it seems that with all the new updates to z3, there isn’t much of a need for projection master. does anyone still use it? are there still things you can’t do without it?
Zapplink For One.
Painting To Textures For Two.
The Deco Brush For Three.
Do I Need To Keep Going?
Well, even if polypainting gives you freedom to paint and it’s a nice way to create texture, it has a little problem: it works with polygons !
What does it mean ?
First, this is means that you have to subdivide your model enough to paint correctly.
Second, you need a model with well spaced and distributed vertices on the mesh.
For example (this is what I’m doing now), if you have a well modelled building with walls (just 4 vertices but very far) and windows (again just 4 vertices, but very near), if you subdivide you’ll get big polygons on walls and small polygons on windows and if you try to pain with polypainting you’ll get strange effect.
Instead, with Projection Master you don’t need a subdivided mesh to be painted and it doesn’t care about the spatial distribution of vertices.
Don’t consider the fact it “freezes” your geometry to be painted as an obstacle.
This is my little experience I’m getting these days, I hope I’m not wrong about something, if so, please correct me, thanks 
Michael
P. S. slorpthegillman, is ZAppLink available also for 3.1 ?
@thedust : Hello, Zapp is not available for 3.1 but i think it’s a question of a few days now (or week…). 
Emmmanuel.
TheDust already said it, the miracle-word is ‘resolution’.
If your model has exactly the same amount of polygons that your texture-size has pxels, then there is not much need for using projection master etc.
If not, you’ll need it on finer details.
Yes Zapplink works fine for me. Is it not in your version??
It’s also worth mentioning there are a whole bunch of useful 2D brushes that greatly extend your painting options (both for polypainting and for texture map painting), options that are unavailable when polypainting in edit mode.
Sven
nope is not in mine…
can you post you .zsc here including zapplink folder please?
do you installed it or was in your upgrade?
same question here!
For some reason my post was removed here. Zapplink is in Z3.1! what are you alll talking about. I posted a screenshot but someone took it down.
If you have Zapplink in 3.1, when did you get your 3.1?
I’ve had mine for about a week… no Zapplink that I can find, but I’m brand new to Z so maybe it is hidden someplace?
(Or, are you just jerking our chain?)
look, here it is. I don’t know why my last post was removed. but the button is not labeled (idk why?). Not pulling your chain i promise.
All i did was download the update from the site last week and install, nothing else and here it is.
then you must have gotten it at a super-secret time, 'cause I just
re-downloaded the update, and it extracts to the exact same filesize, and
the date of creation for the .exe is the same as well (Tuesday, August 07,
2007, 1:31:38 PM). Here’s what the rest of us see:
funny stuff.
:lol:
i wonder if someone from zbc could explain this
at least before your servers get overloaded with people re-downloading the upgrade to see if they can get zapplink too
Slorpthegillman is a beta tester. This kind of confusion is why we limit what a beta tester is allowed to post in the public forum.
ZAppLink is going to be available soon.
Of all the things to do… Yankin’ my chain like that. I got excited with the hidden zapplink for nothin’.
Shame on you mister beta tester. 
Someone delete those posts before even more bruhaha erupts?
O crap. I mean, I didn’t actually do anything else. I had no idea that the plugin was a holdover. I had deleted my beta test version. I had no idea that one was related to the other. I am so sorry everyone. When I downloaded z3.1 the zapplink button was there. I am really sorry for the confusion.
“the night of the living plugins”
mistery solved…
and thanks for the explanation Aurick
ah this forum, 2 years and still gives me the thrills !!!
They should do these ‘leaks’ more often… At least now we know that they haven’t forgotten ZAppLink :lol: