diff --git a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/pbr_material.rs b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/pbr_material.rs
index 3231cb8df5d6d2..a75bcec3ea996e 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/pbr_material.rs
+++ b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/pbr_material.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use bevy_asset::Asset;
 use bevy_color::Alpha;
-use bevy_math::{Affine2, Mat3, Vec4};
+use bevy_math::{Affine2, Mat3, Vec2, Vec4};
 use bevy_reflect::{std_traits::ReflectDefault, Reflect};
 use bevy_render::{
     mesh::MeshVertexBufferLayoutRef, render_asset::RenderAssets, render_resource::*,
@@ -608,8 +608,12 @@ pub struct StandardMaterialUniform {
     pub emissive: Vec4,
     /// Color white light takes after travelling through the attenuation distance underneath the material surface
     pub attenuation_color: Vec4,
-    /// The transform applied to the UVs corresponding to ATTRIBUTE_UV_0 on the mesh before sampling. Default is identity.
-    pub uv_transform: Mat3,
+    /// The x-axis of the mat2 of the transform applied to the UVs corresponding to ATTRIBUTE_UV_0 on the mesh before sampling. Default is [1, 0].
+    pub uv_transform_x_axis: Vec2,
+    /// The y-axis of the mat2 of the transform applied to the UVs corresponding to ATTRIBUTE_UV_0 on the mesh before sampling. Default is [0, 1].
+    pub uv_transform_y_axis: Vec2,
+    /// The translation of the transform applied to the UVs corresponding to ATTRIBUTE_UV_0 on the mesh before sampling. Default is [0, 0].
+    pub uv_transform_translation: Vec2,
     /// Linear perceptual roughness, clamped to [0.089, 1.0] in the shader
     /// Defaults to minimum of 0.089
     pub roughness: f32,
@@ -746,7 +750,9 @@ impl AsBindGroupShaderType<StandardMaterialUniform> for StandardMaterial {
             lightmap_exposure: self.lightmap_exposure,
             max_relief_mapping_search_steps: self.parallax_mapping_method.max_steps(),
             deferred_lighting_pass_id: self.deferred_lighting_pass_id as u32,
-            uv_transform: self.uv_transform.into(),
+            uv_transform_x_axis: self.uv_transform.matrix2.x_axis,
+            uv_transform_y_axis: self.uv_transform.matrix2.y_axis,
+            uv_transform_translation: self.uv_transform.translation,
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_fragment.wgsl b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_fragment.wgsl
index 07b37c3b469629..b484e9691a8795 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_fragment.wgsl
+++ b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_fragment.wgsl
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     parallax_mapping::parallaxed_uv,
     lightmap::lightmap,
 }
+#import bevy_render::maths::affine2_to_square
 
 #ifdef SCREEN_SPACE_AMBIENT_OCCLUSION
 #import bevy_pbr::mesh_view_bindings::screen_space_ambient_occlusion_texture
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ fn pbr_input_from_standard_material(
     let NdotV = max(dot(pbr_input.N, pbr_input.V), 0.0001);
 
 #ifdef VERTEX_UVS
-    let uv_transform = pbr_bindings::material.uv_transform;
+    let uv_transform = affine2_to_square(pbr_bindings::material.uv_transform);
     var uv = (uv_transform * vec3(in.uv, 1.0)).xy;
 
 #ifdef VERTEX_TANGENTS
diff --git a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_prepass_functions.wgsl b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_prepass_functions.wgsl
index edf08a5cb29095..7a8dbb8a19d7e0 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_prepass_functions.wgsl
+++ b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_prepass_functions.wgsl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     pbr_bindings,
     pbr_types,
 }
+#import bevy_render::maths::affine2_to_square
 
 // Cutoff used for the premultiplied alpha modes BLEND and ADD.
 const PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA_CUTOFF = 0.05;
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ fn prepass_alpha_discard(in: VertexOutput) {
     var output_color: vec4<f32> = pbr_bindings::material.base_color;
 
 #ifdef VERTEX_UVS
-    let uv_transform = pbr_bindings::material.uv_transform;
+    let uv_transform = affine2_to_square(pbr_bindings::material.uv_transform);
     let uv = (uv_transform * vec3(in.uv, 1.0)).xy;
     if (pbr_bindings::material.flags & pbr_types::STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_BASE_COLOR_TEXTURE_BIT) != 0u {
         output_color = output_color * textureSampleBias(pbr_bindings::base_color_texture, pbr_bindings::base_color_sampler, uv, view.mip_bias);
diff --git a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_types.wgsl b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_types.wgsl
index 5ecc6e893e0e20..c08245034c2226 100644
--- a/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_types.wgsl
+++ b/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr_types.wgsl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ struct StandardMaterial {
     base_color: vec4<f32>,
     emissive: vec4<f32>,
     attenuation_color: vec4<f32>,
-    uv_transform: mat3x3<f32>,
+    uv_transform: mat3x2<f32>,
     perceptual_roughness: f32,
     metallic: f32,
     reflectance: f32,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ fn standard_material_new() -> StandardMaterial {
     material.max_relief_mapping_search_steps = 5u;
     material.deferred_lighting_pass_id = 1u;
     // scale 1, translation 0, rotation 0
-    material.uv_transform = mat3x3<f32>(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
+    material.uv_transform = mat3x2<f32>(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
 
     return material;
 }