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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 single brush can define an entire material rather than a single color. Plus, BodyPaint 3D's exclusive RayBrushTM technology lets you view the results of your painting in real-time as 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. Even the most complex UV coordinates can be tamed with the help of a complete suite of UV editing tools. BodyPaint 3D includes three automatic UV unwrapping algorithms, including the new Optimal Cubic Mapping system. BodyPaint 3D was created for all 3D artists and includes free plugins to exchange models and textures with popular 3D applications. These plugins transfer models, textures and UVs between BodyPaint 3D and many 3D applications, with no hassle at all.
Painting Tools 
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. New Tools 
Blur, Dodge, Burn, Sharpen and Colorize brush types have been added to make it easier than ever before to tweak your textures. Plus - all paint tools now preserve their own independent settings, which enhanced the workflow extremely.
And using BodyPaint 3D with your WACOM tablet is now more power than ever because any brush parameter can be controlled by the rotation of the 6D Art Pen, in addition to Pressure, Tilt, Direction and the Airbrush Finger Wheel. Additional parameters have been added to the Jitter controls for even more customizability of your brushes. 
There's even more
Better Integration: Photoshop vector paths and adjustment layers are now preserved for maximum compatibility and improved workflow.
Cover both sides: easily toggle painting on hidden polygons to paint through a model and mirror strokes. Customize it: New custom material channels make it easy to create texture maps for those specialty game engines or hair density maps. What You See: New preview options make it easier to paint tiled textures.
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