Painting

• Remember you can manually paint :

  • Albedo.

  • Ambient Occlusion.

  • Roughness.

  • Specular.

  • Bump Map.

  • Normal Map.

  • Emissive Map.

  • Etc

• Royal Skies - Using Custom Brushes .

  • The brush changes shape according to the texture used.

  • Usually black-and-white textures are used.

• Royal Skies - Painting with a Stencil ("adesivos") .

• Royal Skies - Painting with a Texture as Mask .

  • While the Mask is active, a visual wrap of the texture is applied around the object. Painting while it is active will 'draw' the mask texture onto the object.

• Royal Skies - Using the Ambient Occlusion Map .

Addons

• Ucupaint

  • Free.

  • Ucupumar - Ucupaint normal map preview demo

  • Ryan King Art - Ucupaint

    • {3:38 -> 8:27} Basic.

  • About:

    • Each layer can affect multiple channels. This is very different from Paint System.

    • Channel list.

    • Preview of current channel.

    • Layers.

    • Preview of current layer.

    • Doesn't seem to have a brushes panel.

    • Layers can be procedural stuff:

      • Can add noise layers.

    • Apparently can do baking.

    • Tries to replace the shaders tab.

    • Usually adds a single node to the shader.

    • Overall, the layer system seems more powerful than Paint System's, and the addon seems quite more focused on layers than Paint System, which is a bit more broad.

• Paint System

  • Creates group nodes automatically.

  • Tawan Sunflower - Paint System

  • Tawan Sunflower - Paint System 2.0 Patch Notes

  • Tawan Sunflower - Paint System 2.1 Patch Notes

  • Free.

  • About:

    • Each channel has it's own layers.

    • There's a brush and color panel, but they are simply copies of the existing blender panels and add not new functionality or workflow. A lot of things are missing, for example, you can't change the current brush in the panel.

    • There's actions.

    • Usually adds a single node to the shader.

• HAS Paint Layers

  • Free.

• Brushstroke Tools

  • Blender Studio - Brushstroke Tools

  • askNK - Brushstroke Tools showcase

  • Free.

  • The general idea seems to be around using the "grease tool" to guide the brushstrokes, keeping them non-destructive and editable.

  • It doesn't seem to care about exporting workflows, as the paint seems to always jump out of the object.

  • Each object has a list of brushstroke layers.

  • "Creates a lot of surface objects".

  • "The data for the scene to work is always included in the blend file, so it's not necessary to have the addon installed to visualize a scene made with addon".

  • Creates an insane geometry node tree.

• Layer Painter

  • Paid. $1.

• Pbr Painter 3

  • Paid. $30.

• Ravage

  • Paid. $39.

• BPainter  / BPainter

  • The addon seems to have been removed from the store.

Painter Softwares

• Armor Paint

• Quixel Mixer

• InstaMat

  • Can be payed depending of revenued earned.

• 3D Coat.

• Substance Painter

  • Paid. Adobe.