Armortools

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.

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