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This is a great idea for a different "Quick Access" shiftbar panel. The important thing is being able to create a CUSTOM quick access panel featuring only the brushes we use regularly so we don't have a giant panel with all the brushes. The option to drag your favorite brushes to the top of the quick access panel is a good idea, but the distance the cursor has to travel from your sculpting area up to the top of the big quick access panel defeats the purpose of having favorites for easy access.

This thread tells the story of 3D Coat. Rygaard's great suggestions for much needed improvements to the UI and user experience have not been considered or addressed - though they would make using 3DC so much more fun, fast and enjoyable. On his YouTube channel, Rygaard is performing miracles with 3DC customization and I'm grateful for all the work he's doing to push the limits of the new scripting capabilities. But the suggestions in this thread should have been worked on years ago. It's been years since we've requested options for custom brush palettes, etc. Quality of life UX improvements are what we're asking for. Bug fixes are what we're pleading for. Instead, we get new features no one is really asking for. 3D Coat is a great software but every time I use it the frustration outweighs the enjoyment. Developers, please revisit this thread and put these customization options at the top of your development priorities.

Hey @DannyBCreative May I ask what are the specs of your Mac and what version of 3DC were you using? I"m also curious about performance on the newer Macs. It's 3DC's Mac versions I'm also concerned about. Compared to the Windows version, the Mac version always seems to have strange little "surprises".

Sorry to see you didn't get a reply to your question. I would say go for the best nVidia RTX graphics card and as much ram as you can afford. I'm on a HP Omen laptop with a 3080 (but the laptop version) and 64 gigs of ram and I could still use more power for when the sculpt objects exceed 2 million. I'm also using it with a Wacom Intuos Pro and that's working well. Tweak the pen pressure to a custom curve in Wacom preferences for the best performance in 3DC. I like to use the Pinch brush in Surface mode as a litmus for how my pen is driving the Brushes while I sculpt. DEFINITELY use 3DCoat on Windows. I don't know about Linux, but on Mac, 3DC is pretty rough around the edges with many micro bugs depending on the version. The Windows version is always better. Good luck!

Hey, Regarding your flat shader request... Quickest solution: In the shaders menu , click submenu "Polymers" and look for a dull grey shader called "DerlinIndustrial". It's the 9th shader from the beginning in "Polymer" shaders. Then adjust the lighting effects in the viewport using the three controls at the left of the header icons. Also, I would highly recommend the 3D Coat tutorial linked in this thread. The one with the Crocodile character. Excellent overview of the full character creation pipeline in 3DC. I'm going through it now and am picking up good stuff from it. I'm actually thinking of getting the other tutorial by the same instructor. Good luck!

This discussion is fascinating and I'm happy it's a topic that is being explored. The UI of 3Dcoat is one of the major areas of grievance for me - especially the terrible gizmo, the brush icons, not having a quick customizable pop-up menu to select favorite tools/brushes like Maya's Marking Menus or Blender's Pie Menus or Cinema4D's pie Menus or Krita's brush selector (in 3DCoat we are stuck with the giant Quick Access panel or the Preset Menu - "Better than nothing" I guess). @SonK I love your proposals - if only for the look. If 3DCoat only had a cosmetic facelift, with new icons, and menu aesthetics, and some rearranging...similar to your mock ups, I think it would feel so much better and probably appeal to a wider audience. But, as with all suggestions from users, it comes down to Andrew not having time for it. So, while fun to dream, it's not something I expect to see happen.

I'd like to know this also!

Just want to add that I would also really appreciate the option to invert a brush so I don't have to keep CTRL pressed. In the latest 3DC, only a random number of Voxel Tool brushes have the toolbar "Invert" option. Like OP, I don't understand the thinking behind this. Beyond the convenience for users to do large areas of inverted brushing, this option would also be essential if we're trying to create a custom brush preset that behaves in the inverted form of the original brush. I can't find an "Invert" parameter in the Tool Options/Modifiers for brushes either. If not in the toolbar, the invert brush option should be in the menus somewhere (so we can assign a hotkey).

No apologies necessary, @Rygaard I hope you're feeling better and are having fun creating your course and brushes!

@Elemeno I'm guessing Blender's user base is enormous compared to 3D Coat's and it's the current "IT" thing everyone is curious about, a vast and enthusiastic community on social media and forums, and it has serious corporate sponsors. Unfortunately, I don't see 3DC being able to match that kind of following or excitement. I wish I was wrong. Also, Blender is a generalist tool that appeals to hobbyists and semi pros worldwide. 3D Coat is more advanced but covers only a portion of the 3D pipeline, which other softwares cover specifically. (zBrush, Substance, Topogun) I love the idea of 3DC being so flush with funds that they hire more developers but not sure how it will happen other than continued user based exposure and word of mouth.

Yes, the option is available now. Thanks very much @carlosan !

When I click "Create" and see the window with forum sections to post in, "Feature Requests" is grayed out. Is there another way to post there?

Oh, thank you @Elemeno I missed the tip

I think I understand what you mean. The only way I've found to turn this off is to use Maya navigation

Regarding my initial question, how can we get the Smooth All window to appear if we've clicked the "skip this window next time" option? And is there a way to post in the "features requests" section of forum or do posts get assigned there by moderator? Thanks