Introduction to 3DCoat

3DCoat is one of the most advanced 3D creation suites for creating and painting 3D models. 3DCoat is available in 70 languages.
Where other applications in this market segment tend to specialize in one specific task, such as Digital Sculpting or Texture Painting, 3DCoat provides High-End capability in a unified pipeline for asset creation and 3D visualizations such as still images.

What is new on version 2024

Here is the full list of the improvements integrated in the latest update.

3DCoat specializes in voxel sculpting and polygonal sculpting using dynamic patch tessellation technology and polygonal sculpting tools.
It includes “auto-retopology”, a proprietary skinning algorithm.

With minimal input from the user, this technology generates an accurate and functional polygonal mesh skin over any voxel sculpture, (composed primarily of quadrangles), which is the standard that is widely used in 3D production studios. Normally, this kind of polygonal topology must be painstakingly produced by hand.

The program can also be used to modify imported 3D models from a number of commercial 3D software products by means of plugins called Applinks.
A live connection to a chosen external 3D application can be established through the Applink pipeline, allowing for the transfer of model and texture information.

Imported models can be converted into voxel objects for further refinement and for adding high-resolution detail, complete UV unwrapping and mapping, as well as adding textures for displacement, bump maps, and specular and diffuse color maps.

As an integrated 3D content creation package, 3DCoat offers a wide range of tools, including Sculpting, Retopology, UV Editing, PBR Texture Painting, Lowpoly modeling and Rendering.

3DCoat removes the need to purchase (and learn) multiple specialty software titles, which happen to be comparatively expensive, by putting all the production-level tools in a single, affordable application.

3DCoat Tutorials

Licensing

The serial number is hardware-independent, and you may only run one copy of 3DCoat simultaneously. If we detect multiple instances of 3DCoat running simultaneously on several computers, your serial number will be disabled.
If you are running 3DCoat in different places, don’t forget to uninstall the unused license in Help -> Uninstall license.
Otherwise, someone may use your license, and it will be disabled.

Key Features

Features demo of 3DCoat: 3DCoat 2024 is the latest major 3DCoat release that brings users many fresh new features and new functionality.
The latest additions to 3DCoat include attaching Smart materials to layers, 4K monitors support, baking scan, rendering scene in Renderman, and many more.

Texturing and physically-based rendering

Modeling

Retopology Tools

UV Mapping

Rendering

Concept art making

Scripting in 3DCoat

Download older version

Try to log in on https://pilgway.com/
and then go download https://3dcoat.com/download/

Tutorials

Find more tutorial videos on our YouTube channel

3DCoat 2021 UI overview

3DCoat Overview

Footnotes

“Windows builds are compiled and uploaded completely automatically on a daily basis, all changes committed during the day will be included in the build even if the version number will not change, so follow the change list below. If I feel that I made risky changes, I mark the build as [beta]. If I feel that the build is essentially stable and good, I put it into the community downloads. I will not always do post about the new build at the end of the thread, all new builds will appear automatically, it happens around 0:00 (Kyiv time, GMT+3).” (Andrew Shpagin, 3DCoat main developer).