Software with Texture Painting

PixiEditor is a 2D graphics editor for creating and editing raster, vector, and procedural graphics. It supports pixel art, digital painting, vector shapes and paths, animation, and node-based image processing within the same document.

The editor uses a layer-based workflow combined with a node graph. Layers, effects, and other parts of a document can be represented as nodes and connected to create custom processing pipelines and procedural graphics.

Toolsets

PixiEditor includes several toolsets for different types of 2D work:

Pixel Art - tools designed for pixel-perfect drawing and editing.
Painting - brushes, shapes, and other raster painting tools.
Vector - vector shapes and paths.

These toolsets can be used together in the same document, allowing raster and vector content to be combined.

Animation

PixiEditor includes a timeline for creating frame-by-frame animations. Nodes can also be used to build procedural animations and animate custom effects.

Node Graph

Each document has an associated node graph used to define how its contents are generated and processed. Nodes can represent layers, effects, inputs, and other operations.

The node system can be used for non-destructive editing as well as procedural graphics and animations.

AltusPixel is a pixel art editor for game developers, sold on Steam for Windows and Linux. It is a single offline desktop application with no account.

Engine Export: complete GameMaker project exports (sprite, tileset and autotiles/room), a Godot TileSet and map scene, a Tiled map, Unity sprite metadata, and .ase filess.

Drawing: layers that can be added, reordered, hidden and recolored one at a time; lines that snap to isometric slopes and isometric scenes built block by block; fills with a material such as brick, stone, sand, grass, leaves, wood or water instead of a flat color; text in bundled pixel fonts with a live preview; a Bend tool that curves a straight strip.

Animation: frame-by-frame animation with onion skin and in-app playback; a character can be rigged on the canvas by placing joints, and several rigged characters can stand on one stage and run together; export to GIF, animated WebP, APNG and sprite sheets.

Tiles: tilemap layers where editing one tile updates every placed copy, and autotile set generation.

Color: thirty-six bundled palettes, a palette library, and template palettes pasted straight in.

Pipeline: recorded macros that run across a whole folder; an atlas packer with JSON metadata and native Godot .tres output; automatic re-export on save into a game's asset folder; in-file snapshots and a session timelapse recorder; PNG, integer-scaled PNG and sprite-sheet export.

Also developed: photos can be turned into a printable cross-stitch pattern at real size. The application contains no generative AI features.

Blender add-on (plugin) for pixel perfect pixel art texture painting. It supports drawing and painting pixel art inside Blender, in the 3D Viewport on top of the model (in Object and Edit modes) and in 2D in the Image Editor. It has tools for drawing and painting (including colors, palettes, layers, pressure sensitivity, bucket fill, gradients), selecting and moving pixels, and quickly setting up the model and the viewport for pixel art. The plugin also helps with setting up and managing multiple texture densities per mesh, allowing for uniform pixel sizes across the whole mesh or per face pixel size variation.