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Light Baking Tool

Sometimes you need to bake all lighting into the diffuse color of the texture. Open shader ball for example, fill layer with any reflective Smart Material, bake your reflection and it creates reflection layer in texture. It picks up any light you have set up in render room, including environment light (To change baked illumination change the environment map). […]

Mesh Menu

Of course, any good tool has more to it than meets the eye. The modeling tools are no exception. You can find the Mesh and Bake menu in the top toolbar of the Modeling workspace. Below are listed all of the functions in this menu. Mesh Menu Import: Import an external mesh to continue creating topology […]

To GTK3 from GTK2

3DCoat is on the migration to GTK3 from GTK2 for almost year. That mean we have 2 versions of 3DCoat for now: old, but relatively stable 2024.06, and raw 2024.28.02. The easiest way to run it from machines is to run windows version on Lutris. It work quite stable, Everything work fine, even tablet (Huion SH610), […]

Comparison of different roughness values

A render comparison of different roughness values in 3DCoat and Blender by DMG I was going between 3DC and Blender a bit trying to hit the sweet spot I wanted for something, and I noticed differences between the two renders, especially caused by varying roughness values. I decided to get a bit scientific about it, […]

Reality Capture doesn’t show up ?

Open the Extensions window and make sure the Reality Capture module checkbox is checked, it will launch the module when 3DCoat starts.

How to install Reality Capture

If you want to use Reality Capture as a photogrammetry tool in 3DCoat, you need to install it first. It can be installed from Epic Launcher.If Epic Launcher is not installed on your computer, you can install it from the following link:https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/download 1. Open https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/download in your browser.2. Click the “DOWNLOAD EPIC GAMES LAUNCHER” button. […]

Sculpt Layer

Layers are used to add detail to our sculpt model but maintain the original form of the object you’re working with. You can make layers for texture/damage/detail and if you decide to make changes entirely or create a different look altogether you can remove the layers and make new ones while maintaining your original object. […]

Upgrading permanent license

When I click on the Upgrade button, a popup box comes up and both check boxes are grayed out. Try going to your member profile page: https://pilgway.com/member/profile The upgrade button SHOULD appear there, but under 2 basic conditions. The situation is very simple -you do not have the upgrade button because we did not make any new version […]

Photogrammetry

The Photogrammetry room can be launched from Quick start menu To start ensure that all the necessary conditions for Photogrammetry to work correctly are met. Photogrammetry Left Tool Panel 3DC use external library of software for photogrammetry processing: Image-based 3D reconstruction are based on Colmap and Reality Capture. Reality Capture engine – Import Project: Create a […]

Stylus doesn’t work in sculpting

Please start your tablet troubleshooting from the “3DCoat” framework that is called “TestStroke” for Windows:https://pilgway.com/~sergyi/TestStroke/TestStroke.zip This app is the first stop when narrowing pen-related problems. It contains all the system code without the “3DCoat” tools. Note that Mouse mode is unsupported (Wacom Tablet Properties > Mapping tab > Mode should be Pen, not Mouse). Make […]