to render to a texture. There are some basic examples for each type in the examples folder.

The textures automatically rebakes whenever settings on the resource are changed - however, due to limitations in the Godot editor, this is not automatic when parameters on the assigned materials are changed. In these cases, simply press the Force Refresh button to re-bake the texture.

Examples

The plugin comes with a few different example shaders:

• example_shader
  • Simply renders the UV coordinates to the texture.
• example_texture3d_shader
  • Shows how to use the UVZ parameter to render 3D textures.
• example_cubemap_shader
  • Demonstrates how to use the MaterialCubemap resource to render cubemaps using a direction.
• channelpack
  • Takes in up to four textures and packs their channels in whatever order specified in the material.

You can view all of these in the examples folder.

License

The plugin is released under the MIT License.

The example textures used for the channelpack example are from Kenney.nl, licensed under CC0.