Stephen; On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:13:15AM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tom Rathborne wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:24:35PM -0500, Stephen J Baker wrote: > > > I'm one of the developers working on the PrettyPoly 3D modeller > > > (http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net) and we have been talking > > > about building a 3D texture painting system into our tool. > > > > I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet: > > http://home.t-online.de/home/uwe_maurer/texpaint.htm > > > > Not nearly as advanced as what you're talking about but it looks > > fairly useful. I've never tried it. > > It neatly exhibits the exact thing we are trying to fix...when he > paints the word 'GIMP' on the guy's chest, the letters come out > rather distorted...because he's painting them in texture > coordinates. The approach we'd like to use would allow you to draw > the letters directly onto the guy's chest - and have them look nice > in 3D (although horribly distorted in the main GIMP window). Texture Paint allows you to paint on the projected 3D model and then extract a new texture from that via un-projecting ... certainly not ideal due to sampling problems but still a fairly clever solution. At least ... that's what I think it does based on what I see on the web page. Cheers, Tom -- -- Tom Rathborne tomr@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aceldama.com/~tomr/ -- "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." -- -- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
