Vermillion – VR Painting
It’s time to discover your inner artist! With Vermillion, you get a fully equipped oil painting studio in your home, without any of the mess. Ready for the unrivaled sense of accomplishment from creating your first painting? Learn with your favorite YouTube artists using the built-in web browser, trace reference images directly on the canvas, or even better – learn to paint from (new) friends in multiplayer!
Up to four people can paint together in the studio. Share palettes, work together on each other’s canvas, teach a class, or have an old-fashioned paint night.
Vermillion features realistic wet-on-wet color mixing, undo, layers, and a wide range of simulated brushes. Developed with the feedback of both traditional and digital artists, you’re sure to get the fun of oil painting without any of the frustration.
Once done, mount your masterpiece in your studio, or easily share it as an image. You can also create a beautifully varnished 3D model export for your VR home.
FEATURES:
Paint in other games
Ever dreamed of painting the mountains of Skyrim, or your favorite VRChat world? Vermillion can run as a SteamVR overlay, allowing you to paint inside any other VR game!
Multiplayer
Paint together with up to three of your friends, or new friends you meet in public rooms. Cross platform with Quest 2. Compatible with the overlay mode, so you can paint together inside other VR games. Note that the overlay only exists within Vermillion – other players not inside your Vermillion multiplayer session can not see your painting equipment.
Realistic color mixing
Vermillion allows you to blend colors as you would with real paints. Dip your brush into multiple colors, and mix a new color by whisking the brush on the palette – and yes, yellow and blue make green!
Integrated web browser with canvas projector
Never painted before? No problem! The easel has a web browser right next to it, allowing you to paint along with your favorite artists on YouTube for the first time without needing physical equipment, and giving you convenient access to the internet’s vast library of learning resources and reference material.
Vermillion comes with an hour long in-game paint-along teaching you how to paint a cute robin – you’ll hardly believe what you are capable of!
The browser can even be projected onto the canvas, so you can easily trace your reference. You can also display local images on the browser.
Mount your paintings
You can mount your paintings in the virtual studios, so you can enjoy your previous work while painting your next piece.
Designed for wet-on-wet painting
Vermillion is made for wet-on-wet painting. It mixes color not only on the palette, but also on the canvas, allowing you to create perfectly smooth gradients with just a few strokes. Use a dry brush to blend colors further, or to move paint around to create a variety of effects from reflections to grass.
Layers
While Vermillion is made to be the ultimate wet-on-wet experience, sometimes you just need to paint on another layer for detail work. Which is why it’s fortunate that there is support for four separate layers that you can merge and re-order!
Fine control over every mark
Exert fine-grained control over your brushwork through the pressure with which you press the brush into the surface. Use the hand steadying tool to compensate for the lack of a physical canvas to rest your hand against.
Distinct brushes
From the two inch brush all the way down to the rigger, there’s a brush for every occasion.
Sharable
You can export your finished painting as a 3D model to use in your VR home, share through Sketchfab, or use in social VR applications. Vermillion also offers up to 8k image export of your finished piece, which can be used for canvas prints!
Made for streamers
With a controllable spectator camera to offer great views of the process while streaming or recording, as well as full LIV support, you’ll be sure to create amazing content.
Paintings in the trailer and screenshots by David Kühnel, Chad Munn, Gladski, and Markus Franz.
Game Discussion
Steam User 20
Fun to paint, cool pressure system. Painted for an hour before accidentally exiting without saving, then threw my controller across the room. Good game.
Steam User 5
I am a painter/artist enough to admit it at least, and this game is great for people wanting to get a better since of the oil painting process, you have filberts, rounds, fan brushes, and you play with their sizes. You learn what works for you in a virtual sense before you spend dollars in a real sense. My setup is now to a point where it’s more effort to put on a headset than just paint in the real world, but it took me a bit to find all the stuff that works for me, and this program helped me quickly put on a headset and have an amazing studio without a lot of work.
Steam User 5
This is literally the best VR application I have ever used. Yes, even better than VRChat.
Steam User 5
Very good VR painting game. Once I got into painting, I lost myself into the craft just like how I used to when drawing. Tons of ways to either get into painting for the first time or to get back into it after stopping for a while. It lets you save your palettes, there's autosaves, there's tutorials, it lets you project images you can add to a directory. It's a pretty well thought out piece of kit. That's when everything works with zero issues.
There are some technical issues on PC and some based on the controllers you use. The game will crash if you initially load workshop environments and quitting it will instead leave it in a crashed state although it does seem to save correctly. I am running on a 7900XT, so I am not sure if the crashes are related to that. The layer system is glitched and tends to break if you undo after a merge, causing painted layers to appear on the higher layer. The pointers often disappear for no reason, it's quite frustrating to navigate the menus as a result.
If you use Index controllers like I do, you will notice this game seem to have been designed for the Quest's controllers in mind instead. Nothing really takes advantage of the touchpads and the movement controls rely on you holding the right trigger to then be able to either jump or move with up and down on the right stick. Squeezing the controller emulates the grip trigger on the Quest to change how you hold a brush. If you're like me with the instinct of reaching out to something and grabbing an item, then you will accidently change your grasp on your brush, it's quite annoying. I haven't checked if someone made a better controller mapping.
A small gripe is that I don't like the avatars. They remind me of FB's horizon avatars. They're really ugly and don't fit the game. Thank god I don't have to see them myself at least.
Outside of the last somewhat irrelevant complaint, I think it's a fun but flawed painting application. Hopefully it improves with updates. Tons of great features and it's fun to get back into art in another form.
Steam User 3
It's pretty fun to use and rather intuitive. I've only painted a handful of times in my life so having this medium to use without fear of mess or costly supplies is awesome. It's especially nice that there's a handy undue built into it and you can make your own paint by numbers from images. You can really tell the people that made this software enjoy painting and took the time to add all the necessary quality of life features you'd want from something like this.
10/10, a must have for VR creatives
Steam User 1
I would recommend it, you can get into a sort of flow.
The eyedropper is super useful, by sampling an empty space on the pallet it clears the brush instantly without getting the water on it to mess up your colors.
Steam User 3
I don't see this as a game as much as i see this as a tool, this tool is easily the best possible way to paint in VR. It is so flawless.
+ easy viewing of videos while painting, allowing to paint from tutorials.
+ paint by numbers, making it easy for people like me to learn.
+ extremely realistic painting tools.
+ extremely realistic paint physics.
A real artist could easily sink hundreds of hours creating masterpieces, unfortunately, i am not a real artist, so i think ive done all the drawing my ADHD can handle. But an amazing masterpiece of a tool.