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Is anyone else having issues with Mesh tears and Ghost Mesh tears (it looks like a tear in the viewport, but it is not a real mesh tear because using a relax or tangent smooth brush on them will easily remove them) and problems with Spline Projections like you see in the following video? I am at my wits end with 3DCoat because I report these bugs and the developers say the reports are too long and they just ignore them. I am trying to explain what is happening, when it happens and what steps I am taking to fix or work around the problem. But sometimes, it's just unreliable buggy tools. I am really very frustrated.  

What exactly are you trying to do here? It looks like you are randomly hitting buttons .... I watched all of the videos and still not sure what are you having problem with? 

what are you pc specs, drivers etc?

Very strange, sorry I am out of ideas You did a complete fresh install deleting all the folders content ?

the legacy app had the same issue.

As a recommendation to call the attention of many users, you will need to create this kind of examples using the new node system. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-v5MBQ7gcb0

You can use the Legacy version, try it. 

take care of this bug  

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Hi Carlosan, Thank you for all the time and effort you put into helping with this. I really appreciate you sticking with it and testing the files.Unfortunately, even after following the steps and testing your cleaned file, the material and resolution issues keep returning. At this point I’m going to have to abandon the Paint room / node materials for my main texturing workflow and use other tools instead.Thanks again for trying.

Hi there everyone, I was trying out some noises in the NodeRoom and wondererd if there is a way for solving this issue with tiling. I am using a tiling mesh with all squares UV mapped in 0-1 space with 2 UV sets. I believe there is a PBR Tiler extension but didnt manage to set it up. Any thoughts   2026-08-05 02-32-08- MakingTiles Seamless.mp4

Texturing Baking Tool  The 3D-Coat texture baking tool transfers high-resolution details -such as normal, displacement, ambient occlusion, and color maps- from high-poly sculpts or different source meshes onto low-poly, retopologized models with clean UV or Ptex layouts. It is accessible through the Paint room's texture menu or the Retopo room's bake menu. This is a deprecated toll used to transfer old materials from v4 to the new PBR materials of newest versions. >> Key Baking Workflow Steps Navigate to the Retopo Room after finishing high-poly sculpts. Open the Bake Menu to configure shell projection distances (inner/outer shells) and preview overlaps. Select your target map types (e.g., normal map per pixel, ambient occlusion, or cavity). Execute the bake to automatically generate paint layers and assign them to your low-poly object in the Paint room.    

3rd. You add a Material to Layer0 In 3DCoat, "Layer 0" is the default base paint layer in the Layers Panel that always maintains full alpha opacity (1.0) and a neutral base color. It keeps your 3D mesh clearly visible so you can easily paint or apply materials on top of it. Purpose of Layer 0 Acts as the solid foundation layer for texture painting. Keeps alpha at 1.0 so your mesh never looks accidentally transparent while you work. Lets you paint and overwrite color directly onto the base mesh. Working with Transparency Erasing paint on Layer 0 creates transparent or cutout areas for opacity maps. Hiding Layer 0 allows exported RGBA or transparency maps to display correct alpha channels. Additional paint details should be built on new layers stacked above Layer 0.   Think about layers as you think about Photoshop layers. Layer0 is like Background in PShop.  The reason why 3DCoat keeps “layer 0” visible, it makes the user easy to color (overwrite layer 0) mesh. (layer 0 keep alpha as 1.0 (no transparent) and color perfect 0.5 0.5 0.5 RGB). If there is no layer 0, you may not see any surface until you import the map or actually paint on the surface in another layer. It makes us difficult to paint.   Layer0: avoid painting it for any purpose but transparency. It contains mesh data and a “base coat” of paint for baking. If you erase the paint, things still bake just fine. However, the transparent areas created will be baked as alpha/transp. Also, if you hide Layer 0, it bakes fine and entirely with alpha/trans, whereas any other layer doesn’t contain color data.

2nd, you don't need to assign Materials on Nodes Room, keep working on Paint Room Texture Resolution can be changed here   Are you adding Materials to sculpt surface model ?  Turn OFF View > Show Voxels in Painting Room. If yes, you are applying Materials for Polypaint:  PolyPaint resolution is determined entirely by the density of the 3D model's geometry. Because color is stored directly on the vertices (points) rather than on a 2D pixel grid, higher polygon counts allow for sharper, more detailed painting. In this case we have 2 workflow overlapped, paint over UVtextured LowPoly Model and Polypaint over a HighPoly Surface model.

is hard to find a solution at this distance... let see... first: Windows > Panels > Extensions >      

Hello, I am a new user to 3DCoat Textura but I have experience with other 3D software. I am having a problem with the Ctrl+click functionality in the node editor. Simply put, when I Ctrl+click on a node output, the preview does not work and nothing happens. Ctrl+hover also seems to do nothing. I would like to note that I am clicking on the actual socket and not the image. I read in the forum that some mouse issues were fixed in the node editor, however I am not sure if these were the problems you were talking about. I really like the software but this issue is quite bothersome for me. I am using Windows 11. The Textura version is 2026.17NS. I have tested the version from the main 3DCoat site as well as the version posted on this forum. I think these versions are the same but I tried testing both just in case.

That video was on my end, this video is after I downloaded the file that you sent me. I showed opening the file on this video, the material working, then I saved incrementally and attempted to use another material and the material broke    

The resolution for the baking tool Keeps trying tor e assign itself to 512, I keep having to bump it up to 2048.  That could be the issue.   This is what I did.  I appreciate any help but this is looking like a serious program bug at this point.   here is the uncut video