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That was it. Thanks Andrew I tried that one before. What stopped me in the UV Window before is that i had to zoom in a lot now to get this geometry selectable. So i was under the impression that it is not selectable there at all.

I see, but as told, does not work. When i hide the group then the odd geometry is also hidden. It is part of the current retopo group, not a separate layer Just in case you want to have a crack at it, here's the scene, around 50 Mb: http://www.reinerstilesets.de/ext/coat/retopo%20finishen.rar

Ah, i thought it was a known problem. Thanks for the heads up. Will contact him

Thanks for the idea But as told, i have even deleted the faces on top of this rascal, and it didn't help. It's definitely not a convering problem. This odd geometry remains unselectable.

Thanks carlosan. This makes sense. And thanks for the workaround

I have most probably by accident created some wild geometry while retopo. Didn't notice it until i started unwrapping. This geometry is not deletable. I cannot select it with any of the retopo tools. Even after deleting the face above this little tri. So it's not a problem that the tools selects the upper face first. I have fixed the issue by exporting it and delete this little rascal in Blender now. Would be nevertheless interesting to know how to remove this unexpected geometry in 3D Coat. Any advice?

Thanks for the workaround

Ah, so it is a known issue. Thanks for checking digman Just curious, could you be so kind to resubmit the bug report? You seem to know the old entry.

Not sure if it is a bug with the new Beta, which i have installed today. I never made a retopology before. I have loaded a reference mesh, have started to do some retopo, and then i have saved the scene. Now i have reopened the scene, and my reference mesh is invisible. All i see is the contour, and the grey background squares, moving slowly from down right to up left. My guess is that the material linking is missing. Is there a way to reassign a material to the now invisible reference mesh? It's nowhere in the list since i have loaded it as a reference. EDIT, i can repeat this flaw in the new Beta version. Just tested it from scratch. All is fine until i save and reopen the scene. Then the reference mesh is invisible again. The old version 4.1 of 3D Coat keeps the mesh visible after reloading. So this smells like a bug. The file is a bit too big to append it here. 250 Mb. Any advice?

Well, it's commercial, but only up to 10k revenue per year ...

... und wenn geladen im gleichen Minimenü unter Ordnerliste auf das entsprechende Pack umstellen. Perfekt Vielen Dank für die Hilfe

Hey Vidi, Leider nicht. Die Pinsel haben die Erweiterung .penpack. Und das wird da nicht erkannt. Auch bei den Pinseln direkt wird nichts gefunden.

Hello, I found some 3D Coat brushes in penpack formats. But i cannot find the correct location how to load them. How do i install/ load penpacks?

Thanks for this hint

Thanks carlosan, that seemed to be the issue here. So much sliders ^^

No, it is not connected to the ghost mode problem. That was another issue. I am simply lost how to setup the brush to sculpt in the way i want. I am again and again trapped by a pencil that doesn't want to sculpt anything. Not knowing what slider to change that it paints again. What slider do i need to change that in the upper screenshot the pencil paints again? It does nearly nothing at the moment.

Thanks folks. Unghosting did the trick. Now i can go on sculpting

I have no idea what is going on here. But while sculpting the whole viewport became milky with a rasterized look, the pencil vanished, and i cannot paint anymore. What did i do here? And the better question, how do i escape this milky mode? There is no indication that i am in a special mode at the moment.

I cannot figure out how to setup the brush to paint in the way i want. In one moment it paints like crazy, then i touch something, and after that i cannot paint anything anymore. At the moment it paints just very very thin, with nearly no power. No matter how i adjust the settings, which can be found above the space. Like in this shot here. Why doesn't it paint nearly anything with these settings? I have enough radius, i have enough pressure. And how do i tell it not to paint so round? But more flat? In short, could somebody help me with how to setup a brush for painting so that it sculpts in the way that i want?

Ah. Ich verstehe. Danke Das kann ich nur leider so nicht machen. Blender kann keine UV Tiles. Und selbst wenn, am UV Mapping rumzufummeln nur um die Textur zu bemalen kanns ja eigentlich nicht sein. Das ist mir zu gefährlich dass da dann das Mapping nicht mehr passt. Da ist der Weg über die Graustufentextur schneller und bequemer. Aber danke für die Beschreibung

Danke für die Beschreibung. Ich weiss noch nicht mal was du mit UV Tiles meinst. Also gehe ich mal davon aus dass ich sie nicht benutze

Danke Malo, Mein Problem ist immer noch das Gleiche. Ich kann zwar mit Farbe über zwei Texturen hinweg malen. Abdunkeln/Aufhellen geht aber nur auf einer Textur. Der jeweils aktive Layer. Da funktioniert es plötzlich nicht mehr über beide Texturen hinweg. Die Abdunkelung stoppt sobald ich auf die andere Textur stosse. Wie gesagt, Texturen vereinen ist nicht wirklich eine Option, weil eine der Texturen einen Alphachannel hat, die andere nicht. Im Prinzip könnte ich meinen praktizierten Workaround über zwei Graustufentexturen auch mit 3D Coat hinbekommen. Schöner wäre es aber wenn auch Abdunkeln/Aufhellen über beide Texturen hinweg funktionieren würde.

Ah, nice, answer. Thanks folks. Unfortunately the vulture is long finished now My mesh has two independend UV´s for the two textures. That`s not the problem. But i am still a bit confused. It looks like an enormous setup effort to get things to work here. And the textures have to stay independend. I need them separated in my game. Because the one texture has just a simple diffuse shader, and the wings part needs transparent diffuse. I can load the same mesh into Blender and paint across the two independend textures without problems and special setup work. That`s what i did then as my workaround. It`s just that Blender has no brighten/darken tool. And so i had to use another workaround here. I have then painted at a 128/128/128 texture in Blender, and merged the greyscale texture with the original textures in Gimp, using the "Faser mischen" layer mode. Sorry, i don`t know the english term for it, i have a german Gimp. In Photoshop it`s feather from what i know. Anyways. It would be of course nicer when you could directly paint across two textures like in Blender. Without the need to create extra layers and a ton of workarounds. What do you think, is this worth a mantis entry? Maybe there can be something improved

Yikes. Not possible? That`s not good But i see, the Photoshop clone tool has indeed the same issues. That`s where Gimp and Blender is definitely better. Thanks Javis

I want to clone a specific area of a texture to other locations. The clone tool origin moves with the mouse though, even when i am not painting. Which means i am always at reselecting this spot, which is pretty cumbersome. How can i make it that the clone tool origin snaps back to the selected area that i have initially selected?