impcat 12+
Design Bench - Immersive Agency
Designed for iPad
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- £2.99
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Description
impcat is a photorealistic miniature painting simulator.
Visit impcat.de for full details.
impcat (short for Interactive Miniature Painting Catalogue) is a simulator for photorealistic painting results on gaming and tabletop miniatures.
This tool gives you a variety of miniature images with individually customizable body sections, that you can paint with colours you own or perhaps wish to purchase. It works with predefined colour palettes, using names and values as promoted by their manufacturers.
To achieve a high quality result the system simulates a four step painting process:
Base colouring, layering, shading and highlighting.
Features:
- A set of 6 built-in miniatures, by Artel "W", with up to nearly 30 individually paintable sections
- A set of built-in colour palettes, as well as additional palettes from our DLC server (around 1000 paints to choose from, and growing)
- A file handling system for importing custom image and paint templates (visit impcat.de/faq for instructions)
- Access to a growing online library of free DLCs (visit impcat.de/about for full list of contents)
- An automated complement recommendation mode that lets you select a base colour and then automatically applies harmonizing layer, shade and highlight paints, which you can then customize at will.
- A photorealistic simulation of the applied paints.
- A shopping list generator that collects the data of all applied colours and gives you the links to the corresponding shop pages
- Saving and loading options for your colour configurations
- A colour creating tool, for creating opaque and metallic paints of any colour you like
- A colour mixing tool, for testing mix results of your paints
- A randomizer, for getting colour scheme inspiration by letting impcat ramdomly distribute a set of colours across the model
What’s New
Version 1.2
Version 1.2 introduces the following (visit https://www.impcat.de/2022/03/31/impcat-ios-1-2-update/ for full details):
Fixes:
- Significantly improved pinch-zoom behaviour
- Colour adjustments (of built-in palettes)
- Alphabetical order of colour palette selection list
- Improved image template quality
- Randomizer Auto Mode switch
Changes:
- Layout adjustments (including iPad optimization)
- Tutorial update
- AV paint palette structure
New Features:
- “Select” hub
- Import XLSX
- Find paint
- Edit “my Paints”
- Create colour sets
- Shifting paints support
Ratings and Reviews
Impractical
The app itself is impressive, but impractical. There is a very limited range of models available inside the app, and no sensible way to import models which represent your collection - even if they’re available.
Creating your own appears to rely on expensive 3rd party software.
Regretfully, I have to conclude this app isn’t ready for me to use.
It has potential but doesn’t explain anything...
Overall the ability to try out paint schemes before applying it to the model is great and gives you an idea of what the finished model would look like.
Unfortunately the app doesn’t explain anything to you. It doesn’t explain or make it clear how to import other miniatures from files people have created which was a big selling point for me since the very limited range already installed on the app is poor. After a while I gave up trying to figure it out and deleted the app. Even the website doesn’t explain how to do anything which is a shame. I may try the app again further down the line.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for this feedback. We were assuming that the Tutorial menu was sufficient for explainting all the features included, but we're also aware that the official website should contain way more details. That's why we launched a new www.impcat.de homepage and will try to append as many detailed descriptions as possible over time.
Online Mini Painting At It’s Finest
I have seen some bad reviews for this, but they’re all from a couple years ago and I do not believe they do it justice. I’ve been using this for a little bit now and it’s everything I wanted!
App Privacy
The developer, Design Bench - Immersive Agency, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Design Bench - Immersive Agency
- Size
- 20.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © 2020 Design Bench – Immersive Agency
- Price
- £2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.