At 3December, Alias|Wavefront announced that they are giving away copies
of their Maya Paint FX plug-in for free. The 3D Paint FX tools will
be present in the next major release of Maya. But as Jill Ramsay,
product manager for Maya and Brush Technologies explained, "We wanted
to make this powerful brush-based technology available to our
customers as part of our 3December celebration, instead of waiting
for the next major Maya release." So for registered users of Maya the
plug-in can be downloaded free of charge from either the 3December or
Alias|Wavefront Website. This means that they can enhance the popular
Artisan tool-set using the plug-in beyond the already successful
Paint Effect technology and can now paint color and bump map details
onto geometry without rendering and switching between programs.
Rick DeMott
Animation World Network
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