How to use the Blender Live Paint Filter

In this video, I'll be showing you how to use the Filter that you can purchase on my gumroad and blender market. I'll show you how to incorporate the filter into your own projects, and you'll be able to create stunning paintings with ease. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your Blender skills!
Links:
Twitter: / alanwyatt3d
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[@binyaminbass]

You are a next-level technical artist. This is one of the most impressive things I've seen introduced to the Blender community. I bought it. I love it. It works out of the box beautifully. This tutorial was extremely helpful too. It really gets me wondering what other kinds of art styles are possible to make filters for? Cubism? Or just different kinds of brush strokes, like more circular dabs, or splatters...or watercolor!? Oh yeah, and the normal maps used to make the impasto is a "stroke" of genius.

[@jippee1]

The previous video showed an image texture of all the different brush strokes that create the varied effect. I imagine with a new image texture of varying brush strokes you could achieve alternate styles

[@trinumedia]

The effect with the normals and colours is just so nice!!!

[@currypencil]

You sir are my HERO. I've been painting and trying to replicate paint look in 3D for years now. Thank you so much for this!

[@rethburg]

This is probably the craziest I've seen anyone do with Geometry Nodes. Great job!

[@DemNikoArt]

This is seriously one of the most impressive blender filters I've ever seen. The fact that the brush strokes look so incredibly realistic and it all works in real-time is mind blowing! Kudos to you sir! 😑👌

[@edmungbean]

This is amazing. I think the community has been looking for a solution like this for years

[@julieflores595]

As a traditional painter, I'm currently trying digital art that looks like a painting, and this is a freaking gift! Thank you! Although, I bought the Blender Live Paint Filter V2.0 and the settings there is a bit different so hopefully you upload a tutorial for that one coz I'm not really a blender pro just a beginner haha... really please can you discuss the Blender Live Paint Filter V2.0 on your next upload? That would be awesome.. Thank you!

[@meutiti]

Men this filter is just something else, you did an amazing work, thanks.

[@leobottaro]

Using this to create backgrounds for an large LED panel for my church's Easter play. Love it! Thanks

[@LaiKA-xp4ub]

I received your email and saw this video when I was using blender and was having some problems, thank you so much for being so helpful!

[@Tradigital]

Great to hear!

[@swordofkings128]

This really is one of the most insane things I've seen in Blenders, like really nuts how you did this. It's freakin cool!

[@NathanielJamesProd]

Wow, this is incredible. I've never seen someone use geometry nodes to achieve this look!

[@askhatabdirazakh3577]

Your work is astonishing. And your personality takes your videos to another level. Thank you for the tutorial!

[@pierrotdesarzen7999]

the man's a genius

[@kenonerboy]

This is a genius approach my guy. Good stuff

[@jeremymichael520]

thank you so much for this i never figured any of this out and haven't touched it in months. so excited to use it more and correctly!!!

[@filipemecenas]

Awesome !!! I'm looking for something like this for along time !! Thanks

[@antoniopepe]

Incredible stuff here.🔥

[@jiksaw001]

Would love something like this for unreal engine! This is by far the most efficient and visually pleasing approach out there

[@dhruvverma6938]

You earned my sub.

[@rsher_digital-art]

Wonderful feature set!

[@Elmblackbird]

Amazing work! Love to work with it

[@AntonBarge]

i am stupid, killed 2 hours to make it on blender 3.2 ( spoilers its not work), installed 3.4 and all good, thx for great geonodes, best 4 dollars in my life)

[@hannahsnow6225]

It's more expensive now☹️

[@MrKezives]

Amazing! 🤩🤩

[@prismalglue]

amazing! original!

[@earlumbra8034]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! Can't wait to try it out

[@TheSocket775]

This is absolutely AWESOME! Thanks for this! ❤

[@Yumator]

Thanks so much Alan for making this tutorial. You are the genius! Yuri

[@ปรอยฝน]

Just bought your product Mr.Wyatt, Very impressive. Still waiting for your new product to come out!

[@Tradigital]

Hey! If you’re talking about the line art modifier or image to painting tool then they have both released! You can find them in my gumroad and blendermarket in the description of this video.

[@adrient104]

This is great, thank you for this!

[@xx0124xx]

Incredible!!

[@macofish1]

Awesome!

[@lllllllex]

genious!

[@vstreet7583]

Just BRILLIANT! Absolutely BRILLIANT! Dg

[@xavi4829]

What The Fuck, this is so well executed.

[@jaswanthakula8609]

ive got the filter and itsss amazzinngggg hatsofff

[@slightwave]

I feel like a primate... it's very cool.

[@hellkjo]

Amazing! Would love to purchase but marketplaces don't support payments from my country :(

[@Tradigital]

Sorry to hear that! Send me an email and we can discuss it. I’m sure we can find a way.

[@estefez]

Stunning- i'm guessing this takes advantage of the fact that eevee will not refract other refractive objects (otherwise each stroke would be showing the strokes behind it and not the scene). This means there's 2 potential issues: 1. I'd bet good money you can't make a painterly version of a refractive object like a glass flower vase. 2. It's possible future versions of eevee WILL allow for multiple refraction passes, in which case this method will be unusable...

[@Tradigital]

Yes, that is technically why it will not work in cycles. If that time does come, I’d honestly see them making it an option, because there are some attributes of the goo engine that do the same and that is used by quite a few studios.

[@estefez]

​@@Tradigital If you set cycles to only have one Glossy pass would that get it working? I'm guessing no. BTW if anyone DOES need multiple refraction passes with eevee- i've figured out a solution using the Solidify modifier and multiple materials: one refractive, one nonrefractive.

[@tspcpr]

Yo! Awesome tutorial, tried applying it to some of my models but it normally crashes (not your fault, my computer has had a lot of troubles recently) but awesome tutorial!!

[@ULTRRRRRLLLLLGHT]

It's really great, I find it quite taxing on my system though. RTX 3070 32gb Ram. Any suggestions to have this run smoother :)? thanks!

[@nemifloras]

this filter work with grease pencil objects? really amazing!

[@Tradigital]

I have tried it on grease pencil and sometimes it works, other times it crashes so I don’t normally mention it as a feature. Just be aware that it might be a bit buggy when mixing geometry nodes and grease pencil.

[@GraniteFaun]

Das sum really gud shit 👌

[@otagamer496]

can i create pre rendered background like resident evil remake?

[@Tradigital]

Yeah if you want, but it would have to be added in post production cause the filter will effect the background if it is in the scene.

[@DonaldDrennan]

This is very interesting, and more complex than I can understand. One thing I noticed in your videos is it doesn't look like the paint defines the planes of the cube. A painter would make strokes in different directions for each plane, each side of the cube. Objects would be reduced to a low poly representation, with each polygonal facet being brushed in a different direction. Is this possible with your filter? You explain about the line art, but I'm not sure I understand. To me, lines are not as important as planes. Had you considered using the tissue feature of Blender to apply strokes to object planes?

[@Tradigital]

Hey! I recommend you watch my second video on this project that explains how it works just a bit more. I do agree that planes are important. I will keep that in mind as I continue to update the project. The main thing I used the lineart for is to keep the overall detail of the scene while retaining the direction of the edges.

[@meutiti]

I've got multiple objects in different collections in my main collection. And it says "The target mesh must have faces", and thus I don't get anything in the evee render. Do you have any idea why ?

[@Tradigital]

Hmmm I have not actually tried having sub collections yet. I’m not sure if geometry nodes supports that. I’ll check when I have a chance and try to get back with you.

[@migrod0306]

certian meshes dont appear but the shadow of it does, any way to fix this?

[@Tradigital]

Does the object have any transparent materials set on it? If so, set it to alpha hashed instead of alpha blend.

[@oBur3n]

Man this I think will be useful to what I'm gonna make... Will check if it will work in blender's compositor separating NPR character etc... Impressive

[@Tradigital]

Hey! So the live paint filter will not work with compositing effects like cryptomatte, but I have a tool coming out soon that will basically be a painterly post processing effect. twitter.com/tradigital3d/status/1672071839416238082?s=46&t=4lgXXhiRsB8PAXS33P1fbw this will work with multiple layers basically like an old multi-plane camera

[@jueviolegrace2546]

​@@Tradigitalhi, I was wondering if you know how to increase the clipping range of the filter

[@Tradigital]

@@jueviolegrace2546 hey could you explain more what you mean? Can you just not see objects that are further from the camera? If so all you need to do is select the camera and go into the object data tab and extend the clipping range.

[@jueviolegrace2546]

@@Tradigital hi, thanks for the reply. Yes that's the issue but no extending the clipping range did not fix it. I'd love to post screenshots to show you but that won't work here 🤷‍♂️. Basically when I increase the camera clipping range the filter also gets clipped. That's why I was asking if the filter itself has a clipping range somewhere in the geo nodes so I could solve this issue (tried looking but couldn't find any).

[@oBur3n]

@@Tradigital That's cool.. Just bought your Tradigitalist Toolbag.. will still check them all.. Is this also coming to the toolbag?

[@ArielTavori]

Incredible!

[@MJDEdits]

Thank you for the great work and the tutorial. I am wondering how would this be possible in cycles? When i try to add the paint filter i cant get it to be transparent and work with the scene. Looking forward to your future videos

[@Tradigital]

Hey! So it does not work in cycles. The only thing you can do is render out your scene without the filter in cycles and then change over to eevee and input the cycles render into the input at the top of the geometry nodes modifier list. This will take the scene that you have in eevee while using the colors and values from the cycles render.

[@marcusjordan8036]

Hey! I'm trying to render out just trees using this add on, the transparent effect seems to work with simple objects like suzanne or cubes but when i try to render out sapling tree gen converted to mesh it mostly disappears. Any suggestion? Thanks!

[@Tradigital]

Hey sorry for the late reply, I’m just seeing this. That is because saplings I believe defaults to Alpha Blend with it’s transparent leaf textures. That cannot show through a refractive material, you’ll have to switch them to alpha hashed! Let me know if that helps!

[@JonahHache]

woahhhhhhh

[@svenhoehenberger7269]

Hi sir, firstly wow your a boss im having a lot of respect of you. + when i put your filter my scene only show up with a big blur

[@svenhoehenberger7269]

have a great day

[@svenhoehenberger7269]

and is it working on grease pencil too ?

[@svenhoehenberger7269]

I FIND IT OUT DEPTH WAS ACTIVATED TY SIR UR THE BEST

[@Tradigital]

Hey, not sure what is happening with the blur. I would need to see an example to understand better. You can email me at [e-mail] with some images of what you’re encountering. As for grease pencil, no, it is not supported. Eevee currently does not recognize grease pencil through refraction. So you will have to convert it to mesh before it will show through the filter.

[@Exempel333]

When I render it's like there's an opacity on the filter; I see very fine details that I don't see in the viewport. Any idea why? :D

[@Tradigital]

Opacity on the filter? Not sure exactly what this could be. Is it areas between the strokes? If so, just raise your minimum stroke size up a bit to fill in those areas. It could also be your clip range on your camera. Increasing that also tends to help if there are clipping issues.

[@Exempel333]

@@Tradigital it does seem to be less if I increase the stroke size, but you can definitely still see some parts of the image under still It becomes clear on a tree where the branches are very slim. But it looks fantastic in the viewport, just the render that has the issue. I've played around with the camera clipping as well 🤔

[@Tradigital]

I would have to see the file or an image to really help more. DM me on Twitter or Instagram and we can try and fix the issue.

[@userinterface6980]

Thank you very much for your amazing work! I have a question, is it possible if the filter (or canvas) can be move closer or further away from the camera? Because I have some scene where I will place the camera very close to the subject with wide angle lens and parts of the subject got infront of the filter. Thank you so much.

[@Tradigital]

It is possible! Best thing to do is normally mess with your camera settings to account for the changes since things can only be so close to the camera before they start clipping. If you watch my second video on this topic you will see me talk about the draw plane offset. That will move it closer or further from the camera as well.

[@userinterface6980]

@@Tradigital Thank you! I will check out the second video.

[@justGoscha]

Hey Alan, this is awesome and the prices for the license are a steal! I have some question about the license though, if I use it for videos for a KZbin channel, to generate social media posts, and my own articles etc. can I get the editorial license? I am not directly earning money with these videos/posts, they are mostly educational, but in a way I am often linking to my own products that are for sale or free (even though my earnings are minimal and not able to support me yet). I would definitely get the commercial license when using it for a client video, but what's your stance on the former?

[@Tradigital]

Hey! If your channel is not monetized and won’t be earning you anything then feel free to use the editorial license! I have many friends who have used it for social media posts. The main thing I just try to avoid in licensing is redistribution.

[@HalkerVeil]

Now can it animate each paint stroke over time like it's being painted by a character?

[@Tradigital]

I’m sure if I could get some videos of paint strokes being painted on it could appear that way. No reason why not

[@HalkerVeil]

@@Tradigital It's kind of interesting. You created a better version of what Mediachance did with their software.

[@InOneArt]

Hi, just bought your tool kit the other day. They are awesome! I wanted to ask a question, how can I change the size of the "canvas" to match the size in the camera sensor settings. It turns out that the field of view increases, but the canvas stays in the center without changing

[@Tradigital]

Hey, I made it so you would always see the edges, but if you just want to see canvas, the best way to adjust that is by changing the actual focal length of the camera and not changing it on the filter properties. Hope that makes sense. Let me know if you run into any more issues.

[@unreal_ichiro4696]

Hey man just got the filter and its pretty cool now just having a little issue with some obj objects not appearing in the filter, is there any suggestions you can give me to fix this issue?

[@Tradigital]

I’ll need some more info to help. Is the obj using materials that have alpha blend on? That can cause issues. Best thing to do is just switch to alpha hashed and it should work fine.

[@AMITAWAGHADE]

The strokes are circular, how to make them follow the meshflow?

[@Tradigital]

Hey, you have to make sure add your scene collection to the geometry nodes modifier properties for the line art to be generated.

[@inaginagisasa]

We may need another tutorial on using the new version of Blender and BLPF, as a lot of things seem to be different! On a side note, if I just bring the movie into my scene, can it have this effect? If I want to make a video with an oil painting effect.

[@Tradigital]

You would not want to use the live filter on a video or image plane. I have a completely separate tool for that here. tradigital.gumroad.com/l/gtlqz

[@inaginagisasa]

​@@Tradigital yeah I see it thnaks bro! but i'm not sure how to use it, when i opened it i saw a plane with spider-man image, so i juse need to replace that image material right? or i can creat another plane placed the same location?

[@Tradigital]

This is a post processing effect so make sure you have your final rendered image and open the .blend provided in blender 3.5+. Now, open the image in the image editor, and then select the filter and add the image to the image input under the modifier properties. Once you do that, follow my in scene instructions on adjusting the resolution and magnitude settings to get a better result where the strokes follow the image. Hope that helps. Most of this filter is pretty self explanatory once you get into it.

[@qianlingloy]

​@@Tradigital Hello, i just got the pixel pasto, is there anyway to make the strokes not randomize on every frame of my rendered animation?

[@Tradigital]

They technically are not randomizing per frame. They are following whatever the animation does. So if you have a lot of high framerate movement, the filter is going to do the same and seem quite jittery as it tries to keep up, but if your animation is slow and doesn’t make sharp changes, then the filter will follow this and do the same. I would recommend rendering out in a very low fps between 6-12 to get the desired look you are after. This effect is not made for high FPS because that would be unrealistic if it was all handpainted in real life. For instance, the Van Gogh movie from a few years back that was completely hand painting locked itself to 12 frames per second and sometimes even went lower. that was a monumental task as you can guess with the thousands of paintings having to be completed.

[@jean-marcweiss3518]

Hello, it's an amazing and wonderful filter, I really love it so much!! I got just a question, I've been using it for some hours now and I'm trying to use it in a dark scene, however I notice that at the top of the camera (one third) when everything is set up, there is a lighter place at the top of the camera, is it normal and can we remove it ? But it is automaticaly removed when I turn the baking to 1. I think the lighter space at the top of your video is also a little bit visible.

[@Tradigital]

Yes, that can be removed. What you’re seeing is the area light above the canvas. I added that for dark scenes where there is no light on the filter itself. If you want to keep the light but get rid of the flares, best thing to do is adjust the area light size and strength by selecting it in the outliner and going to its light properties.

[@jean-marcweiss3518]

@@Tradigital thank you that what I wanted to know :) !! Turning off the specular of the area light was enough to remove the flares and keep the lighting !

[@congorod]

i'm absolutely mesmerized by this effect. bought it straight away. one question though. how do you render out your final image? clearly an f12 render from Evee is not the way to do it

[@Tradigital]

Uh I believe that is something on your end. Not sure what is happening. Maybe you have the modifier render display turned off?

[@congorod]

@@Tradigital duh, you were right...the render icon was off in the view layer. it must have appended that way and i assumed it was something else. thanks!

[@Tradigital]

@@congorod I’ll make sure to fix that in the file. My bad.

[@hkbiovisuals]

Hey thanks for making this! I just bought it on gumroad and am having issues with it working. I've tried it on my main scene so I thought that might've been the issue but then when I tried it on a plain cube scene again nothing happened. I plug in the collection and the camera as per tutorial and have the item in a new collection, but there's no canvas that populates in front of the camera no matter what. I'm wondering if I am missing something? Or is there a certain way I had to install it? Thanks again!

[@Tradigital]

Hey, what version of Blender are you in? This required 3.4.1+

[@johnerickson3598]

Hey there, loving the plugin but having an issue. I'm doing a scene with trees but for some reason, only some of my tree models show up when I turn on the filter, the others are just invisible. Any ideas?

[@Tradigital]

How large is your overall scene? It might be a clipping issue. Not sure though. I might need to see an example of what you mean exactly. Feel free to message me on my discord. The link should be in my linktree above!

[@LemeMeek]

Hey! I've painted for many years but recently have had physical struggles with my hands and have been learning to model so that I can create scenes with a new medium, your addon has helped me create paintings again but for some reason no matter what I do (after appending) the filer lags so much and I cant figure out any combination of settings to remedy this (especially when closer to objects). I use the filter in the 2.1 version~ Particularly i've noticed that in vidoes with it it runs SO much faster than mine, including this one!

[@Tradigital]

Hey, sorry for the late reply. It’s hard to know exactly what could be happening here without taking a closer look at the file. Best thing I can say is it is probably your mesh density that is causing issues, but if you are probably going to want to look into your system specs as well. This is a pretty heavy filter and it isn’t meant to be used through animation testing. It is more of a composite effect that you enable before rendering to give it a cool effect on top.

[@LemeMeek]

Oh it's totally alright! It was a consistant problem with all of my scenes and files, my system is pretty beefy. I reduced my mesh densities with lower-poly substitutes and it vastly improved the performance of the filter. I am just so used to high poly I didn't realise it's pretty impractical for still painting-type renders! @@Tradigital

[@Tradigital]

It uses the mesh data to generate line art that then influences the flow, scale, and density of the paint strokes. If your mesh is super high poly then it will just take an extremely long time for the line art to compute, or it will just crash straight up. One solution would be to not include your objects in the scene collection and instead just make a new collection with a curve object. You can draw out what you want the flow to follow instead of using the mesh data. Not ideal for animation since it will change overtime, but it will help with performance a lot

[@LemeMeek]

Thanks, I will try that, this was the kind of understanding I needed as I wasn't about the linart part of the process, I will try that!@@Tradigital

[@LinkSmosh]

Hello! Love the tutorial, I only have one problem, whatever scene I apply the filter to and no matter how high I put the Bump strenght, I never get thr paint strokes bump sadly. Do you maybe have an idea why ? 😅

[@Tradigital]

So this is most likely one of two things. 1. your opacity settings. If you raise the minimum and maximum opacity to 1 then you should start to see less blending and more bump between the strokes. 2. You might be in a baking mode where all that is displayed is the base colors with no other details. Just reset baking to 0 and it should fix the issue. Hope that helps!

[@clepzarellano1926]

hello! I just bought the product but the interface is very different, I can't find the "detail level" or "check line art" among other options that appear in the video... (?)

[@Tradigital]

Hey, so I have completely overhauled the entire filter to give you more freedom and to make it more optimized. I would read up on the updates to the filter on my gumroad to better understand how it now works. If you have anymore questions, feel free to reach out to me at [e-mail]

[@lifeofmachine4641]

There is a small (triangular) portion of the scene that is not being effected by the filter. Any thoughts? Does anyone know how to use effect vs affect? I don't.

[@Tradigital]

Not sure what is happening here, it might be a topology issue with the objects in your scene.

[@hackenshaw]

Nice. How does it look with an animated scene? Like a turnaround or something.

[@Tradigital]

I have a lot of examples on my Twitter of it being animated! x.com/tradigital3d/status/1678530007637917696?s=46&t=4lgXXhiRsB8PAXS33P1fbw

[@noelmoses6431]

The Cycles render option is not available anymore what do I do??

[@Tradigital]

Hey, I had to remove it temporarily because of people misusing it. I will have an update soon though that will have cycles support.

[@leobottaro]

Hi! Custom curves for creating custom brush stroke directions are not working in blender 4.0, I managed to fix it on the geo nodes myself, seems like the mesh to curves node is acting up in that first input group. Please check it and update the gumroad files if you can! Thanks. :)

[@Tradigital]

Oh shoot, that might be a mistake on my end. I tend to forget to re-add features back in when I update something. I’ll have that fixed in the next update! Thank you for the info!

[@paulrabaud4197]

Hi, i buy your paint filter but when i append the paintfilter object, there is nothing appening in my 3d viewport but the paint filter is in my outliner, how do y restore that ? amazing work by the way :)

[@Tradigital]

hmm hard to say what is happening here. What happens if you press the object in the outliner and press "." on the num pad to focus in on it? It might just be tiny compared to your scene.

[@paulrabaud4197]

@@Tradigital i try to open the cabin scene and the filtre is here but don't work too, i'm on blender 3.3.1

[@baelsoft]

It only works in blender 3.4. I tested it in a few different LTS's I use, and its using features in the GeoNodes that only work in 3.4 it would seem. Hope this helps :)

[@paulrabaud4197]

@@baelsoft Oh thanks it works :D

[@Tradigital]

@@paulrabaud4197 oh yes that does make sense, I don’t know why that wasn’t my first answer. It typically is haha.

[@A_Random_Ghost]

Is there a way this might work with watercolor?

[@Tradigital]

Yeah if you change out the textures and give it more of a paper background you can definitely get a more water color effect. Just be aware that the colors won’t “mix” the same as actual water color.

[@A_Random_Ghost]

@@Tradigital Alright thanks

[@moonsayshi1955]

Amazing. Question: is there a way to have the stroke direction to be aware of the edges somehow? for example, the left side has noticeable stroke direction that follows along the edge which seems "natural" to me, however the strokes between the right side and the top sides are ignoring the edge line and going into each sides, which results in the edge feels beveled. Though it's tiny little aspect compared to how polished the end look is, was just wondering if that's something that the filter can solve somehow. Anyway, Great work. Love the filter.

[@Tradigital]

Hey! The main reason is because of how the line art is created. I just need to keep improving the way that the lineart is being created because to be honest, it isn’t perfect and requires quite a bit of tweaking to really give the final result. This is my next big plan is just improving that method as far as I can in the geometry nodes.

[@moonsayshi1955]

@@Tradigital it's great that you're still improving. Keep it up my dude. So much potential.

[@pashamorozov8257]

Do you know I can get strokes (lines) step by step? I want to teach a neural network how to draw. Thanks.

[@Tradigital]

You can try to follow along with this tutorial. Another Way to do Line Art in Blender kzbin.info/www/bejne/hofWg5h5aNKKaKc

[@Jacozagu]

it's a perfect filter, but it's really slow. My pc with a 3070 crashes everytime. how can I make the filter faster without it causing constant crashes?

[@Tradigital]

Hey so this is actually more heavily CPU bound then GPU since it has to compute the mesh information for every single frame. One thing that can definitely improve things in the most recent 4.2 version of blender is using a bake node at the very end of the node tree in the geometry nodes panel and then baking out the animation sequence before the render. This will definitely ease up the processing, but be aware that if you make any changes, you will need to delete and re-bake the cache.

[@joaquinmartinez2457]

Hi! Dont know if it has been previously asked, but can I have a custom curve determine the line art¿? Or is there a way to connect it? Or only the generated ones count...?

[@joaquinmartinez2457]

(I am absolutely stunned by the filter and amount of work you put into this, love it!!! Sorry if the question was a bit dry xddd But huuuge congrats!!)

[@Tradigital]

No worries! Yes you can, just create a custom curve object that will represent your line art and put that curve in your scene collection input!

[@joaquinmartinez2457]

@@Tradigital yay, thanks!!

[@helenabrienzatm7312]

Hi! loved the tutorial, very specific and short. 👌👌 The only thing that i don't understand is how (or, with what program) can i asign different colors to the paint strokes. How do you do it? Loved the video!!!

[@Tradigital]

Hey if your initial model has color, you can bake it to a color attribute and then use the names attribute in the “vertex color group” input to transfer the colors. If you go into my example file you can see how in the material the “Col” attribute is how it is being displayed in the materials. It is confusing and hard to explain in simple terms, but it works! I hope that helps!

[@helenabrienzatm7312]

haha it's confusing but i'll try it!! thaks@@Tradigital

[@alexhalka]

Amazing, also love the lineart addon. Is it possibile to get a watercolor feel by altering the settings?

[@Tradigital]

If you adjust the opacity of the min and max you can get a bit more of a water color effect, just be aware that you will have to raise your rendering samples and probably the opacity threshold to keep your details. It’s not perfect, but it is the closest I have to a water color effect at the moment.

[@icegraphic3801]

Hi! i just bought your filter but i can't find the detail value. My render isn't as crispy as yours and i can't understand why

[@Tradigital]

Hey, I removed the detail monitor and focused it more on the scale. If you set the min scale pretty low, you will get the details you are after.

[@MRANDD]

hey! I was wondering how do I deal with the change of screen space reflections in the new version of blender, my canvas is still pitch black. I did try to figure it out on my own but I am kinda lost

[@Tradigital]

Currently it does not work, I have an update coming out soon that will support both eevee next and cycles. Sadly blender’s shader to rgb is a bit broken in this version and no longer supports the refractive shader.

[@MRANDD]

@@Tradigital oh, glad 2 hear that. Thank you anyways, the filter is amazing

[@deadlyturtle9874]

How do i use this in 4.2? I bought the filter but because of ray tracing replacing screen space reflections, I am unable to get the filter to behave correctly.

[@Tradigital]

At the moment it is not compatible with 4.2. Blender removed some elements with eevee next and it broke part of the effect. I have an update ready but I’m waiting for a patch from blender.

[@oldbonniegamer938]

@@Tradigital Will Live Paint 2 be seperate? I bought the package deal, but I unfortunately wasn't aware that the above was required.

[@Tradigital]

@@oldbonniegamer938 no, it will just be an update to the current tool.

[@rogerdltj]

Hey, thanks for the most awesome filter I've seen so far (I just bought it :D). I've got a question though: When I zoom the camera, the object in frame starts to blur. How can I make macro frames without losing the detail of the brush strokes?

[@Tradigital]

Hey Roger, not sure what is happening here. That’s definitely strange… could you email me at [e-mail] with your file and let me take a look? It probably has to do with the polycount of your scene and the line art being captured from your model.

[@merryschino]

everytime i try to append, blender closes unexpectedly. any ideas why?

[@Tradigital]

So I have changed the way you import it, now if you add this file to your asset folder it should show up in your asset browser and just drag and drop it. That should work. Currently appending will also bring in objects, cameras, and scene information which is probably why it is crashing.

[@3ddin416]

great tool !I just bought it but I'm struggling to find any texture file where i could switch to use my alphas brush stroke instead

[@Tradigital]

Hey, so for this project I use an RGB texture atlas. It can be found in the shader editor under the brush alpha node.

[@ericbishop2369]

wondering if there's any way to have the paint filter pick up on motion-blur within the scene? i'm intending on using this add-on for some animations and i think it would be excellent to have some paint smears for the high speed movements, after some experimenting it seems like it doesn't pick up on the motion blur in the render settings. so right now i'm going to test if keyframing the detail level and brush stroke sizes can help acheive the effect i;'m going for. if anyone else has any ideas please let me know!

[@zetsology]

Baking the result to a 3D model?

[@Tradigital]

There isn’t really a good way since this is a projection plane. The only way would be using window mapping with a render, but if you ever rotate the model it will look wrong. Since the line art will always change depending on the animation, so will the strokes. Baking it would also lose the edge breaking along the line art which will heavily break the initial effect.

[@zetsology]

@@Tradigital maybe doing a bake from multiple sides and then combining textures would do something useful for objects with UVs. That way objects could be used outside Blender.

[@Tradigital]

@@zetsology yes, that could work, but just be aware that it will not have the same effect in the end since the edges will not be broken and the stroke direction will all be random. It might be smarter to find ways to replicate the paint filter in other applications. I already know people trying to make it all work in unity and unreal. Good luck though.

[@peopledontthinkthesunbelik3995]

im having a bit of a problem, the filter when i append it doesnt really spawn. only a light object appears, and when i attach it to the camera theres no filter in front of it.

[@Tradigital]

So this sounds like a corrupt file. This can happen when you open a geometry nodes tree in an outdated version of blender that didn’t have the designated nodes used in the tree. What version are you currently using?

[@peopledontthinkthesunbelik3995]

@@Tradigital yea that was it, forgot to get the newest blender update, thank u :)

[@stefanthordarsonmusic]

This plug-in is bonkers, great work! Currently working on something that needs a few images as planes, will this be possible soon? Cheers!

[@Tradigital]

Actually yes! I am finalizing a completely separate filter that is made solely for images and extracts all the needed information from it. Should be out in the next few days hopefully. I’ll send an announcement to all current holders when it does.

[@stefanthordarsonmusic]

@@Tradigital amazing!

[@stefanthordarsonmusic]

​@@Tradigitaldid the image version get released? I never got a notification/can't seem to find it

[@Tradigital]

Hey, I did release it! I still haven’t been able to make a video so I haven’t made any announcement since I know using the tool can be a bit confusing, but my time has been limited these past few months and I haven’t been able to make any videos. tradigital.gumroad.com/l/gtlqz

[@christophervanhindenburg4220]

I love this! How does the Additional Line Art function? What kind of input does it require?

[@Tradigital]

Hey, it’s a vertex group. So if you want a specific area to be detected as a line, you can select those edges, add them to a vertex group, and then rename that input (additional line art) to the same name as the group. Another option is you can draw curves in your scene and if they are in the scene collection, it will separate them and use those curves as line art.

[@JulianKingman]

Is it possible to output a depth map of the brush strokes? I have a cool idea, but I need the 3D brush strokes.

[@Tradigital]

I suppose you could if you wanted. You would just need to replace the plane instance with an actual geometric brush stroke. Only issue is that the refraction would probably not work properly anymore.

[@JulianKingman]

Are the paint blobs geometry or normals? They look 3D, and a depth map of that is exactly what I’d be looking for.

[@Tradigital]

@JulianKingman they are just a bump map, so normals. They’re not actually modifying the topology.

[@leonardbudke6407]

is it possible to use it in orthographic camera views?

[@Tradigital]

Not at the moment. It would be better to just sue a very low FOV and match the settings to the filter. It should give you very similar results.

[@binyaminbass]

After using this filter for a while, there's one thing I wish were different. When I animate an object that is in the collection, then all the paint strokes change; that can get disorienting; it's too noisy. If animate an object that isn't in the collection, then none of the strokes change at all, and it looks like something is moving behind a strange pane of glass (which it is!). I could render the still background separate from the animated object, and that helps the disorientation a little, but all the strokes of the animated object are still going crazy. What I would love is if the paint strokes moved with the animated object, but didn't recalculate with every frame, but rather just moved with it, as if the substance/body of the object were made of these paint strokes. I know, that's not really possible with a filter. But could we generate these kinds of strokes on the material of the object?

[@Tradigital]

Hey! I wish that were possible honestly. I’ve tried to think of ways to make that possible. Biggest issue is that the line art of the scene is going to constantly change if your objects or camera are moving. This in return effects every single stroke since they are all being influenced in density, scale, and rotation from that line art. The best thing to do is think of this filter more as a stop motion filter and less like a real time. I recommend lowering your frames per second to between 8-12. This will drastically lower the disorientation of the animation. Other than that, there currently is no perfect fix to this problem without completely rethinking the entire process.

[@DanielMahlknecht]

@@TradigitalReally great work, instant buy! Maybe a possibility for to apply it to motion would be to draw te strokes once at the beginning, somehow save that, then create a list/matrix where every entry represents a number that is the chance of a specific stroke being updated according to the new line art. With every passing frame the number/chance is increased or in case of a stroke update it is reset to zero. Optionally the addition of a weight map ( maybe according to the speed of the objects) would allow to update the fast moving parts more frequently? Just an idea I got from looking at the way the magnificent Loving Vincent movie did it =) I tried to recreate the effect by placing strokes with geonodes, exporting every 24th frame to Photoshop, applying a good oil paint script and then feed everything into the AI EbSynth. Got some results, but still a long way to go ^^ If you are interested to have a look -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4TPYZVjr6ansMU

[@Tradigital]

@@DanielMahlknecht if there is any answer to this, it would be the new simulation nodes that are coming in Blender 3.5 I think. I haven’t got to experiment with them yet, but I could see that being very useful in trying to make it play like that. I’ll look into it! Thanks!

[@lucabuttner8883]

I just animated something with this filter and I love it, because it is like a digital Frame-By-Frame-Animation. I think it makes it more realistic that every frame changes. With 12 fps it just looks super cool in my opinion. But I can understand that this is not ideal for every usecase. I hope you will find a solution and if you do, I would be very thankful if you could share it with us :)

[@binyaminbass]

@@lucabuttner8883 Would you post some work you've done with it?

[@ZeroDean]

Just bought your bundle today on Gumroad (thanks for making it so affordable!). Loving the painterly results in the viewport... but (maybe I missed something in this video because...) my actual render output doesn't include the paint layer... it's just a plain Eevee render. What am I missing?

[@Tradigital]

Hey that is a mistake with the file I gave. Make sure your geometry nodes modifier and the paint filter append object is enabled for render.

[@ZeroDean]

@@Tradigital Weird! Wasn't you. After opening a demo file and appending my own scene to it, everything worked. Compared settings of both... Seemed the same. So started over and appended the Paint Filter to my original file... This time it renders fine and I didn't have to adjust any visibility settings. Very strange. Maybe *I* initially put it in a collection with render visibility turned off. Oops. In any case, I know what to look out for now (duh). This setup is amazing. Thanks again.

[@wibblywobbly3430]

This is amazing. I was wondering if there is a way to get Images as Planes to render with the filter? It would be a cool way to convert video footage to paint strokes!

[@Tradigital]

Hey, so at the moment you can do this, but it won’t probably give you the results you want since there will be no geometry controlling the direction of the strokes. I do have an update coming soon that will be better suited for image input though. Give me a few more weeks and I will have that out for you!

[@wibblywobbly3430]

@@Tradigital Awesome, thank you!! :) And do you know if there is a way to get transparent materials/glass to work with this?

[@Tradigital]

@@wibblywobbly3430 in eevee, refraction through refraction does not work. So glass through this filter will not work. Transparency like with alpha masks can work. You just need to enable alpha hashed instead of alpha blend.

[@joshsmithbuilds2158]

@@Tradigital Ayyy, is this feature available yet? It's exactly what I'm looking for! :D

[@Tradigital]

@@joshsmithbuilds2158 yes! Just check my gumroad here! tradigital.gumroad.com/l/gtlqz

[@popedynopedy]

For some reason i cant seem to find the canvas when i append, it simply does not appear in the viewport???

[@Tradigital]

Hey that is normally a blender version issue. Make sure you are up to date and using at least Blender 3.4.1. Let me know if the issue persists.

[@popedynopedy]

@@Tradigitalthank you, this fixed it!

[@bellVFX]

Can I export it to unreal?

[@Tradigital]

Sadly no, this effect is currently not possible to export since it is primarily in GN. You would have to recreate it in a similar method through unreal’s system.

[@fakemint934]

How does the cycles render feature work?

[@Tradigital]

Hey I believe I responded to you on Twitter about this, but let me know if you have any other questions.

[@VFXbydroperlixo]

Does this effect work with images on planes??

[@Tradigital]

Yes and no, the image will show through the filter if you are using Alpha Hashed blend mode on the image plane, but the strokes won’t follow it since it does not have geometry data. I have a separate tool completely for making images into Paintings though. tradigital.gumroad.com/l/gtlqz