Discover one of the most powerful painting workflows within Blender
Blender offers some quite good painting tools, unfortunately you need to set up a lot of things before you can dive into painting. Many functions are only a very low level and you need to setup a lot before you paint. On top of that a cluttered UI hinders you from developing an efficient painting workflow. This is where BPainter solves quite a few issues. Here are 3 Reasons why BPainter could be the tool for you!
Intuitive Layersystem and UI
BPainter offers an intuitive layersystem you probably know from 2D painting apps. No UI Clutter. BPainter gives you all important functions at hand.
Universal Brush Library
No need to append any brushes from blendfiles. BPainter delivers a Brush Library that is available in any blendfile. Changes to that Library can be easily saved and accessed in any file.
Easy Texture Access
Assigning textures to brushes has never been as easy as in BPainter. BPainter is shipped with a set of textures. Adding custom textures is as easy as copying your image file into a folder. Direct access in BPainter.
Here you find a full list of features. Take your time and see what it can do.
Universal Brush Library
BPainter offers a great set of build in brushes. No need to append brushes to your blendfiles. BPainters Library System makes the brushes available in any blendfile. Adjusting or creating new Brushes is super easy.
No UI Clutter
With to goal to create a very workflow optimized user interface, BPainter offers a very clean UI. All important features are at hand and can be directly accessed.
Powerful Layersystem
A powerful layersystem gives you a fast and flexible workflow. Adding, rearranging, merging and deleting paint layers offers all important features you would expect. On top of that you have access to layer masks, adjustment layer and procedural layers.
Layer Blendmodes
The layersystem offers all sorts of blending modes. Some commonly used are for example:
- Multiply
- Subtract
- Add
- Overlay
- Color
And many more
Colorpallettes
BPainter ships with a default Colorpalette. Easily create new palettes which are globally available.
Improved Colorpicker
Blenders Colorpicker is sort of limited. Picking colors from layers lets you only pick colors of that particular layer. No mixed colors of multiple layers can be picked. BPainter Colorpicker tackles that problem.
Feature Comparison
BPainter offers a different set of features for Blenders Internal and CyclesRenderer. Here is a feature comparison of both render modes.
Features | Cycles Renderer | Internal Renderer |
| Paint Layers | x | x |
| Adjustment Layers | x | - |
| Procedural Layers | x | - |
| Mask Layers | x | - |
| Merge Layers | x | x |
| Universal Brush Library | x | x |
| Universal Color Palette Library | x | x |
| Brush Textures Support | x | x |
| Stencil Texture Support | x | x |
A detailed documentation for BPainter can be found here:
BPainter v1.1 Changelog
Features
- add Alpha Lock per Layer (this lets you lock the alpha per layer)
- add pie menu for dockers (A Key)
- take aspect ratio of paint layer into account for plane preview
- add proper Alpha Output for Paint Channel
- show message when wrong Shading mode is set
- search field for layer creation from existing images
Bugfixes
- set active material for plane preview same as for intial object
- Attempt to fix merging layers crash.
- update Images when changing the Category for Stencil or Brush Textures
- advanced menues now also work in upcoming Blender 2.79
BPainter v1.1.2 Changelog
- fixing problem with loading brushes and textures. When a custom scripts path is in blender, loading resources could give errors in certain conditions
Documentation and FAQ can be found here:
http://bpainter.artbyndee.de/faq
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Its a brilliant add-on, brilliant dev.
BUT...
It does not work in 2.8, and seeing as..
1. How stable the beta of 2.8 is.
2. How many other "paid for" add-ons are, or have upgraded to 2.8. (Even if their integration is still WIP, they are usable (to some degree) in 2.8.
3. Because of point 1 ⤴ So many Blender users, both professional, and armature have switched to 2.8.
A $40 add-on really should, "by now" have some "usability" within 2.8 working towards full integration.
Again, great add-on, but seeing as how it was published only a year ago, and its paid for.
It needs 2.8 usablility.
No hate (at all) just facts.
As soon as it does, I, (among others I am sure) will upgrade this to a definite 5 star rating. -
I am unable to keyframe the paint layer. Everything else is great.
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Exceeded my expectations.
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On the brush settings for stroke/curve can you make a closed loop? I can't seem to join the 2 ends of the curve.
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Good
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I love this addon. I haven't seen any updates for a while? Will there be a 2.8 version soon now that they have completed the API changes?
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Is fantastic, very useful, I use this add on in all my project made in blender and in my game
this is an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsFa2Vsfv5I&t=6437s -
1.1.1 Unable to use, no brush. report bug preset_handling.py line 157 line249
1.1 can use, but Merge layer does not add a mask -
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Keep it up bro!!
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Really enjoying this addon with one major negative, for some reason I can't get the color picker to work the way you show it working in the videos. I hover over a color (say red) with the dropper and it does show the color but once I go to actually paint it's still on the previous color (say blue), am I just missing something simple?
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Could you please fill a support message for the problem. That way it's easier to discuss the problem. I can only give one answer on this rating.
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It's a great tool, but it needs to polish some things.
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Do you have suggestions? You can add a support message.
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Thank you for this wonderful add-on. Blender is now a bit more complete.
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thanks! :-) Happy I could help
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Worth buying
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just what blender needed from a long time!
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Very good and super useful addon. It is much easier to paint with it and the author is helpful.
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great addon but 'stencil' work very baddd :[
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5 out of 5. I hope that painting will be more functional like Adobe Photoshop painting process. As example hotkey bindings for brushes and actions.
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I am using BPainter with Octane Render. Painting works, however, texture painting instantly crashes the environment. Congrats on the great plugin, will speed this portion of work up immensely.
Purchase this item to leave a review!
Andreas Esau 5 months ago
Loading brushes is fixed in v1.1.2. Could you please fill a support message for the other problem. There you can describe exactly whats not working and what is expected.