Has anyone tried Paint 3D in Windows 10? What do you think the effect of this will have on games?
I think it might be useful for creating a few assets for games. Not 3D models but just images.
The other thing is that there are a lot of high quality free 3D models that you can download with it so this will up expectations of what kind of 3D models you have in your game.
I think all in all it will raise the bar of games.
I think it’s an interesting entry level tool, but getting decent quality out of it takes so much time and effort that you’d be better off learning GIMP and Blender, or even paying for a Photoshop subscription. I don’t really see this raising any bars at all, aside from the most very low of them.
I think it’s more of a placeholder in people’s minds at this point, plus a curio for anyone interested. In the future it could be you expect the os to be able to edit a VR avatar, for example.
I use substance painter. Far more superior and it’s affordable to. 19$ a month or so is indie subscription.
I think it is still basic. I will use other software instead of Paint 3D 
Its cool that Microsoft added it, but it isn’t a professional level tool. Its like how Microsoft added Wordpad to get some basic word processing capability built into the OS, but isn’t intended nor ideal to use as your companies primary document editor.
You have it completely backwards. If someone was unable to create good content with the enormous selection of tools we have available today why would they suddenly be able to create quality content with a far more restrictive tool that holds their hand every step of the way?
There are games that have been made with tools made for beginners (eg Klik’n’Play) but they are either created by people who started at a time period when nothing else was available or they were created by people who were already talented enough and wanted to do it for giggles.
We had an example recently posted by @neoshaman where someone was creating art with Microsoft Excel. Using your logic someone might point towards him as an example of a new easy-to-use tool enabling him, but once you read up on the guy you suddenly understand that he was already a competent artist. The tool had nothing to do with it.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/using-unity-to-create-art.514614/#post-3371044
http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-artist/
My argument goes like this.
Pre Paint 3D. “Wow look at those 3D graphics in the game, it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
Post Paint 3D. “Pfft. I’ve seen better graphics in paint 3D”.
Outcome: Developers have to work harder making better 3D graphics.
One feature of paint 3D is the ability to search and download hundreds of very high quality 3D models. Take a look. They’re pretty good. Most of them better than anything on the asset store.
Paint 3D is to professional 3D Animation tools what scratch is to professional programming languages.
Paint3d looks kind of about as dumb as microsoft paint was. lol
Your argument has fatal flaws. For starters, the average developer fully understands that the average complainer (a) is in the vast minority, (b) doesn’t truly understand the effort that goes into creating assets (Paint 3D won’t change this), and (c) very few complainers stop purchasing the games (if anything it encourages other complainers to purchase them too).
For an excellent example of the last one just look at the nonsense called “asset flipping”. People are purchasing low quality games purposefully for the sake of complaining. If I were a developer and people were purchasing my games why would I change anything about them?
Where are the models originating from? What tools were used to create them? Are they legitimate? Unfortunately I’m on an older release of Windows 10 and the last time I upgraded Microsoft had a flaw that almost rendered my computer unable to function. I won’t upgrade for a toy application.
Here’s some of the 3D models on paint 3D:
You could probably save that giraffe as an FBX and rig it an put it in your game. Here I imported it into Unity
Microsoft would know how to best use their own program and they definitely look good… but are they game ready? Just at a glance they look entirely too detailed and you’re suggesting they’re not rigged in the slightest.
Can you handle the rigging with Paint 3D? Can it decimate without destroying the mesh? If I’m forced to open another program to prepare it for my game (eg rigging, decimating) then I may as well have started from that other program.
So it has a bunch of clip art models? You don’t need paint3d for that. Ultimately, it just a toy. Much like many of MS tools.
Why would I be scared of textured, unrigged models?
Especially when I can make things that look dramatically better in Blender in an afternoon?
Those models are fine for like, 2006, or a beginner level modeler, but is that what microsoft is showcasing?
Typically, when you see the showcase items for a software, like substance painter or something like that, its something most of us could never dream of creating. At least not without decades of experience in the craft and knowledge of the most current and powerful tools.
Well, if you can make models as good as these, in an afternoon, then I hope you’re making lots of money out of them. I think they’re pretty good. But I’m not a professional artist.
It’s a good way to get lots of free models to mess around with in Unity though.
Come to think of it, since Microsoft and Unity are kind of teamed up with Visual Studio etc. It would be quite a nice idea if you could import Remix 3D models directly into Unity. I wonder if they thought of that.
If everyone is using the same generic clip art, that lowers the bar, not raises it. Free clip art models doesn’t make better games, just more crappy games. Besides, this stuff isn’t game ready. There are tons of existing models out there are equal or higher that are game ready. Like most MS products, its a interesting little toy, but will probably disappear or be abandoned in few years. (no clear market/usage)
LOL! 
No I’m not, but not because I’d fear some tool would make 3d modelling easier, it would be the opposite, I would seize that opportunity for myself, and make more and better 3D content. Sadly it’s doesn’t seem like it’s the case.
oh, haha! I didn’t even know about this.
hmm… somehow I found it less useful than the Utah Teapot.
But, it’s actually kinda cool, it’s like a super super entry way of painting diffuse maps on existing models.
This kinda stuff used to be a real pita back in the days of reskinning quake 2 models.
