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  • Published 4 Mar 2026

Add Mixbox color blending to Blender

For the long awaited texture paint overhaul, one aspect which would be huge would be to add accurate color blending. They've got the code there but idk what the licensing on it is. scrtwpns.com/mixbox/ mix.png

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jackrocky2213
4 Mar 2026

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Lauloque

According to their github repo:

github.com/scrtwpns/mixbox

Mixbox is licensed for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license below.

If you want to obtain commercial license, please contact: mixbox@scrtwpns.com

I'm not a license expert, but Blender’s GPL license requires full freedom to use, modify, and redistribute, including commercial use. Any incorporated code must allow these rights without restriction.

Mixbox's CC-BY-NC is fundamentally incompatible with the GPL used by Blender.

It would require Blender to contact Mixbox to negotiate a commercial license granting the necessary freedoms. Which isn't impossible, but not guaranteed. It depends on Mixbox's business goals, openness to open-source (hah!), and licensing flexibility. (Assuming Blender is interested in doing that to begin with)

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I think OKLCH color blend like that

shwaky3

I don't think this is possible, Mixbox license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0) github.com/scrtwpns/mixbox is not compatible with Blender's GPL license. And they have stated it is only for non-commercial use. Most people what they create with blender is for commercial use