VRC Texture Painter

VRC Texture Painter

Fix your avatar's textures without leaving Unity.

A hard line across the body, a face texture that doesn't match the neck, an emission mask you have to guess on a flat UV map. VRC Texture Painter lets you fix all of it by painting directly on your avatar in the Unity Scene view.

Fix common texture problems

Hard lines and UV seams
Soften the edge with Blur, then run the Blend brush over it. Blend turns the border into a smooth gradient between the colours on both sides, without smearing. Strokes follow the 3D surface, so they go straight across UV seams.
Head and body that don't match
Many avatars draw the face from its own texture, like a Poiyomi decal on UV2 next to the body on UV0. Add both textures, and one Blend stroke over the neck paints into both at once.

Colours that turn muddy
Colours mix perceptually by default, so transitions stay vivid instead of going grey in the middle.

Paint masks for Poiyomi and lilToon

The Mask Painter tab lists every mask slot on your material, such as Poiyomi's _EmissionMask, _GlitterMask and _PathingMap, lilToon's _EmissionBlendMask, or the masks of any other shader.

• Soft emission glow: paint emission that fades out smoothly
  
• Glitter spots: dab them exactly where you want them
  
• Gradients: drag a line for paths and fades
  
• R, G and B channels: keep several masks in one texture without overwriting each other
• Mirror: paint the left and right side in one stroke
• Show Mask On Model: see the mask even while its effect is turned off
• Create Texture: makes a new mask for an empty slot and assigns it for you

Features

• Tools: Hard, Soft, Blur, Blend, Eraser and Gradient, with pen pressure
• 3D projection painting: works across UV seams, on mirrored and overlapping UVs, on any UV channel and on UVs outside 0–1
• Several textures in one session: body and face textures painted in one stroke
• Photoshop style layers: 13 blend modes, opacity, lock transparency, merge and image import
• Full undo: Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y through Unity's normal undo
• Project files: keep every layer so you can continue later
• Export PNG or overwrite the source: your original import settings are kept
• Brush options: occlusion, backface culling, normal falloff and seam padding

Safe for your avatar

The tool is editor only. It adds no components to your avatar and doesn't touch your materials until you export, so uploads are unaffected.

Requirements

• Unity 2022.3 (VRChat avatar projects), Built-in render pipeline
• Works with Poiyomi, lilToon, Standard and other shaders

How to use

1. Import the .unitypackage into your avatar project
2. Open Tools > VRC Texture Painter
3. Select your avatar's mesh and press Start Painting, or switch to the Mask Painter tab