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I know this post is 2 years old but i felt the same and almost not using coat except for painting because of the inconsistency of the software in the various rooms, i have download the 2023 version and again it's the same mess, first tried to use the voxel paint room and most brush did not work as expected, second i tried the suppose better app-link for blender and use send for UV and the model was send to painting room with normals flip. Also i had to fight to locate the 3d model since in various room it simply vanish from the viewport. Even if coat have great features it's not acceptable to have so much inconsistency when trying to work with it. Sad but to work with this software you constantly have to fight with it! In blender i have consistency and the behaviour of the software is always as expected, of course blender is very slow when dealing with high polygons count but at least it behave as expected. If i knew the amount of trouble i would have with it i would have wait for textura and not bother with the rest. Painting tutorials are so rare this is also not helping the new user.

I have tried almost every single brush and settings and i can't get a clean displacement like in Blender so far but my problem is that blender is not fast enough with a 14 millions poly model. So i will export it and finish it in 3d coat for the damage sculpt part. Just a pity that there is not a single tutorial for 3d coat dealing with stencils and how to do a clean displacement, the tutorials on stencil are very basic and don't go in detail on technical aspect of brush settings for displacement technique.

I was talking about surface mode but i finally figure it out, the rectangle stroke did the trick but now i am trying to figure which brush is the best to use to apply the height map. Also i need to figure the grey color i need for the background of the height map so it equal 0 in 3d coat.

I have tried many and not a single one is giving me the correct displacement according to levels of grey. In 4.9.72 there was the gum brush that was shown in a stencil tutorial but there is no gum brush anymore. I have an obelisk and i need to apply the hieroglyph displacement map i made for it and so far i am wasting an insane amount of time just trying to get it stamp on the model. In blender the displacement is showing perfectly but the problem is that i cannot sculpt a 10 millions poly model in blender. Any tips on how to achieve this would be welcome

Hi guy's thank for the replies but i am not talking about curve but the regular brush but i was mistaken when i said it was working in 4.8.72 it is the same as in 2021. Maybe this was working in an earlier version but i am not sure about it.

Anyone? Since there is no documentation i cannot find this information and google search yield no result?

Hi guy's, just using the trial of 2021 and i notice the enter key does not apply the brush stroke anymore, instead it open the voxel dialog. So my question is how can i apply my stencil with a key stroke like before? I don't want to brush it over since it is not giving a good result.

For those who want to know it's about 140$ Canadian so it is way too high for a small indie guy like me and will have to stick with 4.9 for a while.

I search the forum without finding the information maybe i miss it, i bought the license in 2019?

The problem was the silhouette too close to the border of the image, i just made the canvas bigger and it's work so this is not a bug. EDIT: It is very unreliable in 2021 since the result is not working consistently here an example :

Hi guy's just getting back in 3d coat and the blob tool doesn't work when i load curve from image and press enter, the shape doesn't get filled. Is there a new way to do this in 2021 or is this a bug? Here is the image i use and the result when i press enter

I also notice this very difficult to orbit around object and seem to jump to another invisible axis.

Thank Carlo that was my initial thought but since there is so many hidden tools in 3d coat i thought maybe there was a workaround.

Is there a way to keep curves editing capabilities and modify the radial symmetry object so they don't look all the same? I have tentacles here and i want to pose each one of them while keeping curves editing active with symmetry. I don't think it"s possible but maybe there is a workaround? In Blender you can make an instance unique but i don't think it's possible in 3d coat.

Never mind i found it i had to click on del curves in tool panel

Hi guy's, i am encountering a problem with curves tool in object panel, it is a scene i started a few weeks ago and when i select curves no green dot appear on screen, it's simply doesn't work at all and i have zoom out and saw no dot draw anywhere. I have also try this in both surface and voxel with the same result, i did a new vox layer and nada not working. But if i start a new scene curves is working as intended so is there something i am missing here?

Same here only the clay seem to work correctly for me.

I really love the clay brush in voxel feel much more natural than before and very smooth handling.

Did you guy's remove the bridge tool in retopo since i cannot see it in the tool panel?

Congratulations to the whole team for the beta and i just start testing it and i had freezing trying some voxel brushes on a simple sphere with my wacom pen. The brush feel like it stick to the sphere and then the spinning gizmo appear and then the screen turned white and ctd.

link is dead!

Never mind i found it, for those looking for an arrow it's not an arrow it's 2 dots in the far right corner.

Hi guy's, i know there has been many changes in recent 3d coat but i cannot find the Brush Alpha Drop-Down Menu to change the alpha preview size. In the manual they say there is an arrow on the tab but the only arrow i see is the one showing the various brush sets. So is this relocated somewhere else?

You can ignore this question since i found out, you need to modify the distance when importing the model.

Hi guy's just trying to make my custom spline model continuous but as you can see i failed miserably and the help file didn't help me figure it out so any help would be appreciated since i didn't find any video covering how to to do it properly. https://imgur.com/N6WcbGB