ESesperent·Apr 10, 2023
Have you tried the Layer Painter addon?
https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter
In ArmorPaint and ArmorLab: open-source alternative to Adobe SubstancejoshuaKnauber
layer_painter
Python2023–2023
joshuaKnauber / layer_painter
layer_painter
Repository for the blender Layer Painter addon
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
383GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Repository for the blender Layer Painter addon
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2023-04-10 03:56:30 UTC to 2023-04-10 11:56:50 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 03:00 | 2023-04-10 03:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 04:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 10, 04:00 | 2023-04-10 04:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 05:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 05:00 | 2023-04-10 05:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 06:00 | 2023-04-10 06:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 07:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 07:00 | 2023-04-10 07:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 08:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 08:00 | 2023-04-10 08:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 09:00 | 2023-04-10 09:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 10:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 10:00 | 2023-04-10 10:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 11:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 10, 11:00 | 2023-04-10 11:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-10 12:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesv0.9 might have changed a thing or two, but my prior experiences:
- irritating camera controls, difficult to account for unit scales outside of unity/unreal expectations (good luck painting something measured in HU), overall anaemic 3d viewport
- file loads block the whole app so have fun importing 8192x8192 textures
- good luck getting the results you want out of half the tools
- layer system is truly baffling
- overall doesn't feel like an alpha but a pre-alpha. or a hackathon proof-of-concept.
- charging for the binaries isn't charging for a piece of software worth $19; it's charging to not be forced to install visual studio on your windows machine. if you are on nixos, a ready-made nix expression [1] exists to let you take it out for a spin
- armorpaint being as miserable as it was let me to discover layer painter for blender [2] whic
Read the rest
h is an infinitely superior experience and you can patch things into the shader workflows you've already accounted for in blender
[1] https://github.com/Shou/nixos-configuration/blob/f64a89d4631...
[2] https://github.com/joshuaKnauber/layer_painter