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Blender

Model in Blender, paint in texxer, see the texture in Blender as you paint.

1. Install tools/blender/texxer_bridge.py: Preferences › Add-ons › Install from Disk.
2. Save the .blend, keep texxer running.
3. In the 3D view's sidebar (N), tab texxer: sync.

texxer opens the objects as a model, in the open project or a new one beside the .blend. Sync again after modelling, in Blender or with sync on the model in texxer. Layers, stamps and painted masks stay.

• Objects: the selected ones on the first sync, all visible meshes if none are. use selection sets them anew. They share one texture; each object is a part.

• Material: the objects show one material, texxer <name>, with the texture (nearest pixels, no shine), the emissive map at the export's strength, and painted roughness and ao (non-color, the ao multiplying the color). Their own materials stay remembered on them and come back with show texture off. texxer still gets their own, for parts and model colors.

• Textures go to textures/ beside the .blend (the folder on the model changes it), the same PNGs the export writes, so Blender links them and its own export takes them along.

• UVs (texture panel, uv):

  • blender: the map Blender renders with.
  • texxer: each sync lays the objects out anew, without their modifiers, into the UV map texxer; the modifiers carry it through as they do Blender's (bevels get thin strips at the chart edges, mirrored halves share their UVs). The texxer material reads that map.
  • locked: keeps the texxer map as it is, once the model stands.

  Painted masks follow the surface onto new geometry and UVs on each sync, a little softer each time; locked UVs keep them sharp.

Export

From Blender: its glTF export carries the texxer material and its PNGs.

From texxer: ⌘E asks once for a GLB of its own, as the model's file is the add-on's copy (in .texxer/ beside the .blend).