4D Paint

'''4D Paint''' was a program, originally released "4D Vision" (Andy Bearsley and Max Fox-Wilson are listed as the human programmers in one copy<ref>"About" window of version 1.13</ref>), for texturing models made in [[3DS|3D Studio]] and its successor [[MAX (3ds Max)|3D Studio Max]] . It stores projects in folders with the extension ".4dp", which contain resources used in the project as well as an actual file with the same extension. It can also be used as a plugin for 3D Studio Max.

It seems<ref name="pr" /> that 4D Paint, perhaps under a different name, was originally developed some time in 1995 or earlier by Schreiber Instruments, Inc., a Colorado-based company that had been founded in 1987 to develop [[AutoCAD]]-related products<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19990125103047/http://www.schreiber.com/</ref>. Schreiber Instruments's 3D Studio-related products were bought by 4D Vision in 1995<ref name="pr" />; 4D Vision, which was also based in Colorado, set up a subsidiary in New Zealand<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19961023022603/http://www.4dvisasia.co.nz/contact.htm</ref>, 4D Vision Asia, to develop and distribute 4D Paint. In 1998, 4D Vision Asia had changed its name to "Right Hemisphere"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/19980422081511/http://www.4dvisasia.co.nz/info/press.htm#right</ref> and released a "successor"<!-- When I look into Deep Paint 3D, I'll see if it's just a rebranding--> called [[Deep Paint 3D]] some time that year<ref>Game Developer Magazine, August 1999, p. 9, available online at [https://archive.org/details/GDM_August_1999/page/n3/mode/2up/search/%224d+paint%22?q=%224d+paint%22]</ref>. Deep Paint 3D seems to have been kept as a product up to 2011<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111202143720/http://www.righthemisphere.com/products/client-products/deep-paint-3d-deep-uv</ref>, but soon after, Right Hemisphere, which had evidently changed to primarily making "3D visualization" software as opposed to 3D modeling software<ref>E.g., https://web.archive.org/web/20111126135112/http://www.righthemisphere.com/company/news-and-events/press-releases</ref>, was bought by another company called "SAP"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20111125052147/http://www.righthemisphere.com/_base/static/img/press_release/sap_to_acquire3D_visualization_software_maker_right_hemisphere.pdf</ref>, which seems to have discontinued Deep Paint 3D.