Edge Wear

Realistic Edge Wear in One Click — Free ForeverMK 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.

The problemYou spend hours stacking Pointiness nodes, fighting with Colour 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.

The solutionOne button. Full procedural shader. Done.

Features 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-colour wear system Set a Main colour (the surface) and a Peeled colour (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-Colour, 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, Colours, Edge Wear, Mask, About.

What's included

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

Compatibility

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

Who is this for?

• 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