philnolan3d
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I don't know anything about Cararra and I haven't used Poser in like 6 years, but the answer to all of your questions is yes, it can do that. In fact some of the included materials are a couple of tartan (plaid) textured fabrics. You may need to make your own denim material in Photoshop though.
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About ripples - set more degree of mid-poly mesh subdivision.
Got it, thanks. By the way, you may want to think up a different word to use instead of "carcass" It sounds kind of gross since it usually refers to a dead animal body.
A bug: The navigational controls don't always work correctly with a tablet. Barely touching them makes the screen zoom in really fast or spin around really fast, etc.
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I loaded the model I had trouble with before and it's definitely a huge improvement. I feel like the algorithm or whatever used to smooth the mesh needs some work though. If you look at the attachment I have the same shot in LightWave and 3DC. The 3DC one almost looks like there are ripples in the geometry. I'm also noticing that even if I bring the mesh up to 20 mil polys I still can't get that default skin texture with any normal size. I have to make it really big before I can even start to see the details. Should I be subdividing my object before I bring it into 3DC?
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Question: Can 3DC handle multiple UV maps on one object? Normally my complex characters have seperate UVs for the head, arms, torso, legs, etc.. Or do I have to make one map for the entire character?
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I would have done icons in my example, but 1. I'm no icon designer and B. I personally don't like icons. (LightWave fan)
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Thank you, I put it right into that Samples folder.
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Is the base helmet object available? My "Samples" folder mentioned doesn't have it, for both 3D Coat and my old install of 3D Brush.
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I must say the best camera navigation I've ever used in in Unreal Ed (and presumably the Unreal Engine). That method is LMB moves forward/back and rotates left/right. RMB rotates freely around the cameras middle, and RMB+LMB moves the camera up, down, left, and right. It sounds confusing but after a couple minutes it really becomes fast an intuitive. The scroll wheel also zooms in/out. Might not be very helpful here though, unless you hold down a key like Alt while doing it.
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I think the Sculpting Mode options need a better work flow. It feels like there's an unnecessary step to click the drop down, and then click the tool you want. I propose just a row of buttons so you can quickly jump between tools. For the tools that have additional options the window can expand below the buttons. I made a quick mock-up to show what I mean, see the attachment.
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Frankly I wasn't too fond of 3D Coat, it does sound like something you wear in cold weather to me. However I could get used to 3DC I think. Heck if it becomes popular with game development you'll have a new marketing phrase right there. "3DC at GDC". You just have to get to the Game Developers Conference.
Whoever mentioned Yahoo! being an American term for calling out over a distance, I take it you yourself are not American. It has nothing to do with distance. It's something you shout when you're excited like "Yahoo! I just won the lottery!" Not many people actually say it, I think it's a Texas thing. It was also used in the book Gulliver's Travels where the talking horses called humans "Yahoos". It's also a slang name for someone who is stupid or crazy.
Funny story about Mudbox: Almost exactly a year ago I was walking along with a friend (who's not into 3D at all) and telling him "So I was playing with Mudbox the other day--" He cut me off because he thought I was about to say something dirty about my girlfriend. My friend is weird.
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Maybe I'm missing it, but I think it would be great to have something like MudBox's Pinch brush. it sucks all of the geometry towards the center of the brush, great for making sharp creases or other hard edges. Image of it in use attached.
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I haven't tried this but it may work if you load the 3DB version into a background layer and use the Background to Morph tool.
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Probably it's biggest shortcoming is a good set of truly introductory tutorials to get users up-and-running. Even their 'learning' materials look intimidating as all heck when initially viewed. It wasn't until I took a long, focused, sit-down session with the editor that I even began to get a feel for how to work with the materials, and I still feel like a newbie. Really like it though.
You can say that again, I played with it today and feel really lost. Like you said even the Introduction tutorials are confusing. Someone on their forum complained that the tutorials look like they were made for someone who's used the program for a while and they replied that it assumes the reader has gone through the interface tour. But that tour is just as confusing looking.
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Just so people won't have to search, the website is:
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Since this is still a BETA version,then I make a small suggestion here,hope it will be added in the final version.Just see the picture.
Currently I know how to add an exist folder with many pens to 3DB manually,just copy the folder to "...\textures\patterns\",but I think it's not difficult for you to add a new command "add exist folder",and this will make it more convenient,why not？
And still looking for the scroller of the pen window.
Don't mean to be the grammar police, but that should be "existing" and (in the image) "create".
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Yes I have it seems to be working well now, thanks.
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Cool thanks, I know you're getting a lot of requests. I hope it doesn't get too overwhelming.
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I've been wondering if there's some way to adjust this. Sometimes I nee to see a small area closeup but it dissappears before I can get close enough.
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Good question, I've never had to deal with it in other programs. This kind of reminds me of years ago when people were making NES emulators and the computer was too powerful, the games would run really fast. Maybe 3DB is just too good! :lol:
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Thank you! by the way, festive prices are prolonged until 7 dec.
You Mean 7 Jan?
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Does it occurs when you are using navigation icons? Or in ALT+*MB mode? I still have not understand how to reproduce it.
You're right, I don't usually use Alt+*MB in Lightwave, I use the navi icons. In 3DB It does not happen with the icons, only with the Alt key. For example start with the mouse somewhere in the middle of the screen and hold Alt. Now click/drag all the way to the left side of the screen and let go of the mouse (but keep holding Alt) Now the screen continues to move even though you're not touching the mouse button.
Interesting addition to this I just noticed. I loaded up the cube object for testing, with a brush tool active, and did this:
Drag RMB the the edge of the screen
Let Go
Move mouse back into the screen
Now the brush is drawing all over your object even though you're not pushing any buttons at all.
Oh I see. My 3DB is not in full screen mode, I just stretch it out to fill the screen (I like to see Vista's Aero-glass). So all of this only happens in Window mode.
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I spent a good few hours with 3D Brush today UV mapping an old character from scratch. I found a few things that I think would make it even better.
UV seams currently are created with RMB removed with Ctrl+RMB while LMB does nothing. Seems to me that it would make more sense to use LMB to remove them
It would be a lot easier to remove a whole line of accidentally created seams if you could just drag across them instead of having to click each one.
It would be a lot easier to add / remove seams if you could see the wireframe, or at least make the model flat shaded with no lighting / spec.
I can never figure out what point the camera is spinning around. It would be nice to center a point on the screen and spin around that. Or at least have it spin around the center of the screen.
Minor bugs:
If you use symmetry while editing seams it's not perfectly accurate. For example I finished one leg of my character, then looked at the other leg and some of the seam lines were slightly out of place.
Also the "UV Store" button does not remember the last folder used.
When you're dragging the camera to move/zoom/rotate... When the mouse reaches edge of screen RMB locks on. You have to click to let go. One option could be to have the mouse pointer disappear while navigating, this is what LightWave does.
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Well however you do it your doing a great job, I've been telling all of my friends about it. I don't think I've seen updates come this fast and furious from any software, most of the time you're lucky to see a paid update every 6 months.
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I sent a text file from the dongle program.
If anyone's using this with Vista and getting errors right click it and choose Run As Administrator.
Does 3dCoat do clothing textures?
in General 3DCoat
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Also check out this tutorial for 3DC / Cararra. (it may be a little different since that's an older version, hence the 3D Brush name.)
Along with Andrew's new video tutorial on the ineterface and basics:
http://www.3d-coat.com/files/Tut1/Interface.htm