External Painting Software Live Link to Blender with Ucupaint

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Ucupaint Addon (Insane new features in Version 2.0!):

Auto-Reload Addon:

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00:00 Intro
00:09 Required Software
00:52 Getting Started
04:04 Linking to Blender
03:11 Install Auto-Reload Addon
05:55 One Monitor Workaround
07:34 Ucupaint Setup, Baking Edges
10:26 Painting Process
19:04 Ucupaint Gradient and Final Baking
21:05 Exporting for Game Engines
23:20 Importing Asset into Unreal Engine

[moltenbolt]

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE DEUCES CLUB MEMBERS FOR ALWAYS STICKING TO THE END OF THE VIDEOS!

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THANK YOU ALL! DEUCES ♥♥

[datnastysalad]

Knowing that there's an auto reload add on has fully rocked my world oh my god, thank you so much for this. It's such a brisk but thorough tutorial, I love you for this.

[mirandadrake]

As a 2d artist and blender newbie, I like this method because it means I get to use the program I’m already familiar with and I won’t need to redraw the texture every time I use that model. Of course I would probably just stick with mid tones since the direction of light can change depending on the scene/environment I’m drawing. Unfortunately, as a newb, I have no idea how to make UV maps so I guess I need to learn that first lol

[mszczesnik]

Man, I discovered UCU Paint thanks to you, and it's AWESOME. A UCU Paint + Dream UV combo makes working on game assets fun again.

[blenderdiscord]

I love using procreate for things like this because you can import the 3D model with the UV and just paint right on the 3D, and because you do it in procreate, you have all the common tools

[fadepanther]

While a tad intimidating seeing you paint, this was very useful. Setting up the workflow is the bigger part of this tutorial in my eyes.

For those of you using Krita and got confused about the rasterize thing, know that importing the image as a paint layer is the same thing (From what I've looked into) so go to [Layer] then [Import/Export] then [Import] and finally [as Paint Layer] and you're set to continue following the tutorial. ^^

[alexmcgreal]

This is fantastic and really makes me want to jump back into hand painting!
That addon to auto load the images looks like such an amazing time saver!!
Thanks a lot for making this!

[Niestrat]

Just when I thought I found a great plugin to have layered textures in Blender, I stumble upon this video!
I'm still kinda new to hand painting textures, trying to find a comfortable way to work on that, so I'll definitely give this one a try and see if this feels better to me!

Thanks for making this video and thanks to the recommended page!

[ApplePie]

this is the exact tutorial i needed, I was getting sick of not being able to see my textures automatically in blender. Than kyou SO MUCH

[KaelthasProductions]

this is really helpful that means the painting can be done in photoshop also for those people who already have existing photoshop subscriptions

[weez]

your painting leveled up what the heck

[mjdevlog]

I'm so lucky finding this up to date texturing tutorial in blender (and external software). Before i use Substance 3D, but it's more complicated, heavy, and not quite fitting since usually it's for PBR i think (my game is stylized).

[kikon]

As a very silent deuce I must say every new video of yours makes my day brighter!

[RocketPunches]

If you right click in the menu bar for a workspace (the bar where View, Select, Add, Object, etc are) you can open that viewport in a new window and then snap that window instead of the entire Blender workspace with the unnecessary UI on the right side.

[aolukuro]

you're hella underrated. i look forward to the stylised pbr tut!

[xard]

I think more fitting title for this video would be: "How to Avoid Handpainting Anything in Blender. It's easier than you think."

[terragolemenjoyer]

This is way better than your old ucupaint tutorial, I didn't like that you said nhya here everytime you selected something in the other video, so hearing you be so straightforward here makes the video just easier to follow. Thanks for the tutorial.

[bryanpritchard]

Very solid tutorial! I love how you walked through all the specifics at a great pace. I'd love to see a slower speed mode for the paint though. :)

[bowmanruto]

clear and concise video as always, keep up the good work, did not know about the bake features of ucupaint so I'll definitely have to look into that in future!
one small change I personally use in this workflow is to make heavy use of autosaving, to essentially get 1:1 real time painting from krita to blender (by setting the image texture in blender as the autosave and setting the autosave interval and reload interval to something like 0.3-0.5 seconds), I have unfortunately not found a way to make that work both ways, its also pretty performance inefficient and can lead to bad habits so use this trick with caution!

[hotsauce]

Learning more about texturing per in a blender would be cool. Thank you.