acst

I downloaded 3D Coat and started the trial period on 27th October - and yesterday it said the trial period has expired. On the web site it says the trial period is 30 days. Is this a bug, or is the information on the web site wrong? I am planning to buy 3D Coat, but not before the Black Friday or Christmas sale (whichever applies).

Thanks for the offer, Phil. Let me try and learn some more about the interface/concepts of the program. I think some of my expectations are just not what 3D Coat is meant to be used for (or at least not in the way I'm trying to achieve that). I can't share this particular model, but I can easily prepare a different one from scratch, as it doesn't really matter which exact mesh I'm using. It can be any arbitrary Daz Studio Genesis 8 Male character morph, and it doesn't have to be anything fancy. All I'm trying to do (for now) is add some lines and wrinkles to the face.

Oh, and another thing: When I import the low poly mesh, the textures are not imported along with it.

Then I must be doing something wrong. It's completely impossible to sculpt anything ... To be more precise: As soon as I click somewhere with the smooth tool active, the program freezes for a minute or more.

A picture of what exactly?

That's exactly what I'm trying. :/

Thanks, Carlos! The previous post really helps. However, now I'm having a new problem. My computer, an i7 4770 CPU with 32 GB of RAM and an NVidia GeForce GTX 1070, is obviously WAY too weak to sculpt even small areas of the mesh I'm trying to work with (the face part of a Daz Studio Genesis 8 Male character morph), even though I only increased the density in certain areas, using the method described by Phil above. Is that to be expected? What are the REAL WORLD hardware requirements for 3D Coat for such scenarios? Or are there any tricks I could try?

That sounds promising, Carlos, thanks! I'll try that as soon as I can.

Thanks again, Carlos, but I'm not sure what you are trying to show me by this video. It's about retopology and UV unwrapping. Like I said, I already have the low poly object and the UVs and want to sculpt details and create the normal maps based on the result (and, of course, using the existing UV layout).

Thanks, Carlos(?)! But I'm in the sculpt room - does that setting not only affect the paint room? The zooming issue seems to be a known bug, as someone pointed out to me:

Perfect, thanks! :) Back to the original question: I did what you suggestested, i.e. started in the sculpt room and used the import option from the menu to get the low poly character OBJ into the program. The result was very strange though - while it did obviously load the actual mesh correctly, there are strange artefacts/patches all over the object. I took a screen shot of a small section to show what I mean. I'm sure it's just a very stupid beginner's mistake, but I can't see how to get rid of that (or figure out what it actually is). The OBJ looks perfectly fine in all other 3D applications I have access to (Blender, Substance Painter, Mudbox, Daz Studio, ...). Also, I'm not able to zoom in close enough to actually do any sculpting. Must be the camera settings, but I cannot find anything to adjust that either.

Thank you very much, Phil! That sounds pretty much like what I'm trying to do. Using the clay tool with zero height to add local high resolution areas is a great idea, I'll definitely give that a try, too. Another quick question: Does anybody know if there usually are special deals for 3D Coat around Christmas available?

I forgot to mention that I already have the diffuse maps for my character, so the normal and height maps would have to be based on the same UV layout (which is the normal G8M UDIM).

Hey there! I downloaded the 3D Coat trial to see if the program meets my requirements, and now I'm trying to find my way around. It would be very much appreciated if someone could help me along with the following question; I have a low poly mesh (a DAZ studio Genesis 8 male character, to be precise) in OBJ format, and I want to sculpt high resolution details, save the result as a HD mesh in OBJ format and also create normal and height maps based on that. Is that possible with 3D Coat, and if it is, how would I do that? The menus are very confusing. Creating the HD mesh based on an existing low poly mesh is the primary requirement. Normal/height baking is secondary, as I could also do that in Substance Painter or xNormal, if need be. But having everything in one application would be great. Thanks, acst