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Fantastic news Andrew! The UDIM issue was a big one. I would love to see this area develop more in future, as it allows 3d-coat to be used in hi-res film production.

Yes. When I leave the "IMPORT UV TILE AS SETS" tick off, it imports fine with existing uv's, but then you only have one UV set....which is a problem. My model has 19 uv tiles, so it is a problem. The only workaround my good friend Tim found, was the following. 1. Import the fbx or obj into the retopo room. 2. Create all the new UDIM sets that is needed. (1001,1002,1003...ext) 3. Use the Retopo Objects layers one at a time to move them to the newly created sets by quick selecting with "Select all faces of this layer" 4. Bake to paintroom 5. Be happy.

Fantastic. Great work guys. Another bug unfortunately... Importing obj or fbx with UDIM tiles is a instant hard crash. That is a bad one, as allot of people use 3dcoat for it's great texture painting. //edit 9.08.2019 4.9.05 - Fixed UDIM import crash when option "Import tiles as UV sets" turned ON. udim_tiles.mp4

Fantastic! Thanks Andrew, and Carlosan. I really appreciate it.

I tested on the GL verion of 3d-Coat 4.8.42-SL It had it's own set of problems. The Points/Faces option made it impossible to create quads. Holding Ctrl + Shift while doing this worked better, but I can't work like this. No points got stuck during this test, so that might tell you something. Unfortunately I can't share the file, but I can reproduce this in any scene...even with a sphere. retopo_GL.mp4

I'm using the DX version, but will see if the GL version does the same. We tested on multiple pc's but not with GL. I will let you know. For now I'm using Houdini for retopo, which gives me time to submit feature requests to Sidefx.

Hi. What happened to retopo in the latest builds? I now have to move my retopo work to other software...the one of the many areas where 3d-Coat was king. For the last couple of builds, points get stuck and makes it unbearable to do any form of retopo work. I don't mind moving all my retopo work elsewhere, but I always enjoyed it in 3d-Coat. We have multiple licenses at our office and we tested on different workstations with the same problem. Anyone else have these issues?

Thanks. That will be great.

Hi. I've installed the latest build, and the smooth brush is extremely slow in the Paint Room. Here is a video showing the problem. This is on a single polygon that I baked from the retopo room. Smoothing shows almost no smoothing and it is terribly slow. Anyone else getting this? Slow_Smooth.mp4

Thanks guys. I appreciate the response. Just wanted to mention that I forgot to ad Mark Zimmer's name as the rigger. He did an amazing job building the rig in Houdini. The rhino was sculpted before sculpt layers, and it would have helped so much. Next time.

Here is a quick edit of some of the shots we worked on for a local film called 'Frank & Fearless'. I sculpted and textured the rhino in 3d-Coat. Rigging and animation was all in Houdini.

Oh wow! That is great news. Works great except for the Rapid brush, but it is way less than before. All the others seems to work much better. Thank you soooooo much.

Fantastic news. Thanks Andrew and Carlosan!

Draw = good Clay = bad Buildup = super bad Expand = good Extract = good Rapid = bad

Here is an example of some of the major brushes at work. It shows exactly which ones does it and not.

What I find strange is that some brushes does it and others don't. Unfortunately the more widely used brushes have this problem.

I'm really finding it hard to work with the brush engine on "facing away" angles. This never used to bother me, so I wonder what changed? Both were in Voxel mode, but Surface mode has the same issues. The first is the Surface Clay Brush and the second is Clay and Build brushes. I love 3d-Coat, but this is slowly pushing me back to other software for sculpting. With short deadlines, this is a massive problem, and I'm finding it hard to waist so much time on fixes.

Here is one that I think would be awesome! Please can we have Soft radial falloff on transform and scale in the retopo room. Here is an example from 3d Coat and Houdini.

Node based SmartMaterials. Give us this and see new user flock to 3d-Coat. The Layering system is old and limiting.

There is a setting in zbrush to fix this. We found it under Brush/Samples/Preserve Edge. Set that to 100 % and the problem goes away. Even Blender gets this right. Pity that 3d-Coat does not have this function, as I will be working on film quality animals soon, and this bugged me sooo much the previous round.

Thanks Carlosan. Good to know that someone else also logged this issue.

Can someone please let me know how to manage this problem. Whenever you get close to geometry facing away from camera, the sculpt brushes over explodes into a strange pull. Mudbox has a setting to control the effect on edges with a angle based falloff. Is there anything in 3d-Coat to avoid these nasty problems?

Thanks Janvier. I've had similar problems with cavity maps giving a false idea of form.

Very very slow loading of scenes in the latest build. 4.8.25A-SL Load screen stays on "prepare for texturing" way too long. Even on lighter scenes.

Wow, that is great news. Way to go Andrew!