The Maxon forums for BodyPaint are pretty dry and only plugin updates for LIghtwave 8 and 3dstudio, maya and cinema4d have been released as far as updates for BodyPaint. The BodyPaint demo is fully functional, since you are familiar with DeepPaint and know it's limits/strengths I would highly recommend playing with the UV features in the BodyPaint Demo and get a feel if it's going to be a benifit to switch. BodyPaint certainly isn't cheap nor is DeepPaint so switching (you to bodypaint, me to deeppaint) is an expensive guess. I'm sorry I can't really offer more information, I've been struggling with BodyPaint since I got it, however it doesn't seem to the be the program it's definatly the user. I'm more confortable in 2d than I am in 3d and it's been a struggle to get the hours to play and brain power to learn a new workflow.