HAS Paint layers

HAS Paint Layers Add-on for Blender.

Overview: HAS Paint Layers is a tool for artists and designers looking to streamline their texture painting process. This add-on allows you to create and manage multiple layers for paint textures, providing greater flexibility and control over your projects.

Key Features:

• Layer Management: Effortlessly create, organize, and manage multiple paint layers.
• Adjustment Layers: Use layers as adjustments for the layer below, giving you precise control over color corrections, masking and effects.
• PBR Texture Painting: Assign layers to specific material properties like Roughness, Metallic, Alpha, and Normal, enhancing your PBR workflow.
• Layers from Existing Textures: Load any texture into a layer, allowing for quick integration of pre-existing assets.
• Layers created with this addon would work on any other version of blender without installing an add-on.
• Blending Modes
• Preview icons for layers
• Use node groups created with this addon in any material setup, choosing "Custom" as shader type
• Create custom node group and use it as adjustment layer
• Combine layers
• Export created textures
• Work on multiple materials in a scene
• Autosave textures toggle: Saving blender file now will save all edited textures
• Projection image sets/ Better Quick edit

Future Plans:

• Export as Layers for Image Editing Software
• Select Which Channel (RGBA) to Use
• Adding compatibility with all versions
• Layer groups

How to Use It:

1. Choose the object you want to paint in Blender.
2. Switch to Material preview mode
3. Open the Paint Layers panel on the right side toolbar in 3D viewport.
4. Press "Setup Material"
5. Add a new layer and select it.
6. Start painting and have fun!

Note: Fully compatible with Blender versions 3.1 - 4.1
Other versions - not tested:

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