Glad to see other indie developers using Krita. I use Krita for texturing, as well--particularly its recent seamless texture feature. It complements my other tools quite nicely being such a versatile tool. I particularly like some of its intelligent features. I really like using its guides, for instance.

If I had just one wish, it'd be to see Krita support RAW file types for heightmaps, so that I could edit heightmaps in Krita with 2D style (I have 3D editors, but sometimes you just need 2D), since Unity and CryENGINE 3 SDK are very popular and center around RAW (and .r16) heightmaps.

The only other similar editing option available for such is Photoshop, as there are no other free options around (not even GIMP). I think RAW heightmap support feature would immediately put Krita in everyone's toolset. Perhaps we'll see it someday.

Especially since I think game developers are becoming the predominant driving force behind a lot of creation suite software nowadays, even more so that film. Such is evident, even as Krita added a couple of features geared more towards game texturing.

Otherwise, Krita's developing to be a solid tool for texturing and concept art, and I love seeing its adoption grow. I've seen that Krita's been Greenlit on Steam and it seems to be getting a lot of good attention lately in general. That's great for Krita! May it prosper!

And yeah, I as well hope for better Blender/Krita integration, maybe Blender supporting Krita files someday, though Blender itself will need an improve layers system to see the full potential of such integration.

boudewijn wrote:Krita now has support for r16 heightmaps -- the ones that are just a stream of 16 bit gray values.

boudewijn wrote:Please, do And mention the kickstarter.

8 bit heightmaps now also work, with the proviso that Krita wants to call them .r8, not .raw -- the .raw extension conflicts with the Panasonic .raw camera raw files, and Panasonic actually has a proper mimetype registered.