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Interface overview

A tour of the main areas of the CGpainter window.

Tip: you can rearrange panels by dragging their tabs to dock them wherever you like (and open or close them from the Window menu). Workspace › Restore Default snaps everything back to the layout shown here.

3D viewport

The central area where you paint directly on the model. Camera controls (orbit / pan / zoom) are on the Navigating page.

2D UV view

The flattened UV canvas. Strokes you make in 3D show up here too, and you can paint directly in UV space — handy for reaching seams and tight spots.

Tool rail

The vertical strip of tools down the left: Brush, Eraser, Fill, Smudge, Blend, Gradient, Eyedropper, and Selection. See Tools.

Layers panel

The layer stack for the active texture set: add, reorder, group, and mask layers. See Layers.

Properties panel

A contextual editor that shows brush settings, the fill-layer editor, or the mask editor depending on what's selected.

Shelf panel

The asset library: alphas, bakes, images, and smart materials. See The Shelf.

Texture Sets & Settings

Switch between texture sets and edit a set's resolution and channels. See Texture sets & channels.