Your ideas.
A material of their own.

• Opening the Colour catalogue no longer closes Matelume on some fast PCs.
• A rarer start-up crash of the same kind is fixed too.
• The live pictures (stitches and weave, the wall art and paint close-ups, the relief view) come back after the graphics card resets.
• The sofa's cushions and throw are lit properly at the arm edges.
• A colour you try in the Colour catalogue shows on the 3D view before you press Continue.
• A fresh install starts with no export folder chosen.
• A cut-off or damaged photo is refused straight away with a clear message, for every material type.

• A clearer Studio. Choose your material, prepare your image, then adjust its finish in a redesigned Studio.
• Metal, ready for your renderer. Create brushed, hammered, bead-blasted or linen metal, with scratches, fingerprints and small dents.
• More control over wall paint. Make paint from a colour or a photo, with finer control over the scale of its effects.
• Fabric at the right scale. Adjust the construction scale to suit the material and the size of your pattern.
• Dark images keep their depth. Dark marble and wood photos keep their dark areas instead of being lifted to a minimum brightness.
• Help from inside the app. Review what will be included before sending a problem report from Matelume.

• Fixes an error that could stop an 8K fabric export with the Velvet construction before saving.
• No change to the materials you make. Install over your existing copy to keep your sign-in and settings.

• Strengthens licence checks without changing the material maps.
• When you switch to your other PC, the first one stops making maps, as required by the one-PC-at-a-time licence.

• Wood. Build a veneer material from a flat image, with real-size Blender import using add-on 0.2.0.
• Start from a colour. Use the wheel or the built-in Matelume colour catalogue to begin with a single-colour image.
• Better 3D view. An improved view helps you inspect the surface.
• Update notice. Matelume checks latest.json once a day and shows a download link when a newer release is available. It never downloads an update itself.
• Long folder paths. Fixes for exporting to long folder paths.
• Full-access trial. Every Pro tool for 14 days, full-size exports and no watermark. Max features are not included.

In Matelume 1.0.6. The 2K and watermark limits below applied to the former trial. The current trial includes every Pro tool, full-size exports and no watermark.

A fabric with a Construction and imperfections now exports one matching set of maps. The Construction finish and extra gloss on raised motifs are carried into the export. Wall-art glossiness also follows the artwork’s imperfections.

• 14 days for new trials. Build and export at 2K with a small watermark on the Color map. Higher export resolutions require a paid plan.
• A cleaner Studio. Half-ready controls and “coming soon” cards have been removed. Start from a flat image: a scan, catalogue swatch or digital design.
• Your work stays. PC sign-in renews automatically. After 14 days, Matelume shows “Your trial has ended. Buy Matelume to keep working; your work is saved.” You cannot create new materials or export until you buy a plan. Your saved work stays on your PC, and purchasing unlocks the app at once.
• Updated integrations. Blender add-on 0.1.9 gives a clear sign-in message. The 3ds Max plugin remains 0.1.1.
• Licences and installation. About & licences shows the version, credits and notices; the installer includes a Licences page. Startup file checks and uninstall cleanup have been improved.

Matelume 1.0.5 updates 1.0.4. Install it over 1.0.4: your sign-in, settings and projects stay. The materials you make look exactly as before; only the waiting got shorter and a few rough edges are gone.

Faster

• Fabric exports: a 4K fabric with a construction and imperfections took about 174 s before and about 120 s now. A construction-only export went from about 156 s to 96 s. The default satin stitching builds about 3x faster.
• Previews: a full 4K real-maps preview went from about 104 s to 59 s.
• Package it: zipping a packaged 4K export takes about 3 s instead of 11-12 s.
• Photos and Quality: the AI enlargement starts as soon as your photo is read again (on PCs with a supported NVIDIA graphics card), so the Quality step is usually ready much sooner (about 38 s instead of 68 s in our test). "Even out the light" now switches almost instantly.
• Flatten colours and Protect details: about 6-9 s faster per picture; a Protect details click went from about 6 s to under 1 s.
• Graphics cards with 6-8 GB: after the first enlargement, builds stayed on the processor for the rest of the session. They now use the graphics card throughout (in our measurement the build stage took about 63 s on the processor and 34 s on the card).
• The 3D view doesn't reload maps it already shows, and the final 4K maps no longer freeze the page for seconds.

Smoother

• No more red errors or flicker when you click fast through constructions or stitches: the last thing you picked is what builds and shows.
• Matelume's own question cards replace the browser's pop-ups, with buttons that say what they do. Switching material type only asks when you'd lose work; a mis-click and straight back just switches.
• The Export step shows a running clock, and "What was exported" gets a Time row.
• The steps bar (Begin, Prepare, Craft, Export) is cleaner: centred words, no numbers.
• Matelume no longer closes by itself when your PC wakes from sleep while it's open.
• Back to Quality after "Even out the light": the quality you picked is made again by itself.

The right size in Blender and 3ds Max

• Your own objects get the true size: "Apply to selected" now measures width and height separately. Blender's own sphere, cylinders and long panels were up to 70 % off before; now they're within about 2 %. Matelume's own sphere, cushion and plane were already right and are unchanged.
• Blender: "Fit real size" - select objects and click: they're measured again, so the material shows at true size after you scaled an object or gave it the material by hand.
• Blender: a cleaner node setup - Texture Coordinate → Mapping → maps, with one small "Matelume Real Size" node (Width, Height and a "Size x" you can type: 2 = pattern twice as big). Renders are identical to before.
• Blender: listens by itself - the add-on is ready for "Send to Blender" as soon as Blender opens (a preference turns that off). In 3ds Max, click Listen as before.

Install the Blender add-on 0.1.8 and 3ds Max plugin 0.1.1 from Add-ons & plugins above, over the old ones.

• Make flat fabric with “Nothing stands up”, or judge the weave live at true size.
• Adjust the six paint types in a live close-up of your own artwork.
• Best join offers true-size and fit-to-size choices.
• Export shows progress and whether the maps are saved or changed.
• Updated Blender and 3ds Max integrations include shared materials and improved silk sheen.

• Framed artwork exports as a lighter panel, keeping scenes easier to work with.
• The updated Blender add-on creates fine artwork geometry at render time and handles existing glTF material groups on import.
• The 3D preview colour response is aligned with Blender Cycles.