Body Paint 3D

1. Platforms, prices and company

• Minimum System Requirements:

Mac OS 9.2.2 or Windows 98
256 MByte RAM, PowerPC, Intel Celeron or
AMD Duron and compatibles with 500 MHz

• Recommended System Requirements:
  Mac OS X or Windows NT4 / 2000 / XP
  512 MByte RAM, PowerPC, Intel Pentium 4 or
  AMD Athlon with 1 GHz

· BodyPaint 3D R2 $745 (Mac and Windows)

· BodyPaint 3D R2 w/ manual $795 (Mac and Windows)

• Maxon (German Company): http://www.maxon.net
• BodyPaint 3D page: http://www.bodypaint3d.com

2. Applications

• BodyPaint 3D is the ultimate tool for creating high-quality detailed textures - catapulting surface editing and painting tools into the third dimension. BodyPaint is more then a Photoshop, it's a Painter as well. BodyPaint 3D eliminates the arduous task of placing textures by guesswork and bringing various material channels into harmony with each other. Artists can paint and draw directly onto 3D objects and see the results immediately.

3. Examples/samples

Gallery (on home page): http://www.bodypaint3d.com/

http://www.maxoncomputer.com/gallery/en/index.asp?cat=BP-OTHER3D

4. Functions

5. Modeling

• Objects: polygon, sphere, NURBS, cylinder, planar, cube
• Transformation: array, move, scale, rotate, shear, resize, distort
• Editing and manipulations
• Vertex
• Edge
• Face
• Polygon
• Curves
• Objects
• Raybrush
• eyedropper tools
• edit points or polygons
• dragnet tools
• tiling U/V
• interactive mapping (planar, cylindrical, spherical, box, shrink, frontal, spatial, analytical mapping)
• hierarchical navigation

6. Rendering

• Adjustable and movable cameras
• Shadow, tube and three-point lighting
• Optical effects
• Lens flares
• Reflectivity
• Bump
• Transparency
• Specularity paint
• Color
• Environment
• Motion blur
• Glow
• Shine
• Opacity
• Smooth
• Shadow
• Materials
• Raytrace
• Skin
• Woods
• Dirt
• Displacement
• Cel-render mode
• Bump
• Specular color
• Luminence
• Diffusion
• Alpha
• More materials
• Raytraced maps
• Texture mapping
• Bump map
• Specular map
• Interactive mapping
• Optical mapping
• Optimal mapping
• Before and after Rendering
• Layer
• Blending modes
• Motion blur
• Smooth
• Wireframe rendering
• Antialiasing
• Filtering
• Isoparms

7. Animation

• Keyframe and mouse controllers
• Advanced animations:
• Soft & rigid body dynamics
• Skeletal deformation
• Channel blending
• Motion blurring
• Basic Animation:
• Graph
• Programmatic (C.O.F.F.E.E similar to C++ language or JAVA)

8. File Formats

• C4D
• OBJ
• 3DS
• QD3D
• VRML 1&2
• LWO/LWS (Import only)
• DXF

9. Web resources

Company Page: http://www.maxon.net

Product Page: http://www.bodypaint3d.com

Product Info: ftp://ftp2.maxon.net/pub/bp2/docu/bp_3d_r2_flyer_en.pdf

Demo download: http://www.maxoncomputer.com/download_demo.asp

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