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I haven't been able to make documentation, but if you're seeing resolution issues I would recommend using the Voxel Region Mask. Basically you create a mask on a separate layer, add an anchor point to that, and then reference the anchor point in 3D Blur. This will only voxelize the region you have painted.

Due to a mixture of storage limitations and floating point imprecision it's nearly impossible to go beyond the 16.7 million voxels of the current 3D Blur, but it's something I continue to look into when I have time.

You could look at ULTRAKILL, or a number of 3D Realms games for examples of work made with Pixel8r. It looks pretty good lit or unlit and you can always paint or bake more or less lighting into the textures depending on your needs. You can also preview in Painter with or without lighting. It does support normal maps, though I'm not sure of any games offhand which use them. I've made a few tutorials for Pixel8r showing off unlit, lit, and PBR lit workflows.

can you dm me on artstation or email (on my artstation) and share some screenshots?

yup! shouldnt have any issues, its just like any other substance filter that comes prepackaged with the program (though a biiiiit more complex lol)

so to basically fund continued development of my filters, the way I structure things is that full version bumps are paid major updates/overhauls (ie people who bought any 1.X version didn't get 2.X versions for free).

but any .X updates are free, with .5 updates being big freebies.

more to the point though, it's definitely not a bad time to get it or anything. i don't really have the time to do a 3.0 and all my ideas for it are really complex and will take ages to develop. But I do have a couple bugfixes for a 2.8

usually i do whatever aligns with itchio's schedule. not sure when that will be but whenever it pops up in my dashboard! im guessing closer to christmas and thru the end of the year

in painter at the very top of any filter's properties panel theres a row of buttons, one for each channel. just toggle on whatever channels you need!

not if he isn't using it

Yes, the resulting textures can be used commercially and Pixel8r been used in plenty of projects, just don't redistribute the filter itself in any way and we're all gucci!

Hi, yes! It's been used as part of the texturing process in a lot of shipped titles.
In simple terms the limitations of the license is that the Pixel8r filter is a single seat (user) and not for redistribution, either on its own or repackaged in any way.

replied!

yeah it was only for the day, ill do another one for christmas and maybe a cyber monday if i can remember

https://itch.io/s/140669/black-friday

almost definitely yea

yup!

Pixel8r is a plugin for Substance Painter and Substance Designer.

stay tuned!

This is the latest!

Hi, sorry i didnt get to this until much later. My guess would be you have some paint on the Pixel8r layer, so when enabling it it shows up. Try dragging and dropping a new copy directly from the Library into the layer stack.

yep

I run a few sales every year, so feel free to check back in around the holidays!

The best way is to make a new paint layer. Don't actually paint anything on it, but add a mask to the layer and an anchor point on the mask. Reference the anchor point in Pixel8r's dither mask slot, then click back on the mask and paint.

Thanks for reaching out! Hope I was able to help you! <3

Hi! If it was Pixel8r 2 or 2.5, then sure! Send me an email (found on my ArtStation) with a copy of the receipt.
If it was Pixel8r 1 or 1.5, that was always a separate product from 2. I do full version bumps for separate paid releases and incremental version bumps for their free updates.

This is due to Painter displaying the texture at its native power of two resolution, where the Pixel8r resolution can't scale up uniformly to match it. You can safely ignore the stretching.

For resolutions like this, follow the user guide and export out at full resolution, then downscale in any image editing application. No pixels will appear different than the preview in Painter, and you won't have any stretching anymore.

No timeline, but in the next version I'll be releasing a shader which fixes this problem.

It's possible! Just enable these boxes. They're turned off by default for performance.

You can contact itch.io support and they'll assist you.

Hi! I'm available on either ArtStation or Twitter.

When exporting from Designer I usually will work at a high res, then Pixel8r step and lastly add a transform node to downscale to the desired resolution (if the pixe8r res is a power of two). This should be pixel perfect and 1:1 with Pixel8r, but you can be extra sure it is by disabling filtering and mipmapping on the transform node.

If not pixelating to a power of two, export the pixelated high res image, then downscale in any image editor (I use Photoshop) using nearest neighbor and it will be pixel perfect.

Quick example of the power of two case:

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Hi! I tested this! So firstly make sure you're on the latest version of Pixel8r (2.72). The last one had a bug with palettes.

Secondly, the way I have it interpret palettes isn't very intelligent at the moment. It expects the palette to be laid out as a horizontally laid out, 256 wide image like so:

Testing this one on my end it works perfectly:

That's my fault as I didn't document that well.

A smarter, more unified palette/LUT feature is on the todo list for a future version, though it will be a bit slower to process and probably be part of a big paid update which adds a ton of useful new features (especially for Quake modders!)

That's odd, it may just be a simple layout problem, because unless there's a bug it shouldn't output any colors that aren't in the palette.

Can you share the palette image? You should be able to upload it here, or you can reach me thru my email (found on my ArtStation), or my Twitter account. Whatever you prefer! If you're comfortable sharing it here though it could be helpful for anyone in the future.

oops sorry! resent the right one

Hi! If you're still online can you reply to this message?

edit - so we can sync up somewhere, go to my artstation and find my email and we can chat

Yay! Glad to hear it's helped you out <3

Hi! The best thing to do at the moment is to use the Voxel Region Mask input to control where voxelization happens. You can paint a mask and provide it via an anchor point. This will make the voxels computed for just that area, and can stack instances of the filter for different areas to get the detail you need.

I'm trying very much to improve voxel quality and resolution, so when I am able to take some time away from my main work I will hopefully be able to finish out an update which has 4x as many voxels. This whole thing is really butting up against the limitations of what Substance can do, so development has been super challenging. But stay tuned!

Hi! There's no studio license for Better Edge Detect, it's just per-seat. Should be as simple as re-buying for as many additional seats are needed.

For the products of mine that do have Studio Licenses, you just need to enter that amount in the purchase field to add that tier to checkout.

Ok cool, so the way you increase voxels is by limiting the area that gets voxelized. You would make a hidden mask with an anchor point on it and provide that to the Voxel Mask input on 3D Blur.

Hi! This sounds like your voxels are really large but it's hard to say without seeing your results. Are you able to share any pictures?

Hi! In a pixel processor I left I think a multiply with nothing plugged up into the B input so it defaulted to zero. Apparently that's not a thing you can do anymore, and I had to provide an input. It still worked in Painter but would hard crash Designer. Weird bug haha.