Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Posted by Jim Thacker Open Brush 2.10 adds ‘multiplayer’ VR painting html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" Icosa Foundation has updated Open Brush, its open-source 3D painting software, used to create concept designs in virtual reality. Open Brush 2.10 adds a new Multiplayer mode, making it possible for users to create designs collaboratively, and support for Logitech’s MX Ink stylus. A community-run open-source successor to Google’s Tilt Brush Open Brush is based on Tilt Brush, the room-scale 3D painting and sketching tool previously developed by Google, and open-sourced in 2021. Like its predecessor, Open Brush enables artists to paint coloured strokes that function both as paint strokes and 3D geometry, either in virtual reality or on a desktop system. Users can control the form of each stroke by curving or lathing it, and it is possible to constrain strokes to straight lines or use grid or angle snapping to sketch geometric objects. Once created, strokes can be mirrored, recoloured or erased, and users can set up lights, cameras and a background environment for the resulting 3D sketch. Completed sketches can be exported in glTF, FBX, USD or JSON format, or used directly as VR assets in game engines: Open Brush has a dedicated Unity SDK. Open Brush 2.10: new Multiplayer mode for collaborative painting The main new feature in Open Brush 2.10 is the new Multiplayer mode. Previously available in beta, it enables artists to work together in a shared VR space, either to create drawings collaboratively, or simply to showcase their work. Users create their own ‘rooms’ in which to collaborate, sharing the room name with anyone they want to join, with options to mute or kick participants, or set them to view-only mode. The initial implementation supports Open Brush’s core painting tools, but more features will be added in future: you can find a list of current limitations in the online documentation. Other new features Other changes in Open Brush 2.10 include support for the MX Ink, Logitech’s new mixed reality stylus for Meta Quest hardware. It is also now possible to erase ‘widgets‘ – including imported images and 3D models – as well as brush strokes, and to switch experimental brushes on and off without restarting. Licensing and system requirements Open Brush 2.10 is available free on Windows, Linux and macOS. It is compatible with most current VR headsets including HTC, Meta, Pico and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The source code is available under an Apache 2.0 licence. Read a full list of new features in Open Brush in the online documentation Download compiled builds of Open Brush Download the source code for Open Brush Have your say on this story by following CG Channel on Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). As well as being able to comment on stories, followers of our social media accounts can see videos we don’t post on the site itself, including making-ofs for the latest VFX movies, animations, games cinematics and motion graphics projects. Latest News Open Brush 2.10 adds 'multiplayer' VR painting Free VR sketching and concept art tool now lets you create designs collaboratively with other artists. Check out the other new features. Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Lumion releases Lumion 2025.0 Significant update to the real-time visualization software adds AI render upscaling, ray traced water and fog, and new pricing and licensing. Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Lumion releases Lumion View for SketchUp New real-time design exploration and visualization plugin lets users generate ray traced 4K renders inside the 3D modeling software. Thursday, May 1st, 2025 Kiri Engine 3.14 adds AI-enhanced Lidar scanning Mobile 3D scanning app uses new machine learning techniques to refine Lidar environment scans captured on iPhone and iPad Pros. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.0 Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Chaos releases Vantage 2.8 Real-time renderer gets support for light linking, lens effects, and Shader Execution Reordering on NVIDIA GPUs. See all the new features. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 More News Ziva VFX and OIDN creators win Sci-Tech Academy Awards Sparseal adds SDF modeling to Uniform 1.4 EZ-Tree is a lightweight free open-source tree generator Substance 3D creator Sébastien Deguy to leave Adobe Download free Houdini tools from SideFX's Project Grot Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture Unity 6.1: discover 5 key features for CG artists Adobe releases Photoshop 26.6 Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D Get 260+ modular Wild West building assets for Unreal Engine Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code Older Posts