In nuce: The two-headed company Sparseal has released the latest version of its retopology software CozyBlanket – version 2.0 of the software, as I reported on 80.lv on 7 November this year. CozyBlanket is an app for the iPad. According to the product description, the software is particularly suitable for preparing 3D models for animation, real-time rendering or surfacing.
Pricing: CozyBlanket is available in a free version; however, this has been reduced to include the save and export functions. These two functions can be activated with a one-off payment of 19.99 US dollars. A standard licence for CozyBlanket is priced at 89.99 US dollars.
In toto: CozyBlanket has been divided into three levels. Each level is assigned to a different task – namely: Retopology, Unwrapping and Baking. These three levels and their respective tasks are listed below – along with some of the newly added functions. For a full list of features, please refer to the CozyBlanket 2.0 announcement on sparseal.com .
- Retopology level: The viewport rendering has been revised in terms of contrast and readability. In addition, wireframe drawing is now GPU-accelerated and has been enhanced with new animations. In addition, the target mesh can now also be rendered with smooth shadings and vertex colours – imported from .obj vertex colours or from ZBrush-Polypaint. In addition, semi-transparent overlays and a shaded preview of the retopology mesh are now visible – which should increase the readability of models in development.
- Uwrapping: UV seams can be drawn, deleted and extended by drawing over the mesh edge. In addition, the UV stage now also supports the realignment of textures via multi-touch; users use the so-called tweak action for this. A texture that is intended for further processing can be adjusted with regard to wrapping – without further processing in the 2D UV view.
- Baking: Either tangential space normal maps or colour maps can be created from the imported target meshes. Furthermore, ZIP files with baked maps, the model and the MTL files can be exported – for example to other software. There is also the option of displaying imported target meshes and low-poly baked versions next to each other in the multi-viewport; the scene light remains mobile, which opens up further scope for design.
- Incidentally, one of the smaller new functions is an updated Python network programming interface. The advantage of this is that CozyBlanket can now be integrated into any digital content creation software, according to the developers.
Click further: More detailed information is available at sparseal.com . CozyBlanket can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store.
Source: 80.lv ( news from Gloria Levine)
