Let’s Paint!

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MiikaH is doing some eye-popping experiments with dynamic mesh painting.

MiikaH writes:

This system allows you to “paint” textures with other animated objects or particles. The “canvas” can be any mesh and it can even be animated. You can also specify colors for painter objects. Result will be saved as an image sequence that can be used on canvas as texture to produce preferred effect.

However, this project is still in very early stage so there is no downloadable build or patch available anytime soon. Test builds (Windows) and patch code are now available!

Displacement map painting

Particle Painting

Mesh Paint Sub-steps

Painting Mancandy

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    • http://www.FreezingMoon.org Dread Knight

      Seen some of those before, pretty awesome :)
      Maybe he’ll manage to revolutionize 3d painting and such.

    • MmAaXx

      O_O

      no comment.

    • http://www.miikahweb.com/ MiikaH

      Lol, nice timing.

      I just uploaded a patch and test builds a few minutes ago. o_O

    • JestaBlunt

      just…absolutely wow…nothing more to say

    • miya

      beyond my imagination!!

    • http://studio.jumpers-inn.de AlexK

      Really stunning! I just love what people are doing with Blender :)

    • grol

      wow!!!

      this is really really cool!!!

    • Gregzilla

      Impressive work.

      Finally a way to create automated shield effects with particles :)

    • Vassilios

      Amazing!!

    • abhi

      awe! that’s one of the coolest works amazing keep going.

    • horace

      wow! i especially find the displacement map painting very useful.

    • txrx

      nice work! That’s awesome!

    • http://arnaud.ile.nc/sce/ Piiichan

      Very useful in many ways!!!

    • http://www.thedevelopertuts.com Bratu Sebastian

      Cool idea. Blender will be the coolest application ever.

      I imagine the painting is working like a vertex group applied in realtime. Or something.

    • txrx

      Can imagine using the fluid painting to colour a mesh then setting fire to that texture from the points with the painted material on it.

    • Shaksa

      Awesome!! This will be so useful.. Great work!

    • http://hostomato.com/ Olav

      One word: Stunning! I’m really looking forward to playing with it.

    • Jamez

      Extremely cool and potentially very useful! I can imagine the flood of new CG splatter/gore tests posted on Youtube when this feature is integrated. Splattering blood and brains over your character will be the new fluid sim :)

      Would be really useful if the dynamics could be calculating at the same time as the displacement for more realistic interaction, but that is probably way outside the scope of this tool. Although the new dynamics work from Aligorith combined with Miikas’ work here would be a very interesting mix indeed.

    • http://cbpiratereviewed.org/ CB pirate guy

      That’s rather cool. Though for me, the ability to paint textures on a surface (like shown in the other video a few days/posts ago) is more useful. The displacement painting could be cool when your character is walking through the snow, for example.

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Great demos ! I already love this tool ! I was looking for something like that for a while to get wet surfaces on the path of a stream of water…

      Thanks a lot ! Blender is going to include some new marvelous tools !

    • ralmon

      At CB. I don’t really know what you are talking about. Still this is really useful in animation (obviously) as it added more layer on object interaction (spilled water, wiping a window, spray painting objects, dirty footprints).

      Very great feature! Would found lot and lot of uses.

    • http://robo3d.com Robo3Dguy

      Wow!

    • vklidu

      I looked for this feature several times before!!! So I’m looking forward.
      Congratulation MiikaH !!!

    • http://www.wonder-studio.com MonkeyOnMyShoulder

      Will it be possible to change the resulting painting over time ? Like a back-to-normal or attenuation or spreading or … ?
      Anyway, it’s already really really cool as is !! Great work !

    • http://www.miikahweb.com/ MiikaH

      @MonkeyOnMyShoulder

      There already is “dissolve” that fades paint away during time. And my next goal is to add some sort of “effect” system. It should include at least gravity based dripping and expanding/spreading.

    • Olaf

      Awesome! The level of innovation with open-source never ceases to amaze me.

    • http://chibiyugi.deviantart.com Patrick

      Oh.. My.. Blender.. WOW! Looking forward to an OSX test build. Keep up the great work MiikaH!

    • http://blenderwallpapers.co.cc TLOZ

      Yay ;)
      I’m definitely going to use the displacement-texture-thingy-whatever-it’s-called ;)

    • Pixel81k

      ROFL – poor ManCandy *gg

      but: great effects!!!!!!! Congratulation

    • http://www.wonder-studio.com MonkeyOnMyShoulder

      @MiikaH : Fantastic ! And would it be unrealistic to imagine a Blender’s paint/sculpt tool attached to each particule to create even more complex results ?

    • mjordan

      Wow. This is so amazing. o_O

    • http://meshweaver.blogspot.com/ MeshWeaver

      woah…that is simply amazing! :D

    • http://www.visnevskis.com/ kivig

      Awesome!
      Can’t stop wondering what blender will look like in a year or so 8)

    • http://aasm271.carbonmade.com raul abonitalla

      that is so amazing sir.

    • dagobert

      speechless!

    • Stephen Ashby

      This is why I love blender. You never know what awesome stuff is going to pop up next!

      Thanks MiikaH

    • FunkyDude

      Wow, that’s really nice.

    • http://patriarchproduction.com Consideringthepickle

      I’m blown away! This is amazing. I can think of 5,000 things I want to do with this now. Get this in SVN!

    • http://talesfromthecellar.com Mitch

      Very impressive stuff. I can see many uses for it.

    • Neo2068

      That’s really awesome. Great work!! I’m looking forward to see it as a feature in an offical blender release.

    • Olaf

      The part with the frosted mirror is really cool, I wouldn’t know how else you could that without this patch.

    • Dennis F.

      This is fu**ing amazing! yeha!

    • Matt Heimlich

      @Olaf

      A hand animated mask texture would do it. But that would be an incredible pain in the ass.

    • http://krita.org Blendiac

      That displacement painting would be mind-bogglingly useful for scenes with people walking in snow (like the opening shots of Sintel)… Merge! Merge! Merge! :D

    • Fabrizio

      Wow! I haven’t looked forward to something as much as this in quite a while!! :) Thanks!!

    • http://www.løl.com Jasper

      looks very promising ! WOW !

    • http://kunztfehler.tumblr.com kunztfehler

      very, very nice. can’t wait to try it out

    • Santiago

      Imagin applying the displacement map paint into the game engine, like in snow scenes or stuff like that, that stuff would be otherworldly.

      But, step at a time, first well have to wait until particles are included in the game engine.

      Apart GE. THIS STUFF IS GREAT. I really see lots of really cool awsome developments for blender and have no idea how you guys do that stuff!

      Congratulations men! really awsome future.

    • http://www.blender-pro.com uriel

      Bravo, bravo, bravo…amazing experiment, all that features were needed, chrismas in august !

    • http://www.mindinsomnia.com Aussiedude

      Could have a character walking along, and everywhere they sit, the ground glows?

      Could have a particle system of cold wind that slowly ‘freezes’ objects as the air hits them?

      Or have an tonne of objects being dropped and making ‘dents’ in everything they hit, painted on and also producing displacements in the things they hit?

      .. The possibilities with this kind of feature really are limitless on how it could be used. Just one feature, yet so many possibilities? This is the kind of stuff we need in Blender! \o/

    • http://www.rodrigoguimaraes.com Rodrigo Guimaraes

      This is awesome!
      Great work!
      Thanks for creating this tool for Blender!

    • Ron Proctor

      Extremely cool.

    • Stephen Ashby

      I used mesh paint to create a saw cut in a mesh. Unfortunately, I had to take all of my png’s into photoshop to change the black to grey, or else the entire mesh was displaced, and not just the saw cut.

      Am i doing something wrong? Is there a better way to do this?

    • http://www.miikahweb.com/ MiikaH

      @Stephen Ashby:

      You could use Displace modifier. That way you can adjust “zero displace” level.

      But yeah, I guess using gray neutral is the the Blender standard. -> Changing it to next version so it’s an out-of-box ready displacement map. :)

    • Thomas

      Amazing!!

    • Alex Blank

      Integration with the GE would make Blender even more powerful and useful for pro game developers, not to mention the time saved when using it for animation. A very useful and smart feature.

    • Dane

      that looks like it could be extremely useful (like for all those times you just decided to use millions of particles to get a similar effect, but not nearly as effectively, and it leaves you machine useless for weeks sometimes)

      I especially like the one with the mirror :-)

    • DoubleZ

      Just amazing oO

    • bojo600

      AMAZING!! blender has needed these features for a long time, displacement map painting will be great especially for snow

    • http://N/A REZ

      Displacement meshes- Wish I knew how to program. The combination of smoke sim, auto mesh displacement, interactive lighting, booleans, physics and particles are going to make for one massively awesome impact plugin one day!!

      http://www.mirvadim.com/
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOJO4XwO9A

    • Sen

      CooooooooooooooooL!!!

    • Ian Calhoun

      This… is just awesome O.0

    • http://wraybowling.com wraybowling

      WOW! I found a less exciting post about this elsewhere, but THIS is so much cooler and farther along than I expected!

    • http://blog.pdark.de/ Aaron Digulla

      Awesome!