MARI 1.4
For a full 3D paint tool that lets you spend more time painting and less time on technical issues, take a look at MARI.
MARI 1.4 boasts a rich feature set and responsiveness that challenges even the most sophisticated 2D paint systems. You can paint directly on to models and view the results immediately and in context, giving you an accurate and realistic view of the finished product.
Originally created by Weta Digital, MARI 1.4 was designed to handle complex, high-resolution textures on 3D models in King Kong, Avatar, District 9 and Tintin.
The result is an extremely scalable package that is able to cope easily with a high level of detail – tens of thousands of textures – quickly and elegantly, saving studios valuable resources and time.
Features
- Painting tools include a fully customisable brush engine; blur and sharpen tools and the ability to paint through, and clone from and between layers and textures.
- Filters with real-time preview; an advanced channel masking engine; all painting and shading tools are available in 3D projection paint mode and ‘flat’ UV paint mode.
- Modelling tools; handles very large 3D model data sets; supports large textures up to 32k x 32k pixels.
- Displacement preview for adding detail to the surface of an object by pushing and pulling it based on a texture map.
- Ptex allows users to paint and render models without having to define a UV map.
- Snapshots allow a frozen copy of a set of textures to be saved and recalled at any time.
- Tiled textures allow artists to quickly cover large areas with repeating textures and offer fine grain control as to how and where this is applied.
- Environment mapping allows artists a 3D viewport that more accurately represents the final look of their rendered images.
Benefits
- MARI lets you save time by seeing the results of your work immediately, cutting down on revisions and repeat cycles of paint, render, review, rinse.
- It easily integrates into a post-production workflow, due to its open and extendable approach to UI, geometry, camera, and shading.
What's New
MARI 1.4 offers lots of new features:
- A layered PSD import and export functionality that lets you bring an entire PS layer stack into MARI automatically.
- OpenColorIO provides industry standard colour management.
- Triplanar projection for more control and a faster scene set up time.
- Masked filters: colour correction, noise and masked blend constant colour filters, with real-time preview.
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