Features
Everything you need, nothing you don't
A complete texture painting toolset without the bloat of a full DCC suite.
- PBR Material Painting One stroke writes base color, roughness, metalness and a tangent-space normal map at once and in register. Eight material presets included.
- Direct 3D Surface Painting The brush is a 3D projector, not a sphere, so it never bleeds through thin walls or paints geometry hidden behind what you're aiming at.
- Multi-Piece Texture Sets Every object in the model gets its own layer stack, resolution, undo history and exported maps. Tab between pieces, or isolate one to reach inside it.
- Material Sets From Disk A folder of loose maps is grouped back into the material it came from. Substance, Quixel, Poliigon, ambientCG and Blender suffixes all recognised.
- Non-Destructive Layers Hide, reorder, adjust opacity, duplicate and merge, with live composite blending and layer masks that only multiply where you stack them.
- Effects Brush Blur, sharpen, smudge and pixelate paint that's already down. It filters every channel a layer carries, so a soft stroke isn't razor-sharp underneath.
- Screen-Space Stencil Load a PNG that floats on the viewport, the Mari/Mudbox workflow. Paint through it, or stamp the whole image on as a decal in one pass.
- Pen Pressure & Line Snapping Stylus pressure drives size and opacity independently. Shift+click connects the last dab with a line that follows the surface instead of tunnelling through it.
- Symmetry Mirror Painting Mirror every stroke, stamp and fill across the model's X, Y or Z axis in real time, with a guide plane showing exactly where it lands.
- Edge Wear & Crevice Dirt Two procedural generators with live 3D preview. Wear chips exposed ridges; Crevice settles grime into interior folds. A Smoothness dial trades noise for clean AO.
- Import Your Existing Maps Bring a model in with its base color, roughness, metalness, normal or packed ORM. Sibling files are detected automatically and ORM is unpacked on load.
- Export Wizard Per-piece files or one shared-UV atlas, channel toggles and presets, packed ORM, and a 1K/2K/4K override. Drop straight into Godot, Unity, Unreal or Blender.
Workflow
Model in, textures out
Three steps, no project setup ritual, no asset database to feed.
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Import
Drop in a .glb, .gltf or .obj and pick a resolution from 512 to 8192. Existing maps come along: sibling textures are found for you, and packed ORM is unpacked on load. Or start on a UV sphere or unwrapped cube.
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Paint
Brush, stamp, fill, line, effects and stencils, all channel-aware. Every separate object is its own texture set with its own layers and undo, so nothing bleeds between parts.
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Export
Ctrl+E writes per-piece maps or a single shared-UV atlas: base color, roughness, metalness, normal and packed ORM, at native resolution or rescaled.
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