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Custom textures in the paint tool/drawer

Feature Request
I want to be able to use my own custom textures (JPG/PNG) directly in the Arkio paint tool/drawer. This is critical for my business, which focuses on facade renovation presentations, as I need to show specific facade materials to clients. Currently, I can only use the built-in materials or import textures via other software like Revit/SketchUp, which is not as efficient for quick presentations in Arkio.
Posted by Brown Mud ·
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  • ren072

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    Jul 2

    Hi,

    I would also love to have more options with the Paint tool.

    Just having an RGB/HSV color picker with a transparency value would already help a lot!

    Usually, I need to quickly adjust colors while reviewing a project in Mixed Reality.

    If I take the Summer Cabin exemple Examples for Build Beyond 📽️ - Studio / Challenges - Arkio, I’d like to fine tune the pathway color to perfectly match the trees wood color.

    Thanks!

  • Johan Hanegraaf

    Team•

    Mar 23

    Hi, thanks for sharing your ideas for this feature! We agree that adding custom paint materials to your Arkio paint library would make Arkio more powerful.

    What type of materials do you mostly require in your work? Do you, e.g., need custom colors, transparency and reflections, and do you want to control the size and rotation of the textures, or would a default 1×1 meter texture also work for your use cases?

    Other CAD modelling tools, such as Revit/SketchUp, have custom material editors and size-mapping tools, so we recommend using them if advanced materials are needed. Adding a system like that to Arkio would be more complex, but we can identify the minimum requirements to get started with loading custom textures.

    • ren072

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      Sep 13

      Now that I’m getting more experience, having the opportunity to import a texture file, place, rotate and scale it on a 3D model would be great.

      I’m also thinking about a great option: having the ability to grab a texture in mixed reality. I’m not sure if Meta is giving access to the camera. If not, we just need to use the headset’s capability to take a screenshot, then import it from the headset’s gallery to apply it on a model in Arkio.😃 👍