ArmorPaint and ArmorLab: open-source alternative to Adobe Substance

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  • armortools

    3D Content Creation Tools

  • This is the first large piece of (GUI) desktop software I've seen written in Haxe. Not that I've seen all software ever of course, just thought it was interesting.

    Source: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools

  • nixos-configuration

    Nix(OS) system and user configurations (by Shou)

  • v0.9 might have changed a thing or two, but my 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. 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] which 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

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  • layer_painter

    Repository for the blender Layer Painter addon

  • v0.9 might have changed a thing or two, but my 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. 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] which 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

  • zui

    Immediate Mode User Interface (by armory3d)

  • The immediate mode UI library (ZUI) that the developer built is also really good. I don’t think Kha or ZUI get enough recognition, and I find both of them extremely elegant and pleasant to use. It might also be surprising to know that besides a few files for specifying constants and enums, ZUI is a single file library with only around 2100 lines of code.

    https://github.com/armory3d/zui

  • Kha

    Ultra-portable, high performance, open source multimedia framework.

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