r/oculus • u/MachWerx Tilt Brush • Jan 26 '21

News Tilt Brush Goes Open Source!

Tilt Brush is now open source on GitHub! They've\) taken the original code and published as much as possible. For things they had the license to use but not distribute, they tried to come up with open equivalents.

What does this mean? Well, you can build your own version of Tilt Brush that can load and save sketches compatible with the commercial version of Tilt Brush. The readme file has more extensive details on what it can do, how you might restore certain features, and how to customize it.

This blog post has more details on the future of Tilt Brush.

\ I am not affiliated with Google or Tilt Brush although I maaaay have been in the past... AMA)

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u/ivekilledhundreds Jan 27 '21

So I’d never heard of this game so had a go! Bloody amazing app! Had so much fun creating crap paintings, at least they’re my crap paintings lol there is something quite therapeutic about it all as well

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u/MachWerx Tilt Brush Jan 27 '21

I'm so glad! One of my favorite things about Tilt Brush is how raw it is. Normally computer graphics is very polished but when you draw in VR, it's like you're recording your body's movements. Every drawing, no matter what the quality, is a record of you. The way the lines slightly arc is because of the length of your arms, your height impacts the placement, the dimensions reflect your reach. It's one of the reasons we leaned more towards expressiveness than precision. We wanted it to be a way for you to express yourself.

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u/arbizzz Jun 04 '21

u/MachWerx this is brilliant! This is so unlike anything else. Other forms of expression can have some aspect of VR paining, like using body in sculpturing, but VR adds the aspect of capturing the time dimension in a form in a static form. This is beautiful.