Wich is a good programme i can use (prefferably free) to shade textures/colour things?

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3D Models to be exact.

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Answer by blackmethod · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:07 AM

After you unwrap your UV's open it in a image editing program. I use photoshop but as that's not free you could use GIMP preferably. If you really want, you could try Paint.NET but I absolutely hate it. Try out gimp.

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reptilebeats · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:22 AM 0

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if your a student you can get photoshop student which entitles you to individually sell your own work as long as its not affiliated with a business project of more than one person. makes it from 800 to 150 but its not upgradable.

photoshop is your best bet if you want to paint directly to models, uv is still better but 3d painting allows you to correct seams which are extremely annoying to get rid of on a uv layout.

do you use blender thats free and you can do some tricks with that to get nice textures, either way gimp is the best free software that i can think of as its essentially trying to mimic photoshop even has the same sort of interface.

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Answer by Piflik · Jul 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM

These are three different things...you can shade objects by using any shader or write your own. You can color objects directly in Unity with the simplest shaders and a color of your choice. You can texture an object using a painting program (GIMP would be free) and using a shader in Unity that uses one or more image files. Which one of these do you want?

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Answer by King_Hermy · Jul 13, 2012 at 12:19 PM

I wanted a program i could use to paint directly on 3D models.Paint obviously does not work.Are you guys sure gimp will?

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reptilebeats · Jul 13, 2012 at 01:38 PM 0

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Blender and photoshop will allow you to paint directly to the model, either way you will have to make a uv layout. Like i said i doubt anyone paints directly to a model except for cleaning seems. I havent uses the new photshop yet, but blender i gound wad quicker to paint on models, but you dont have many options.

Fattie · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:23 PM 0

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP allows you to paint on to a 3D model ???????? that does not sound right dude.

Piflik · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:33 PM 1

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The newer versions allow you to do that (CS3 or CS4 and up, methinks). I can't recommend it, though. If you want to paint directly on your model, use $$anonymous$$udbox, zBrush, $$anonymous$$ari or Bodypaint.

Fattie · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:48 PM 0

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we get the latest version of adobe every time, I am stunned to hear that is a feature! I had no idea it could open 3D models??! WTF ???

are you sure you're not thinking of something else? I'll look in to it.

i recommend Cheetah3D since I "don't like blender"

http://www.cheetah3d.com/

"UV Editing So you've modeled a nice character or a new product design, it's time to get decorating and Cheetah3D is ready to get to work. With a powerful UV editor combined with a node based materials system you can paint and texture every model you make......"

there are various fanous specialist YV unwrappers used by modellers, low poly guys and the like ... such as "unwrap3d"

it is a specialised field and annoying...

Piflik · Jul 13, 2012 at 02:54 PM 1

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You can open .obj files and paint on them, but he navigation is painful. You can paint most common channels (Diffuse, Bump, Specular/Shininess, Opacity, Glossiness, Emissive, Reflectivity).

Regarding Blender...I absolutely hate it :D stupidest User Interface ever...

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