September 27, 2026

Flip a normal map that came in inverted, right from the PBR panel

• Fix a normal map that came in flipped. A model built for the other graphics API shows up with dents where there should be bumps. A new switch under Meshes > PBR > Normal Map flips it back with one click, for just that mesh or every mesh in the scene, and pressing it again flips it right back.

September 26, 2026

Click to find any layer, and watch the Fur Factory work as it grows

Painting

• Ctrl+click the model to jump straight to that layer. Hold Ctrl and click anywhere on your model and the Layers panel highlights whichever layer actually has paint under your cursor, so you never have to hunt through a long stack to find what you are editing.
• The eraser finally looks like an eraser. Its cursor is a small square now instead of the same crosshair the brush uses, so you can tell which tool is active at a glance. Eraser
• The steep angle limit now runs 5 to 180 degrees. Dialing in exactly how far a stroke wraps around a hard edge is easier now, and every step of the slider actually does something.
• Fur Factory markings now show up on your model. Spots and a back stripe that only ever appeared in the preview now grow right onto the model itself, and a finished coat simply says "Done!" instead of a wall of numbers.
• Watch the Fur Factory work, and actually stop it if you need to. Growing a coat now shows a real progress bar with a percentage and time remaining, and the Stop button works right away instead of waiting for the whole grow to finish first.

Import and export

• 32 bit TGA textures load correctly, even packed inside an FBX. Some of these used to come in invisible or full of holes because of how their alpha channel was stored. They are read directly by MechaPaint now, whether they sit beside the model or are embedded right in the file, and they come in facing the right way too. Mesh import
• FBX exports hold onto more of what 3ds Max put in the original file. Textures and video nodes from a Max scene that MechaPaint does not paint over now get carried through to every export, so round tripping a file back into 3ds Max keeps far more of its original setup intact.
• File Info can now show you everything hiding in a 3ds Max FBX. A new "3DS Max Additional Settings" section lists every texture and video node Max wrote into the file, including anything MechaPaint's importer used to skip over quietly.