Newbie Paint Questions

[pixeldroid]

Hi all.

Starting my first 3dc project - to create texture/displacement for medical model (alveolus)

Pretty simple - basically it's applying a texture to a spoon with some thickness.

3dc was great for redoing the uv's. Now I'm painting the displacement and have some questions.

I'm using the skin cracks mask.

1) How do I spread it evenly on the model? I used the fill function, but then it stretches in some parts.

When I try to retouch the stretched areas, I run into 2 other questions:

1) How do I tell 3dc to only paint depth from the mask, not the edges of the brush?

2) How do I tell it to replace the bump where I paint? If I have additive painting on, it builds on the lower layer, if I have it off, it fills in the cracks as I rotate the model.

Any other suggestions for how to do this would be greatly appreciated. It would be the same as trying to apply the cracks mask evenly around a sphere.

I can see that this will work great once I learn how to use it!

Thanks.

[pixeldroid]

FWIW, after filling the mesh with the displacement texture, I'm using the clone tool to fix areas where the texture doesn't go around corners very well. A bit tedious, but sufficient for now...

[Carlosan]

fill

add custom

mapping type

UV-mapping

i use falloff 50%

may be this post help

http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11354&st=0&p=87516entry87516

[pixeldroid]

fill

add custom

mapping type

UV-mapping

i use falloff 50%

That sounds like the ticket, but how do I do it? I don't see it in Fill Tool Options nor Layers Menu.

[Carlosan]

http://3d-coat.com/wiki/index.php/3.6_Paint_Tools

[pixeldroid]

Thanks, that worked great.

I haven't done a lot of UVing, so I discovered that I needed to use a different approach to the UV layout.

3dc is so easy to do basic UV layout, but the results did have some unmerged UVs which I fixed in Maya.