DamageCraft — Edge Chips & Surface Wear

🪨 DamageCraft — Edge Chips & Surface Wear for Blender

✨ Give your 3D models a worn finish

Create chipped corners, worn edges, surface pits, and shallow gouges with DamageCraft, a Blender add-on built around a straightforward sidebar workflow.

Add character to stone architecture, brickwork, concrete structures, wooden props, and other solid environment assets. Start with a preset, adjust the damage, and generate real mesh geometry while keeping your original source available for another pass.

🎛️ Separate Edge & Face Controls

Shape different kinds of wear independently:

• Edge Damage: Adjust chip size, density, depth, and the convex edge-angle threshold.
• Face Damage: Control pit count, size, and depth separately.
• Combine both: Build chipped silhouettes with additional surface wear—or use either channel on its own.

🧩 Five Geometric Damage Patterns

• 🪨 Angular Chips — Broad, faceted cuts for chipped stone and masonry.
• 🧱 Crumbled Stone — Irregular cuts for rougher surface wear.
• 🕳️ Rounded Pits — Rounder local depressions across the mesh.
• 🪵 Wood Splinters — Elongated cuts aligned with a chosen local grain axis.
• ✏️ Scratches — Thin, shallow directional gouges.

🚀 Presets to Get You Started

Explore starting recipes for Chipped Stone, Worn Brick, Old Concrete, Splintered Wood, and Scratched Metal.

Load a preset, refine its settings, and change the seed to explore another arrangement.

🎨 Control Placement & Presentation

• 🖌️ Vertex-Group Placement Masks** — Influence where cut centers appear and how deeply they penetrate.
• 🎨 Exposed Cut Materials — Assign a separate material to newly cut surfaces.
• 🔄 Seed Variations — Explore different distributions while keeping the same general recipe.
• 🔗 Recipe Transfer — Match an active result’s saved settings to other selected meshes.
• 📦 Multiple-Object Processing — Apply the panel recipe to selected eligible objects.

🛠️ Add Detail & Refine the Result

Use Extra Stone Detail for an optional voxel-based surface erosion pass. Finish with a small bevel, optional triangulation, or polygon reduction to suit your next modeling step.

💾 Preserve Your Source

DamageCraft creates a generated result while retaining its source object and settings recipe.

Use Generate / Update to rebuild from the saved source, Add Damage Layer to accumulate another pass, or Restore Source to step back one layer at a time. Save your .blend with the hidden sources to retain this workflow.

🖱️ A Simple Workflow

1. Select a closed mesh in Object Mode.
2. Open 3D Viewport → N → DamageCraft.
3. Choose a preset and click Load.
4. Click Generate / Update.
5. Adjust the settings and regenerate.

• Version: DamageCraft 1.0.0.
• Designed for: Blender 4.2 and newer.
• Runtime-tested in: Blender 4.5.3 LTS.
• Output: Static mesh geometry.
• Dependencies: No companion add-ons or external packages required.

ℹ️ Before You Begin

Use clean, closed solid meshes. Changes apply when you click Generate / Update; sliders do not update the geometry live.

Placement masks influence cutter centers rather than precisely clipping damage to a painted boundary. Extra Stone Detail remeshes the surface, discards UVs and vertex weights, and cannot be combined with a placement mask. New cut faces may require UV work.

Presets control geometry; textures and finished material systems are separate. Retopology, texture baking, and destruction physics are not included.