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  • Published 3 Dec 2025

MyPaint Brush Engine Integration

The Brushes for Texture Painting in Blender are OK but not that great. The Brush Engine of MyPaint is open source, really good, pretty flexible and quite fast and has been successfully integrated into Krita and Gimp. Integrating it into Blender would make the painting experience in Blender so much better. (If anyone knows of a fork or an addon that does this already, please let me know, I did not find anything) MyPaintBrushes.png

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jean-louise
3 Dec 2025

3 Comments

jeroenbakker

I think the most challenging aspect is that MyPaint engine is optimized for 2D bitmap drawing. However the requirements for Blender also include 3D painting, painting on geometry or deformed coordinates.

These additional requirements might be difficult to support in MyPaint as it adds overhead.

Adding it only for painting on bitmaps will split the current brush engine. We are targeting to a single brush engine for all painting operations in Blender.

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jean-louise Author

Thanks for your reply. I see why that would be challenging. without the 3D painting it would be far less desirable at least for me.

bashichigua

太棒了