Why Is Bodypaint3d So Ignored?

[james-thompson--2]

Is there something better out there?

Where should I be looking for the ultimate in 3D painting and texturing? Nobody even talks about Deep Paint anymore; CNet even has it as a free download. It's dead. But Maya's own UV tools seem woefully antiquated...the UI and tools for painting/texturing in 3d don't seem to be going anywhere.

Please, somebody educate me on this. I'm spending a lot of time researching this subject right now and it's time I don't really have...

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Cadmium77 @ 04/30/08, 12:16 PM) [snapback]284897[/snapback]
Is there something better out there?

Yes zbrush

[james-thompson--2]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 04/30/08, 03:05 AM) [snapback]284905[/snapback]
Yes zbrush

Yes, that's fine but can I texture and layer on a Maya polygon object with 8 layers of refractivity, reflectivity, colour etc the way I could with bodypaint 3d?

I know I can take it into 2 and a half D and paint it but will that get rendered when I take it back to Mental Ray? Like can I paint a face with a gloss on the lips that will be all ported back into Maya for rendering?

Sorry to sound so ignorant here..

[user_deleted]

What Joojaa doesn't know is that you will need milions of poly in zbrush to take out a decent 4k map...Not to speak a 8k map..If you will watch some new gnomon tutorials (like BTS texturing) , you will see that professionals use bodypaint a lot, and also zbrush.And Zbr require some additional steps to see your map and the uv's to repair the seams...Depends on the limitations of each other...