Sparseal

Introducing Wafer A new 3D texturing software focused on stylized, hand-painting and NPR assets. Built for extreme performance, compatibility and energy efficiency. Now available for iPad

@CovenElf Try going over that area with the eraser. If that fixes it, we can make the alpha cut less strict in a future update.

@sparseal thank you so much for your reply 🙏 it did solve most of the issue, but my face is still looking a little weird with see-through eyes and eyebrows 🥺

Wafer 1.1 introduces support for transparent objects, filtered textures, and .fbx and .vrm imports, along with a smudge tool, brush jitter, painting on non-manifold geometry, and many smaller improvements and fixes. Available now.

@CovenElf Open the scene inspector -> texture sets and switch the textures to transparent. You can set all textures to transparent automatically when importing the model on the initial setup dialog.

@sparseal i have been trying to figure out how to import a .vrm but it only ends up looking like this :( pls help

@ravnfrost @pablodp606 Try using float colors in the color domain format if you are working with soft gradients.

@sparseal Hello, I'm having an issue where layering darker colors (for shading) generates blue-ish, pink-ish and yellow-ish tones, like oil painting. I'm using hard brush with default settings, is there any way to fix this? @pablodp606

Next Wafer update (1.1) will add support for loading .vrm files and painting in scenes with multiple transparent objects and filtered textures.

@ZachMakesAvis Setup the metalness and roughness domains (or use the PBR preset after creating a new document), add a fill layer, the value each domain uses is visible in the layers inspector (you can change it from disabled/constant/canvas)

@sparseal And where can we edit the roughness and metallic of each fill layer individually ?

Introducing Wafer A new 3D texturing software focused on stylized, hand-painting and NPR assets. Built for extreme performance, compatibility and energy efficiency. Now available for iPad

@ZachMakesAvis Yes, metallic and roughness will be visible in the PBR preview, emissive can be edited as a custom domain but won't preview as emissive.

@sparseal Is it possible to set a metallic, roughness, and emissive for each fill layer ?

@MVjagaimo Yes, there is

@sparseal May I know if there is a flat color or shadeless view in Wafer? It would help greatly with painting anime style models!

@alysonroblox There is already a lasso clipping tool.

@sparseal are you able to incorporate a self dedicated lasso tool? I think it'd be awesome

@DreamiePaws Make sure the model has a material assigned per texture and try using glb instead of obj. You can also import each mesh individually. We'll try to improve how the obj importer builds the scene in the next update.

@Floreum Internally, it handles the equivalent pixel count to that number of UDIM tiles as a single large texture. If there is interest in this feature to use in professional workflows, exporting/importing UDIMs by splitting a large texture can be considered.

@sparseal When you say tiles, does that mean it supports UDIMs?

24K texture painting (36 × 4K tiles) on a 2018 iPad Pro (3rd gen), with full per-pixel control and responsive blending. Wafer has no texture resolution limits. It captures extremely fine details from stencils and alphas while running smoothly on older hardware.

16K texture painting on a 2015 1st Gen 9.7-inch iPad Pro, the least powerful iPad with Apple Pencil support. Wafer’s tool performance is barely affected by texture resolution or layer count. It is also optimized to run efficiently on low-memory devices.

@SteveTalkowski Only textures. We would like to see more usages in professional pipelines before deciding implementing advanced scene formats.

@sparseal Congrats! I tried it out last night. Question about export options before I plunk down the $20: Is it just textures for now? It would be amazing if I could export a working .usdz file with maps hooked up compliantly, like Substance Painter does.

@_sstrikerr_ Yes, it also works with small textures and it has a tool for painting individual pixels.

@sparseal very cool! how does this work with low poly models with small textures? I know you said it doesn't limit texture sizes but if I want the constraint so I don't overpaint details that wont show for like a 256X256 what would you do?

Wafer is our first product built entirely on our own cross-platform UI toolkit, application framework, renderer, and geometry processing libraries. The entire stack is written in Rust and WGPU. We plan to continue building on this foundation for future updates and products.

@starryyberries Copy the texture to the Wafer documents folder with the files app (so the app can read it), then open the contextual menu of a layer -> import image -> color -> select the texture

@sparseal Trying out this app and love it so far!! Is there a way to apply a texture you’ve already painted onto your object and paint over it?

@Latte_Artsu Go to the Viewport inspector (the 4th tab at the top) and use the button below the current panel to add a new panel.

@sparseal :O How do you work with the 2D mesh along side the 3D model? Currently trying to figure that out?

@VirtualKeni It can paint on any custom channel for NPR shader inputs and preview metalness/roughness/bump with a basic PBR shader in the viewport.

@sparseal interesting, but does it do anything other than base color?

@ReformationsUk Single purchase, you can try everything except exporting and saving.

@sparseal is it a 1 off fee of $19 ? Is there a free trial ? Free version lite etc ? Happy to pay if i know they like it

@UrLafyBear It has configurable symmetry in all axis (both 3d and 2d), supports obj and glb for mesh importing.

@sparseal Dose it have a mirror mode? And could I import FBX files?