Quote Originally Posted by Carver413 View Post
perhaps the real money is in tools that would allow programers like our selfs to create the art they need without having to rely on artists too much.
I surely hope so since I'm working on such a tool. While it won't support of making textures directly on existing models I do plan to use a uniqe approach in of making graphics which I belive would be well suitable to us programers.
When will this tool be ready? Ufortunately I don't know as I'm having some motivational problems for programing lately.

As for the ability to directly paint textures to objects: I haven't seen such tool yet. The closes thing to that was a demo program which shiped with Truevision 3D graphic engine. One neat feture of Truevision 3D was the ability to use dynamic textures which meant that you can actually paint on the objects directy. Unfortunately development on Truevision 3D was ceased a few years ago due the dispute between the two major autors of the engine.