The two “best” options out of that bunch I’ve found was Substance which is great but overkill for my use case, and Armorpaint wouldn’t be too bad if it wasn’t so unstable and buggy with a UX that is questionable at best. I can’t speak for art showpieces for which performance/optimisation is irrelevant, but in the case of 3d models made for realtime applications (video games being a big example) where making UVs is a given to begin with Procreate has a lot of potential for handpainted (especially stylised) texturing in 3d, and I’ve found 5.2 already very promising (especially given its only the first iteration), having tried other options on desktop such as Substance Painter, Armorpaint, Quixel Mixer, Blender, etc. Things would be really powerful if I could position, scale, rotate (maybe painting 3D) before I commit to what I need and make my 3D layer into a 2D layer again. If I happened to position it somewhat wrong in Nomad I have to go back and try again… Right now it seems it will be easier for me to keep doing what I was doing before: I export my 2D artwork, open it as a reference file in Nomad Sculpt, position my file and camera over there, render and export a transparent PNG, open it as a layer in Procreate and keep painting. I would be able to use clipping masks to keep clean edges where needed. With a few good models I would be able to kitbash something in Procreate and then proceed to 2D painting on top of it. That would mean I could make a fast 3D block In Nomad Sculpt, export my Obj without UV Wrapping, place it in my 2D artwork and work from there. I would use this 3D layer to correctly place my model on the artwork and then I would keep working at it. 3D in Procreate was very disappointing IMHO… But it may change in the near future.Īs an illustrator, what I really wanted to do was to import a 3D file into a procreate 2D file as a 3D layer. Additionally, using the Plane also with Refraction and you can live mirror the sculpt image - without duplicating the model. Layers could do with some extra enhancements in Nomad, but we’ve already requested this I believe - but funnily enough, you can use a Plane placed over the camera of the sculpt and adjusting the Plane itself (colours, textures + channels, and Material type) and you can actually get a form of Layer effect lol. Just takes some good brush themed alphas for medium differences (crayon, pen, pencil, charcoal, etc.) and you’re set to go.

I know where I’m happy to paint my models.

Nomad can do these features, sure, painting on the vertices directly and not an image map - but at sculpts with millions. I can see an exception for pipeline use, if the model has intentions for being in a game for example - but not for 3D illustration alone.

Anyone seasoned and there’s sudden glaring omissions in 5.2 painting engine that actually makes it worthless in a lot of ways other than here’s a pretty low poly model. It’s got a wow factor for those who don’t know much about 3D and cant see the wood for the tree’s.

I had this discussion earlier with a few people.

Import image to quixel mixer