material-painter
PBR texture painter: paint, bake mesh maps and design materials with a node graph. Rust + wgpu.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 78 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: 3d modeling and rendering software · 169 launches, 39 in the last 7 days ▲ +105% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No A PBR texture painter with mesh baking and a node-based material graph is a large graphics-engineering project that needs deep expertise in GPU rendering, baking algorithms, and tooling performance.
What it would actually take: Build a Rust application on wgpu with a tiled or layered paint engine, a GPU mesh baker (normal, AO, curvature, and ID maps via ray casting or rasterization), and a compiled node-graph evaluator for procedural materials. The hard parts are real-time brush performance on high-resolution textures, correct baking edge cases, and a usable UI, which is a multi-year effort for a team. A real version requires graphics programming and tool-building expertise, not just AI-assisted coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 317 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 315 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.
- Material Library · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- substance-3d-painter-setup-guide · github · 2026-10-31 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- NACK3D: 3D Scanner & PBR · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- 3D Texture Generator · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- 3D Texture Generator · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- diagonal-blend · github · 2026-10-27 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PyMOL-RS · hn · 2026-02-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net · hn · 2026-03-14 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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