Blacksmith3D 2.2 review
DownloadBlacksmith3D - Suite provides you with a host of tools for reshaping and painting your 3D characters and objects.
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Blacksmith3D - Suite provides you with a host of tools for reshaping and painting your 3D characters and objects. Never before has it been so easy to do. Features that are normally found in expensive, and hard to learn software packages have been brought together in this easy and affordable 3D detailing solution.
Using the analogy of a blacksmith, Blacksmith3D - Suite allows you to "heat up" and "deform" objects in a very intuitive way. The hotter portions of the object deform the most and the cooler parts deform the least. In this way, you can easily create smooth and continuous morphs, with little effort.
In addition, Blacksmith3D - Suite is a powerful, true 3D paint program. This means that you can simply rotate and position your object, select a paint brush and paint directly on the surface! You can also paint the color, transparency, bump and displacement maps.
Here are some key features of "Blacksmith3D":
Morphing
Auto-rigging - Export a CR2 file and you have the option to output a new base OBJ file and adjust the joint parameters to match your morphed object! Turn your favorite human character into a giant monster while preserving the joint setup*. Works especially good on fingers!
On the fly symmetric morphing
Morph virtually anything from anything!
Create detailed morphs from existing objects
User friendly selection based workflow
Advanced morph mixing capabilities, great for creating complex facial expressions
Variety of deformation tools including bulge, smooth, rotate, scale, unmorph and more.
In most cases, little or no manual joint editing is required. In some cases, modest joint editing may be required.
Painting
True 3d painting
New blur and smudge brushes!
Paint across UV seams with ease
Create and interchange texture maps with ease
Paint color, transparency, bump, and displacement maps
Advanced painting features include fade by angle, symmetric
painting, texture tiling and more!
Paint high resolution maps (only limited by your video card's maximum texture size)
Export maps to image files for use in other applications
Hidden surface culling, only paint on what you see!
Fast painting and high quality modes.
General
Extensive real-time tool descriptions in help box
Drag and drop pictures into workspace for reference
Powerful Layer Manager with multiple display modes, including locked, hidden and wireframe.
Cross platform portability, imports and exports the OBJ and CR2** formats
Create and save selections with the selection manager
Reuse morphs from the same base mesh
Autosave feature to recover work from system errors and forgetfulness
Multiple viewport setups for improved usability
Includes a free base mesh and a host of kick ass morphs!
Easily isolate, lock, or hide parts of the object you are working on.
Limitations:
Registration Screen at startup.
What's New:
Further optimized the 3D painting functionality. It is now faster and has better memory management.
Added Fade to Secondary Color feature for the round paint brush. With this feature, you can easily create depth in your painting by making the secondary color a darker version of the primary color.
Various optimizations and minor bug fixes.
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