armory3d/armortools
Armortools
Armortools is a 3D PBR texture painting suite and mesh texture workflow tool. It provides a system for painting physically based rendering materials directly onto 3D meshes using a combination of layer and mask support, a GPU-accelerated texture baker for extracting geometry data from high-polygon models, and a node-based material editor for creating procedural textures.
The software features integrated neural network tools for AI texture authoring, allowing the generation of PBR maps from text prompts, image-based material extraction, and texture upscaling via local nodes. It also implements a live-link communication bridge to maintain real-time synchronization between the workspace and external third-party 3D applications.
The capability surface covers a wide range of painting and rendering operations, including 3D surface painting with stencils and decals, ray-traced viewport rendering, and UDIM-aware mesh parsing. It includes a node-based composition system for both materials and brush behaviors, as well as tools for seamless tiling texture generation and 2D texture map visualization.
The system is extensible via a JavaScript-driven plugin architecture that allows for the integration of custom node types and additional software functionality.
Features
- 3D PBR Texture Painting - Provides a comprehensive suite for painting physically based rendering materials directly onto 3D meshes.
- 3D Texture Painting - Provides a comprehensive suite for painting physically based rendering materials directly onto 3D meshes.
- 3D Texture Workflows - Provides a complete pipeline for importing 3D models, managing texture layers, and exporting PBR maps.
- 3D Texture Layer Stacks - Organizes painting using a stack of paint, fill, and decal layers with associated masks.
- GPU Texture Baking - Calculates mesh geometry data and high-poly details into 2D texture maps using hardware ray tracing.
- Node-Based Shader Editors - Provides a visual graph-based interface for constructing complex PBR material and shader logic.
- Generative PBR Map Generators - Extracts photorealistic PBR material maps such as color, height, and roughness from photos using neural networks.
- Node-Based Material Generation - Implements a node-based system for generating complex procedural textures and PBR materials.
- Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing - Simulates light and painting effects in real-time using hardware-accelerated ray-traced viewport rendering.
- High-Poly Texture Baking - Generates high-detail texture maps from high-polygon models using GPU-accelerated ray tracing.
- Mesh Geometry Baking - Bakes ambient occlusion, curvature, normals, and thickness maps directly from mesh geometry.
- Generative PBR Textures - Provides AI-driven synthesis of photorealistic PBR material maps including albedo, roughness, and metallicity.
- Real-Time Viewport Previews - Provides a real-time 3D viewport with light-based and path-traced modes for accurate material and environment previewing.
- Texture Map Baking - Generates ambient occlusion, normal, and curvature maps from high-polygon meshes using GPU-accelerated ray tracing.
- Layer Stacks - Manages 3D painting through a non-destructive hierarchical stack of paint, fill, and decal layers with masks.
- AI Texture Inpainting - Implements neural-network based inpainting and editing to modify texture details via text prompts and masks.
- Live-Link Application Synchronization - Maintains real-time consistency between the workspace and external 3D software via a bidirectional communication bridge.
- 3D Model Importers - Parses geometry and material data from standard 3D model files, including UDIM tile support.
- 3D Asset Pipelines - Integrates 3D models and materials between external software and the painting environment via live-link pipelines.
- 3D Decal Systems - Enables placing active materials as decals onto 3D surfaces with control over scale, rotation, and opacity.
- Hardware-Accelerated Rendering - Visualizes 3D scenes using GPU-accelerated path-tracing and light-based rendering modes in the viewport.
- Node-Based Brush Configuration - Allows users to define brush behavior and appearance, such as jitter and masks, using a node-based system.
- AI Upscaling - Utilizes AI-driven super-sampling to increase the resolution and clarity of texture photos.
- External Software Interoperability - Maintains real-time synchronization with external 3D applications through live-link interoperability plugins.
- Mesh Exporters - Saves loaded 3D meshes as files, preserving any UV modifications made during the session.
- Material Imports - Creates PBR materials by importing texture sets from folders or specialized project files.
- Seamless Texture Drawing - Transforms photos into seamless tiling textures using automated nodes and feature alignment.
- Texture Exporters - Exports PBR texture maps using custom resolution, color depth, and channel swizzling presets.
- Texture Map Visualizers - Displays and edits individual texture channels in a 2D view with UV wireframe overlays.
- UDIM Texture Management - Handles high-resolution texture mapping by loading and organizing multiple UV tiles across a single 3D model.
- Texture Loaders - Loads image files into a node editor for use as GPU textures within projects.
- Extensible Plugin Architectures - Supports the integration of custom material nodes through a dedicated extensible plugin architecture.
- Plugin Installation and Management - Provides utilities to install and manage JavaScript plugins to extend software functionality and file format support.
- Plugin-Based Architectures - Implements a JavaScript-driven module architecture for integrating custom node types and software functionality.
- Brush Stencils - Uses images as stencils to mask brush strokes with transform controls for precise placement.
- 3D Modeling and Animation - Physically-based texture painting for 3D models.
