Build 25563872

Gator Material Studio v1.1.0

This update adds a new guided onboarding experience designed to walk new users through the core Gator Material Studio workflow from material creation to use in PAINT.

Guided Onboarding

• Added a new first-run guided experience.

• Introduces the PAINT, DESIGN, BAKE, and RENDER workspaces and explains what each is used for.

• Guides users through creating a procedural marble material in DESIGN.

• Demonstrates procedural nodes, tiling, generated normal maps, roughness, and metallic values.

• Explains how to expose material parameters for later editing.

• Guides users through exposing marble colors and modifying those exposed properties after applying the material.

• Explains the differences between:

  • Export Textures

  • Export Godot

  • Publish

• Explains the difference between Save Material and Save Project.

  • Save Material stores the reusable editable material graph.

  • Save Project preserves the complete project, including meshes, PAINT data, texture sets, and Designer graphs.

• Guides users through publishing a material to the User Library.

• Introduces the Asset Library and its Material and User filters.

• Guides users through applying the published material in PAINT.

• Prompts users to load a model when one is not already available.

• Automatically skips the model-loading step when a model is already loaded.

• Introduces collapsible PAINT panels and requires unnecessary panels to be collapsed before continuing.

• Finishes by having the user modify an exposed material parameter and see the result directly on the model.

Onboarding Controls

• Added Start Guided Tour, Not Now, and Don't Show Again options.

• Added Help > Getting Started so the guide can be launched again at any time.

• Added Back, Skip Step, and Exit Tutorial controls.

• Tutorial completion and dismissal state are remembered between sessions.

• Recovery continues to take priority over first-run onboarding.

This update is focused on making the first experience with Gator Material Studio clearer while demonstrating the complete DESIGN to Library to PAINT workflow.