Blacksmith3D - Suite provides you with a host of tools for reshaping and painting your 3D characters and objects. Never before has it been so easy to do. Features that are normally found in expensive, and hard to learn software packages have been brought together in this easy and affordable 3D detailing solution.

Using the analogy of a blacksmith, Blacksmith3D - Suite allows you to "heat up" and "deform" objects in a very intuitive way. The hotter portions of the object deform the most and the cooler parts deform the least. In this way, you can easily create smooth and continuous morphs, with little effort.

In addition, Blacksmith3D - Suite is a powerful, true 3D paint program. This means that you can simply rotate and position your object, select a paint brush and paint directly on the surface! You can also paint the color, bump, transparency, and displacem

Here are some key features of "Blacksmith3D Suite":

Morphing:
· Auto-rigging - Export a CR2 file and you have the option to output a new base OBJ file and adjust the joint parameters to match your morphed object! Turn your favorite human character into a giant monster while preserving the joint setup*. Works especially good on fingers!
· On the fly symmetric morphing
· Morph virtually anything from anything!
· Create detailed morphs from existing objects
· User friendly selection based workflow
· Advanced morph mixing capabilities, great for creating complex facial expressions
· Variety of deformation tools including bulge, smooth, rotate, scale, unmorph and more.
· In most cases, little or no manual joint editing is required. In some cases, modest joint editing may be required.

Painting:
· True 3d painting
· New blur and smudge brushes!
· Paint across UV seams with ease
· Create and interchange texture maps with ease
· Paint color, transparency, bump, and displacement maps
· Advanced painting features include fade by angle, symmetric painting, texture tiling and more!
· Paint high resolution maps (only limited by your video card's maximum texture size)
· Export maps to image files for use in other applications
· Hidden surface culling, only paint on what you see!
· Fast painting and high quality modes.

General:
· Extensive real-time tool descriptions in help box
· Drag and drop pictures into workspace for reference
· Powerful Layer Manager with multiple display modes, including locked, hidden and wireframe.
· Cross platform portability, imports and exports the OBJ and CR2** formats
· Create and save selections with the selection manager
· Reuse morphs from the same base mesh
· Autosave feature to recover work from system errors and forgetfulness
· Multiple viewport setups for improved usability
· Includes a free base mesh and a host of kick ass morphs!
· Easily isolate, lock, or hide parts of the object you are working on.

Limitations:

· Registration Screen at startup.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· NEW Clone brush, just like your favorite paint application, but in 3D
· New brush mapping methods (Fixed plane, spherical and cylindrical) which allow you to paint seamless patterns around your object in a single paint stroke.
· Blur and Smudge textures, even across UV seams.
· Free upgrade for v3.0 users.
· Much, much more.