About 3D-Coat
Combines painting layered textures and sculpting in one easy to use interface with use of 3D Layers. Every layer consists of a colour, specular, transparency and displacement channel. 3D-Coat generates a normal map “on the fly” to display fine details. It displays a base mesh of 40-100 K polygons but the normalmap makes it look like 1-16 million polygons. You can edit textures up to 4096x4096. 3D-Coat has very powerful retopology tool. It can work in a deep connection with Adobe Photoshop (R) or any 2D-editor that can edit PSD files. Full compatibility with Light Wave 3D, Modo through .lwo format, with Maya, 3ds Max, Carrara through .fbx (import) and .obj format. It has easy and intuitive interface. Every control has a diplayed detailed hint, so you can master 3D-Coat very quickly.

What’s New in this Version
- Completely new render engine - it supports DirectX and OpenGL render. DirectX is better for game video cards, OpenGL- for professional Quadro FX cards.
- New powerful retopology tool. You can find good tutorial/overview at  www.3d-coat.com/tutorials/Retopo/retopology.htm
- Layers support full set of Photoshop blending operations.     
- Now you can apply different blending operations to depth of the layer.
- Many more enhancements.