Color Tools

Fig 1. 3D Paint

Clear 

The color of all faces is set to white.

Mask 

The color of all unmarked faces is set to black.

Recolor 

Overlays a representation of the surface shading into the color itself.

Gamma 

Globally lighten (values less than 1) or darken (values greater than 1) the color information.

Smooth 

Smooths the color by the level indicated.

3D Paint

There is no painting within CySlice itself; what the 3D Paint tool does is provides an interface between PlyEdit and 2D paint programs. The only requirement is that the paint application can read and write TIFF formatted image files.

In this description GIMP, a free multi-platform application (see gimp.org), is used as the external 2D paintbox. Commercial products, such as Photoshop, would work just as well.

The painting process is quite simple:

1] 

Select a view of the polymesh that you would like to paint.

In this situation an Ortho projection may be better than Persp as parts of the polymesh further from the camera will be given the same pixel coverage as closer parts.

Also consider hiding parts of the polymesh that you don't want to paint. Say you have a whole creature, but only wanted to paint the head, hide the rest of the body. This will speed up the color export and import process.

Name 

Mult 

Facing only 

Visible only 

Extract 

Project 

Dirt

Fig 2. Dirt