Hello,

We're happy to announce a new Beta version of PixaFlux.

For the past 6 months we have been upgrading PixaFlux from a node based image editor into a powerful PBR Texture Composer.



These are some of the features we have added recently:

* PBR Viewport (Albedo Normal Roughness Metalness Occlusion) with direct and ambient illumination.
* Native support and tools for normal images. (Convert Modify Blend)
* New nodes for normal image sculpting. (Relief Grow Shrink Relax)

These are some of the node based image editor features:

* Parametric Non Destructive Workflow with super fast iteration.
* Image's size, position and pixel format can vary as it flows through the node graph.
* Combine raster and vector images on the same node graph.
* Image Deformation.



And this is our next milestone:

* Share shapes among multiple nodes.

If you are interested in helping us Beta Test PixaFlux please download the latest version from our website. Please send us your comments and feedback. For more information about PixaFlux visit the wiki or watch our videos on YouTube.

Thank you!

Checking it out now. Thank you.

Also trying it. Thanks.

Hello,

We have just uploaded a new PixaFlux Beta Version (2016-02-14) with many new features:

* Create nodes with right click in the graph viewport.
* Create nodes just clicking the nodes menu icons.
* Zoom Frame in Model Viewport.

A few bug fixes:

* Blend Normal and Mix Normal enlarge output image to include all inputs.
* Fixes a bug with the logging system.

We have also uploaded three new video tutorials to YouTube.

- Create and Manipulate Nodes.
- Model node.
- To Normal node.

Special thanks to jpb06, Zenitor and myclay for suggesting new features!

Looks very nice.

I'm not understanding...is this a 3D Modeling program or...?

Hello Mokonafan,

Thank you for you interest!

Technically PixaFlux is an image editor that uses a node graph to apply all image operations. PixaFlux offers many of the operations found in image editors that use a layer stack, but thanks to the nature of the node graph the workflow can be organized in ways not possible with traditional tools. For example, the same project can include images of different pixel format (color mode), size or position.

This advantage is very useful when creating textures for 3D models, because on the same project you can create all the textures of your model, reuse elements as much as possible, and save the images with different sizes if needed, or even join multiple monochromatic images on the channels of an single rgb image.

On top of this we have added additional nodes and tools to make PixaFlux even more useful for this task. We added a new Normal image type, and nodes to create, modify and blend normal images. We also added a physically based shader viewport for accurate representation of the 3D models.



Thank you Wallace!

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for new nodes, or anything in general. We are trying to make PixaFlux as useful as possible!

It is only for 64-bit? Why this lack of information?

Nevertheless - my suggestions - add:

- Language translation files,
- Filters GMIC (now it is rumored to be easier - https://plus.google.com/+GMIC_software/posts/W3dFSmGj5hD)

Thank you MareroQ,
Oh yes... I'll add a note in the downloads page stating that it is a 64 bits executable!
Translations... This might come slowly, and it might start with Spanish (my native language), but yeah, I sure have to do this!
G'MIC filters... any suggestions? If you guys tell me one or two base filters I might be able to add them as nodes for the next release!
Cheers!

It's hard to choose 2 out of the abundance GMIC (can any section Artistic?).
This is very good news that You try to add GMIC.

Hello,

We have just uploaded a new PixaFlux Beta Version (2016-04-05) with many new features.

In this release we provide more PBR texture composition tools to simulate manipulating real world elements, keeping all PBR textures in sync:



New Nodes:
Stretch Node with multiple one to one input - output.

New Node Features:
Color Range node with multiple outputs.
Mix Node with Minimum, Maximum and Multiply mix methods.
External Node with multi output support.
Transform Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Resize Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Linear Array Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Reframe Node with multiple one to one input - output

Tech:
Read and Write support for TGA images.

User Interface:
Drag and Drop OBJ files into the Node Graph viewport.
Double click connections to set Active and Display node.
Node Graph Frames.

YouTube video with new release features.

Thank you guys for your comments and feedback. For the next release I will add more of the features you have suggested.

Hello,

There is a new PixaFlux release (2016-04-23).

For this release we have continued improving the texture compositing features of PixaFlux, focusing on the concept of texture elements.



New release features in YouTube.
PBR Texture Compositing Video Tutorial in YouTube

New Nodes
Offset Node with multiple one to one input - output.

New Node Features
Flip Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Align Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Perspective Node with multiple one to one input - output.
Stretch Node manipulator resize.

User Interface
File > New > New PBR Project
Model to Display: Box - Sphere - Cylinder.
Hold down shift to prevent autoconnect.

Thank you for all your feedback. For the next release we'll continue working on the texture compositing features of PixaFlux.

Hello,

There is a new PixaFlux release (2016-12-20).

Since the last post we have added a lot of new nodes and tools:

• Procedural Textures with 3D baking .
• PBR Specular - Diffuse and Roughness - Glossiness workflows .
• UVMesh Render node .
• Mesh Position and Mesh Normal Angle nodes .
• Mesh Distance Node.
• Seamless Perlin Noise generator.

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For the next release we're working on more nodes to bake multiple geometry properties to images and masks to use in your texture compositions.

We are always open to questions and suggestions.

Thank you!

Hello,

There is a new PixaFlux release (2017-09-17).

In this release we're introducing the Common Tiles node, which generates seamless tile textures from multiple image inputs.



We've also uploaded a new Common Tiles video tutorial to YouTube:



Please let us know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions here or in our new PixaFlux Freshdesk support page.
Thank you!
PixaFlux