Material Painter 0.1.4: custom bake maps and live bake preview

Material Painter is free and open source. If it saves you time, a donation on Ko-fi keeps development going.

New in 0.1.4

Custom bake maps

Bake what happens around your model, not just its shape. Add up to four custom maps in the bake window:

• Fluid Flow: fluid lands on the surfaces facing where it comes from and runs over the model, down walls and around edges. Gives you rain streaks below ledges and bolts, rust runs and leaks, from any direction.
• Directional Exposure: wind and sand erosion, sandblasting, sun bleaching on the side facing a direction.
• Wind Deposits: sand, snow and dust drifting in behind walls and into corners.
• Contact: grime and rust where separate parts meet.
• Distance from Point: impact damage, scorching, heat tint.

Use them in any mask with the new Custom Bake Map preset (or the Custom inputs of a smart mask), in Mesh Map graph nodes, and in the views.

Live bake preview and 3D gizmos

• Live preview: while the bake window is open, every setting you change bakes a fast preview that shows up in the views and masks right away, then sharpens once you stop. Bake when you like what you see.
• Gizmos: drag an arrow in the 3D view to set where the rain or wind comes from; drag a marker over the model for a point.
• Choose which maps to bake: leave out the ones you don't need for faster bakes; masks that read a missing map tell you so.

Also new since 0.1.3

• Asset library: thousands of free materials from Poly Haven and ambientCG, plus a community browser to share your own.
• Smart materials from your layers: save a layer folder as a smart material and share it.
• Path tool: lay a brush along a curve for stitches, seams and panel lines, with stitch brush tips.
• Preview shaders: build the 3D view's look (toon, clay, rim light...) as a node graph.
• Better bakes on meshes cut into many UV islands: no blotches, no lines along UV seams.
• UV wireframe toggle for the 2D view.

Download

Windows

• MaterialPainter-0.1.4-setup.exe: installer with Start menu shortcut and uninstaller.
• MaterialPainter-0.1.4-windows-x64.zip: portable; unpack anywhere and run MaterialPainter.exe.

The Windows builds are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first launch: choose More info → Run anyway.

macOS (11 Big Sur or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel)

• MaterialPainter-0.1.4-macos-universal.dmg: open it and drag Material Painter into Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open, then Open again. After that it starts normally.

Linux (x64, glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, Debian 12 and later)

• MaterialPainter-0.1.4-linux-x64.tar.gz: unpack, run ./material-painter, and optionally ./install.sh to add it to your app menu.

Needs a GPU with DirectX 12 (Windows), Vulkan (Linux) or Metal (macOS) support.

Early access: expect rough edges. Questions and bug reports are welcome on Discord or as GitHub issues.

Material Painter 0.1.3: now on Mac

Material Painter is free and open source. If it saves you time, a donation on Ko-fi keeps development going.

Now on Mac

New in 0.1.3: a native macOS build (one universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs). Material Painter now runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.

What Material Painter is

A fast, lightweight PBR texture painter: paint materials onto 3D models with layers, smart materials and masks, bake mesh maps, build materials in a node graph and write your own node shaders.

• Material Paint: paint, fill and folder layers; brushes with pen pressure, symmetry and screen, surface or UV projection; dozens of smart materials and smart masks.
• Mesh map baking: AO, curvature, cavity, thickness, normals and height from a high poly, ID maps, with cages and match-by-name. Bakes are cached, so reopening a mesh is instant.
• Material Designer: a node graph of tileable textures that drives fill layers and masks.
• Shader Maker: write custom nodes in WGSL with a live preview.
• Export presets for Unreal, Unity, Godot, glTF, Roblox and Blender.

Material Paint	Material Designer

Download

Windows

• MaterialPainter-0.1.3-setup.exe: installer with Start menu shortcut and uninstaller.
• MaterialPainter-0.1.3-windows-x64.zip: portable; unpack anywhere and run MaterialPainter.exe.

The Windows builds are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first launch: choose More info → Run anyway.

macOS (11 Big Sur or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel)

• MaterialPainter-0.1.3-macos-universal.dmg: open it and drag Material Painter into Applications. The app isn't notarized yet, so the first time, right-click it and choose Open, then Open again. After that it starts normally.

Linux (x64, glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, Debian 12 and later)

• MaterialPainter-0.1.3-linux-x64.tar.gz: unpack, run ./material-painter, and optionally ./install.sh to add it to your app menu.

Needs a GPU with DirectX 12 (Windows), Vulkan (Linux) or Metal (macOS) support.

Early access: expect rough edges. Questions and bug reports are welcome on Discord or as GitHub issues.

Material Painter 0.1.2: now on Linux

Material Painter is free and open source. If it saves you time, a donation on Ko-fi keeps development going.

Now on Linux

New in 0.1.2: a native Linux build, a Posterize node in the Material Designer, and the app icon on the window and taskbar.

What Material Painter is

A fast, lightweight PBR texture painter: paint materials onto 3D models with layers, smart materials and masks, bake mesh maps, build materials in a node graph and write your own node shaders.

• Material Paint: paint, fill and folder layers; brushes with pen pressure, symmetry and screen, surface or UV projection; dozens of smart materials and smart masks.
• Mesh map baking: AO, curvature, cavity, thickness, normals and height from a high poly, ID maps, with cages and match-by-name. Bakes are cached, so reopening a mesh is instant.
• Material Designer: a node graph of tileable textures that drives fill layers and masks.
• Shader Maker: write custom nodes in WGSL with a live preview.
• Export presets for Unreal, Unity, Godot, glTF, Roblox and Blender.

Material Paint	Material Designer

Download

Windows

• MaterialPainter-0.1.2-setup.exe: installer with Start menu shortcut and uninstaller.
• MaterialPainter-0.1.2-windows-x64.zip: portable; unpack anywhere and run MaterialPainter.exe.

The Windows builds are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on first launch: choose More info → Run anyway.

Linux (x64, glibc 2.35+: Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, Debian 12 and later)

• MaterialPainter-0.1.2-linux-x64.tar.gz: unpack, run ./material-painter, and optionally ./install.sh to add it to your app menu.

Needs a GPU with DirectX 12 (Windows) or Vulkan support.

Early access: expect rough edges. Questions and bug reports are welcome on Discord or as GitHub issues.

Material Painter 0.1.1

Material Painter is free and open source. If it saves you time, a donation on Ko-fi keeps development going.

The first public release

A fast, lightweight PBR texture painter: paint materials onto 3D models with layers, smart materials and masks, bake mesh maps, build materials in a node graph and write your own node shaders.

• Material Paint: paint, fill and folder layers; brushes with pen pressure, symmetry and screen, surface or UV projection; dozens of smart materials and smart masks.
• Mesh map baking: AO, curvature, cavity, thickness, normals and height from a high poly, ID maps, with cages and match-by-name. Bakes are cached, so reopening a mesh is instant.
• Material Designer: a node graph of tileable textures that drives fill layers and masks.
• Shader Maker: write custom nodes in WGSL with a live preview.
• Export presets for Unreal, Unity, Godot, glTF, Roblox and Blender.

Material Paint	Material Designer

Download

• MaterialPainter-0.1.1-setup.exe: installer with Start menu shortcut and uninstaller.
• MaterialPainter-0.1.1-windows-x64.zip: portable; unpack anywhere and run MaterialPainter.exe.

Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit) and a DirectX 12 or Vulkan GPU. The builds are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first launch: choose More info → Run anyway.

Early access: expect rough edges. Questions and bug reports are welcome on Discord or as GitHub issues.