2. 3D Views

3. Views let you look at your model from different angles.

All of the 3D views apart from Perspective are fixed to a single orientation - these are orthogonal views which means they are not distorted by perspective, objects in the distance are the same size on screen as objects close to the viewer. On the other hand, the Perspective view distorts objects naturally, close objects look bigger on screen than distant objects, also you can Orbit the model in this view and it will not snap back.

All of Curvy's tools can work in the 3D views, including painting tools which paint directly onto your 3D models.

4. Painting Views

These are flat two dimensional views of images, textures and lightmaps. These views show images as they will appear when exported and loaded into a traditional 2D painting program.

Only a few of Curvy's tools work in the painting views, these are Paint Brush, Smooth Brush, Pick Colour, Pan and Zoom. If you have a chosen a 3D only tool, your cursor will automatically swap out to a Paint Brush cursor when you move it over a 2D painting view.