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Unlock Your 3D Game Art Potential with MARI indie 3.0

MARI indie 3.0 is the essential 3D texturing and painting software tailored for indie game developers and freelance artists. Dive into creating stunning, high-quality 3D assets without breaking the bank. This artist-friendly toolset empowers you to focus on the creative process, delivering exceptional results quickly and efficiently. Say goodbye to technical hurdles and hello to unparalleled artistic freedom.

Gain ultimate control over every detail of your 3D models and animations. MARI indie 3.0 offers a powerful and intuitive workflow for painting and detailing that's both quick and creative. This complete package allows you to work exactly the way you want, unleashing your artistic vision.

Supported by a world-class advanced layering system, MARI indie 3.0 is a true workhorse. It equips game artists and content creators with the functionality they need to accurately replicate the look of assets directly within their game engine, ensuring visual consistency and optimal performance.

Features and Benefits

MARI indie 3.0 Includes Features For:

• Intuitive 3D Painting and Texturing: Paint and texture directly onto your 3D models with unparalleled precision and control.
• Custom Brush Import: Import your favorite Photoshop brushes or create your own unique brushes.
• Advanced Layer-Based Workflow: Enjoy enhanced speed and control with a powerful layer system for efficient texture creation.
• Realistic Interactive Previews: See your textures come to life with realistic, on-the-fly interactive previews.
• Powerful Geometry Handling: Manipulate complex geometry with ease, gaining greater precision and control over your 3D assets.
• Alembic Support: Import and work with animated geometry caches and imported cameras seamlessly.
• Physically Based Shading (PBS): Achieve realistic and dynamic materials with physically based shading and environmental lighting.
• Unreal Engine Integration: Includes the Unreal Shader and Unreal Environment Map for seamless integration with Unreal Engine projects.

Key Features and Workflows Explained

3D Painting and Texturing: Embrace a more creative and fluid approach to 3D game asset painting. MARI indie 3.0 features an intuitive workflow identical to the full version, allowing you to create stunning details, textures, and visual effects by painting directly onto your game assets in 3D.

Reused / Customized Brushes: Import your favorite Photoshop brushes or create custom brushes to fit your workflow. MARI’s special “healing” and “slurp” brush tools simplify seam removal and texture blending.

Advanced Layering: MARI indie 3.0's advanced layering system lets you paint faster with greater control. Benefit from real-time adjustments, GPU-accelerated procedural layers, and advanced masking. The powerful blend of procedural updates and painted detail streamlines your workflow.

Physically-Based Shading: Maximize realism with MARI indie 3.0’s physically-based shading system. Simulate real-world materials and their reactions to various lighting conditions, creating stunningly realistic 3D art.

Environmental Lighting: Accelerate your workflow by simulating your game engine's lighting environment. You'll paint textures more accurately, allowing you to achieve the desired end result more quickly.

Interactive Preview: Create normal maps from bump maps on-the-fly. MARI indie 3.0’s interactive preview simplifies the process of generating and manipulating textures. Dynamic lighting and shadow support allows you to cast real-time shadows on your 3D game assets.

Geometry Handling: Exercise quick, fine-tuned control over complex surfaces across animated assets with MARI indie 3.0’s advanced geometry handling. Easily isolate, select, mask, and hide geometry per patch and face.

Differences between MARI indie 3.0 and full MARI

• Project file (.mra) linked to Steam account / cannot be shared with other users
• The UDIM texture patch count is limited to 6 patches per object
• The object count is limited to 5 objects
• Export texture resolution size limited to 4k and 16-bit color per channel
• Allowed export formats: .exr, .psd, .png, .tga, .jpg
• Output formats no longer available: .tif, .tiff, .hdr, .dds, and .ptx
• Python scripting disabled
• Session scripts disabled
• Custom shaders not allowed
• Advanced colourspace configurations and the loading of custom OCIO config files have been disabled. Basic "Nuke-Default" configuration is available, however.
• The advanced Node Graph has been disabled, but nodes can still be utilized in Mari indie via Graph Layers.
• 2D colour correct filter has been disabled
• Custom C-API plugins not supported
• NukeMari bridge has been disabled

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