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Sorry I don't understand the last change, could anyone who does understand explain it's use please. "Make coarse mesh" is the main cause of confusion, I assume the change in a way means we can start with say a simple cube and almost in a way "polygon model" it into something much more complicated?

Some excellent commemts and thoughts from everyone here. I have nothing to add constructively other than my appreciation for others ideas. I have to admit I have actually studied UI & Interface design as part of Uni studies 10 years ago. Our Uni borrowed an expert lecturer from Singapore whose real job was Military cockpit & systems interface designs. An absolutely fascinating and interesting man (and the concepts will always interest me) I can say about 3D Coat with no doubt - that I am just too "close" to it to be able to think outside the box and objectively. This may be hard to appreciate, but I only have the use of one-arm, I suffer chronic pain most of the time but I do hold down a full time job & relationship, and for me Sculpting, playing or just having fun in 3D is actually a way of therapy for me. As such it is actually quite difficult to think of ways of improving it. I can read others suggestions, and comment on them - but in a strange way have a small amount of guilt at not contributing more especially in these such discussions.

thanks for the tip. You know how Win7 installs Directx version 11, did you just do as usual & install Version 9 also?

Hey guys & gals. Last night I performed a Win7 Upgrade in place over the top of a healthy Vista 64. Does anyone if this operation by default would have erased my dual direct 9 & 10 installs and replaced with just a v10 directx? Im not sure how to check as running DXDIAG on any of my systems with 9&10 installed only reported on the v10. (It was obvious when 9 was uninstalled as 3DC and other software complained to me) During last nights testing I noticed a huge hit in smoothing performance and most other voxel brush related activity. The upgrade advisor warned me to uninstall the ATI drivers which I havent done yet as last time that caused BSOD madness on a brand new Dell. I guess the likely culprit is the ATI drivers (I have the 4850 card) but wanted to ask about the above also. Regards, Robbie MacGillivray

Oh grovvy!

Is there any decision on download versions of the webinars? Cheers, Robbie

Thanks. I look forward to learning new methods of shader-use. Just thought it would be useful to myself & others to hear a bit more about your ideas. Nice one

hehe, whoops. I only render turntables so never paid enough attention

Can you give an example of the 'utility' of this shader? Cheers, Robbie

Good idea Amber. Also option to render with transparancy & alpha could be good. (or does that exist already )

I was on holiday and just back to see the update with the new mesh decimation, I think I was almost as excited at that as I was at spending two days at the beach! But Sssssh don't tell my girlfriend

*smirk* Today I've tried to drum-up support from other Carrara users to convince Daz to fix the incomplete/broken .fbx exporter, so that the relationship I hope to have with Unity will blossom Daz have stated a renewed interest in the Game Dev market so I actually have every hope that within a short-time I'll add Unity to my 3DC/Carrara->game workflow Just hobbyist at this stage, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Nice result from a healthy discussion Well done - should improve lotsa import related tasks

Sounds interesting Phil, is it just from a "new user" type of perspective?

Cheers! sadly not 3d related though, just boring mailhouse datafiles manipulation. Still good news as once the newbies trained up I get to offload tasks on them. *cackles*

Thanks very much, should make my job of training some interstate newbies a bit easier. I always disliked non face-to-face traning as you never know what area of the screen they are looking at!

Hey Coaters. I'm needing to do a tutorial and was wanting to know if anyone can tell which is the screencam software that does the automatic type of 'zoom to mouse' type of feature? Also would anyone know if that zoom requires a hotkey? As usual thanks in advance. Robbie

The import wizard information online stated it could read Carrara mesh, bones and animation via .FBX export from Carrara but this didn't turn out to be true. Pity really as had uses for it if it could read Carrara's export as I currently don't have any other software capable of exporting animated Mesh to Unity.

Could you maybe try to decimate (make low-poly version) another version of your reference mesh in your poly modeller and import this without subdividing or scaling up on the voxel import process?

Maybe we can use this tool to create Phil's earlier idea with the virtual-gallery?

Nice one!

I like it. I do have Vue which for a landscape focused suite, has pretty awful terrain tools. How quick did you find the workflow went with this?

great work. superb efficiency!

as above, and maybe try a resource & process monitor to see if it is HDD or CPU (or both!) getting a workout during that lengthy startup.

should work fine from the link (is post #4) http://www.3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4168&st=0&p=32684entry32684