wonderland78

Right, I get it now. I saw someone else answer with this but it made no sense. To un-instance something, go to the transform tool, hover over it and click the instancer tool. There you'll see the tool options to un-instance all.

Pretty straightforward. I have a single instance, how do I turn off the instance/bake it.

Just need a show of hands. Who uses custom hot keys to switch between tools? Of those who do, anyone else notice that they regularly break? so you use the hot key, coat hangs for a second, it flicks over to the tool for half a second, then back to the tool you were originally on.

Does not fix the issue.

The edges of a dragged extrude stamp start to clip. This bug used to happen in 2021. 2023-04-19 12-41-55.mkv

I don't understand that because it's working fine now and I either chose to log in or use the trial, is one of those two options not counting as activating a license?

This is me using the shortcut for Extrude 'CTRL+E'. Current tool is Transform. It will flash over Extrude and go back to Transform. I can confirm this bug has been around since 2022.12 2023-04-19 11-58-29.mkv

Yes, but it doesn't fix the root cause of why it's happening in the first place.

I believe this issue is over a year old now. Writing this as of version 2023.16 but was still present in 2022.12 Make a new shader, and for all intents and purposes, it's not there. You see it in the Shaders thumbnails, you see it on your object, but if you duplicate the layer, it's gone, if you retopo, it's gone. 2023-04-19 11-26-13.mkv

Yes, I can confirm that the problem lies with the fact that my 2022 version's user folder was named without a year and seeing as the 2023 version also writes a year-less user folder, they merge and break both versions. If someone could suggest to the dev team that every version (for each new year) should have a unique user folder name? it's quite essential for me to have a few versions due to 3DCoat's instability. I had to remove all versions, back up my latest (broken) user folder, install a fresh new version and then drag over my resources one at a time so I at least had my smart materials/alphas/stencils/hot keys etc.

well that's not the point. All of it's broke. I don't need the file, everything gets chewed up in the retopo. Even a fresh cube. So if you read above, I'm now just trying to drag in my old assets one folder at a time as the raw install does work.

Right so here's how it's going now... 1. I delete the 3DCoat users folder and it works. 2. I take my old users folder and copy it over, with all my smart materials, keyboard shortcuts etc. and it breaks. Conclusion: I noticed, when it installed, that unlike previous installations, it didn't leave my old version alone (in the user folder). It sort of merged with it. I know this because I tried to open my old version and it was broke and looked a bit like the new UI. So now I have to copy things over piece by piece. I just hope I can figure out where the keyboard shortcuts are stored coz they took ages to get right. Any tips appreciated. Update: you can manually restore them with the migration master choosing 'hot keys'.

Ok. update... I got a cube to retopo as normal, finally. Not sure if it's something to do with choosing 'free trial' vs logging in. I feel like the first time I chose to do that it wouldn't let me. Ok so now I'm going to try dragging in my old user prefs files and see if anything changes.

I think I've pretty much done that. I've uninstalled all versions, reinstalled it, deleted the user prefs and no matter what it's still doing it. Gonna give it one last try. After that, I have zero clue what I'm gonna do as I have work tomorrow.

so now I need some kind of God-level tech support because I've broken 3dCoat permanently if my files are behaving differently on other people's computers.