Blender 2 8 Layer Painter

The scene layers are gone and their functionality was implemented in collections groups and view layers.

Blender 2 8 layer painter. How it now works is explained here. There will be an update soon of the layer painter and it looks quite promissing. For this the addon offers a powerful layer stack as well as procedural masks and painting features. Here a few headlines.

Layering painted textures is an invaluable technique for hand painted textures but unfortunately it isn t yet readily supported in blender. Blender 2 8 re implements the scene layer system as it had limitations. Layer painter is an addon for blender 2 8. In this blender video tutorial i demonstrate how you can use nodes in blender to emulate a texture painting layer system such as found in photoshop or substance painter.

It uses eevee to give realtime feedback while creating materials. Layer painter is an addon for blender 2 8x that allows you to use a layer system for creating materials with painting and procedurals. Layer painter pbr texturing in blender with layers. Layer system instead of complex node graphs.

The easiest way to explain it is to say that it tries to bring some of the functionality of software like substance painter directly into blender. Even though the addon is designed with a pbr workflow in mind you can also use it for stylized painting. This makes that the node group in the node editor will be much cleaner. Instead of sorting objects onto different scene layers you can sort them into different collections.

Layer painter adds a layer system with pbr channels which makes creating materials a. The add on formally known as bats has gotten a complete ui and ux overhaul. Layers manual and here. Blender 2 8 texture paint with layers like substance painter.

When activating layer painter instead of reset we get now a preset and we can enable the channels right away.