PawPaint

PawPaint is the latest 3D model painting software that has been built with you in mind. Featuring 6 painting channels (color, roughness, metallic, normal, height and emission (+custom channels)) that can be painted individually, together or mixed and matched, PawPaint is perfect for getting your desired look in the texturing phase. Want to find out more? Take a quick scroll to see some of our awesome features.

Buy it once? It’s yours!

We believe that creative tools should be something that you own, so PawPaint has no subscription and never will. No locked features, no pro tier, no monthly costs. You buy it, you own it. Every future update will be included with your purchase, and we greatly appreciate your support by purchasing PawPaint.

Layer Stacks

Materials are built as layer stacks, similar to any 2D image editor/drawing software. The layer panel can host paint layers, fill layers, folders, masks, blend modes, and modifiers you can stack and reorder. Nothing here is destructive. You can save layers, masks and folders as presets and easily use them into your next project.

Model Painting

The paint engine runs efficiently on the GPU meaning strokes stay smooth even on 4K textures. There’s customizable 3 axis symmetry, an eyedropper tool, an RGB color wheel, and a UV view that you can paint on whenever you like.

Import and Export

You can import FBX, OBJ, glTF and most other common formats into PawPaint. Models import with their shape keys, so you can preview them while you paint. When you’re done, export PNG, TGA or EXR texture sets, or pack the whole thing into a glTF/GLB file.

Asset Library

PawPaint comes with a library for brushes, materials, stamps, masks and HDRI environments, which can be easily used in any project. We also have an integrated Steam Workshop page that links directly to the library, where you can browse, use and create community made assets.

Plugins, Themes, and Shortcuts

Every keyboard shortcut can be rebound to whatever key or combination suits you best! The UI theme is customizable, and themes are just files meaning that you can share them with your friends. There’s also a sandboxed Lua plugin API if you want to script tools of your own.

Feature List:

• PBR channel painting: albedo (color), roughness, metallic, normal, height, emission (and custom channels)

• Real-time rendered viewport lit by HDR environments

• Paint layers, fill layers, folders, masks, blend modes, modifiers

• Optimized painting system

• Brush symmetry, color wheel, eyedropper tool

• 2D painting in the UV view

• Per-material stacks and resolution, up to 4096²

• Library for brushes, materials, stamps, masks and HDRIs

• Shape-key / blendshape previews

• Imports FBX, OBJ, glTF and more; exports PNG, TGA, EXR, glTF/GLB

• Full undo history, rebindable keyboard shortcuts, sharable themes, Lua plugins

• One price. No subscription, no paywalled features, all updates included.