release notes:

for "Lego Material for Blender"

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9.0 (2025-03-02):

Change roughness and specularity. This lowers the roughness down to almost 0, changes the specular IOR, and remove the clearcoat. This significantly changes how the material looks. It also means that now to get good-looking results, you will have to set the noise value to around 0.5
Change "Dust" look and color. The dust can now be light or dark, and texture is now much larger, so it looks better at lower scales, at the cost of looking worse at higher scales
Add slider "Dust Patchiness" to adjust dust patchiness
Add slider "Side Dust" to add noise onto the sides of the bricks, not just the top (global Z)
Add sliders "Edge Wear" and "Edge Wear Width" to discolor edges of pieces to simulate wear
Change "Fingerprint" roughness, color, bump value and default value
Change "Noise" size and default value
Increase strength and decrease detail of large noise in "Noise"
Change "Scratches" texture
Make "Randomize UVs" a boolean value
Add property descriptions in the node group
Reorganize and reroute nodes (not a functional change)
And probably some other fun things that I forgot to write down

! THIS RELEASE INCLUDES BREAKING CHANGES !

[BREAKING CHANGE] Expose vector for custom texture coordinates (meaning the material no longer defaults to a UV Map, you have to specify your own mapping method using a Texture Coordinate or UV Map node)
Add function to randomly rotate UV maps. This helps avoid texture tiling
Add dust. It will show more on faces pointed up (global Z). It does not change the amount depending on how close bricks are, brick edges, etc.
Switch color randomization from using "multiply" mix method to using "overlay". This allows colors to lighten as well as darken
Improve and change the default values of almost all properties
Decrease bump height of fingerprints
Increase roughness of fingerprints
Increase color of fingerprints
Increase size of scratches (in relation to scale)
Enable clamp for fingerprint
Rename "Color Randomness" to "Randomize Colors"
Remove emission shader (used for debugging)
Remove cameras and other assets used for promo photos
Improve example objects in the included file

Make fingerprints affect roughness as well as color and bump
Add fingerprint strength slider to node group
Make fingerprint bump strength be controlled by new fingerprint slider
Make fingerprint opacity texture "non-color"
Add scratches strength slider to node group
Make scratches bump strength be controlled by new scratches slider
Make scratches bump texture "non-color"
Change scratches bump texture size (make it larger)
Combine identical nodes (math node that set scale for color and bump fingerprint textures)
Remove GlobalColour node group (used for earlier versions, don't need it anymore)
Add "Lego-Colors" node group for testing different colors
Change default material color to #FFFFFF
Move 1x1 brick used for geo nodes up and to the side, to make it more clear that you should change the material on it, not the instancer plane
Set scene to CPU compute, for those who do not have an GPU
Plus maybe some other minor thing