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One thing Blender lacks is easy 3D texture painting. As far as I know, neither is there a decent 3D texture painting iPad app. Definitely a gap in the market.


This might scratch that itch? (not really my domain, but I happened to see this recently, so my apologies to you if it's not what you mean)

"UberPaint: Layer-based Material Painting for Blender (PUBLIC BETA)" https://theworkshopwarrior.gumroad.com/l/uberpaint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meX3cbtdVbI


Yes… I have seen this before and played with it. This was a good attempt at emulating the behavior of an app like Substance Painter. However… the core problem is that in order to paint textures you need very complex and deep functionality. When using Substance, I have to variously consider: the texture channels (e.g. color, roughness etc), the many layers that may serve these channels, the baked texture channels (e.g. ambient occlusion, normals etc), the many blend modes, masks and adjustments that serve and interconnect all these.

I doubt that anything other than native blender functionality could serve all this with any elegance.

I teach substance painter and it does a good job and hiding all this complexity until you need it. It is very common for students to underestimate it as an app… to view it as just photoshop for 3D.


Procreate allows to load and paint 3d models. It is nothing like Substance painter, but it might work for some usages.


Not even a close comparison. There’s painting colors and then there’s texture painting (masks, alphas, normals, specular).


Yes. And you can paint textures too with Procreate. But like a said, not as advanced as Substance painter and others. It might still be enough for some use cases.

Source: https://procreate.com/procreate/3d




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