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yeah the password recovery letter I got sent me to a non functioning page on the Pilgway website. But I was able to purchase my update successfully.

Is it going to just be the same stuff that's online or will it be a more comprehensive manual that actually delves deep into 3D Coat's functionality? The lack of a good manual is really the biggest shortcoming to using 3D coat right now. I mean this to me is how a PDF manual for a program as deep as 3D Coat should look. Imagine if every tool in the new modeling room or all the complex possibilities of the texture baking tab had this kind of vivid instructions in the manual. Rygaard just threw these out in a minute or two in response to one of my questions. A manual encompassing this kind of functionality would really be a huge boon to all the users. Maybe you should pay Rygaard to produce your 3D Coat manual for you.

Both are badly needed. You Tube's main advantage at this point is its own user base of highly professional artists who can create hyper realistic work of the highest order. I'd like to see the equivalent quality happening over here. Kris Kosta at Fly On the Wall Studio for example..this is an essay by one of his students... And just a quick test and decemating works about as well as it did before. Thanks 2021; 4.9

That's awesome Rygaard. But can you also decemate the mesh locally too? And that's a superb graphic too. Maybe you should do an entire PDF book on 3D Coat and sell it online at Artstation.

I realize things have changed and I looked at the manual but I simply cannot find the Live Clay or Surface Tools like Subdivide in 3D Coat 2021. There's Clay/Draw when I put the object in the Sculpt Tree into Surface Mode but no live clay.. Anybody?

Split Tool; With 4.9 when you used the split tool on a Voxel Object, it created a new layer for the split off object that automatically received the default shader. I find with 2021 that no longer happens; there's no splitting off to a new layer and the shader remains the same.

These green new deal lunatics are going to ruin my life if this spreads to other N. American jurisdictions... This reminds me of the old Soviet Union where even in the 60's and 70's, only accredited communist members of the state controlled artists association had permission to buy artists materials. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/being-smart-about-smart-cities-a-governance-roadmap-for-digital-technologies/

BTW now that you're here digman, if I tab out all the interface and just want to use the menu -> Windows -> Panels, How do I select the Texture Editor which isn't listed in Panels..

By "brush tool panel" and "brush engine" I take it you mean the Brush Options Panel?

Typically you have your guides ( the ellipses) and then you have the (in your case spiral) rails. Then you shoot the guides along the rails In your example video the the ellipse guides are fine but the spiral rails start out anchored to the first profile ellipse edge but then the two rail lines merge together part way through and the single remaining rail line devolves to the center point of the target profile not touching the target profile ellipse edge line at all. That certainly wouldn't work in any NURBS modeler like MOI3D nor in Maya poligonal modeling either. The guide rails should both touch the target ellipse profile line not its center point and should not merge halfway through, otherwise, what is the point of the second ellipse? I'd try that with just one rail between the ellipses for starters. A second one may be superfluous

One of the keys of photonic computing's superiority is that it's non-Von Neuman architecture. The computers we're using have Von Neumann bottleneck between memory and processor. Non-Von Neumann photonic architecture allows for in memory computing. But it gets far crazier than that when they start simulating neural synapses...and that is Neuromorphic Computing..

I started using the latest version with my Cintique and suddenly I was getting all sorts of problems too. First there was this; Using the move tool especially with Symmetry was making the brush displace itself from where I was placing it on the sculpt object. I fixed that with the first solution with Properties and DPI . This also made my entire interface much finer and frankly more impressive looking. Big improvement. But the brush still wasn't working right and the voxel surface would either jump way out or collapse. This seems to be solved by doing the opposite of the instructions; EDIT -> PREFERENCES -> BRUSHING -> and then setting TABLET INTERFACE to WinTab rather than TabletPC.

It probably wasn't but with me the mouse cursor works fine but the pen cursor can get lost way off on the most distant monitor. Took my tiny mind a while to figure it out.

If it's WACOM then you have to recalibrate your tablet or screen. I'm using the Cintique 24" Pro with two other monitors and I have to recalibrate every once and a while. 1. Open Wacom Desktop Center 2. Recalibrate pen to monitor 3. Select recalibration on new window that pops up 4. click pen tip to 4 crosshairs that pop up in seqence to 4 corners of monitor

No documentation again. When programmers write code, they tend to insert comments on each segment of code as they work for their own benefit and to help other programmers that will work on it. Surely they could at least just redact all those comments and throw them out there on a PDF so that the intentions the programmer could be made clear to the ultimate users? Houdini's documentation is the very paradigm of how this should be done. https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/ Just go through this even if you never want to use Houdini; it's an encylopedia on computer graphics in general that's highly instructive to the greatest detail. Then look at how meager the 3D coat documentation is. And no I don't want to pester Digman to tell me what is going on. If this node editor is just for making sculpt room shaders that have no value in creating textures for a final render then really it's a waste of their time especially when their lighting system in the sculpt room is really just not up to snuff.

Thanks for this. What's your assessment of it? Is it a viable technique in the finished texture mapping or is it just a shader generator for use in the sculpt room?

Thanks. That's great. Now all I have to do is figure out how to use those nodes.

So is there a material node editor in RC3 that I'm too stupid to find?

Hey it's a big event for a small company. It's all going to work out. Thanks for the reply.

No it doesn't Something has changed though; now instead of "FALSE" it stays at "FIND" and after entering my serial number and hitting "FIND" nothing happens. Page refresh just returns me to the sales page. Still cannot make my purchase of an upgrade.

It's pretty cool that photonic computers are back on the agenda again; there's lots of stuff up on You Tube about it now.

Yeah I'll second that. Thanks for all your hard work.

I'm trying to upgrade; I hit on "Find my V4 license button and I'm entering my license key and it's saying that it's false. I'm also entering my email address and that's being listed as false too. It's not accepting my email address either even though I can sign into my 3d Coat online account with my email address and it does a reply to my email.

I agree...