Bach Nick

true for some situations such as not over complicated characters, but for all other crazy situations that these tools bring, i think manual would be their only option with autoretopo as their base Btw thanks for the zb tip, didn't know about it as i never considered zb retopo, like many users

i think this new feature in R2 will boost 3DC sales, once zbrushers create these heavy models there is only one option to efficiently retopo them, it would be 3DC.

well here the difference is the price, when they went 3democtacy things got better, plus exposure and third party is relevant for this day still for SI, just check the Area and tell me where is SI comparing to other ADSK ex-competitors?! i just really hope that 3DC instead of trying to compete with mudbox and ZB, try to offer direct solution to DCC app such as maya SI Max Lightwave and in previous post i put some ideas hope the 3DC team would take it into consideration.

3DC is not popular enough is for the same reason Softimage XSI is not popular enough, although they both surpass their competitors it all comes down to: 1-EXPOSURE and i don't mean advertisement alone cause most of users use adblock plus so they don't see the ads, but i mean, Competitions with 3dc prises, Sponsoring, cool packaging, interview with famous users who use 3dcoat, studios who use 3dc, movies/shorts.... 2-IDENTITY Naming: 3DCoat is not attractive enough and misleading, either you change it with an overhaul so for it to look as the next generation of 3dcoat, or drop the oat keep it 3DC, it is easy simple and you can give the "C" many concepts such as Color, Carve, Create, Clay, and so on. Logo: OMG pls someone remove that green slime/mucus of this Grey shaded ball, with a regular font type extruded with harsh AO, (sorry i had to be severe in this, to show my point, i do have the full respect for the designer of the logo however it is a render of a 3d scene, not suitable a logo) Website: while it was better than the first, it is still weak, mixed Fonts serif and non serif.... not attractive overall with blurry text bkg in top, no arrangement...and people Grey is a dead color and not necessarily professional, look all i can see is gray in the first page, Sorry again but this is my opinion and pls don't take it personal. installer: this is easy but 3dc should have a cool looking installer with artwork showing while installing in a classy way, this is added anticipation for the software... 3-THIRD PARTY why not give free demos or licenses for training companies such as Digital tutors, I3d, Gnomon, and offer support for them to do plenty of video tutorials, with all respect to the current tutorial makers but the more spread the better, especially the famous ones. Why not lure the developers for plugin development? let's start with a renderer. there are plenty of 3rd party renderer, that if you offered collaboration on creating a plugin they won't mind an extra income from users buying their renderer for use with 3dC imagine on maxwell front page an artwork done in 3dc and rendered in maxwell, although it will stay for a day or two, but that is extra Exposure, and our child in no longer a loner, he is playing with his friends. Pls stop adding workflows to 3dc, rather add 3dc to workflows and here is an explanation, one of the thing that will spread its use is a plugin for Mental Ray standins for 3dsmax, maya, softimage...what i mean, loading a proxy of the sculpted model in Softimage, and when rendering, the proxy is replaced by the High res, although we can't directly manipulate the proxy in softimage for say, but the link is live with 3dc , so if we sculpt in 3dc the proxy render updates in softimage in realtime.... and later on let's work on making it modifiable in softimage for example... TRUE professionals don't care about the religious thing, they care about getting their work done in the best way possible, and on time and if 3DC can help them, they won't think twice. As for the picky non pro users, use the WOW effects for them and they will buy it it even if it was notepad like and i think i am sure 100% that Andrew knows that by adding the religious text he will get some negative comments, but no one from you should care, what's next? change the pilgway logo because it looks like a cross!? these were my ideas, i am sorry if i was harsh but i want the best for the software, and when i finish the current project at hand in two weeks, i will be posting some designs that i hope will help. Cheers Bach

Thank you, Wow, never expected anything for xsi, usually we xsi users get the plug-ins last after all other applications, hopefully you can solve the problem, and make it seamless between XSI and 3DC they are both awesome softwares, Cheers

Congratulations Andrew! may God bless your family, and send in a V5 girl too now you have to keep up, we are waiting for coat V4

Happy Birthday Andrew, BTW how old is 3dcoat/3dbrush, we should make a celebrate a birthday as a community for the software , by let's say a hidden egg revealed in the software or a new secret feature... i dont know just an idea

i recommend PhotoModeler pro it has a demo too, very powerful, linkhttp://www.photomodeler.com/index.htm

thanks, i think when V3 will launch r they will write whole pages

if he told us what they said i guess it is legal, not necessarily word by word, but i think after giving it a second thought, yeah it might be illegal to scan a part of the mag, we just want to know what they mentioned about 3d-coat, because soon really soon, 3d-coat will be all over the magazine and the direct competitor to, count with me: BodyPaint, Deep paint 3D Zbrush mudbox... and God knows what else,

Can you please scan the page, or tell us at least what was their comment... not all of can get the mag where we live thanks

Hi Andrew, first i want to thank you for the Vs that is soon gonna make every software envy 3d-coat. i However have a request for a tool that can help all people with low ram and pc power, give them the high resolution they still need. i was thinking of "empty model" button, that can delete all the inside of the Volumetric model, and only keep the skin or surface(later on a thickness control would be great), in this way i guess the number of voxels would become less and stress less the cpu and ram, i might be wrong cause i don't know anything about programming, but i think this is logical. secondly it would solve a bug i had with the move tool, once i move a part , a hidden cavity appears inside of the model, like an air chamber inside of the model, that makes the carve tool and some others (not all) jump from inside wall to the surface. i know i should probably post it in the bugzz section but it seemed related to the request so i put it here, Thanks, BachNick

Hi Andrew, if you could take a look a http://www.gpgpu.org/ they cite all advances in the gpu section, and in particular there is a software with a c++ ibrary ready to use called " faogen " check it link http://www.rusteddreams.net/faogen.html hope it will help integrating AO in 3DC if not realtime, a fast render button would suffice. plus i saw few days ago at this link http://www.vimeo.com/1472943 a video demonstrating realtime ambient occlusion with XSI7 using vertex map.... No CUDA no special shader and thank you for 3DC.