by Polygoningenieur·Modeling
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Picctory - Picture Factory earns its place in the superhive library as a focused tool for framed wall pictures, handling the moulding curve, passepartout, glass pane and eight materials inside Blender. The developer lists it under the GPL license and states there is currently no further development, with Blender 4.0 the newest supported version.
Picctory - Picture Factory is a Blender addon for creating realistic wall pictures with one-click setup and customization. You can display any image, either selecting one from your local machine or searching lexica.art, a Stable Diffusion engine with thousands of pre-generated AI images.
Once a picture is placed, several parts can be adjusted. The frame moulding is shaped by manipulating the moulding curve, and its colour can be changed. You can add a passepartout with adjustable size and colour, and a glass pane in front of the picture that can be disabled in the viewport while still appearing in renders. Frame and picture sizes adjust individually or together, and eight frame materials are available with editable colours. For anything further, the result can be converted to a mesh.
Picctory supports Blender 3.3 through 4.0 and is released under the GPL license. The developer notes there is currently no further development.
Picctory - Picture Factory is best for blender users creating and customizing framed wall pictures.
Picctory - Picture Factory is completely free to download and use.
Picctory - Picture Factory lists support for Blender versions 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3. Support for Blender 4.0 was added in version 1.3.3, released on 29 January 2024, alongside bug fixes, and an earlier update added support for Blender 3.5. If you are on a version outside this range, check the developer's page, since the addon is currently not under further development and newer Blender releases may not be covered.
Picctory - Picture Factory lets you display any image in two ways. You can select an image from your local machine, or use the built-in Stable Diffusion prompt search, which pulls from lexica.art and its thousands of pre-generated AI images. The lexica search runs asynchronously, and unused search result images are deleted upon the next lexica search. Once an image is chosen, it becomes the picture inside the frame you build.
Picctory - Picture Factory is listed as free here in the catalog, and it is released under the GPL license. Licensing terms can change, so for the current details it is best to check the developer's page directly. The GPL license covers how the addon can be used, modified and shared, which is worth reviewing if you plan to build on or redistribute it in your own work.
Picctory - Picture Factory offers several built-in adjustments, including a moulding curve you shape freely, editable frame colours, a passepartout, a glass pane, individual or combined scaling, and eight frame materials. When you need to go further than these, the addon can convert the picture to a mesh, letting you continue customizing it from there with Blender's standard mesh editing. This gives you a starting point that you can then refine by hand.
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