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  1. Norton's "Download Intelligence" feature has gotten weirdly overaggressive lately. I haven't had this happen with 3DCoat yet, but yesterday I had the same thing happen with the new ZBrush 4R4 installer. It's 685 MB on disk and I have lowest end DSL, so I wasn't pleased with having to download it again. Also Norton's reasoning was a bit daft, basically it boiled down to "Not a lot of people have this file, so it must be dangerous." -Jeff
  2. This appears to have been a momentary glitch and is now working.
  3. Oh hey, just realized you can already turn off the icons on the side tool bar in the voxel room by using a switch located just to the left of the "E" panel button. 5 different choices, Sweet! There should definitely be similar but separate options for the quick access panel . Personally I prefer text only, though I am curious about how that would work with the quick panel presets -Jeff
  4. New GUI notes -The "Borders" tab in Preferences seems to be a list of controls for a brightness multiplier function. Though some of them affect an area rather than a border. For example, setting "DockedAdjustment" to zero will turn the background of all docked panels to black. Unfortunately there appears to be a one of these modifiers affecting Theme>Edit Area Color that causes an unwanted darkening and doesn't have a control that's directly available to the user. You can control it using Borders>InputFieldAdjustment, but if you set that value to 1, it's much darker than the selected color, so something else is messing with it under the hood. Another problem; Borders>InputFieldAdjustment affects both Theme>Edit Area Color and what should be Theme>Edit Area Border Color. I say "what should be" because Theme>Edit Area Border Color now only affects a line under the text next to the edit area not it's surrounding border. -The Edit Area Highlight is broken (Tool highlighting works fine) -There's a drop shadow around the edge of the 3D viewport, hopefully there will be an option to turn this off -Re:Icons. I'm afraid I'm going to have to be a stick in the mud here say I generally don't like them. When they're large enough to be legible they take up too much real estate. (As marupura, noted with the quick access panel) But Icons do work great in certain places, like the "E" panel. so I hope we'll have the ability to turn them off per area; i.e. side menu, quick access, "E" panel, etc. -Jeff
  5. Yup, DX brushing is now working great on both my systems too. It's kind of amazing how well it works my old machine. Big thanks Andrew. One minor thing I've noticed is that whenever I start 3DC pressure sensitivity for pen radius is always toggled off. -Jeff
  6. Ah, that works great! You just have to make sure the object is dense enough so the fps drop far enough. I'm really looking forward to the new build!
  7. OK, this is very weird I get blobs in the DX paintroom, see attached image. But only after brushing in voxel surface mode. If I go directly to the paintroom the paint lines are perfectly smooth, like the GL example. EDIT In preferences: Brush pressure levels 1023 Brush sensitivity 1 In Brush options: zero pressure radius 0.15 Depth Modulator 1 All other options are 0 or off Pressure sensitive options are set to mouse not pen MORE EDIT (again) OK for moment there I thought had a fix, but sadly it doesn't seem to last It's weird but it worked great for me for awhile (on 32-bit) In the brush options panel switch all the pressure sensitivity icons to "pen", (I did this in the paintroom, but I don't if that's important) And WHAM, that was it! Everything's was fixed and brushing worked perfectly in 3DC DX!!! but when I tried the fix on the win7 machine it didn't work Then I went back the 32-bit machine and tried brushing on a new layer and no more perfect, and I haven't been able to get it back. Bummer. -Jeff
  8. Voxel surface brushing GL is still much better than DX, but DX does seem a little less bumpy/blobbly now. In DX if you turn on "use spacing" and set spacing to 5% it will yield a nice smooth stroke, but this reveals some other issues I've noticed that with a standard brush a stroke's cross section profile doesn't really match the brush's cross section profile. This is true in both DX and GL, but this mismatch is much more pronounced in DX. Liveclay results in a better match, but in DX it just isn't as good match. To me this feels like it might be a surface normal problem. To do it's thing I assume a brush must gather info about the surface it's going over. If DX sends, what ends up being (for whatever reason) incorrect normal or averaged normal data, occasional big errors in that data could easily account for a "bump" in that stroke. The use of a smaller spacing might provide more samples and eliminate those big errors which makes for a smoother stroke, but if the normal is still incorrect that might cause a constant virtual tilt to the brush which could possibly account for the profile mismatch. Of course this is all just supposition on my part, with no real knowledge of what's actually going on, so I wouldn't be surprise if it was completely and totally wrong What really interests me though is it seems like Andrew doesn't experience this on his test machines. And I'm very curious about what could be different between those and the systems that do get problems with DX. I get the problem with both these configurations XP sp3 32-bit, intel chipset & cpu, GeForce 7900 GS driver 191.07, with an Intuos 2 DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) and Win7 64-bit, intel chipset & cpu, GeForce 280M driver 258.96 notebook, with an Intuos 4 wireless Direct 11 built in (it's what comes up if you run dxdiag), but like everyone with win7 or vista has to do, I added DirectX 9 per the 3DC install instructions. I used directx_mar2009_redist.exe (downloaded from Microsoft) Those are two very different systems, but for me the problem is identical on both machines, and 100 percent repeatable, so I really wonder what the common difference is. Hmm, wait a minute, just a crazy thought; maybe Andrew has AMD based computers? -Jeff
  9. I've been following along in regard to the new brush code and while mouse sculpting felt much better, tablet sculpting was very blobby. I tried various settings using both an intuos 2 & an intuos 4; re-installing the wacom driver on one problem machine, but nothing helped. Then I tried the GL version of 3DC and tablet sculpting works perfectly with GL 3DC! (On both XPsp3 32 bit non CUDA and win7 64 bit CUDA) So maybe this is a graphics driver or a Direct X issue, rather than a tablet driver issue. Andrew do you get the same results in both the DX and GL versions, and if so what NVidia driver are you using? -Jeff
  10. Hi John, It's not just you, I can recreate the issue by using res+ or resample. And not only that, you can get the same issue by scaling the object smaller (or larger but the effect is different) with the Transform tool. Most likely 3DC is not updating the object's bounding box info correctly. -Jeff
  11. I've had a chance to look at this a little more carefully And think I've misunderstood what was posted in the release notes. I interpreted "In general it allows you to paint over voxel model with different colors/shaders, of course without blending" to mean the that the copied voxels would retain their source layers shader and color. After a more careful examination of the sample images Andrew posted I believe that's an incorrect assumption on my part. So non-issue. (But, it would've been so cool ) On a positive note, going through this "due diligence" led me to a workaround for this issue The "W" key. Which when pressed shows the voxel room wireframe mode. It lets you see everything that might be hidden within volumes, for all visible layers. Very handy. Now if only it was a toggle, rather than having to be constantly pressed
  12. Some of the improvements for the Copy tool aren't working for me. Specifically, shader and color do not copy from the background layers at all. Is anyone else having this issue? Any chance this ability is dependent on newish NVidia drivers? I've also seen some oddness with the "copy surface only" option. The background layer (a cube) was rotated and scaled (in world rather local space, so more precisely, skewed) and the copy result had strange black areas and ridges. Sorry didn't get a screen cap of this. I suspect 3DC is having a hard time determining the normal of the transformed bg layer and that's causing trouble. And finally, at the risk of seeming greedy, a feature request. It'd be nice if we could ghost bg layers. It would make seeing what your working on, particularly with Copy, easier. Sadly shader opacity doesn't seem to function between layers or we could use that as a workaround -Jeff
  13. Andrew, Just a heads up; this color picker bug, accessing the color picker causes a crash or lockup, is also in the Linux 3.5.21 build. Jeff
  14. Hmm, this is something that comes up every so often and I'd like a clarification. It's my understanding that currently you do NOT need to have CUDA and/or the CUDA toolkit installed, everything required for CUDA acceleration comes with 3DC and the standard NVidia graphics driver. Is this incorrect? As to the new smoothing itself, for me any smoothing over 100% causes massive artifacts; see attached image Maybe this is an issue with not having a new enough graphics driver? I know I haven't updated mine since last July. I do recall reading about 3DC having problems with a recent NVidia driver; has that been resolved? If it has I'll download the newest driver and see if that has any effect. Also, the "Smooth back faces" in "E" panel toggle Andrew mentioned on Twitter isn't there; just the previously available "Ignore back faces" toggle. It doesn't seem like this one would be driver or CUDA related. But, you never know. Win7 64 bit 3DC w/CUDA DX & OGL 280M nvidia 258.96 from 7-9-2010 -Jeff *UPDATE EDIT* Ah I see, as Motkoko mentions below, the new smoothing & E panel toggle are Voxel surface mode only things.
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