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- Brand: Maxon
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Product description Maxon BodyPaint 3D R17 is a comprehensive application for creating advanced textures and unique sculptures. It consists of select features of Maxon's CINEMA 4D Studio R17, assembled to provide a concentrated painting solution for all your 3D painting needs. Full support for tablets allows you to paint with a pen as you would in popular 2D editors. BodyPaint 3D can deal with image files as large as 16K and with 16-bit and 32-bit color depth. R17 (Release 17) introduces new spline tools (Pen, Sketch, Smooth, Arc, Boolean Commands), new take system, new color chooser, sculpting enhancements, a global material override feature, and a completely reworked content library.
A distinguishing feature of BodyPaint 3D is its focus on hassle-free texturing. You're able to quickly paint highly detailed textures directly on your 3D objects. BodyPaint 3D offers a large selection of brushes, selection tools, filters, erasers, and other editing tools for texturing, and it additionally supports Photoshop .abr brushes. Another outstanding feature is a large set of sculpting tools that let you turn a simple object into a detailed work of art. A major outstanding feature is projection painting mode, which eliminates the need to spend hours creating perfect UV maps. You get to simply paint what you would like to see on your 3D model, apply the projection, and then BodyPaint 3D will quickly adjust your painting so it fits your UVs perfectly -- even if there are differing UV sizes and seems.
BodyPaint 3D was created for all 3D artists and includes free plug-ins to connect with 3ds Max, Maya, and Softimage. Other applications can exchange files with BodyPaint 3D using one of the numerous available file formats (e.g. OBJ, FBX, or COLLADA). Note: This discounted upgrade is valid for existing owners of BodyPaint R15. New Features in BodyPaint 3D R17 - Take System
- The new Take System goes beyond the functionality of a regular Render Layer System, offering flexible scene management offered by the Take System. Create numerous independent takes of your scene and change almost any parameter for intuitive variations -- all saved in one scene file eliminating file management hassles and wasted disk space. Nested parent-children take relationships let you easily hierarchize your versions, while the new Token System takes care of the file naming headache when rendering multiple takes in one go. Maintain complete versioning and variation control while saving precious time exploring all possibilities and responding to client change requests.
- New Color Chooser
- Color your 3D world using a color wheel, photo reference, screen picker, customizable swatch library, or one of many color models. Simplify any image using Photo Mosaic mode and quickly generate color swatches from a photo. Pick out harmonies in a way that will really complement your scene. Your colors highly enhanced.
- New Spline Tools
- Working with lines is now a lot more intuitive. Manipulate points, lines, tangents, and arcs with an intuitive user interface. Convert to polygon shapes. Leverage Boolean operators like Intersect, Subtract, Union.
- R17 Sculpting
- New sculpting improvements.
- Material Override
- Generate clay renders with just a few clicks of the mouse using the new Material Override. Replace all or only selected materials from your scene with a basic material with an easy and intuitive workflow. You can also exclude specific channels such as transparency, alpha, displacement, and others from the material override, if desired.
- Updated Content Libraries
- Updated with ready-to-use objects, materials, surfaces, scenes, and presets. Parametric objects such as book shelves -- including the books -- let you drag and drop a completely customized living room in a snap.
All Features - Platform
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- Cross-platform support for Mac and Windows
- 64-bit architecture
- OpenGL 3.2 support
- Extensive API: C++, Python, C.O.F.F.E.E.
- Interface & Workflow
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- Context-sensitive, fully-searchable HTML help
- Commander
- To Do List
- Multiple projects open at once
- Customizable toolbars, layouts, menus
- Light and dark interface schemes
- Unlimited view windows
- Heads-up display
- Custom pop-up menu
- Non-modal tools with real-time feedback
- Collapsible Managers & Palettes
- Selection / display filters
- Custom User Data per object
- Doodle viewport annotation tool
- Layer system for object and material management
- XRef external instancing / referencing system
- Tablet support for Wacom and other pen tablets
- 3dconnexion 3DMouse support
- Stereo display in Viewport
- OpenGL Viewport
- Object highlighting
- Available in 11 languages
- Arabic interface support
- OS X Lion full screen support
- Retina icons
- Solo button
- Annotations tag
- User Participation
- New Crashhandler
- Take System
- New Color Chooser
- Camera
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- Camera, Target Camera, Stereo Camera
- Camera Composition Helpers
- Camera Focus Picker
- Data Exchange / Format Support
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- QuickTime support
- AVI support (Win)
- Image formats - float with layers: PSD, TIFF, OpenEXR
- Image formats - float: HDR, DPX, RLA, RPF
- Image formats: BMP, IFF, JPG, PICT, PNG, TARGA
- QuickTime VR object, panorama
- CINEWARE compatible
- After Effects compositing exchange with 3D data
- NUKE exchange
- Photoshop exchange
- Apple Motion compositing exchange with 3D data
- Apple Final Cut Pro compositing exchange (Mac)
- Digital Fusion compositing exchange (Win)
- Shake compositing exchange
- Support for DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, FBX, DEM, LWS, STL, VRML2, OBJ, COLLADA, Alembic
- BodyPaint 3D exchange - 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Lightwave
- Support for most current FBX and Alembic formats (FBX 2014 & Alembic 1.5)
- Modeling Tools
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- Parametric object primitives
- Scene Objects: Floor, Sky, Environment, Stage, Foreground, Background
- Parametric spline primitives
- Extrude, Lathe, Loft, Sweep
- Polygonal modeling tools with N-gon support
- Subdivision surfaces
- Generators: Metaball, Boolean, Symmetry, Array, Atom Array, Instance, Connect, Spline Mask, Python
- PolyPen Tool
- Spline Tools: Pen, Sketch, Smooth, Arc, Boolean Commands
- Bevel Deformer
- Enhanced Cogwheel
- Improved Symmetry Object
- Deformer Falloff
- Mesh Check
- Sculpting
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- Sculpt functionality
- Sculpt Brushes
- Baking
- C++ Sculpt Brush API
- Python Support for lib_sculpt
- R17 Sculpting
- UV Editing
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- UV Editor
- Interactive UV mapping by projection types
- Optimal UV mapping to automatically remove seams
- LSCM unwrapping and relaxing
- ABF unwrapping and relaxing
- UV Peeler
- UVs for Caps
- UV Enhancements
- Materials & Texturing
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- Transparency with absorption, total internal reflections, exit reflections
- Blurry reflections and transparencies
- Normal Maps: tangent, object, or world
- Displacement: intensity (centered), red/green, and RGB
- Choose Photoshop PSD layers per usage
- Animated textures (MOV, AVI, sequence) with Viewport preview
- Selectable viewport resolution and channel display per material
- Shading Models: Lambertian, Oren-Nayar
- Fresnel Shader including physically correct IOR
- Noise Procedural shader with 32 different noise algorithms
- Layer shader
- Proximity-based Proximal shader
- Procedural surface shaders
- Texture Baking: surface color, illumination, Ambient Occlusion, Normals, displacement, and more
- Brick, Wood, Weathering, Pavement and Normalizer Shaders
- 3D Painting with layers, all blend modes, and Photoshop file compatibility
- Multi-brush painting of multiple material channels in single stroke
- Raybrush painting directly onto rendered result
- Projection painting
- Exchange projections with Photoshop
- Camera Mapping
- ProjectionMan camera mapping workflow tool
- Texture Manager
- Brick Shader Enhancements
- Reflectance Channel
- 12 Material Channels: Color, Diffusion, Luminance, Transparency, Reflection, Environment, Fog, Bump, Normal, Alpha, Glow, Displacement
- Lighting
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- Light Types: Omni, Spot, Infinite, Area, Square Spot, Parallel Spot, Square Parallel Spot
- Hard, Soft, Area shadows
- Visible, Volumetric, and Inverse Volumetric lighting
- Noise within light illumination and/or visibility
- Include/exclude light diffusion, specular, shadow per object
- Custom lens flares
- Color temperature in Kelvin
- Photometric brightness setting in Candela and Lumen
- Rendering
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- Render up to 128,000 pixels square / 32 bits per pixel
- Bucket rendering
- Render instances
- Color profile support
- Camera white balance
- Linear workflow
- Adaptive anti-aliasing
- Multi-Pass output
- Object buffers - specify unique alpha channels per object
- Ambient Occlusion
- Global Illumination (IR 2.0, QMC, mixed)
- Stereo rendering
- Position Pass
- 3D Sound Rendering
- Picture Viewer: RAM player, color correction, image merge, anaglyph preview, and more
- Watermark post effect
- Render Queue batch rendering system
- Universal Sampler (GI-QMC)
- Radiosity maps
- Light Mapping
- Normal Pass
- Global Material Override
- Animation
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- Easy one-click keyframe Position, Scale, Rotation, Point Level animation, and user-defined parameters
- Record dot animation of all animatable parameters
- Automatic keyframing
- PowerSlider animation toolbar for playback and keyframe manipulation
- Timeline - up to 4 timeline windows with customizable track display and dopesheet or F-Curve view modes
- F-Curve Snapshot and Reduced Modification curves
- Constant Velocity option per track
- Keyframe reduction
- Keyframe baking
- ASCII animation import
- Non-linear animation / motion mixing system
- Constraints: PSR, Up-Vector, Clamp, Mirror, Parent, Aim, Spring
- XPresso - node-based Expression Editor
- Interaction Tag
- Animation Dots
- Character Animation Tools
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- Joints with full dynamic IK
- Skin Deformer supports linear, spherical, and blended deformation based on joints
- Weight Manager and tools
- Auto weighting
- Mirror, Naming, and Paint Tools
- Weight effector
- Point Cache tag
- Content
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- Essential presets and demo scenes
- Completely reworked Content Library
- Natively Supported Formats
- *Below are all the formats supported in CINEMA 4D Studio R17, which is the complete CINEMA 4D toolset. Some of these formats may not be supported in BodyPaint R17.
3D Formats
- 3D Studio .3ds (R/W)
- Alembic (R/W)
- Biovision .bvh (R)
- Collada .dae (R/W)
- DEM (R)
- DXF (R/W)
- DWG (R)
- Direct 3D .x (W)
- FBX (R/W)
- IGES (R) (does not support all possible variations)
- LightWave 3D .lws .lwo (R)
- RIB (W)
- SketchUp .skp (R)
- STL (R/W)
- VRML2 .wrl (R/W)
- Wavefront .obj (R/W)
Compositing Formats (Write Only)
- After Effects (3D)
- Final Cut (2D, Mac only)
- Shake (2D)
- Motion (3D, Mac only)
- NUKE (2D)
- Fusion (2D, Windows only)
2D Image and Animation Formats (R/W)
- TIFF
- BodyPaint 3D
- Photoshop PSD
- Targa TGA
- HDRI
- DPX
- Open EXR
- BMP
- PICT
- IFF
- JPEG
- RLA
- RPF
- PNG
- QuickTime (if available)
- AVI (Windows only)
2D Vector Formats
- Illustrator (R/W)
- EPS (R)
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Technical parametersMaxon R17 Specs | | | Delivery Method | Download | | Version | Upgrade | | | | Supported Operating Systems | Windows Server 2012
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows 8.1
macOS X 10.8.5 or Later | | Memory Requirement | 4 GB | | Storage Requirement | 7 GB | | CPU Requirement | Mac:
Intel Core 2 Solo and Faster
Windows:
Intel Pentium 4 and Faster or
AMD Athlon64 and Faster | | OpenGL Graphics Requirement | 3.2 |
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