Jean-Luc

Thank you mulciber, I did try this option before posting my request. Even with "Merge without Voxelizing" it still create a voxel surface. What I meant was really a simple polygonal mesh as "background", not editable, the 3D equivalent of an image plane My bad, I tried it again and it did what I wanted Now I only need to find how to flip the polygons (normal are inverted). Very nice anyway :-)

This was already asked in the voxel development sub-forum but I guess it would be more appropriate here since it is after all a feature request It would be very nice if it were possible to import a mesh in the voxel room without having to convert it in voxel. It would allow to import the mesh and have it as a reference when using the voxel tools (building a helmet, cloth, about anything you can do using voxels. Some mesh convert very badly into voxel, and being able to have them in the viewport without being obliged to convert them would be a big advantage. I have no clue how hard it would be but it seems that Andrew already said it would be relatively easy to do.

Thank you very much, very useful After watching the two first video I decided to edit my post because I think, thank you wasn't enough:) I have learned so much simply by watching the first video, really, really, HUGE thank you

I was also wondering about this Is there still a chance to see it implemented, it would really be useful.

I just tested here (also with a SpacePilot) and it seems to work fine. When creating your custom profile, what did you choose in "step 2" ? I used "3D Mouse"

Thank you very much Andrew ! I know of no other software which evolved so constantly than 3DCoat. Again, a big thank you for your hard work !

Thank you very much Zardok, very useful tip !

3DCoat can be used without problem with the 3DConnexion controller (I use it with the "old" Space Pilot) but they are no profile for it (in fact, the 3DConnexion devices only come with a few profiles, mainly for photoshop, max, maya and a handfull of very high end CAD programs). A while ago, 3DConnexion promised a new version of the drivers that would allow to easily create custom profiles for any supported program, but so far, nothing happened. In the meantime you can grab a profile I created a while ago (http://www.3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4420&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1) and customize it to your liking if it helps Here is a post on the 3DConnexion site explaining how to create such a profile from scratch: http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2009

Yet another beautiful update Thank you very much Andrew for all your great work ! Jean-Luc

Thank you very much for this nice update Andrew

Excellent tutorial, highly recommended !

Congratulations ! All the best in the world for you and your family Jean-Luc

I answered your question in the French part of the forum but just in case it could be useful to someone who doesn't already know, here it is in English. You can drag an image from windows explorer into your viewport (either in perspective or in the view where you want the backdrop to appear. A dialogue box appears asking you what you want to do, choose "add reference image" and you will get a lot of nice options to fit the picture to your needs. Jean-Luc

Salut, Je sais pas si ça répond vraiment à ta question, mais si tu as besoin d'images de référence dans le voxel room, tu peux tout simplement draguer une image depuis l'explorer dans la vue. Tu vas voir un dialogue et tu choisis "reference image". Après tu as plein d'options pour le placement, et bien entendus, tu peux avoir plusieurs images (top, left ...)

Thank you very much Rodney, excellent tutorial series. Jean-Luc