diff --git a/Editor/UrpMaterialEditorImporter.cs b/Editor/UrpMaterialEditorImporter.cs
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+// Visual Pinball Engine
+// Copyright (C) 2026 freezy and VPE Team
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using UnityEditor;
+using UnityEngine;
+using VisualPinball.Unity.Editor;
+
+namespace VisualPinball.Unity.Urp
+{
+	// Editor-side .vpe material reconstruction. Drives the same UrpMaterialResolver the player
+	// uses — so property mapping has a single home — but feeds it the freshly imported texture
+	// assets and persists the resulting materials as .mat assets.
+	internal sealed class UrpMaterialEditorImporter : IVpeMaterialEditorImporter
+	{
+		public VpeMaterialImportResult Apply(
+			Transform tableRoot,
+			VpeMaterialsPayload payload,
+			IReadOnlyDictionary<string, Texture2D> texturesById,
+			string materialAssetFolder,
+			Func<string, Transform> resolveNode)
+		{
+			if (!tableRoot || payload?.Profiles == null) {
+				return new VpeMaterialImportResult();
+			}
+
+			var resolver = new UrpMaterialResolver();
+
+			var provider = new AssetTextureProvider(texturesById);
+			var profilesByName = new Dictionary<string, VpeMaterialProfile>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			var profilesById = new Dictionary<string, VpeMaterialProfile>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			var boundIds = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			foreach (var binding in payload.Bindings ?? Array.Empty<VpeMaterialBinding>()) {
+				if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(binding?.ProfileId)) { boundIds.Add(binding.ProfileId); }
+			}
+			foreach (var profile in payload.Profiles) {
+				if (profile != null && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(profile.Name)
+					&& (boundIds.Count == 0 || boundIds.Contains(profile.Id))) {
+					profilesByName[VpeMaterialNameUtil.NormalizeMaterialName(profile.Name)] = profile;
+				}
+				if (profile != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(profile.Id)) { profilesById[profile.Id] = profile; }
+			}
+			var captured = new Dictionary<RenderTexture, Texture2D>();
+			var saved = new Dictionary<Texture2D, Texture2D>();
+			var profilesBySlot = new Dictionary<(Renderer, int), VpeMaterialProfile>();
+			if (payload.Bindings != null) {
+				foreach (var binding in payload.Bindings) {
+					if (binding == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(binding.ProfileId)
+						|| !profilesById.TryGetValue(binding.ProfileId, out var profile)) { continue; }
+					var node = resolveNode?.Invoke(binding.NodeId);
+					if (node && node.TryGetComponent<Renderer>(out var renderer)) {
+						profilesBySlot[(renderer, binding.Slot)] = profile;
+					}
+				}
+			}
+
+			var materialsByProfile = new Dictionary<VpeMaterialProfile, Material>();
+			var materialsById = new Dictionary<string, Material>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
+			var appliedSlots = 0;
+			foreach (var renderer in tableRoot.GetComponentsInChildren<Renderer>(true)) {
+				if (!renderer) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				var materials = renderer.sharedMaterials;
+				var modified = false;
+				for (var i = 0; i < materials.Length; i++) {
+					var imported = materials[i];
+					if (!imported) {
+						continue;
+					}
+					var key = VpeMaterialNameUtil.NormalizeMaterialName(imported.name);
+					if (!profilesBySlot.TryGetValue((renderer, i), out var profile)
+						&& !profilesByName.TryGetValue(key, out profile)) {
+						continue;
+					}
+
+					if (!materialsByProfile.TryGetValue(profile, out var material)) {
+						material = resolver.CreateMaterial(profile, provider, imported);
+						var transient = CaptureRenderTextures(material, captured);
+						if (material) {
+							var assetPath = $"{materialAssetFolder}/{SanitizeFileName(profile.Name ?? "Material")}-{SanitizeFileName(profile.Id ?? "material")}.mat";
+							AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(material, assetPath);
+							AttachTransientTextures(material, assetPath, transient, saved);
+							if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(profile.Id)) { materialsById[profile.Id] = material; }
+						}
+						materialsByProfile[profile] = material;
+					}
+					if (!material) {
+						continue;
+					}
+
+					materials[i] = material;
+					modified = true;
+					appliedSlots++;
+				}
+				if (modified) {
+					renderer.sharedMaterials = materials;
+				}
+			}
+			// The editor sidecar can reference a pre-bake or bake-preview material that is
+			// no longer assigned to a renderer. Persist those profiles as assets too.
+			foreach (var profile in payload.Profiles) {
+				if (profile == null || materialsByProfile.ContainsKey(profile)) { continue; }
+				var material = resolver.CreateMaterial(profile, provider, null);
+				var transient = CaptureRenderTextures(material, captured);
+				if (!material) { continue; }
+				var assetPath = $"{materialAssetFolder}/{SanitizeFileName(profile.Name ?? "Material")}-{SanitizeFileName(profile.Id ?? "material")}.mat";
+				AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(material, assetPath);
+				AttachTransientTextures(material, assetPath, transient, saved);
+				if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(profile.Id)) { materialsById[profile.Id] = material; }
+			}
+
+			ApplyRendererStates(tableRoot, payload, resolveNode);
+			AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
+			return new VpeMaterialImportResult { AppliedSlots = appliedSlots, MaterialsById = materialsById };
+		}
+
+		// The resolver bakes some textures into RenderTextures (UrpMaskRemap: HDRP mask remaps URP
+		// cannot express as scalars). A .mat asset cannot reference a RenderTexture, so the slot would
+		// be empty after a reload. Read each one back into a Texture2D right after the material is
+		// built, before anything else can release it; the resolver's cache shares targets between
+		// materials, so each one is read once.
+		private static List<(int id, Texture2D tex)> CaptureRenderTextures(Material material, Dictionary<RenderTexture, Texture2D> captured)
+		{
+			var result = new List<(int id, Texture2D tex)>();
+			if (!material) {
+				return result;
+			}
+			foreach (var id in material.GetTexturePropertyNameIDs()) {
+				if (!(material.GetTexture(id) is RenderTexture rt) || !rt) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (!captured.TryGetValue(rt, out var tex)) {
+					tex = new Texture2D(rt.width, rt.height, TextureFormat.RGBA32, rt.useMipMap, !rt.sRGB) {
+						name = rt.name,
+						wrapModeU = rt.wrapModeU,
+						wrapModeV = rt.wrapModeV,
+						filterMode = rt.filterMode,
+						anisoLevel = rt.anisoLevel,
+					};
+					var previous = RenderTexture.active;
+					RenderTexture.active = rt;
+					tex.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, rt.width, rt.height), 0, 0);
+					tex.Apply(true);
+					RenderTexture.active = previous;
+					captured[rt] = tex;
+				}
+				material.SetTexture(id, tex);
+				result.Add((id, tex));
+			}
+			return result;
+		}
+
+		// Stores every texture the material references that is not an asset yet (captured masks, or
+		// any Texture2D a resolver builds in memory) inside the material asset, so it survives a reload.
+		private static void AttachTransientTextures(Material material, string assetPath, List<(int id, Texture2D tex)> transient, Dictionary<Texture2D, Texture2D> saved)
+		{
+			// CreateAsset drops references to objects that are not assets, so each captured texture is
+			// saved as a linear PNG next to the materials (compressed, shared by every material that
+			// uses it) and assigned again afterwards.
+			foreach (var (id, tex) in transient) {
+				if (!tex) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (!saved.TryGetValue(tex, out var asset)) {
+					// one file per distinct bake in this import (two remaps of one mask share a name)
+					var stem = $"{Path.GetDirectoryName(assetPath)}/{SanitizeFileName(tex.name)}";
+					var pngPath = $"{stem}.png";
+					for (var n = 2; saved.Values.Any(t => t && AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(t) == pngPath); n++) {
+						pngPath = $"{stem} {n}.png";
+					}
+					File.WriteAllBytes(pngPath, tex.EncodeToPNG());
+					AssetDatabase.ImportAsset(pngPath, ImportAssetOptions.ForceUpdate);
+					if (AssetImporter.GetAtPath(pngPath) is TextureImporter importer) {
+						importer.sRGBTexture = false;
+						importer.mipmapEnabled = tex.mipmapCount > 1;
+						importer.wrapModeU = tex.wrapModeU;
+						importer.wrapModeV = tex.wrapModeV;
+						importer.filterMode = tex.filterMode;
+						importer.anisoLevel = tex.anisoLevel;
+						importer.SaveAndReimport();
+					}
+					asset = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<Texture2D>(pngPath);
+					saved[tex] = asset;
+				}
+				if (asset) {
+					material.SetTexture(id, asset);
+				}
+			}
+			if (transient.Count > 0) {
+				EditorUtility.SetDirty(material);
+			}
+		}
+
+		private static void ApplyRendererStates(Transform tableRoot, VpeMaterialsPayload payload, Func<string, Transform> resolveNode)
+		{
+			if (payload.RendererStates == null) {
+				return;
+			}
+			foreach (var state in payload.RendererStates) {
+				if (state == null) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				Transform target = null;
+				if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(state.NodeId) && resolveNode != null) {
+					target = resolveNode(state.NodeId);
+				}
+				if (!target || !target.TryGetComponent<Renderer>(out var renderer)) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				renderer.shadowCastingMode = VpeMaterialEnums.ParseShadowCastingMode(state.CastShadows);
+				renderer.receiveShadows = state.ReceiveShadows;
+				renderer.renderingLayerMask = state.RenderingLayerMask;
+			}
+		}
+
+		private static string SanitizeFileName(string name)
+		{
+			var invalid = Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars();
+			var chars = name.ToCharArray();
+			for (var i = 0; i < chars.Length; i++) {
+				if (Array.IndexOf(invalid, chars[i]) >= 0) {
+					chars[i] = '_';
+				}
+			}
+			return new string(chars);
+		}
+
+		private sealed class AssetTextureProvider : IVpeTextureProvider
+		{
+			private readonly IReadOnlyDictionary<string, Texture2D> _texturesById;
+
+			public AssetTextureProvider(IReadOnlyDictionary<string, Texture2D> texturesById)
+			{
+				_texturesById = texturesById ?? new Dictionary<string, Texture2D>();
+			}
+
+			public Texture2D Get(string textureId)
+			{
+				return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(textureId) && _texturesById.TryGetValue(textureId, out var texture)
+					? texture
+					: null;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	[InitializeOnLoad]
+	internal static class UrpMaterialEditorImporterRegistration
+	{
+		static UrpMaterialEditorImporterRegistration()
+		{
+			VpeMaterialEditorImport.Register(new UrpMaterialEditorImporter());
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/Editor/UrpMaterialEditorImporter.cs.meta b/Editor/UrpMaterialEditorImporter.cs.meta
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