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Hi Simon Good introduction to 3d Coat with clear explanations of how various features work and why they are used. Look forward to seeing more. Cheers Mal

Hi JimB. I have subscribed to Majoro3d and the painting does work(as well as the sculpting). I think if you click on the vertex button(second left across from wireframe button) and the paint button you should be able to start painting in black on the mesh(if you haven't altered the colour wheel). If you also have the sculpt button active you will be able to paint and sculpt at the same time. Hope this helps. Cheers Malcolm

L'Ancien Regime I suspect TB is the painting program Twisted Brush. Cheers Mal

Andrew Unfortunately the last 3 alphas have been unuseable for me. The same problem with the interface persists - displaced and flashing on and off toolbars and menus on startup which cannot be fixed and I have to close the program. This problem started with alpha 78 - versions up to 77 were okay. Regards Mal

Hi guys. I am seeing the same problem with the UI as mentioned by geo_n. See screenshot in Alpha 78 UI bug thread in Beta Support section of forum. Mal

Hi. You may recognise this character from the Shrek movies. 1.6 million triangles and rendered with Old_Skull material. Thanks for viewing. Comments are welcome. Cheers Mal

Hi Andrew. Terrific improvement in memory management in V30. I previously posted a horsehead model(see Volumetric Sculpting WIPs) which I could only subdivide to 513K triangles(number of pointers was around 500K). Any further attempts to increase the resolution resulted in out of memory errors. I reloaded the model in V30 and the number of pointers dropped to ~80K and I have been able to increase the resolution to over 4M triangles(with ~360K pointers)! Great work!! As I said before 3dCoat is the best $70 I've ever spent!! Cheers Mal

Hi Andrew. I have been sculpting a horses head and I wish to increase the resolution to add detail. However I can't increase it beyond 513,000 triangles. Any idea why? Normally when I'm using voxels I can increase the resoltion to at least 3 million triangles. Have attached picture and 3b file. BTW, I'm one of your early customers as well - bought 3d brush on 20/10/07. Best $70 I ever spent!! Congratulations on your first year of marketing - the development pace has been outstanding! Regards Mal horsehead.zip

22 seconds for download at average speed of 240 KB/sec(used Orbit downloader). Cheers Mal

Thanks for your help jbshorty. Following your advice I was able to import a displacement map from 3dBrush into Modo. Mal

Hi jbshorty. As a new user of Modo and 3dBrush I am trying to get a displacement map from 3dBrush and use it in Modo. You seem to have accomplished this. Could you 'walk me through' how you did this? Cheers Mal