[Michael 4 from DAZ importation....]

Hi Zardock,

I actually just merged all of M4 together, deleted out the eyelashes, inner mouth (teeth and tongue as well) and all things "eyeball" since I can do those in Photoshop easily enough. I hate hate hate seams and in Photoshop it's just not fun looking over you work thinking it looks great and then seeing what a mess it is when wrapped around the obj. SO 3DCoat seems like a great app so far for getting over those humps.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Merging all together is not a good solution, you need to keep separate the maps

Mode detailed setup :

I use V4 but this is probably valid for M4

Load in UVMapper the V4 object named blMilWom_v4b.obj

Select all materials starting with 4_ 5_ 6_ 7_ and delete

Save the object under a new name, check the options 'Export as single group'

Reload this object, so UVMapper can update the material list

Select all material starting with 1_ and Tools -> Assign to -> Material -> 1_map

Select all material starting with 2_ and Tools -> Assign to -> Material -> 2_map

Select all material starting with 3_ and Tools -> Assign to -> Material -> 3_map

Save this object

1_map 2_map 3_map can be replaced by your favorite material name

Load this object in 3D-Coat, below are the options i have chosen, maybe try with Keep Cluster:

On my laptop HP nw9440 Core 2 Duo 2.33Ghz Nvidia FX1500M the loading take less than 10 seconds

Paint V4, try to be more creative than me

Export all maps to be used on your application :

File -> Import/Export textures -> Save textures

Select All textures, on the file requester type the prefix, i have used test for the color maps

Open V4 in your application and apply the maps to the corresponding material zones

How they look on DS :

[Michael 4 from DAZ importation....]

Note : AFAIK 3D-Coat read the mesh as expected, the split in different maps is a choice made by DAZ but in the object they are only the materials zones

I use Miki2 in 3D-Coat but this is for drawing low-res clothes with the retopology tools for further work in Silo or C4D, since Miki2 is used only as reference i have a special version of the object with one material zone and selected 512 for the size.

IMO you must make a special object for using in 3D-Coat, you must merge together the materials who are in the same map, for V4 all materials starting with 1_ are in the first map so they must be merged etc... in the end you must have an object with 7 material zone correspondind to the 7 maps

You can merge materials in UVMapper

You can delete the unwanted geometries to make the mesh lighter, eyes, lashs, innermouth, teeth, deleting can be done in UVMapper too

In the end you probably have several special objects stripped down for a particular task, if you want to work on a face displacement map you don't need to import the legs and toes etc...

For the other settings i don't know, i plan to use the paint tools somewhere in 2009

Jean-Jacques Roh