Create Impressive Textures with Maxon's BodyPaint 3D

Wouldn't it be great if you could have all your favorite image editing tools directly in a single 3D environment? Wouldn't it be great if they worked in conjunction with your 3D application rather than against it? Well, that is exactly what BodyPaint 3D does!

Wave goodbye to UV seams, inaccurate texturing and constant back-and-forth switching to your 2D image editor. Say hello to hassle-free texturing that lets you quickly paint highly detailed textures directly on your 3D objects.

Forget flat compromises and paint in three dimensions. BodyPaint 3D offers the ultimate control over your textures with complete layers, filters and tablet support - all optimized for working in 3D. With BodyPaint 3D you can paint on up to ten channels with a single stroke, so a brush can define an entire material rather than a single color. Plus, BodyPaint 3D's exclusive RayBrush™ technology lets you view the results of your painting realtime in a rendered image.

BodyPaint 3D's Projection Painting tool makes distortion-free painting a snap. This quick and easy tool lets you paint across UV seams or even multiple objects in a scene.

Even the most complex UV coordinates can be tamed with the help of a complete suite of UV editing tools. There are three automatic UV unwrapping algorithms, including the new Optimal Cubic Mapping system.

New Features in R4:

MAXON's high end texturing tool BodyPaint 3D now offers even more tools and a better workflow for all users of Softimage XSI, Maya, 3ds Max and LightWave 3D. The new features affect brush creation, brush handling and management.

Create, Save, Modify, Manage and Share Brushes Now, it’s easier than ever to create and manage custom brushes, and collections of brushes inside BodyPaint. Single and even groups of brushes can be easily shared with other artists within a production team or with the CINEMA 4D community.

Keeping track of all those brushes is now easier with a vastly improved management system, including drag and drop sorting, improved library functions and better previewing. Speaking of brushes: Creating new brush profiles is a breeze - just sample an image selection and voila, you’ve created a custom brush tip. No saving and/or loading required.

Support for Photoshop Brushes
A real highlight if BodyPaint 3D Release 4 is that it now supports the .abr format for Adobe Photoshop compatible brushes. So BodyPaint 3D artists can now take advantage of vast resources available in the Photoshop community. Thousands of brushes are out there to be used – lots of them come even for free. And we've even added over 1,400 new brushes to the brush preset libraries.

BodyPaint 3D Support