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A real modelling/painting tool

bpahe

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Hi!

I was talking to a friend yesterday and we came into the subject of modelling tools - as so often based on our experiences of using Gmax.
We were thinking, how "difficult" (none of us are real programmers) could it be to combine the paintfeatures of f. ex. Photoshop with a modelling program? Think about it - you make your model, and then paint it in 3D! Choose f. ex. a brush, it´s style and colour, and then paint directly on the 3D object. The program itself then creates the bitmap to be exported. No more worries of mapping, UVWs, faces and such - the program deals with all that. Add dirt? Just select the airbrush and spray it on the selected parts! Add a line? Just select the pencil, click on the start- and endpoint and a line is following the mesh!

Well, wouldn´t that be just dandy? :)

EDIT: I know that in a way SketchUp provides some of these features, but it does not have all the capabilities of Gmax and also is a bit messy regarding co-location of vertices, welding and so on... just import a complex model to Gmax and you´ll see what I mean.

/hans
 
but it does not have all the capabilities of Gmax and also is a bit messy regarding co-location of vertices, welding and so on... just import a complex model to Gmax and you´ll see what I mean.
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I know what you mean...unfortunatly!:banghead:
 
The closest one comes to that is VASS from Abacus, that works with the FSDS source files. You still have to create the textures and assign the coordinates, but you can do that from within VASS.

There is a program, Tatoo, that will take *some* textured 3D Models (like a direct x file) and paint directly on the "model". Now THIS is great for basic alignment of texture lines, etc.

VASS and Tatoo have a limited set of painting tools.
 
Hi!

I looked further in the vast pool of information called the "internet" and found a tool that is named 3D Deep Paint. It seems to have most features that I was thinking about, and works as a plugin with 3DS and other builders. However there are a number of questionmarks on how it works when exporting objects to other applications such as FS, and I do not have the means to buy a copy just to try it out. I´ll check out the trial and try to get it to work with Gmax. Will report back.

/hans :)
 
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