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MaPZone is simply the most advanced texturing tool ever. MaPZone is only intended to be used for producing high quality textures, and this is what it does best. Based on a unique and patented technology called the FX Maps, MaPZone is the only procedural tool giving you that much control over your creation.

As texture construction paradigm, MaPZone is based on a compositing graph to build up and mix textures step by step. It's like using Photoshop, but where you could visualize each step and the links between steps, and where you would never loose anything in the in-between. No more history losses.

A huge library of preset textures comes with MaPZone for free, so go ahead, browse them, use them, use only parts of them in your compositions. They are the chemical elements necessary to the apparition of life.