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Open Painter Connect

The bridge between your account and Blender.

A small companion extension with code you can inspect. Install accessible Materials+ and team packs into Blender. Core texturing works offline without Connect.

Download ConnectRead the setup guide

  1. Step 1

    Sign in

    Click Sign in inside Blender. Connect shows a short code and opens this site; approve it and you're done. No password is ever typed into Blender.

  2. Step 2

    Sync

    Connect asks which packs your account can access, compares versions and checksums with what's installed, and shows Install or Update per pack.

  3. Step 3

    Install

    Packs download over a short-lived signed link, are verified by SHA-256, and land in Open Painter's library as ordinary .openpaintmaterial files.

  4. Step 4

    Keep

    If a subscription ends, installed files stay on disk. Connect simply stops offering updates and new packs. It isn't DRM.

Why a separate extension?

Open Painter works offline; only the optional Material Assistant goes online, and only when you connect it. Connect handles account-connected libraries and sync — declared with Blender's network permission, GPL-licensed, and auditable. Remove it, and the painter keeps working with everything you installed.

Your sign-in token lives in Blender's config directory, never in your preferences file. Connect only ever touches files it installed itself.

Materials+ and Teams cover library access; Open Painter itself is free and open source. The optional Material Assistant has its own online sign-in and does not require Connect. Open Painter Studio, the early desktop preview for Mac, signs in to the same account by itself, without Connect. See the download page for its current limitations.