Cless_Aurion

Shit, I forgot you guys where based in Ukraine! I'm relived to hear you guys are okay. Wish the best for you and your loved ones in this hard unforgiving times. Hopefully we can all join together as brothers in the EU so peace can be the new norm again. Stay safe!

I'm getting a big issue in .75 I'm getting watermarks on my exported textures, what the actual hell. (Only on the Normal map apparently, and only sometimes)

So... 3DCoat using almost 80 gigs of ram when I have 6 4K maps with... 10 to 12 layers each while not crashing... is it a bug, or a feature? PS. It works surprisingly well and its quite stable... Once it finished loading the file after 20 minutes that is lol PS2. Now its 120GB... it does still work fine lmao (I do have an nvme SSD though)

@CarlosanI have a small update that maybe will help with the fix of this bug. I realized that, somehow, the basic "color" channel is keeping some height information. That sounds very very wrong, and specifically, that is the part that CAN'T be smoothed, while the one that you can erase with the "depth" channel, will work as usual. I've made a video showing it in the hopes this will help the team fix it sooner! EDIT: I might have found a bit more of the root cause. The problem might be related to how "replace depth" reacts with transparent pixels, and ignores the depth channel, while only affecting "color" pixels. 2021-09-26 19-20-09.mp4

Damn, I feel if I had reported it back then we wouldn't have the issue anymore TTATT In any case, thanks for your work Carlosan!

Hey Carlosan! Sorry, I don't think they are connected. This bug has been going on since... 4.7 I believe I saw it for the first time? It has nothing to do with pressure, and its happening on the Painting room, not the sculpting one. Using the mouse will have the same issue. In the example I gave the smooth tool just flat out does not work on 2 of the 3 channels as seen on the video... Also, it does NOT work with other tools either. Pencil, airbrush, smudge... all of them will completely ignore the "transparent" pixels and only work with painted ones.

I think I made a post years ago about this, but... it hasn't been fixed, or acknowledged (at least that I know of). I made a video to explain it better. Basically, if you paint a material, and the material has a transparency, for some reason, you will lose the ability to smooth it on the "transparent" pixels, which is insanely inconvenient and broken. For some even weirder reason, only the depth and regular channels seem to be affected, while the glossiness/roughness will work just fine. 2021-09-26 00-59-58.mp4

There is this very annoying but somewhat specific problem I get from time to time. When I finish retopologizing a symmetric model with symmetric UVs, and when later I move it into the paint room and select triangulate, the triangulation WON'T be symmetric. This will mess up completely the bake later (I bake in Marmoset). I hope that could be fixed, since also, shape wise, in lowpoly characters a flipped differently triangle can make the model obviously less symmetric.

Same here. I have a main 1080p display 100% scaling, to the right a 4K 175% scaling, and under the main one, a 1080p 100%scaling cintiq where I have 3DCoat. No issues whatsoever.

Awesome! So happy to hear this! I'll get it up and working ASAP and give you as much feedback as I can! Keep up the great work guys!

I feel like for once I've influenced the course of 3D software, even if it was by my ineptitude at making Emissive maps! hahahaha

No problem, it will be ready when its ready! I wish we got some more video sneakpeeks though :P

It does help enough! Thanks! By it self its not even close to a fix, but if I combine it with an edited AO gloss AND use Bent normal instead of regular normal maps, then it makes it look close enough! Thanks for the tip, it does make the dark parts look actually black now! @Carlosan Will we get at some point support in the viewer for AO/Cavity maps?

In most PBR engines or 3D viewports, the Ambient Occlusion texture will automatically affect the reflections and kill any that are where the AO is intense. This doesn't seem to be the case in 3DCoat. Dark crevices painted black will shine brightly no matter how black or dark the AmbientOcclusion layer says it is. Is that a bug? Or maybe it hasn't been implemented yet? If so, it would be really helpful to have it working! In any case, it makes creepy dark crevices look just wrong... I have a few examples to show my point. This is the piece with the normal approach: Then this is the same, but with a small trick, which is to import an inverted AO mat as a metalness map. This will kill part of the reflections... but its not close to good enough. In a perfect world, the black parts would look reflectless, like they do when showing flatshading: Tell me your thoughts!

Oh yeah! I've been using it for a few months now on my note8 and my ipad pro. It is a really nifty app. Having some sort of bridge with it would be amazing without a doubt.