How does this program "paint?"  Is each face colored a single color, or can
paint the object as if it were real, and you had a spraycan in your hand?

Dan

Derek Zahn wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> MetaCreations apparently used to make a program called "Painter 3D" which is
> a program for painting on 3-D models.  They don't really mention it much on
> their web site so I suppose it is discontinued, but I found it being
> liquidated at www.ubid.com and picked up a copy last week.  So far I have
> successfully been able to take an object (well, a torus, heh) generated by
> the Rhino eval, import it into Painter 3D, paint on it, and render the
> result in UVPOV after converting the file.  It's kind of a convoluted
> process and the program is a bit clumsy and also a bit slow, but it has tons
> of tools and I just thought that some people here might find it a useful
> addition to their toolset.  I got it for $22 and they seem to put more
> copies up for auction every few days.  That's pretty cheap for what the
> program has in it.  There are some copies available again for auction today,
> current bid is $17.  It might even be usable as a decent 2D paint program.
>
> Just a heads up on what I thought was a pretty good deal.  Oh, I have no
> connection to ubid or metacreations and do not stand to benefit from this in
> any way (except maybe if somebody else gets the program we can talk about it
> here).

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