That would be the simplest solution.

Even if you went as far as to export a tire off the car out of Bryce, into UVMapper Classic, and made some sort of basic uvmap, so you could just paint on a tread. That would work great. Wouldn't have to be perfect in any way, just so long as whatever uvmap you clicked up would make just the flat part of the tire accessable to painting.

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