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Awesome generosity & cool act & bloody well executed too. Big Karma points man!!! Hippolyte why don't you use that for marketing and throw some $$$ in 3DArtists direction. And sign him up on your new marketing team too.

Nice start Scott, liking the strong forms in this.

Yes Artmans workflow tips have been my biggest productivity booster by far. Still need to unlearn bad habits I don't even realise I have, but that's always an ongoing effort with me. Digiman - Yeah I do the same with clone & degrade. (In my head I've named it after a shampoo bottle "rinse and repeat") I love video tutorials for learning what brushes and tools can do, and workflow stuff for learning how to DO that stuff efficiently

btw does anyone know any driverless, admin-rights not required, volume-encryption tools? Truecrypt requires admin rights to install a device driver Update - I settled on dscrypt.exe which is fast and 25kb. Yes 25kb!

I get the best ideas unplanned, unexpected & unforced. Usually on the train to work or home, which is a 40m trip each way. I love how the brain can 'materialise' the strangest thoughts completely out of no-where. Personally I am very much lacking in 'at the PC' idea creation. Other ideas, watch a movie, use StumbleUpon to suggest design links. Mimic something already made to practice your skills. Go and revisit something you made a year ago and see how you'd improve it. Don't forget your loved-ones and real-life stuff. (Guilty as charged here too)

Just had a 5 month old thumb drive drop dead during a mediaplayer 'sync'. Thankfully nothing critical lost but serves a timely reminder never to take storage for granted. I've got a little metal tin box I use to store 4 thumb drives. It has Wonder Woman enameled on it. I get strange looks on the train when I open up my magic little box and pick through for the right stick

Wow. Nice work mate, I would have sold my Grandmother to have that as a toy when growing up. Somehow I'd love too see it animated in stopmotion style with a hint of steampunk sound fx going on. Do you have have out of memory issues unexpectedly? I've seen things bomb out on quadrangulation when I had a good 2/8 gb ram free.

I agree with Phil's point but it's not very diplomatic

How is it for abstract works? Any tools like 3DC's curves, twist/bend? *cheeky comment* And what is it with 99% of the sculpting communities preferences for doing head busts and bodies. Poohey! to that I say, do something dark and twisted and ugly!

forgot attachment. As I always do.

Artman, you know a lot more about many of 3DCoat's inner workings than I, but I do think it's not true to say that perpixel is best used for low-poly only. I just don't want someone new giving up on quadrangulate->perpixel so soon. Attached is an example of mine, voxel->quadrangulate per pixel, all hand-painted. (nb some sneaky tricks like mesh replication used in renderer to fill the screen with one fairly small object)

Agree with the points made by AbnRanger. Even with my personal style of work being abstract I frequently push the limits of my machine (i7 920 8GB) Starting to get quite annoyed with overnight calculations that have hung. Started to calculate the potential cost benefit of blowing the annual bonus on Zbrush or Mudbox. Don't tell the girlfriend but.

Heh I'd love too

I've reverted to using just the defaults (I believe I got this tip from you Phil many days ago - just to 'learn' the standard brushes first and what they do) Attached is last nights fun with the extryde tool & default brushes. I've been producing a lot of dark stuff lately!

Just a tip for people not aware, photoshop .ABR brushes can be used as brushes in 3D Coat quite happily

Awesome result! Welcome to 3DCoat, wave goodbye to your freetime as you're clearly about to become a fellow addict. *cackles madly*

Yes a great, simple idea with immediate benefits. I actually went looking for this on the weekend as I'd convinced myself it existed. +1

Remember that pressing ALT+Enter activates true "fullscreen" mode and gives 3DCoat the highest 'priority' as an application, with respect to any operation that uses the video card. ALT+tab to other apps from this mode may take a while during intensive operations but it still works.

Andrew, just curious if there would there be any chance for a comment on this?

I'd thought that if the existing twist and bend tool works so well without introducing artifacts/errors then a modifier cage is just a variation on that idea - allowing an ability to direct & steer the areas of interest. At the end of the day is just another way to manipulate voxels using a method other than brush tools.

cheers, thought it probably was but am shying away speculation this week as bit me on the bum already

Hey Phil - I don't really understand what's behind the freeform primitives that'd explain why the have a deform mesh but other voxel forms can't?

I think you're onto something here, I often flirt with the twist & bend tools hoping for a nice random result that I could just 'direct' instead with a deform cage. I've exported out of 3dCoat into Hexagon before just to use the better soft-selection tools, then taken that back into 3D Coat. Gets my vote for sure. Nice thinking

No worries Just as a further tip I found a case when this 'failsafe' strategy didn't resolve a critical error on launch I started getting after a new release installation. Something had gone wrong and I rolled back version after version but each crashed the moment I selected Voxel room. Debugged with Andrew's help and it turned out had a corrupt Options.xml - this file is kept on my system at Libraries->Documents->3D-CoatV3 Can be good to check here in case of catastrophic failure

Hi Digiman - you can run more than one version on your system. Not both at once of course. I keep four versions in seperate directories with one linked "brush/pens/textures' directory to save on filespace. I prefer to download beta releases a week or so after announced, just to let others do the hard work on testing & reporting issues for me (if that sounds selfish I only get time at night for my love affair with mistress 3d Coat)