# EsProgram/InkPainter

Texture-Paint on Unity.

Repository: https://github.com/EsProgram/InkPainter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/inkpainter
Homepage: https://esprogram.github.io/InkPainterDocument/
Language: C#
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: texture-paint, unity, shader, paint, csharp, shaderlab, c-sharp
Last push: 2018-08-17T05:26:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3639, "days_push": 2938, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1308, forks 177 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:19.274664+00:00)

## What it is
InkPainter is a Unity library that enables runtime texture painting on 3D objects using shaders. Developers attach an InkCanvas component to a mesh and call a Paint method with a brush to draw, erase, or simulate fluid effects on textures.

## Use cases
- paint textures on 3d models at runtime in unity
- let players draw or splatter paint on game objects
- implement paint-erasing and brush rotation in a unity game
- simulate liquid paint dripping affected by normal maps
- create paintable objects dynamically at runtime

## When to choose
- you need runtime texture painting in a Unity project
- you want shader-based painting with fluid or height-map effects
- you prefer an MIT-licensed, well-documented Unity asset

## When to avoid
- you need painting in engines other than Unity
- you require actively maintained software with recent releases
- you need 2D image editing rather than 3D mesh texture painting

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: graphics, image-processing, game-engine
- domain: graphics
- platform: game-engine, cross-platform
- tags: unity, texture-paint, shader, csharp, painting, game-development

## Member repositories
- EsProgram/InkPainter (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:19.274664+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:50:02.794352+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/EsProgram/InkPainter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:19.274664+00:00, sha 7c00d6ce8912)
  - homepage: https://esprogram.github.io/InkPainterDocument/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:08:15.263157+00:00, sha 676a4936764f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.