Silas Merlin

4.8.18 Pose tool works accross vox layers now ? I never noticed it doing that before, is that new, is it a feature or a bug ? Anyway, it's interesting, I'm sure I'll find it useful !

Does it mean there will be rigging in 3d-Coat ? It would be cool if it becomes possible to import a model with armature and weights in retopo room and to retain the information upon export to fbx and dae

the "select all faces in this layer" button in the retopo objects looks a lot like the "increase resolution of the current object" in the voxtree. I sometimes click the latter by mistake while in retopo room. It can be disastrous if the resolution was already high, because it can freeze the whole system.

4.8.16 GL I get this error after using Instant Meshes auto. I press skip, go to sculpt room and back and the problem is fixed.

yes they are read but not replied in public, and critical problems do get addressed.

Also all the people who were following the thread have had the option ticked off.

4.8.16GL Rfill seems to disregard symetry, works only on one side at a time

I've never seen this, is this in surface mode or voxels ?

Doing some quick testing with Instant meshes. It appears that scene scale has to be 1, otherwise the mesh imports at the wrong scale in the retopo room. Apart from that, I think it's interesting. I tested with rounded edges, the instant mesh result looked like it couldn't work, I even did auto unwrap which never works right with autopo. It all looks very smooth in paint room and render room. I think this could have its uses, when you need something done in two minutes.

@artofcharly Preferences > show beta tools then in retopo room you have the tool Quad Paint, I believe that is something similar ? (careful to save your work, it seems to crash a lot)

I still can't get Freeze/painting higher density areas to work. Any luck anyone ? No other problem detected so far, except when trying to launch 4.8.10 (the version I'm sticking to because of the autopick in subsequent versions), when I try to launch it, I get this :

Concerning alphas and PNG. I have never been able to export a PNG with an alpha from 3d-Coat with any version. I always use TGA for that. I never thought to ask, is it a problem on my side ?

Sorry for bitching about this, I really love 3d-Coat, I do, I use it all day and all night as much as I can. I spend as little time as possible in other software to do things that 3dc doesn't.You get used to everything... There are some annoying things that don't bother me too much anymore after two years. One of them is the "paint object" window that doesn't remain docked each time you start up. Then there is the Grow tool which sometimes forgets which brush it has been assigned. "Type of surface" setting common to all "on plane" tools, so when you change for one it changes for the others. Dae export not reliable, Blender cycles assigning only some textures and not others ...To name the most bothersome for me. I can live with bugs like when the airbrush tools stopped working for a while, or the extrude tool that was quickly fixed. Now this.... Autopick by default on startup ? Really ? This could just be too much, I think I will go back to the previous version.

Is there a way to get autopick not to activate on startup ?

Then, here is your workaround : Select Pose tool, then in tool options click on the drop menu and choose "select object". You get the same tool as transform, and it works. Cheers.

This scared me very much, so I checked right away... I can confirm. Not only does it not work, but it distorts the object. Luckily this behaviour seems to be limited to the specific transform tool : Do the same thing with the pose tool and to Global or to Uniform space still work fine.

Hello there, It has been happening a few times now that after saving I lose all my voxels in the sculpt room. I am not sure yet what triggers it. I think every time it is long after having gone through all the steps of retopology and baking, and well into painting the lowpoly. At one point all the voxel layers in the sculpt room just become empty, only the layers that happened to be in surface mode remain. Sadly I only notice the next day when I try to load the file, and all the autosaves are the same by that time. Does anyone know something about this ? Thanks.

yes that is what I understood, so major that one should not even enquire about it. To me it is quite similar to selecting across layers.

I once asked to be able to blend several layers at once... I think it was you AbnRanger who replied that "this doesn't exist in photoshop", then I was blocked from that section of the forums, thus could not reply, and shortly after locked out of Mantis. I didn't post here again for two years after that.

When you move vertices around with the Add/Split tool, 3d-coat does not seem to "recalculate normals" like it does with the Brush tool. Surely, that is an oversight ? I am not sure about the terminology to use, sorry if I am saying something completely stupid.

also it depends on the brush. lasso type works

Tell him that it becomes broken after you change the resolution of your voxel layer

Taking your geometry to the paint room or sculpt room is just one or two clicks. It has other advantages : it helps you see the retopo mesh better, and with auto snapping activated can help you edit the retopo mesh.

have you tried one of these two thing : 1. Go to the Bake menu > update paint mesh with retopo mesh (This will bring your retopo mesh to the paint room, therefore 3DC will have something to zoom on) 2. Go to the sculpt room and in the menu Geometry > "Retopo mesh > Sculpt mesh" Furthermore, I suggest acquiring a 3dConnexion Space Navigator.

Assigning keyboard shortcuts seem to work here. Some of my shader previews are completely broken too like Stusutcliffe, and my graphic driver was just updated.