L'Ancien Regime
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4 hours ago, Gorbatovsky said:
You just need to select several curves and press the key Delete.
Also, I've tried this both in 4.9.72 and also in 2021 B47 there's the option of creating hotkeys for the various primitives (sphere, cube, ovoid etc). I can assign them but they don't stick. If I go to another room then return they've lost their hotkey settings.
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Is there any way to bind a hotkey to Curves -> Delete all curves? It's the command I use the most on that menu.
Set coordinates and Delete all curves are the only commands on the Curves menu that don't seem to have that option.
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So far that TAB command has worked. We'll see.
So if I just add that override listening if my spoken command begins with "computer" then I don't have to add "computer to every spoken command individually then?
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10 minutes ago, Silas Merlin said:
It becomes even more useful for performing a series of actions but there are pitfalls specific to 3d-Coat such as the inability to lock the ui. It is too easy to resize a panel by mistake, which makes using mouse clicks in your voice commands somewhat unreliable. A solution is to periodically restore workspace (with a voice command).
There is a discord server for the software with very reactive people helping you, (it is expected that you read the manual first).
I highly recommand having a separate profile loading at startup and performing a "stop listening" action. Otherwise any voice or sound in your workspace will trigger your commands.
Once VA is "not listening", you need to go into the options of your 3d-Coat profile and do something like this :
In this example, if I want to perform an action, let's say "toggle symmetry", then I need to say "Computer, toggle symmetry" for the command to be recognized.
This might sound cumbersome but it becomes rather natural with time, and removes the possibility of disasters occuring due to commands being performed by mistake due to ambient sounds.Right now my favorite command is "interface". All the panels just disappear allowing me a totally empty viewing area. It's much nicer just to call up the various tools and other panels individually by name at need. And calling "interface" can toggle them all back in their pristine default form. This is going to go a long way in overcoming my distaste for the wading through the clutter of all the tools that really deserve to be learned and mastered. And it so much easier to have one meaningful word to remember over a bunch of abstruse key combinations to learn, you know, like in Blender and Zbrush. Click fests are the enemy of making art.
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On 4/22/2021 at 12:22 PM, Silas Merlin said:
Yes, but you have to set everything up yourself and there is a learning curve.
Thanks a lot for the advice on this software. I just bought it tonight and it's going to make working in 3D Coat with the Wacom Cintique a lot easier, a lot more fluid and intuitive work flow. It really works well; voice recognition has gone a long way
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4 hours ago, Elemeno said:
i know this would be a huge amount of work and just thinking about it would annoy me but.....
what if each tool on 3dc had a button bind to it lets say i for info and it brings up a youtube video of how to use that tool
this would help so much for new users
also not sure if this is possible someone might be able to help me... but can you use the cut out tool and a depth into the mesh and not just cutout the whole section into the selection boxI just want documentation on the order of Rhino's if not Houdini's.
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/
http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/index.htm
The current help for 3D coat just doesn't cut it.
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2 hours ago, Silas Merlin said:
Does that work for you ? it never worked on my machine and the guy never responded on his forum thread.
Besides, it is single commands, you can't batch actions with it, or can you ?I use VoiceAttack which costs 10 dollars or so.
Thanks, the price is right on VoiceAttack. Can you batch actions on VA?
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Everything according to instructions works until I actually fire it up and it starts talking to me and then it announces it's malfunctioning.
Tried restarting 3D Coat several times.
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21 hours ago, Silas Merlin said:
For me too reaching out for keyboard is painful because it means letting go of wacom and 3d mouse.
But, voice commands are also a way to solve some of the shortcomings of 3d-Coat.
what I mean is for example in 4.9 3dc never remembers the latest alpha/stroke mode combination for the grow tool. It remembers an old combination and decides randomly every few weeks to remember a new one.
A voice command to call the grow tool can solve that by performing a series of actions to set up the tool correctly.Keyboard shortcuts are nice for users with mouse/keyboard, sure, but they each do only one thing at a time.
Working with a Wacom Cintique presents its own challenges and having voice commands would solve about 90% of them.
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Concept Art I created while taking Jama Jurabaev's course on Learn Squared. Added an animated version of the first shot.
The buildings were made using 3D coat which were then brought into Cinema 4D where I did the city layout. It was rendered in Octane, comped in Photoshop then brought back into C4D and projected back across the city geometry before adding the camera move. The final comp and fx were done in After Effects.
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C4D, 3D Coat, Octane, Apple Mac Pro
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Retopo...just what I wanted to discuss here. Andrew produced the first auto topology system all by himself years ago and it was an amazing accomplishment. It was a bit rough and often frustrating.
Also I'm finding all the innovations for 2021 a bit intimidating to me so I've been sort of avoiding 3D Coat lately. I started tooling around tonight just trying some approaches with anatomy and layers and curve tool and came up with this and thought; "this would really be a tough test for autopo". The old autopo would definitely have crapped out on this one but not any more.
3DCoat autopo is unreal now. I'm impressed as hell. It's not appropriate for animation...no autopology system is really. But it's smooth and flowing now whatever complexities of topology you throw at it without any egregious glitches and that's really impressive to me. I"m thinking that MOI3D for hard edge mechancial stuff and 3D Coat for organic sculpting is pretty close to being the ideal workflow and on a tight budget at that.
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9 hours ago, Scary M said:
There is no clear path it all depends on what you want to do with the application? From just texturing and baking maps from an asset you have built elsewhere, sculpting a start to finish project, tweaking normal map from another software. Retopology of external asset.
I'll admit there is a plethora of confusing options especially for baking. I usually have a very set course when I use it, I often incorporate many different tools using 3dc for specific tasks within that pipeline.
3DCoat is a Far cry from Photoshop by design. It has elements from it sure but they are there for specific tasks. What are you hoping to do with it.
I'm not defending it's often confusing complexity, just trying to understand what you want from it and how you wish to work with it.
We would all like to help make it better and more attainable usable in multiple workflows pipelines.
Frankly I'm trying to come back to it and the documentation is just not as good as it should be. When the programmers are creating a new tool they have detailed documentation as they code it. Surely there could be a more technically detailed manual than the superficial one we've got.
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10 hours ago, Scary M said:
I should clarify that I Never said I stretch the application over multiple screens, my issue is I cannot run the app at all on single screen when I have two displays or more displays of different resolutions, hardware accelerated application should really be kept on a single screen. If you look at my video I have it displayed on one screen. With the offset present. Setting the resolution to the same on all displays means I can at least run 3dc on one screen.
My issue is not a multi screen support only the ability too use the application at all on one screen.
Aha. I got confused because I was watching a video by Tenitsky on this the other day...
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The dual screen thing doesn't work at all. I'm using a Wacom 24" pro and an LG 4k next to it and the primitives come in totally stretched out, distorted. This is not the way to dual or triple monitor an app. Houdini does it best with Maya a close second. You have to have floating attribute editors that you can tear right off the main window and place around at wil and in justice to 3D Coat there is no sculpting program that can multi monitor properly. Sculpting programs have to run super fast since they handle millions of polys that would freeze up normal DCCs so you find that Zbrush, Mudbox and 3D Coat cannot off load menus and attribute editors as separate windows from their main window.
Frankly I find that doing without multiscreening is not an issue. What is an issue is the manual/documentation. I would have liked it to be as good as Rhino 3D's at the very least. Asking for Houdini's level of documentation would be a bit of overkill.
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6 minutes ago, stas3dc said:
That means the license file for 3dCoat 2021. They are not being sold yet. The license key for 3dcoat V4 does not fit there. Please use in Free Trial mode only
Perfect. thanks
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I want to sign my account and password and I'm using my account and password to this forum but that doesn't work. I've got my serial number for 3D Coat but there's nowhere to put that. Where can I find the license file to add?
thanks.
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Is there any demo of the subd capabilities of the new polygonal modeling tools? What mathematical topology model was used? Good old Catmull Clark?
It's all looking good. I like what I see.
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Hey guess what?
It's March! That means the new 3d Coat will soon be out.
Oh boy.
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Atomontage is pretty old. Never seen this magicavoxel before though it's been around since 2015. That Path Tracer render engine is actually pretty good.
3DCoat 2021 Open Beta test !
in New Releases, Bugs Reports & Development Discussion
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Primitives panel in Sculpt Room. I can create that hotkey ALT + A and it works but if I move to the Paint room or any other setting and come back to the Sculpt Room the assigned hot key is gone.