ArmorPaint 1.0 Released

After more than half a decade in development, the Substance-like 3D texturing application ArmorPaint just hit a massive milestone – the 1.0 release. ArmorPaint is available on Windows, Mac and Linux as well as Android and iOS. It costs $19 if you want precompiled binaries, but if you are willing to build it yourself, you can get ArmorPaint 1.0 completely free.

Features of ArmorPaint include:

3D Painting Software

ArmorPaint is a stand-alone software designed for physically-based texture painting. Drag & drop your 3D models and start painting. Receive instant visual feedback in the viewport as you paint.

Node Based

Work fast with the convenience of nodes. Paint with fully procedural materials. Build fill layers with material nodes. Use brush nodes to create patterns and procedural brushes.

GPU Accelerated

ArmorPaint is designed from scratch to run completely on the GPU. This results in a smooth 4K painting experience on a medium-power integrated hardware. Up to 16K texture painting is seamless using a high-end graphics card.

Ray Tracing

Ray-traced baking, painting effects and viewport rendering running on Direct3D12, Vulkan and Metal is ready. ArmorPaint is powered by an in-house 3D rendering engine to achieve the best painting experience.

Live Link

Integrate ArmorPaint into existing 3D software using the live-link plugins. Blender, Unreal Engine and Unity plugins are available for download.

Baking

Bake texture maps for high-poly models instantly on your GPU. Hardware accelerated ray-traced baking with Direct3D12, Vulkan and Metal support is available.

Path Traced Viewport

Paint models in a viewport with true light simulation. Path-traced viewport rendering with Direct3D12, Vulkan and Metal is available.

Plugins

Enhance any part of the software through plugins with super powers. Integrate new node systems or build custom material nodes.

Key Links

ArmorPaint Homepage

ArmorPaint GitHub Repository

You can see ArmorPaint in action in the video below. Even better, we have a step by step showcase of how you can build ArmorPaint on Windows using Visual Studio 2022, as the build process has changed quite a bit overtime and existing tutorials on building it are lacking.