There are two ways to paint on the object:  you can either paint directly in
a 3d preview window or by painting into an image map.  Either way you are
really just painting onto the image map... the image map has a type which is
planar or cylindrical or spherical or cubic or "UV".  It is just a bitmap
whose resolution you can configure to be whatever you want.  The faces of
the mesh are pretty much irrelevant to the pixels of the image map, although
you can turn on a grid which will show them as mapped in "uv" space... this
looks rather freaky, though.

Using the "draw directly on 3d object" mode, it would be pretty easy, for
example, to add makeup to a poser face (I don't have poser but I believe it
would be easy).

"paint the object as if it were real, and you had a spraycan in your hand"
describes pretty accurately what they were shooting for.

derek

Dan <evg### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:3818B3BF.CBD214DD@netscape.net...
> 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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