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Wait wait wait - does this mean we finally get high quality projection painting? I've been waiting for this ever since I owned a license.

I also think emissive should have its own sphere up next to specular and its own dedicated texture. I also do not think it makes sense to seperate specular color into a blending mode. Why not enable us to paint specularity with colors activated? When you do not want color you simply paint black and white, and if you do you choose a color. Workflow wise this is much more intuitive and user friendly.

Is there any hope of also improving "normal" projection painting? It basically suffers from the same problem.

This. THIS. THIS! I cannot say enough how important and awesome such changes would be. A lot of texturing work relies on projection painting which always results in a blurry texture in 3d coat. This needs to be adressed!

UVs will definitely NOT become obsolete with that feature. Image you have to export your painted textures to another application - you will definitely need to bake your textures onto a layed-out uv map. The main use of direct paint on voxels will be to postpone the retopo and uv process to a stage past the initial design, so you can get faster feedback from your client/director. It will also be great for illustration and rapid prototyping.

I also feel this should be possible - that is what vector displacement is for after all.

I can confirm this - LC still crashing when using stamps.

Ah there maybe a missunderstanding here. I exported a decimated mesh from the voxel room because we did not want to work with displacement here. The decimated model was 300k triangles (the new decimation algorithm kicked it down from 4 million without loss of quality - great!). So I went ahead and imported that into PPP, but the cavity painting did not work here - which I needed badly - I guess because it only reads the cavity values from the normal map, which I did not have. So I imported it into Microvertex Painting, and the carcass resolution set itself to 1.3 million triangles. Cavity painting did work, but the whole process was veeery slow, as I already explained above.

The problem with painting them on seperate layers is that it makes the scenes even slower and bigger (I think). I thought of a system where you can select your spec, depth and color layers in seperate lists simultaneously. I think the problem here is that even if you do only paint color an a layer, the depth and specular for that layer is still stored in the file, resulting in 3 maps per layer, even if only one is needed.

I just finished a job which was mainly about creating digital chocolate and packaging for that. About 70% was in 3D Coat, while I modeled the rest in Softimage. So after using 3D Coat for the third time in a commercial job, I have to say there need to be updates to the painting room. While the functionality is fine the speed is not. It takes a minute to fill a simple 2k texture with the rectangle tool - this should happen in the blink of an eye. It took nearly 5 minutes to export 4 2k layers to photoshop. Any kind of painting larger than a few pixels wide is ultra slow even on simple meshes. Projection quality needs to be raised a lot aswell. But the main problem is the speed and filesizes - I had a simple 1.3 million triangle mesh (Microvertex Painting) and a single 2k texture on that, and the filesize was already at 300 megabytes. There was nothing else on that scene. Waiting for 3D Coat took more than 2 hours a day while working on this stuff and almost killed me at the deadline - please do something about it. Oh and please seperate depth, specular and color layers. It is a mess when you have to guess from what layer that specular is coming from, especially when it takes half a minute to switch a layer on and off.

THIS! We definitely need specular color aswell!

http://farsthary.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/radial-symmetry-for-3dcoat/ Woohoo!

This is exactly what we need. While it is fine that you can bake down your voxel details to your retopo mesh and retain all details, it simply does not work so easy for any other retopo work. Don't forget that you do not only retopo voxels but imported meshes aswell. I once tried retopo on an imported car model - it was impossible because I only could guess how well it would hold once subdivided. I don't understand that this has not been requested more often considering how important it is.

While I did not understand a single word from Tinker I just wanted to say that symmetry across multiple axis at once and radial symmetry are strongly needed features!

Here are the artifacts I am getting with any kind of cavity painting - the lines are equal to the wireframe of the object. Win7 x64, 3D Coat 3.5.17 CUDA on the latest Nvidia Driver. This did not happen a few versions ago.

I am also having wireframe artifacts while doing cavity painting - gonna post some screenshots tomorrow.

I was about to post something similar about the split issue - this is really needed to speed up things - could have saved me at least saved me two hours of work on my current project.

Ok thats indeed quite hidden - I never used the select tool because its quite cumbersome and not really intuitive. Now if we had some better selection tools....

Ah thats nice - we will probably be using unity for our next project at university and this will surely help me out!

Gotta push this thread - this is a much needed function!

Of course, I think that is what is was primarily made for In your voxtree rightclick the object you want to auto retopo and you'll find several options for auto retopologizing your voxel objects.

I can Confirm this. 3.5.09A on Windows 7 x64

Solved! It turned out the Softimage exporter really messed up the file - I deleted my User folder and settings and now everything works fine, so no 3D Coat bug. Move Along

Hello everyone, it seems I am running into huge trouble when using the Auto Scale or Pack UV or Pack UV2 function in the UV room. I tried importing a mesh with overlapping UVs to automatically pack scale and pack the Islands and paint my textures. In Screenshot 1 you can see the imported mesh and the UV set. When I hit Auto Scale it seems to delete the UVs, as there are no more UVs visible, but when I hover over the polys there is a totally messed up island showing in the preview window (Screenshot 2 and 3). Finally, when I hit Pack UV instead of auto scale the whole UV set explodes and each face gets a PTex-like planar Projection (I am using Per Pixel Painting mode and NOT PTex! - Screenshot 4). This happens with each and every object I import either manually (.obj) or through the Softimage Applink. All the meshes only have 1 UV set. I know this worked some versions ago, as I used this method for scaling and packing my UVs for my last project - it seems it stopped working on one of the newer builds. BUILD: 3.5.09A without Cuda OS: Windows 7 x64 STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Import a mesh with a UV set present, go to UV room, hit either Auto Scale or Pack UV

Ah thank you - when thinking of channels I was thinking about RGBA so I didn't even try that option