BodyPaint 3D

New features in Release 2
- Revolutionary new workflow
- New BP - Maya connection
- Strongly improved BP - LW connection, transfer of UVs
- Strongly improved speed, especially camera navigation
- Full OpenGL support
- Higher shading precision, bilinear interpolation for textures
- Completely new menu structure for faster workflow
- Lots of merged windows and managers for faster workflow
- Dodge, Burn and Sponge Tools
- Smear tool as separate tool
- New Color Chooser
  - New display modes
  - Quick storage
  - Mixing area
- Projection Painting with
  - extremely high processing speed
  - support for multiple materials (paint seams)
  - copy/paste support
  - full support for layers
  - support for nearly all tools
- support for Photoshop filters (lots of 3rd party PS plugins and all PS plugins up to version 5.5)
- New, extremely powerful Optimal mapping method
- Painting Wizard with
  - support for multiple materials and objects
  - automatic mapsize interpolation
  - automatic creation of UVs
  - creation of materials and channels
  - rescaling of existing textures
- Gradient tool with
  - gradient and noise
  - preset popup
- Realtime dynamic brush preview
  - instantly shows brush size and position
  - strongly improved cursor information
- Painting on multiple materials
- Material manager with
  - full layer control
  - channel display
  - five new display modes (layers in compact/extended display mode etc.)
- New Color manager with
  - Quicktabs
  - color preset popup
  - color mixer
  - channel display
- Active Tool manager with
  - brush display
  - brush preview
  - brush preset popup
- Completely new UV management, massively improved workflow
- UV modification in 3D view with interactive feedback
- Relax UV tool
- Embedded TIF files
- UV realign tool
- New UV tools Terrace, Max UV, Fit UV to Canvas
- New one-click UV generation
- New asynchronous UV mapping dialog for fastest access
- New UV tools Shrink/Grow Selection, Select Connected
- New context menu for fast access to UV tools
- UV autoloading
- New Quicklight manager
- Material assignment display
- User-defined menu sets
- Strongly improved qualifiers and shortcuts for tools
- Transform tool with realtime update, selection and layer masks, texture flipping
- Linked layers (also with PSD im-/export)
- Hundreds of tools, commands and other workflow improvements
What is unique in BodyPaint 3D
- Superb workflow
- Unbeatable value for money
- RayBrush technology lets you paint models in raytrace quality!
- Fully Cross platform, also available on Macintosh
- UV Editor included, not a separate purchase
- Projection Painting supports multiple layers, is extremely fast and accurate, supports RayBrush, supports copy/paste and transform operations
- SetUp Wizard with
  - support for multiple materials and objects
  - automatic mapsize interpolation
  - automatic creation of UVs
  - creation of materials and channels
  - rescaling of existing textures
  - power to assign multiple objects to one texture with automatic UV setup
- New, extremely powerful Optimal mapping method for a quick and easy way to create high quality UV maps from scratch.
- Full rendering core of CINEMA 4D, including raytracing, MIP mapping, super-crisp Antialiasing and Multipass-Rendering
- Totally customizable interface, including layouts, colors, menus and schemes
- Full support for perspective camera projection (and any other types like Isometric for game design)
- Supports painting in ten channels simultaneously, realtime painting in transparency and reflection channels
- Multiple views, 4-side view
- Instant View Navigation in Projection Painting mode
- 30 native bitmap filters and support for Photoshop filters (if Photoshop is installed).
- Handles huge datasets and strongly tesselated objects
- Fully expandable through powerful plugin architecture
- Existing CINEMA 4D plugins can be used in BodyPaint 3D
- Powerful Browser for scene and texture management
- Supports multiprocessor systems, HyperThreading, full OpenGL speedup
- Subdivision Surfaces and Light/Camera objects
- Available in multiple languages
- Large number of 2D and 3D import and export filters (e.g. VRML 1/2, QuickDraw 3D, DXF, STL etc.)
- Can be modularly enhanced (e.g. with Global Illumination rendering)
- Supports Quicktime
BodyPaint 3D R2 System Requirements:

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
Supported 3D Applications:
- Lightwave 3D 7.5c (PC, Mac[OS X recommended])
- 3ds max 4, 5
- Maya 5.0 (PC, Mac)
- CINEMA 4D (PC, Mac)

Maxon's BodyPaint 3D Release 2

New features in Release 2

What is unique in BodyPaint 3D

BodyPaint 3D R2 System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements:

Recommended System Requirements:

Supported 3D Applications: