Topic: Flame Painter - a program to paint with flames
Ferrao10 The Afflicted
Joined: 03 May 2010 Posts: 789
Posted: 05-30-2012 10:26 AM
Well, really you're not restricted to paint with just flames. You paint with kind of a particle brush. How these particles act is up to your choice. Looks pretty interesting to me. http://www.escapemotions.com/products/flamepainter/ There's a demo for download as well. Full product is just 12€/15$.
I could imagine this to be a nifty tool to create textures for FX shaders. The weakness of it's approach: the outcome is more or less accidental, depending on your settings and workflow. It wasn't designed to be used for creating textures in the first place. You don't auto- create tileable textures, either. Some first thought and post processing would then probably have to be done. But the good news: it's able to export alpha channel TGAs in very high resolutions.
Mouse as input sucks, I feel the need for a tablet now.