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  7. PLEASE : Tutorials on hardsurface sculping

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    There are tons of sculpting videos for organic objects like characters, animals, etc. Recently there was an epic series on a rhino which I got bored of after watching the first three videos.

    Can we PLEASE have some videos on hard surface objects, specifically vehicles, cars, trucks, airplanes and even buildings? Spaceships seem to be the norm for hard surface tutorials in 3DC but not to be mean spirited ,IMHO of the hard surface objects spaceships are one of the easiest to do unlike a car, truck, etc.

    And I did purchase Anton Tenitsky excellent tutorial on sketching a car buggy in 3DC a few years ago and it was certainly well worth the cost. And I enjoyed it very much. But I was looking for something that was more in line with modeling a real to life car like a vintage Ford or Chevy, a modern day Porsche or Corvette, vintage WWII airplane (Mustang, Spitfire, Zero, Stuka ), etc.

    Thank kindly and I mean no insult to anyone. 

    Kenmo

  8. Photogrammetry

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    Posted · Edited by kenmo

    I brought the retop model into Blender to peek at. I retopo'd vis 3DC-instant Meshes with a target to 40,000  faces but ended up with 79,000 faces. I also used 3DC to uv map the retopo mesh. When I brought the retopo mesh into Metascape create the diffuse map, Metashape converted the quads to triangles upon export. If you look closely at the screen capture you will see Metashape put a diagonal line through all the quads, cutting the quads into two tris. Anyone know of a fix for this issue?

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  9. Photogrammetry

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    I find one of the most difficult things in photogrammetry is getting the proper lighting. I have no photographer's diffuse  tent or umbrella so made do with the regular lighting in my computer room. The car had lots of reflections on the shiny paint, chrome plated parts and the windows. I did try a polarizing filter. And it helped somewhat.

    I am but a novice so if anyone has any recommendations on taking better photos for shiny objects, I'm all ears. However I do know about powder sprays but I am very reluctant to use these as over the 55 years plus I've been building and collecting car models I have damaged many trying to remove dust.

    So please do not recommend dust spray or similar products. Also I would like to shoot a photo of my own 60 Corvette and cars at local car shows. I know for a fact none of the classic car owners I know would approve of putting dust onto their prized autos.

     

  12. Photogrammetry

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    During Christmas I downloaded the15 day trial of 3DF Zephyr and liked it very much. I also have over 100 diecast and scale model cars in scales of 1/24, 1/25 & 1/18. I am a car nut and in 1983 restored a 1960 Corvette with the assistance of my Dad & brother. I still own the 1960 Corvette. I am also a hobbyist photographer own 5 Nikon DSLRs and two Olympus DSLRs. In the summer I enjoy taking photos at the local car shows and cruise-ins. Also scenery photos in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the fine state of Maine in the USA.

    With photogrammetry I get to combine three of my passions -  digital arts, photography and cars.

    I grabbed a 1/24th diecast model of a 1954 Chevy and placed it onto a lazy susan I snatched off of our kitchen table and proceed to take close to 200 photos with my Nikon D7000 and 50mm 1.8 prime lens. Brought the RAW photos into Adobe Lightroom and adjusted the highlights and shadows, exposure. I shot at a low ISO of 100 so there was no need for noise reduction

    Sadly I did not get the results I wanted with3DF Zephyr, so I tried Reality Capture but I found the interface quite confusing and much preferred Zephyrs interface and ease of use. As well I thought Zephyr had better masking tools. I bought some credits to download my models for Reality Capture. I much preferred the output from Reality Capture as the photos seemed better aligned and 3D model was less noisy.

    I also stumbled upon Agisoft Metashape Standard's 30 day trial. And this product I really love. And found with it's refine mess and smoothing filters I got a model that was acceptable to me.

    I used 3DC sculpt room to refine it a bit more and then did a retopo via 3DC's Instant Mesh option.

     

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  14. General AppLinks info

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    I decided to give the Blender applink a try again. I can honestly say it is working flawlessly with Blender 2.93 and 3DC 2021.61 and it has no problems with the fact my 3DC assets are on my E drive. 

    Many thanks for resolving this issue and sorry if I offended you in the past.

    Cheers

    Kenmo

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  16. 3DC content & data

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    Seems to have worked. 20 gbs of my 25 gbs data where copied over. Is there a log that shows what was left behind? I have a few kitbash kits I purchased from Gumroad & Artstation as well as some greebles I've modeled myself over the years in Wings3D, Hexagon, Silo3D, 3DC & MOI3D.

    Cheers again and many thanks for your kindness.

    Kenmo

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  19. 3DC content & data

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    Carlosan - thanks kindly for the reply. Really appreciate it. However in my "E:\Documents"  folder I have folders "E:\Documents\3DCoat-2021"  and "E:\Documents\3D-CoatV49" and 3DC has not sensed the "3D-CoatV49" and therefore has not converted it over.

    Should I merge the content of the two folders into "E:\Documents\3DCoat-2021" ? And how do I copy the content of the 3D-CoatV49 folder with it's older directory structure over to the new directory structure of 3DCoat-2021?

    Is there not a new tutorial explaining how to do this?

    Surely if 3DC can take the time to create a Rhino sculpting video they can take the time to create videos about the fundamental issues like this.

    Again many thanks & cheers

    Kenmo

  20. Blender Applink

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    BUT data files should NEVER be stored on the same drive as the operating system. Data should be stored on a separate physical hard drive and  Windows folder "Documents" or "My Documents" should be moved from the C drive (or whatever hard drive the operating system resides on to a drive dedicated only for data.

    This makes it easier to create a disk image of your operating system (via Macruim Reflect, Windows Backup, etc) and for regular backups of your data files.

    And this is one of the reasons I had issues with the Blender Applink and refuse to use it until it stops insisting our data reside on the same disk as our operating system.

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  21. 3DC content & data

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    It appears to me (and I maybe wrong) but the directory structure for earlier versions of 3DC has been changed in 3DC 2021.

    Am I wrong?

    Is there a way to merge my old 3DC 4.5x content & data with 3DC 2021?

    Also looking forward to some new tutorials (hopefully by Abranger) on the new tools.

    Really enjoying the 3DC 2021. It simply rocks. Love it guys, please keep up the great work.

    Many thanks and looking forward to a reply...

    Cheers from Nova Scotia....

    Kenmo

     

  23. [Solved] Importing ABR Brushes

    in General 3DCoat

    Posted · Edited by kenmo

    Sorry, but that is just plain DUMB for 3DC to name a Photoshop brush as a texture. I've been using Photoshop for a long time and I've NEVER heard any Photoshop user call a Photoshop brush, a texture. Kyle Webster creates many ABRs for Photoshop and not heard him refer to a PS brush as a texture. 

    3DC needs to fix this with the proper nomenclature  of "PS Brush" . It simply causes confusion.

    Cheers & many thanks for an outstanding app.

    Kenmo

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