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
Documentation and FAQ can be found here:
http://bpainter.artbyndee.de/faq
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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 -
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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It's a great tool, but it needs to polish some things.
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Some of the features are pretty good. However in the past weeks i decided to use this for a project of mine. I've had the addon crash blender over 7 times in total, though i havent been counting exactly. Often when reopening blender, with even having saved the textures, the textures would not be saved, meaning you can lose hours of work; like i just have.
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Thank you for this wonderful add-on. Blender is now a bit more complete.
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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.
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