Camerabrush
Photograph the surface under the square and paint with it.
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Line the square up over a patch of surface and click once. Camerabrush photographs it, makes it tileable, adds it to your Textures, selects it and hands you the Brush. What you paint is tinted by the current color, so a white brush color shows the capture as it was taken. A brush that photographs the model it is painting is something I have not seen in any other paint app. Of course, that only counts if it gets a matching texture onto your surface faster than hunting for one, and it does.
Option bar
- Size - 0.001 to 1.0 world units. How much surface the capture square covers. This is the same Size every brush uses, so the patch you photograph is the patch a stroke would cover. The square grows on screen as you zoom in.
- Auto Tile - On by default. Makes the capture seamlessly tileable before it joins the library, so a large painted area has no grid of visible edges. It also flattens the lighting ramp out of the photo, which is correct for a material. Off gives you the raw crop, seams and all.
- Detail Only - Off by default. Keeps the structure and throws the color away: the capture joins the library in grayscale and the current color tints it when you paint. Use it to lift a weave or a scale pattern off one part and lay it down in a different color somewhere else.
- Match Scale - Sets the brush's Tile Size to the real size of the patch you just photographed, so the texture paints back at the size it was lifted at. The tool measured that patch to draw the square, so it already knows the number. Off keeps whatever Tile Size is set. It applies to the Brush's Tiling mode, since untiled dabs are already the size of the brush.
- Status - An amber line that mirrors the reticle whenever the square needs to move before a click will capture.
Notes
- The reticle turns amber when the square hangs off the edge of the visible viewport. Bring it fully on screen and the click captures.
- The interface is never in the shot.
- An off-model click captures the backdrop, with the square sized at the orbit pivot's depth.
- The current color multiplies the texture at paint time, so a black brush color makes every capture paint solid black.
- Selecting the tool turns masking-tape edit mode off and clears any active reference overlay, because both would be photographed.
- Camerabrush is built for the desktop.
