16K painting requires GTX 1060/6GB or better.Resources 3D Written by Ben Traje Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. It is necessary to have a good graphic card in order to achieve a good performance, because the painting process on ArmorPaint runs on the GPU. Experimental Android and macOS builds are also provided. Publicated on the Instagram page, armor圓dĪrmorPaint is a portable application, available for Windows and Linux. Painting translucency in the upcoming ArmorPaint ray-tracing update Users can follow ArmorPaint on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. However anyone who’s interested in approaching this tool for the first time can read a manual on the official website with a brief description on how to use the main tools, materials, brushes, layers, viewport, baking, workspaces, preferences and plugins. Example of PBR materialsįor those who already know how to use shared nodes, it will be easier to use ArmorPaint. An important feature is the possibility for the user to import 3D assets in OBJ, FBX and, starting with update 0.7, in STL format or as a Blender scene file.

ArmorPaint is a node-based toolkit that allows to paint with complex and fully procedural materials. Thanks to the PBR (Physically Based Rendering) texture paintings, the material applied on the surface of a 3D model looks very realistic in every illumination condition. With ArmorPaint users are able to paint directly on the 3d model, and receive an instant feedback on the viewport.

A user’s interface while working with nodes, By antb1 (2020), in 3D Modeling in X-Plane

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