- SkySketch is a digital panoramic painting application.

- Rather than drawing on a canvas with borders, paint the world around you: No borders, no limits!

- Switch freely between VR and monitor mode on the fly at any time, seamlessly - and between pressure-sensitive tablet and VR Controller input.

- Powerful, highly customizable brush engine with a natural drawing feeling & line stabilization

- Planned & built for VR from the very start - everything available in monitor mode is just as useable in VR.

 

 

-SkySketch is a panoramic painting app, not a 3D spatial painting - or rather, "sculpting" application.

- In the later, you paint freely in 3D space, with each stroke or object having it’s own depth. In SkySketch you paint on surface with a fixed depth, but that surface is wrapped around you like a giant sphere.

- This lets you experience  a more traditional painting feeling and finer control over the brushstrokes, closer  to what you get in a 2D painting application in a new way: 360 degrees around you!

SkySketch is a portable tool - simply unpack the (entire) zip file to a folder of your choice and run the included SkySketch.exe file.

Pressing space will toggle the main menu, instantly placing detailed brush controls and access to the different painting modes and other tools at your fingertips.
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Hovering over any button or setting provides you with a short description of it's function.

General / Saving & Loading

You can chose to save and load your work using either an internal browser or the normal windows explorer.

The internal explorer has the advantage of being useable in VR.

SkySketch can save/export images as .png files.

Currently, SkySketch is based on the equirectangular panorama layout. Additionally, files can be exported as cubemaps for use in other applications - but you should always keep your work saved as an equirect (that's the default layout used by the save commands) as well, if you still plan to edit it in SkySketch.

[TODO: Picture comparing panorama unwrap layouts]

The following image types can currently be imported either onto the canvas or as brushes: .png, .jpg, .tga - this goes for panoramic pictures to paint on, as well as the brushtips that you can use to paint.

Support for additional formats and panorama layouts, including layer support, is planned for the near future.

 

To import brushes,