3D-Coat 4.0 has been officially released with huge updates over the previous version. Here are some of the biggest new features.
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[li]Live Clay - This is a full set of sculpting tools allowing dynamic mesh density including ways to paint on more or less density where you need it, even applying decimation where you like with a brush.[/li][li]Revised interface - The new changes to the UI include options for icons on all of the tool buttons, choose whether you want to have icons, just text, both text and icon, even the size of the icon. Many other changes will make your sculpting and texturing time easier and faster.[/li][li]Painting - You can now paint emissive and colored specular in your textures. Painting is now also enabled directly on your sculpted mesh which can be directly exported or baked onto a lower poly mesh with UV textures.[/li][li]New Pencil tool and Magic Wand for painting pixel art and making quick selections.[/li][li]Spline drawing mode - This new mode allows you to create a spline on the surface of your model and used it for applying texture or sculpting[/li][li]The Voxel Extrude tool allows you to select an area and then extrude or flatten it with razor sharp edges or soft curved corners.[/li][li]Retopology on a model can now follow changes made to the original.[/li][li]The Retopology room now has tools like Extrude allowing you to do polygonal modeling[/li][/ul]
There are many more changes and improvements. See the full list here:
[http://3d-coat.com/3d-coat-v4/](http://3d-coat.com/3d-coat-v4/)
Until July 1st the cost is only $349. Upgrade price from v3 is $84. See the purchasing page for details.
[http://3d-coat.com/buy-now/](http://3d-coat.com/buy-now/)
Features video (Thanks intentionalpixel):
http://youtu.be/d8D1Kfz4BPQ