Because almost all 3D models involve contours in 3D space, standard projections like spherical and flat mapping can never provide distortion-free texturing. Properly designed UV coordinates are essential to successful painting and quality texturing in 3D. Painting in 3D is governed by UVs, a set of coordinates that relate polygons to texturing areas. MAXON BodyPaint 3D features an arsenal of UV editing solutions that ensure your models and their materials line up properly. Projection painting allows distortion-free painting across multiple objects to eliminate seams and get the results you want – which is not possible in 2D! UV Tools BodyPaint 3D also enables editing of HDR and EXR formats letting you to use these powerful formats in your 3D scenes.īodyPaint 3D can paint over multiple objects using a single stroke.

You can paint in up to 32-bit color depth, which gives even more texture control and incredibly smooth color gradations. BodyPaint 3D’s projection painting takes all this into account and projects your texture the way you intended it to look on the 3D object you were painting on. Sometimes this produces unpredictable results. And you have to have this in mind while painting your textures in 2D. Some parts will be slighty scaled, distored or twisted because you are trying to project a 3D object onto a 2D plane. No matter how hard you try – UVs will never be 100% perfect. Clone, Smear, Sponge, Dodge and Burn, Gradient, Magic Wand, transform tools and more are all available within the easy to use interface. More than 200 presets put a wide array of natural media and special effects brushes within easy reach. Rather than saving, reloading and rendering textures you can paint in real-time on a rendered image and see the results of reflection, transparency, bump and more. BodyPaint 3D does that and more with its unique RayBrush feature.

Graphics applications designed for 2D do not take into account your scene’s lighting or the effect of different material channels.

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