Open PainterOpen Painter community
Make something great.
Share what comes next.
A place for the people behind the materials. Share your work, exchange texturing tips, and help shape the tools you create with.
Meet us on Discord.
Show off a finished material, share a work in progress, or talk through a tricky surface with other Blender artists.
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Have an idea? Let’s hear it.
A smoother workflow, a new tool, a small detail that would make a big difference. Tell us what you want to create and what gets in the way.
Opens a request on GitHub. A GitHub account is needed to post.
A good idea starts with a real workflow.
Browse existing requestsStart with a search.
Someone may have shared a similar idea. Add your example to the existing request to keep the discussion together.
Tell us what you’re making.
Describe the task, where you get stuck, and what a better result would look like.
Show an example.
A screenshot, a short clip, or a few steps can make your idea easier to understand.
Open source. Built in the open.
Open Painter is free software under GPL-3.0-or-later. Read the code, fix what bothers you and send it back.
Source code on GitHubPull requests are welcome. The contributing guide explains how to build the extension and its native library and run the tests.
Please report it privately through the repository’s security policy rather than in a public issue.
Explore the guides, from your first layer to export.
Include steps to reproduce and your Blender and Open Painter versions.