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10 BodyPaint 3D R13 Standalone Quickstart
Rotate the view so you can see the eyelid from the top. Activate the Render Active View for RayBrush Painting
mode and set the brush size to 10. Switch to the color layer’s Color menu and set the color to a medium gray
which will be the base color for our eyelid. Now go to the bump layer’s color preview and set the color to black
(both color layers are located in the Materials tab under the letters C and B + pencil symbol). When you paint
on the object you will notice that both colors are being applied to the object – the gray base color and the
black (to indicate indentations). (If white were the color of the Bump channel it would “raise” the brush stroke
instead of indicating indentations). The result could look like the following image.
Load the QS_BP3D_01_Final.c4d file and take a look at it when you have time.
5. BodyPaint 3D UV Edit
In this chapter we will show you more about editing UVs. First, though, you need to know what UVs are before
getting started. Take a look at the following screenshot:
The polygons of the sphere at the left are outlined in orange. Now imagine the sphere has a second invisible
skin lying over the polygon mesh. We will cut this skin open at selected locations and press it flat onto a
surface. This is our UV mesh (at right). This UV mesh is nothing more than a copy of our polygons in a flat state.
The UV mesh can be edited independently of the polygon mesh without affecting the polygons’ geometry and
vice-versa.