BodyPaint 3D

Rich, authentic textures involve more than simple color and it’s hard to develop 3D materials in a 2D environment. BodyPaint 3D offers a full 3D painting workflow, where you can paint complete materials in a single brush stroke.

MAXON's BodyPaint 3D is the ultimate tool for creating high-end textures and unique sculptures. Wave good-bye 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. BodyPaint 3D also offers a comprehensive set of sculpting tools that let you turn a simple object into a detailed work of art.

BodyPaint 3D release 19 offers both great tools and enhancements you can put to use immediately and a peek into the foundations for the future. Designers choose BodyPaint 3D for its fast, easy workflow and rock-solid stability, and Release 19 makes your workflow even faster, expands your horizons with new features and offers dependability you can count on.

BodyPaint 3D - Features

Key Features:

• Immediate Feedback: There’s no need to waste time transitioning textures between environments - you’ll always see an accurate depiction of the texture so you can concentrate on making it look great.
• Tools, Tools, Tools: More than 200 presets put a wide array of natural media and special effects brushes within easy reach.
• Distortion-free Painting: BodyPaint 3D's projection painting projects your texture the way you intended it to look on the 3D object on which you were painting.
• 32-bit Color & Hdr Editing: You can paint in up to 32-bit color depth, which gives even more texture control and incredibly smooth color gradations. BodyPaint 3D also enables editing of HDR and EXR formats letting you to use these powerful formats in your 3D scenes.
• Direct Connection To Your 3d Application: BodyPaint 3D offers plugins to easily exchange models, textures and UVs between BodyPaint 3D and popular 3D applications like 3ds Max, Maya and Softimage.
• Painting Multiple Textures At Once: With BodyPaint 3D you can paint an entire material with a single stroke. Each brush can paint up to ten channels simultaneously, so a single brushstroke can affect Color, Bump, Specularity, Reflection, Transparency and other properties. There is no need to match the various channels in your 3D application.
• Painting Over Multiple Objects: BodyPaint 3D can paint over multiple objects using a single stroke. Projection painting allows distortion-free painting across multiple objects to eliminate seams and get the results you want.
• Painting Tools: All your favorite painting tools are available in BodyPaint 3D, including Clone, Smear, Sponge, Dodge and Burn tools. The standard brush tool includes pressure, hardness, size, bitmap, distortion, rotation, jitter and other parameters for hundreds of painting possibilities.
• Layering In The 3rd Dimension: In addition to its own B3D format, MAXON BodyPaint 3D can read and write layers and masks in PSD and TIF file formats.
• Projection Painting: The detachable projection layers in particular make when painting textures onto complex geometry easier by letting objects or images be placed freely before the projection is applied.

BodyPaint 3D - System Requirements

System Requirements:

• Windows 7 SP1 64-bit or higher on Intel or AMD 64-bit CPU with SSE3 support
• macOS 10.11.6 or 10.12.4+ with 64-bit CPU running on Intel-based Apple Macintosh
  4 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended), OpenGL graphics card supporting OpenGL 4.1 (dedicated GPU recommended)
• The GPU renderer requires an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card on Windows or AMD on macOS which supports OpenCL 1.2 or higher. We recommend at least 4 GB VRAM for GPU rendering
• USB port, Registration is required

Note: MAXON cannot guarantee support of new hardware and operating systems shipped after release of this Cinema 4D/BodyPaint 3D version.