Found a cool program by accident

CMB

http://www.terabit.nildram.co.uk/tattoo/

Havn't tried it yet(don't think I will,I have everything I need) but it looks pretty good for people who want can't afford the expensive stuff.

Found it while looking for tattoo designs on google.
-CMB

EarthQuake

I heard that this was crap from someone, dont remmeber who. But hey, you get what you pay for

malcolm

I've tried it and it did not support painting in 2d while updating in 3d, so it did not fit into my workflow. Last I checked it only allows painting in 3d.

ElysiumGX

EQ: me.

it sucked the last time i tried it. which was some time ago, but it doesn't look to have updated much since. it's just not at a useful state, imho. I think there was a function to paint textures onto the mesh, but I really couldn't figure it out, or it gave me some wacky results.

KDR_11k

I think Blender can paint directly on the mesh these days.

Gmanx

Yes it can, once you've created a blank texture and mapped it onto your mesh.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-101435.html

CMB

Oh...sorry then...
it looked like it would work if your a good texture artist.
Judging from the screenshots,thats probably the best effect that can be made.
Oh well.
Thanks for that link gmanx.

CheapAlert

I hated Tattoo, it's slow I went to Deep Paint 3d which sucked so I went to Blender for my skin painting-on-model-dealies.

KDR - yes, i've been painting on the mesh for a long time now

Gmanx

I wouldn't use it exclusively, but it's damn convenient for marking out the placement of buckles/belts/zips/seams/badges and the like.

Downsizer

Cheap, are'nt you on a 233 mmx system? of course it's going to be slow.

Zbrush is 200 bucks, and does all of this in realtime, and using the applink plugin you can edit the flat maps in PS extremely fast back and forth yada yada.

Snowfly

Zbrush for 200 bucks - where????

CheapAlert

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Cheap, are'nt you on a 233 mmx system? of course it's going to be slow.

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It's slow on my Athlon 1ghz w/ gf2. Deep Paint 3d and Blender are *MUCH* faster for painting.

Eric Chadwick

Sounds to me like the GeForce2 is your slowdown.

System

Actually i have to side with cheapy here, as Tatto responds terribly slow on both my own computer as well as my parent's, which are respectively a pIII 500 mhz with geforce 4, and a pIV 3 ghz with ati radeon 8500 xt.
It's not just the painting and 3d, the menus are quite unresponsive just the same, which is really a terrible shame, as i could really use something like this (for free!)
Something i also noticed: You need to register to be able to use it for commercial projects. Not that they can actually find out, but none of us want to go to hell, right?

Eric Chadwick

Well, if you like the software, pay for it, pretty simple I think. Nice that it's free for the students/hobbyists.

I only played with it briefly before realizing it didn't support the things I wanted (multiple materials, multiple UVs, robust paint tools, etc.).

Body Paint 3D rocks though, IMHO, well worth the price.