CGpainter Documentation

Help for CGpainter — a GPU texture painter for 3D models. Browse the topics below, or use the bar at the top.

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Getting started

Introduction — what CGpainter is + key concepts.
Interface overview — viewports, tool rail, panels.
Quick-start tutorial — import → paint → bake → export.

Projects & meshes

New project & importing a mesh — dialog, templates, formats, UVs, high-poly.
Texture sets & channels — PBR channels, resolution.
Saving & loading — the .cgp project file.

Navigating

Camera controls & view modes — orbit / pan / zoom, perspective/ortho, channel & baked-map views.

Painting

Tools — Brush, Eraser, Fill, Smudge, Blend, Gradient, Eyedropper.
Brush settings & channels — size, hardness, opacity, flow, spacing, scatter, colour.
Dynamics, stabilizer & smooth — pressure, sensors, curves.
Stamps & alphas — brush shapes and imported alphas.
Mirror & stencil — paint modifiers.

Layers

Working with layers — paint / fill / folder, blend modes, per-channel control, reorder & merge.

Masks & generators

Mask basics — black/white masks and the mask stack.
Generators — curvature wear, AO cavity, thickness, slope, and more.
Filters — levels, blur, sharpen, HSL.

Smart materials & the Shelf

The Shelf — the asset library: alphas, bakes, images, smart materials.
Smart materials — capture, apply, and manage reusable layer stacks.
Importing textures — use an image as a paint / fill / mask source.

Baking

Baking mesh maps — Normal, AO, Curvature, Thickness, per-map anti-aliasing.

Selection

Selecting regions — brush / lasso / polyline / rectangle, 2D view, selection → mask.

External editing

Round-trip to Photoshop / Krita — send the view out, edit, and apply it back.

Live link to Blender

CGlivelink — paint in CGpainter and see the material update live on your model in Blender; install the add-on, connect, Send / Update.

Exporting

Exporting textures — presets, channel packing, formats, resolution, bit depth.

Reference