RockForm v1.4 for Blender 4.5 - 5

1.4.0 [12/26/25]

• Added new feature: ‘Z-Split Textures’. Read how it works here.
• Added 8 new Shape Instance Groups and removed some other ones that weren’t as useful:
  • ‘SIG07: Boulders’ (replaced ‘Angled Slabs’)
  • ‘SIG14: Fractured Slabs’ (replaced ‘Split Slabs’)
  • ‘SIG15: Fractured Columns’ (improved version of ‘Frag Column’)
  • ‘SIG20: Hemispheres’ (replaced ‘Claws’)
  • ‘SIG21: Slates’
  • ‘SIG22: Chipped Blocks’
  • ‘SIG23: Hoodoos’
  • ‘SIG24: Capped Columns’
• Refined most of the other SIGs.
• Added 3 new displacement textures.
• Added separate invert buttons to control Tex1 and Tex2 separately. See the new icons here.
• The SIG selection dropdown is now only for custom groups. There is now a ‘RF Custom SIGs’ collection with 5 premade empty collections for putting user-designed shapes in.
• Changed blend operation for 2 textures from ‘add’ to ‘lighten’. This compares the two textures and whichever pixels are lighter are displayed. This essentially helps fill in the ‘voids’ of darker (deeper) areas to create variation without excessively bloating the displacement (as happened with ‘add’) and then having to balance the strength to compensate.
• Tex1 and Tex2 Multipliers has also been changed to no longer be based on multiplication, but a ‘mix’ blend function with the first color being neutral to serve as a midpoint. This prevent the shrinkage of the previous method and makes changes more predictable.
• Limited the ability of triplanar blending — now named ‘Seam Blending’ — (via mapped range node) to be any value lower than 0.01. Anything below that value to zero would create undesirable results.

1.3.0 [12/14/25]

• Updated RockForm to work with Blender 5
• Added icon selection gallery for shape instance groups (SIGs) so you can preview the group.
• Fixed all icons to appear properly (due to Blender adding icons, their IDs had changed)
• Updated the island sample scene to be a smaller scale so it’s more performant
• Added color-coded icons to differentiate Shape Properties from Displacement Properties.
• When a new RockForm is created, the master material is now automatically attached in the material panel for easier access. Note: materials are added via geonodes so switching the material can only be done in the addon panel.
• Removed minimum rotation setting from shape rotation - the same results were achievable with [Base: 0][Min: -15][Max: 15] as they were with [Base: -15][Min: 0][Max: 30] creating a redundancy, so now it’s less confusing. Now it reads (Base][Random By]