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That's a lot better now thanks!

Yes this is 4.7.26 OpenGL version

I've been trying to bake a hi-poly sculpt from the re-topo room and everytime I try I always get a bad result. It looks like the poly's from the mesh are getting baked in or something. Anyone seen this problem before? Maybe UV's are too non-grey? Googled around a few tutorials, but they always seem to get perfect results first time! Any help is appreciated! Thanks

You need to restart 3D coat to see the tools after turning them on

Please see attached. Thanks

I've installed the latest beta and baked a roughness map out for a project. When you zoom in close to it (400%), there are lots of artifacts. Anyone else seeing this issue? Thanks

Yep, coming from the hires. As its turned out, flood filling a layer with a fine noise got rid of it. Bit annoying though.

I'm trying to bake from the retopo room to paint microvertex, but I have an issue with the result. I have a reference mesh (hi poly) and import a retopo mesh. Then I chose bake. I increased the map to 4k, but left everything else as defaults. The result is showing the reference mesh poly in the displacement map. Does anyone know what causes this to happen? Thanks

"Your v4 license should work for 4.5 as well. If it's not working I'll get your issue to Andrew or Stas asap, just let me know how it goes." All sorted now thanks - had to copy the dat file into the 4.5 folder.

OK thanks - I'll try that!

Hey guys, is 4.5 a paid upgrade? I just tried the RC1 and it won't accept my 4.1 serial number. I couldn't see anywhere on the website to upgrade... Thanks

Thanks for the help! The pose tool looks more promising now and I'll certainly watch that knife tutorial. But it looks like 3dcoat could benefit from a dedicated spline deformer of some kind, to get a nice clean bend, that you would get from a regular 3d modeller.

How do you bend object in 3dcoat - If I have a long box shape, stretched along the Z, how do I bend it to form a U shape? I've tried pose and warp, but no cigar Any help appreciated - thanks

Thanks - I've been discovering the stroke tool is quite good for sketching out areas for quads too. Didn't know you could create a full cylinder in one go though - useful thing to know!

Yeah the re-sample tool is great - its now 1.7 million polys and very little loss in details. I've moved on to re topology now. On paper, this should be easy - but actually I find it quite tricky. I think it's because the basic geometry I would normally start with - a subdivided cube and other such primitives are missing. Things like legs would be easier if there was a tube to start with, that could be put in place and then snapped to the voxels. I did try the auto-retopo and at fist sign, it seems to create a nice result, but on closer inspection, I kept getting an issue with the legs where the polys flow around like a corkscrew rather than even cylinders. I think I need a slightly different approach for next time, but for now I guess it's a poly at a time!

Many Thanks - I think I'll go with the downgrade option, as the model is up 8,000,000 polys, which sound like it could be a bit slow using the pose at the current level!

Hey thanks. I think as my creature is grounded in reality (4 legs, head and tail) I think the legs should also conform to nature also. Not tried major structural changes after detailing before - whats the best way to make those alterations without loosing too much detail?

This is my first serious try at sculpting a creature. I've made past attempt, but gave up before finishing as they looked terrible. This time I thought I would see things through and I'm happy enough at this point. My limited anatomy knowledge is hindering things though - some parts I know look a bit wrong, but I'm not 100% sure how to fix them. So feel free to point out any obvious errors!

I tried re-starting the modem and that didn't change anything. The crazy thing is, I have had no issue with any other download. Sadly I'm not a network specialist, so diagnosing the exact cause is difficult. At least I know if I persevere I eventually get the download to work. The download speeds in the UK are pretty good generally - I have 30MB fiber optic connection which helps!

Wasn't the firewall. I disabled that and there were still issues. I did manage to download the latest beta in the finish, by cancelling and re-starting the download about 30 times. I used TCP view to examin the exact download rate and it was 150bytes a sec and each time I cancelled and restarted, it would increase by a few more until it reached a more respectable 800k/B per sec. Very peculiar behavior!

Sadly not been able to resolve my issue. I think there is a problem with my computer though as I can download it fine on my laptop. I find it very odd it block only downloads from 3dcoat though - everything else is fine. Suspecting some issue with the firewall...

Ok thanks, I'll try again.

Seems to effect only 64 bit with Cuda link. Can anyone else confirm?

I'll definitely be upgrading to V4. But in the meantime I would like to download the latest beta, but for some reason I only get 1% then it stops - any ideas?

Awesome - Can't Wait!