• Alberto

  about 2 years ago

  Insane amount of material and tweaking options. A bit annoying the one-pc-only licence and the textures option (1k,2k,4k,8k) makes download pretty heavy and slow. But very useful and well-packed addon at the end of the day.

• Victor

  about 2 years ago

  This is the best add on ever for materials. Thanks for creating it!

• Victor Liu

  about 2 years ago

  Highly recommend it, I have been a Archviz professional since 1991, long term user of 3dsmax, now migrated over to Blender just because... I've been dealing with big giant architecture files with all kinds of material assignment anomalies, this makes the file organization alone worth the price. Not that this is not perfect, but to make it..."more perfect" lol...maybe add some procedural sidings and procedural bricks to it. That will be great. Thank you Andrew for making such a great product!

• Sean Murphy

  over 2 years ago

  Great product for those of us who absolutely refuse to use the noodle mess that is nodes.
  But one big problem is that every file I open requires me to register all over again. Including putting my password into Blender which I do not see as safe with the way Blender works. (Whole different topic)

  I'm one of those users who have multiple start files and one problem is when I revert to defaults in Blender, I have to register this addon all over again.
  That does not work well with speeding up my particular pipeline workflow.
  The same happens if I open project files we have worked on in the past.

  Despite all that, as far as the product goes with texturing and materials, it's definitely worth it. It lets you focus on your project without getting bogged down with unnecessarily complex backend noodles.

• fabrice

  over 2 years ago

  Too bad, the installation and registration process is long and tedious. And the library download time is endless. For the rest, the quality of the textures is suitable.

• Cream

  over 2 years ago

  Good. Excellent even. But handing the download of materials through the addon in blender for initial installation is horrendous. Only after 4 hours now am I going to finish downloading just 2k textures on 150mb/s internet speed. Previously it took just an hour or so to download all the 4k materials on blendermarket.

  Of course ill eventually get all the materials downloaded and wont have to worry too much about this again. But I hope a solution to very slow downloads is eventually found.

• Christopher Kenworthy

  over 2 years ago

  About half the materials are really good, and the other half are just ok. I don't mind the small hassle of registering the product but the downloading process is terrible. I spoke to the creator a few days after the Black Friday slowdown and he said it should be up to speed. It wasn't. He was very polite and helpful which I appreciated, but nothing has changed. It's now three weeks later. I have 50mps at home, and everything else downloads super fast, but this is still stalling out. It feels so buggy, and I have to sit with it while it downloads, then when it loses the connection I jump in and manually restart (so slowly as it finds the catalogue again) and then watch for another hour. So, it's not a practical way to download at all. At the moment there's a warning that it's because downloads are slow in Blender 3.0, but it's getting a bit ridiculous. After three weeks I have the 2K materials and am underway with the 8K materials. I may never get around to 4K and others as it takes too long. The add-on itself is very laggy. After trying it for a few days I switched to using PBR Painter which is very smooth. I've got an excellent CPU and RTX 3090 so it should be smooth, but I found the add-on interface of Extreme PBR to lag too much. So, three stars for some good materials, but really, that's all I got. I think a lot of people would be happier to get PBRs elsewhere and just use PBR Painter.

• Ad Morris

  over 2 years ago

  Great addon but as others have commented the new forced library download via Blender is a big annoyance. Having the materials available in packs to download via the Blender Market previously was a perfectly fine option. What's more annoying is that I still have the old library on disk, but there's no way to merge this with the new one. So I'm forced to download the entire library, including all duplicates, again at a ridiculously slow download speed (48 hours!). The developer needs to re-think this one as it's introducing unnecessary friction. Had I not already bought an earlier version I'd most likely be asking for a refund.

• Justin Thomas

  over 2 years ago

  Just full disclosure, I left a similar review to Andrew's other product HDRi Maker, so if there is any overlap, I apologize but they're things I want to bring up for both products.

  This is an extremely useful add-on, it offers more materials for the price than many of the collections you'll find. The user interface is so easy to understand that even a complete beginner like myself had no issues whatsoever navigating around it and taking advantage of the texture painting and FX abilities it offers. Like I said in the review for HDRi Maker, it speaks volumes for a developer to not only make such a useful add-on, but to make it so easily understandable for someone with little experience at the same time..

  Are you going to get the same results that you would from something like Substance Painter?? No.. but you're also getting a lifetime license for a one time payment of less than $100 as opposed to Adobe forcing their customers to lease the ability to use their software instead of owning it.

  Do I recommend it? Absolutely yes.. Between the number of materials included, the organization of said materials, combined with the easily accessible tools like texture painting.. You really can't go wrong with this add-on. You get the material library, and tools that are often sold as standalone add-ons for things like texture painting and even adding surface imperfections.

  Andrew is great developer who somehow made time to answer ALL of my questions before I had even purchased either of the two addons and this was during the time their servers were having issues..
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  About the server problems a lot of recent reviews are complaining about..

  I'm sorry, and I don't mean to sound condescending, but.. when I purchased the add-on, all I had to do was read the product page where it clearly stated the BFCM sales were hitting their servers hard, and to just please be patient while they got them up and running at preferred speeds again.

  I've had nothing but friendly support from the Blender community in the short time I've been messing around with it, so its just a bit shocking to see some of the things people posted as a review during that time.

  I noticed this add-on being referred to as some kind of scam?? How did you come to that conclusion when it has a LONG history of high sales and high ratings PRIOR to the issues regarding the servers during the sale?? One of them, straight up used profanity because they couldn't IMMEDIATELY get the textures downloaded.. How old are you?? There's NO excuse for that. I suffer from pretty major social issues and mental illness, and even I read that review thinking "This had to be posted by the same person who threw a tantrum in the cereal aisle of a grocery store as a child.. and not much has changed."

  I'm sorry, but I don't understand how anyone jumped to some of these conclusions, and instead of simply messaging the developer to ask what was going on, the first reaction was to just leave a negative review?? I don't know Andrew personally, but he was finding the time to answer all of my questions BEFORE buying either product, so I know for a fact if you purchased it, couldn't get it to download the textures, and had simply either come back to the product page and read "Our servers are having problems with the amount of traffic from the sale," and/or simply messaged him asking, you would have had your answer. The decision to immediately leave a review instead of doing one of those two things should not be impacting the rating of such a good product, and I can't even begin to fathom how one person was hostile enough to use profanity..

• Tommy

  over 2 years ago

  So there are some good and some bad aspects to this app. First the good: The materials are pretty nice and there is a fair amount of variety. The ability to paint and combine different materials on the same object is very nice, although a little difficult to figure out at first. Now for the bad. The major flaw for me is only being able to use this add on on one single computer at a time because you register the computer to your license in order to access the materials. I understand protecting you asset and needing to make a profit from the work put in, but I often like to switch between different work locations and do a little bit of work wherever I might be. Though it’s possible to reassign the license anytime it is a painstaking process and not really worth it. I think at least being able to assign to two machines at a time would make it much better for me. Also the library is a bit limited despite the variety provided. Hopefully it will expand over time, but for the same price I paid for this app I have gotten many more materials from other sources. Despite that this is a pretty good app and I’d say very helpful if you’re pretty new to blender or don’t have much experience with materials.

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