[Object triangles size]

I'm having some fun learning this program. I did the tire tut from philnolan3d. I do rock crawling in Modified vehicles so my tire of choice was the Krawler T/A.

My rigs tires were a bit tired so I had a friend send me some pics of the tires from the buggy he's building for is daughter. Hes a Solidworks guy. In less then an hr I sent him the tire. Pretty cool!

What I starting to find out is the object triangles size. They be pretty big. This tire ended up being huge.

What should I be looking at to hold the objects T size to something more manageable while developing the work?

Thanks!

[Coordinates and exact placement of objects]

Thanks splodge, Thats a start.

[Coordinates and exact placement of objects]

Yes I do come from a CAD back ground. Much of work I do is component parts. So given that I still would like to know where the objects are in relationship with each other.

Part of what I do is sell a concept. If the concept is approved , the project moves forward. In the past I have used Solidworks and flash animation. I like what 3D coat has to offer and want to apply that art side to my concepts.

I may have many component parts that need some degree of alignment, this is why I'm trying to understand better how object can be placed ( by number orientation then visual).

So I have a primitive cube. I want to rotate 45 deg at the y, then place it in a location x,y,z. Thats it ..so far.

[Coordinates and exact placement of objects]

Hello,

I'm currently self learning this program. So I briefly went through all of the sections to get an over view.

Ok now I will try to understand the Voxels section in more detail. Where I'm struggling a bit is placing the objects and rotating them exactly where I want them.

Is there a detailed tut for this? Some pointers also would be helpfull.

Thanks

[Newbie]

Ok I'm back and have learned a few things and still have some issues. I have not been successfull in exporting displacement. Though I have exported the displacement and sometimes 3dC doesnt export the displacement. Its clear and most likey something I'm doing wrong. I have followed the training vids but still cant get a handle on this. Yes I export with the displacement checked. Some pointers here please.

edit: when using the pens for depth and then exporting the obj, on import the obj shows no depth or whats been done.

[Newbie]

Thanks, down loaded a lot of info today. Will watch and read up. Good chance the errors were probably me.

Will do some more trials. I really like what I see so far.

[Newbie]

Hello,

I'm totally new with this program. But I need to get samples to justify a purchase.

Yesterday I was successful a couple of times painting and exporting the file obj. But many of the files became a traingular mess.

If someone could get me a link or some pointers in

1 Texture an object and export it with the texture

2 Paint the object with the texture and export it.

This program look like it will do what I want but does have a learning curve which I need to bypass a bit.

I'm on the road a lot and manytimes without internet so I would prefer something I can read.

Thanks!