Advantages of 3D-Coat:
Painting textures and sculpting. It combines painting layered textures and sculpting in one easy to use interface.
Retopology tools. 3D-Coat combines the most powerful retopology approaches in one package.
3D Layers. Every layer consists of a colour, specular, transparency, and displacement channel.
Compatibility. Full compatibility with Light Wave 3D, Modo (via .lwo format), Maya, 3ds Max, Carrara (via .fbx and .obj format).
3D mouse support. 3D-Coat supports 3D SpaceNavigator by 3DCONNEXION.
Connection with Adobe Photoshop. It can deeply integrate with Adobe Photoshop (R) or any other PSD editor.