Is it worth it?

[Dan the Man]

the only thing I want to do with it is use it to make templates for my csgo skins and to easily creat textures is it worth it or is there a cheaper program that can help?

[Pangolin Legends: Arceus]

Have you tried Blender?

[Dan the Man]

I only found a tutorial for 3d coat :(

[Dan the Man]

if you know how to do this is blender i would love to know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiNASmArkxA&list=WL&index=52

[☠F☺celessMind☠]

you should consider substance painter or mari if you only want to make some texturing
seem like you don't need a 3d software for what you want to achieve.

[Zeriel00]

I'm going to 100% disagree with the post above. Mari is waaaaay too advanced for the general consumer unless you're some sort of prodigy, I don't think the complexity of the program and the amount of detail it can create is neccesary for the general consumer. Surface painter is better in useability and interface but I still found working with it, it's a huge headache. I need more time with it to make up my mind about painter but for a beginner I wouldn't reccoment it.

I reccomend getting 3D Coat or Mudbox instead. If you sculpt in Zbrush and need retopology then 3D Coat's tools are excellent once you learn how to use them. It also has good tools for UVs, I don't like the painting tools that much (I haven't use them very much) and I don't care for voxel sculpting, (I prefer Zbrush and Mudbox for that) but it's great to have them as extras for the price. 3D Coat's interface is kinda cluncky but doable also it has little documentation.

Mudbox is also a great alternative, user friendly, painting and UVs with the touch of a button, really decent sculpting tools and perfect integration with Maya. For a beginner I reccomend Mudbox the most. The problem is for a game engine I'm not exactly sure how Mudbox automatic UVs would work.

3D Coat is like a jack of all trades but master of none. Ireccomend you find tutorials and videos on EXACTLY what you want to do before you spend any money. Most box modeling applications can do UV unwrap, 3D Coat can do unwrap and painting.