Changelog

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1.2.1

Fixed a Blender 5.0 compatibility issue involving the Anisotropy socket.
Improved Material Overlay behavior with modifiers.
Improved automatic use of the latest scene preset and related UI refresh behavior.
Set the wiki baseline for BAM AutoMat v1.2.1.

Added Blender 5.0 support.
Added displacement midlevel control.
Added automatic IOR assignment based on material-name keywords, with a default IOR of 1.45.
Reworked custom preset storage so user presets live in Blender config paths and are not replaced by addon updates.
Improved shader graph organization and displacement node placement.
Updated Blender 4.5 to 5.0 node handling to use current Separate XYZ behavior.

Added alpha channel selection for packed textures.
Added MatsAsset beta for adding materials to an asset library with asset tagging and preview generation.
Added relative path support for texture-based material creation.
Added Specular Tint defaults and UI control.
Added displacement default value control.
Improved emissive-map defaults.
Improved preset switching stability.
Added mapping control nodes and cleaner shader graph alignment.

Improved Material Overlay behavior for objects with modifiers.
Changed the preset system so custom presets use separate files and are not overwritten by addon updates.

Refactored code and improved performance.
Added new preference UI and image format management.
Added Material Overlay, Material Preview, Material Pipette, Roughness Invert Mode, and Duplicate Material tools.
Added a delete-material mode that can also remove texture data.
Added cleanup mode options for the whole scene or selected objects.
Expanded colorspace profile options.
Improved logs and fixed several filter, scene colorspace, and custom property issues.

Updated extension manifest metadata.
Changed addon category to Material.
Added UI updates, including a collapsible Materials Create/Update filter and a Force Refresh button near the texture folder input.