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I'm not sure about that. Actually the 2nd card is not used (I check the load with nvidia inspector). I try to force the use with CUDA in the Nvidia control panel, but did'nt work. But we'll see in the future what's happen.

I would like to understand better how 3DCoat can take advantages of more than one CUDA card on the PC. I have actually two GPU (one quadro FX580 for display and one GTX470) one of them not connected to the display and used only for GPGPU computation (octane rendering in my case). I'm using only CUDA capabilty of the FX580 actually? Thanks Luca

Requiescat in pace

I have two CUDA video card: Quadro FX580 and Geforce GTX470. The Quadro is attached to the Monitor and the Geforce not, I use it only for GPU rendering (Octane for now). Can 3D Coat use the second card for calculation, or it just technically impossible? I haven't tried yet the difference between CUDA vs non CUDA and Quadro vs Geforce. Some experience?

Hey man for sure we already do it! But why not have something similar to the external editor for 2D? Have you tryed it? Don't you find useful? It should be nothing more than an exporter for the camera, the object and the maps....

YES! +1 for me.

Will the new version use CUDA Toolkit 3.0 or 3.1? From now on with more CUDA app will be created can be a problem..... (for now only 3DCoat and Octane for me)

GTX4xx will be the next generation Nvidia grapjhic cards. They are rebranding again their old card 8800gtx --> 9800 gtx --> gts 250 --> gts 350. I'm waiting for Fermi but indeed it's a shame!

I was just thinking about how great if Silo development was just like 3DCoat By far they ( Pilgway ) have the best support & functionality = it's fast and 100 % customizable ! I hope Nevercenter will go in this direction Just a joke.....

Thanks a lot, you confirm my feelings. Probably the best things to do for me is to buy an used GTX 260, waiting for the upcoming GT300 on January/February. Regards Luca

Are you sure about December? Actually they are very in late with their card. I'm in the same situation, I want a new computer before Xmas and probably I'll go with an ATI 5870 waiting for OpenCL. But I will prefer Nvidia.... Luca

I normally don't use this system, but today I try to give a negative vote, the first, and the system said that I have already reach my negative quote for today. It's not right! ;-) For positive ones work fine. I respect the opinion of the administrator, but in my opinion it was better to remove it. my two cents. Luca

Usually I was with you, but now I have to wait at least January/February and there are no benchmark yet on the new generation. I NEED to change my actual PC (Pentium 4 HT with nvidia 6800GT)....

I want to buy a new computer before the end of the year. Until two week ago I had no doubt about my new video card. Nvidia next generation. But after the last presentation (one very impressive (ATI), the other just a paper launch with FAKE video card (nvidia)) I was very confused. My choice is pending toward ATI 5870 (I'm not a pro and professional video card are tooooo expensive). CUDA was a reality in program like 3D Coat, but OpenCL is the future (convergence). Is there is already a time frame for the porting? How are ATI driver with 3D Coat (I had always nvidia card and the driver was quite good)? DirectX 11 tesselletion (hardware in ATI card not in Nvidia) can be used in program like 3D Coat? Thanks Luca

Very nice as always! Max, can I ask you if direct painting over low poly is working as you expect? Thanks Luca

Very interesting videos on a new plugin for retopologization in Max. Only to show a different approach (but I still prefer auto quadrangulation....). http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p...amp;postcount=1 Luca

What's happen today to the new server??????? It's sooo slowwww...... 42minutes fo alpha50 simple!

290 KB/sec with an Internet key..... YES it's a GOOD bandwith!

Wow you have a lot of customer in Taiwan! Didn't know about this problem. Luca

Here you can download the new FBX plugin for 3DS Max & Maya. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform...amp;id=10775855 New feature in version 2009.3: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...amp;id=11804173 At some point we can have an export in FBX from 3DCoat? The new feature in the new version seem interesting... Thanks Luca

Hi Andrew, there is a chance to enhance the dowloading speed of 3DCoat? Now that the community is increased and you make a new alpha every day (you are unbelivable!), it takes with my ADSL almost 40/50 minutes to download. Usually I can download the same MB in less than 5 minutes from any other site. Don't want to seem disrespectful,it's only a request. Thanks in any case, Luca

I'm interested in your tutorial but the link seem not work here (time out)!!! I want to understand how to correct map a mesh with different program (UVmapper, Roadkill, Blender, the demo of Unfold3D and 3DCoat of course), and at least against the "free" software 3DCoat is probably the easier to use. With some little correction can be one of the best. Ciao Luca

Not 3DCoat related, I remember a pretty old free software that do something similar. http://www.amdpiu.com/transfer/ZSURF4.zip It convert a BMP file in IGES. I import straigth to moi and works quite well. Maybe with some little refinement the philnolan3d method it's better. Luca

Have you already done all of them? http://www.3d-coat.com/video_tutorial.html You can find some other tut on youtube, but the ones above are pretty useful. Ciao luca

Same Video card and same effects here! Btw VERY Nice shaders Akira. Luca