Rich Diamant, Lead Character Modeler Blizzard Entertainment has recently released the Diamant Modeling Tool for Maya. Based on his his Diamant UV tools for Maya, Diamant Modeling Tool is a completely integrated Automatic UV Mapper and Editor in Maya and includes a suite of custom modeling tools that are created and tested right in production.
…Diamant Modeling Tool is a fully integrated Automatic UV mapper and Editor for Maya as well as a suite of Custom Modeling Tools made specifically for production use…
The Diamant Modeling Tool does its thing without any custom Maya Nodes and without plugin dependancies making it ideal for a multi-Maya production environment alleviating the worry if files will open and work on other machines.
Currently Diamant Modeling Tool 1.0 for Maya is available for Maya 2011, 2012, 2013 x64 and Maya 2011 SP1, 2012 SP1, 2013 x32 and is windows only for the moment, however there is a possibility of both Linux and Mac versions in the future.
Diamant Modeling Tool carries the price of Price: $199 US for a node-locked version to an individual computer, and there is a trail version that you are able to take for a spin on the RD3D site.
The Diamant Modeling Tool features include:
- Custom Selection Brushes for UV Edge and Ancor Marking
- Automatic UV Mapping
- Custom UV Editor with color distortion
- Maya UV Editing Tools
- UV Ratio
- Symmetrical Brush based Modeling Tools
- Custom Retopology Tools
- Mesh sliding
- Mudbox/Zbrush style Brushes
- Topology Point Transfer
- NEW* Project Mesh on Mesh
- More to come in the future!
