Greetings, my fellows ! I'm currently trying to redo the StevO tutorial about making foliage ( http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126456 ) to train myself. Unfortunatly, I'm stuck at the part where we need to paint the leaves on the branch. In fact, I can't find any equivalent tool of the "Paint Object Tool"…
Are you talking about the 3D Paint Tool? It's located under the Rendering workspace > Texturing > 3D Paint Tool. In the tool settings, near the bottom, there is an Assign/Edit Textures button which will allow you to paint directly to your model after establishing an image format, resolution, etc.
As far as I know, there's nothing similar to Max's tool in Maya. But I've posted about it before, I use Photoshop's 3D painting tools very often. Especially CS5, I actually hate it in CS6. It allows you to paint directly on the object and keep your brushes, hotkeys, actions, etc.
I was talking about Paint Object, which allows you to choose a model (like a tree) and paint it over a terrain changing randomly scale and rotation. here I wanted to use it to randomly place leaves on a tree branch. If someones is interested, I found the maya equivalent : it's called Paint Geometry tool. It's a part of the…