armortools VS material-maker

I am glad people are working on it!!

Have you seen Kha by any chance? It has similar goals. I find it quite awesome, but it won't gain mass adoption for a bunch of reasons. https://github.com/Kode/Kha

Someone built an immediate mode renderer on top https://github.com/armory3d/zui, which is utilised by ArmorPaint https://armorpaint.org. I also use Zui for my own bespoke 2D game engine.

I find this tech and tooling really quite amazing (just look at how little source code Zui has) given just how small the ecosystem around it is. I think Kha really illustrates what can be achievable if the lower levels have robust but simple APIs, just exposing the bare minimum as a standard for others to build upon.

For the kind of project I work on (mostly 2d games), I think it would really awesome if your framework also supported low level audio, and a variety of inputs such as keyboard, mice, and gamepads. If it also had decent text rendering support it would basically be my dream library/framework.

A lot of people use Substance Painter (or other tools - thinking of trying out Armor Paint at some point) to make the textures separately after making the mesh and UVs in Blender. It's definitely possible to do texturing and so on within Blender as well, but I personally haven't found a good workflow for this yet for producing high-quality results.

This is the first large piece of (GUI) desktop software I've seen written in Haxe. Not that I've seen all software ever of course, just thought it was interesting.

Source: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools

May I suggest Armory Painter (https://armorpaint.org)

One of the best examples of this is Armorpaint an open source texture painting tool.

ArmorPaint - haven't used that one, but it looks promissing

Looks similar to Material Maker that works on Linux. https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker

Material Maker. A procedural textures authoring and 3D model painting tool. Opensource. https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker

Material Maker for example, it's shader-based and I think it makes sense to use Godot. I also made shader-making tool, it's meant for games and if I use Godot that should make it integrate well.

Procedural materials are either created in the Game engine directly, or with Tools like Adobe Substance Designer or Material Maker (free and open source, made with Godot). Material Maker exports directly to the Godot ready format .tres. Check out u/Arnklit youtube channel for a short playlist on Material Maker. If texture painting in Blender is too cumbersome for you, most game artists probably would use Adobes Substance Painter for texture painting. ArmorPaint is a Substance Painter alternative you can built yourself from source if you want to use it for free.

Standalone applications: MaterialMaker, Pixelorama, Lorien (disclaimer: i'm the author)

There is https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker which uses it for GUI so why not?

You can get a fixed build here (you'll have to be logged in on Github): https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker/actions/runs/756532188

Material Maker (Procedural Material Authoring)

Like Scale X and Scale Y in your case, some parameters could be transformed into inputs "out of the box" by Material Maker per user request. I made a proposal to to this https://github.com/RodZill4/material-maker/issues/178