BodyPaint is a module that allows to draw bitmap textures on polygon objects. The BodyPaint API allows to access the edited textures. The API is defined in c4d_painter.h.

Several utility functions are provided; the most important are:

SendPainterCommand(): Executes various painter commands.
CallUVCommand(): Executes various UV commands.

Related classes are:

PaintBitmap is the base class for all BodyPaint images classes.
PaintTexture is a texture that contains multiple layers. The active texture is obtained with PaintTexture::GetSelectedTexture().
PaintLayer is the base class for layers within a PaintBitmap. Layers can be PaintLayerBmp, PaintLayerFolder, or PaintLayerMask.
PaintMaterial represents a paintable material.

Note: A PaintBitmap can also be obtained from a MultipassBitmap with MultipassBitmap::GetPaintBitmap().