Javis Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Andrew, looks like the Cut & Clone and Clone tools are not working in the Sculpt Room. They are not copying/cloning any of the geometry, and once the operation is "completed", it goes to the top-most object in the VoxTree without doing anything noticeable. For troubleshooting: The object is in surface mode. Thanks. EDIT: Symmetry mode needs to be turned on. Otherwise it works. So, they are broken with symmetry mode on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor artman Posted January 26, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 I believe you are on Mantis. Nope. Im a "reporter" I can't delete anything. Anyway,I barely go there...Im too lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 26, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Guess the squeeky wheel gets the grease so...squeek, squeek. .... Sliders in the Paint Room....they be like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Shpagin Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 And - forgot one change n beta9 - updating preview should be much less laggy. I increased sliders responsiveness that affect any changes in PBR preview. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Mighty Pea Posted January 26, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Artman was right. Then I must misunderstand how it works, because I can't see how I can do what I described. Try this: -make a new layer, paste an image of a bolt on it. -add another new layer, set it to overlay, paint a colour onto it. -Clip the overlay layer with the bolt layer so it doesn't go outside of the bolt's boundaries. -Now add another mask to the overlay layer, to add texture to it non-destructively. Ofcourse I understand it's a seperate image that masks the layer, I'm not new to cg. Nevertheless, the practicality of this system is bad, and there's a good example right under our noses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted January 26, 2015 Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Beta9 its me, or Sliders in the Paint Room now have far better response ? Try please: -Texture > adjust - Switch any preview on /off NOTE: Andrew said: Pilgway and Allegorithmic were talking about Substance implementation inside 3DC last year, but still conversation is open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted January 26, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 BETA9 - Longstanding problem with crashes in UV room/auomapping solved. -PMR materials gizmo moves correctly in all mapping modes, hovering preview rectangle with gizmo will not hide material preview. - Mapping in PBR materials correctly treated - no more locked to mappint that set in material settings. Preview in rectangle corresponds to mapping type in the top bar. - Different preview introduced for planar/uv mapping of PBR materials. - restored edit projection Thank you, the obj file import with missing faces and incorrect unwrapping is now fixed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Scott Padbury Posted January 26, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Why am I not getting the Beta to work ? It keeps coming up with the old..Thx Edited January 26, 2015 by Scott Padbury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 26, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Did that alternative preview only work if i use Cube-mapping (ball) or UV-mapping (plane) in the material itself? Is it not possible to set a cube-mapping material with UV-mapping preview? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member The Candy-floss Kid Posted January 26, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Andrew, is a mesh that is dragged in to the model window in v4.5 still shown back to front when 3dCoat creates a preview thumbnail i.e looking from the -z rather than down +z? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 26, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 Yes, the sliders works realy nice now. Much better as in the older versions, This is a big step in the right direction. Many Thanks Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted January 26, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) Sliders still fairly slow for MV mode compared to PPP mode, just a heads up there... Edited January 26, 2015 by digman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 26, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 I dont work with MV so i have not test it. But it is better as in older version or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Vipera Posted January 26, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) How can I change panoramic image for viewport background? Edit: Found it finally. Edited January 26, 2015 by Vipera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted January 26, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 (edited) What is the "import coarse mesh" purpose under the Baking menu in the Retopo room, there is no tool tip to explain the function of the operation... I tried to bake without a retopo mesh in case it would ask me to import a mesh to be the retopo baking mesh that had a uv set before the baking function started. I was ask no such question and of course no baking was performed. 4.5.Beta9 windows 32bit running under wine in Linux Edited January 26, 2015 by digman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 27, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yes, the sliders works realy nice now. Much better as in the older versions, This is a big step in the right direction. Many Thanks Andrew. Guess the squeeky wheel gets the grease so...squeek, squeek. .... Sliders in the Paint Room....they be like There is a Southern (US) expression, "Slow as Molasses." That's what I meant with the picture, here. Paint dries faster than sliders update. Doesn't matter if it's PPP, MV or Vertex Paint. It only has two speeds. Slow and Stop. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 27, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Have you tried this with Beta9? Your Video shows Beta8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 27, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Have you tried this with Beta9? Your Video shows Beta8. There shouldn't be any changes as Andrew hasn't mentioned that being addressed at all. Been asking for this to get some attention for a long time, now. I have to believe that moving to DX11 and OpenGL 4 would help to some degree, as texture refreshing is something that is always being improved for enhanced gameplay. Perhaps Andrew could allow the user to set up a dedicated cache folder for all texture maps/data...and performance could be boosted by locating it on SSD drive. I think Mari does something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 27, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) And - forgot one change n beta9 - updating preview should be much less laggy. Hm, maybe i am wrong, but i think it was better in my quick test. I have testet only the sphere with 1024 in PPP and it feels like 5 or 10 times faster. Not realtime, but better. Maybe i should test it more, if the preview is faster or not. Edited January 27, 2015 by Malo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Mighty Pea Posted January 27, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Test it, AbnRanger, for me it's much faster. As Malo said not fully realtime, but certainly a big improvement! Thanks, Andrew. (and AbnRanger, for the much needed squeeking). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nope. Im a "reporter" I can't delete anything. Anyway,I barely go there...Im too lazy. You are set to developer Status as I see it right. Developers can delete issues. :-) If you don't want this I can set you back to reporter status. Best wishes Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 27, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Hm, maybe i am wrong, but i think it was better in my quick test. I have testet only the sphere with 1024 in PPP and it feels like 5 or 10 times faster. Not realtime, but better. Maybe i should test it more, if the preview is faster or not. Just tested Beta9. I don't think there have been any changes. Seems about the same. On a 2k map, it's usable, but that's about it. There is still a few seconds of lag when using the layer Adjustments (TEXTURES menu > ADJUSTMENTS > Hue/Sat/Lightness). On 4k maps, forget it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 27, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 One solution I think could help is perhaps an option cache all layers and image maps to a specific folder, and to down-res what is shown in the viewport...a similar concept to caching a layer in the Sculpt Room. You cache all the 4k maps/texture files, and while you are working in the viewport, 3D Coat is actually using a down-sampled version, so performance remains relatively brisk. And at any point, the user can uncache a layer they are painting on, to work on or preview in the viewport or render room I still think it's way past time to move to DX11 and OpenGL 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor AbnRanger Posted January 27, 2015 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 Maybe, this down-res technique can be applied at least when using sliders in the Paint room, if for no other purpose. To me, though....I think it would be a smart idea to be able to cache certain layers and show a lower res proxy. For example....if all you have is a solid color on one layer, why does 3D Coat need to use 4K for that, when even a 1k will suffice. Only layers that need to show 4k+ would be ones with some level of detail. I don't know if this would be feasible from a coding standpoint. But having the ability to down-sample certain layers should help reduce the load on system resources Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mercy Posted January 27, 2015 Member Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 One solution I think could help is perhaps an option cache all layers and image maps to a specific folder, and to down-res what is shown in the viewport...a similar concept to caching a layer in the Sculpt Room. You cache all the 4k maps/texture files, and while you are working in the viewport, 3D Coat is actually using a down-sampled version, so performance remains relatively brisk. And at any point, the user can uncache a layer they are painting on, to work on or preview in the viewport or render room I still think it's way past time to move to DX11 and OpenGL 4 And to 64-bit Assembler for speed sensitive code parts, like paint room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member StriderX Posted January 27, 2015 Member Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 I think i found a bug. Sub / child volume's are missing there visibility icon Steps to reproduce: Open a new voxel sculpting object select the split tool and split the volume select the copy000 volume select the split tool and split the copy000 volume volume*_copy001 visibility icon is missing changing the parent of copy001 to the root of the VoxTree makes the icon visible This behavior can also be seen in the VoxTree after loading the Mannequin voxel sculpting preset Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Mighty Pea Posted January 27, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) When editing layers externally, both Gloss and Metaln layers are saved to a 'Layersspec.psd', meaning you can't open both in Photoshop at the same time. AbnRanger: Ah yes, I was only testing on 1k. Sadly, I've found 4k to be impossible to work on within 3dCoat anyway. I'll doublecheck if I'm using the correct .exe (dx cuda), because I've heard from others that 4k works quite well. edit: Yup, dx64 Cuda. Hmm. Edited January 27, 2015 by Mighty Pea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member StriderX Posted January 27, 2015 Member Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) Ok the VoxTree panel width is cutting off the icon Edited January 27, 2015 by StriderX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted January 27, 2015 Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 yup that bug was reported, please all +1 help Voxtree icons overlayered when user scale window horizontally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Malo Posted January 27, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted January 27, 2015 (edited) @ABNRanger Damn, you are right, On lower resolution it works much better but as more you go up as more unusable it gets. I should test more stuff in the future until i say it is good or better. About the caching idea What about if we work in the oposite way? I mean everything gets stored on a 8 or 16k map, but you choose the resolution in the viewport you want to work with. I know you dont like what i am saying next, but Substance Painter works in that way. You paint in SP with a 1k or 2k map and if you want to export your maps, you switch to 4k, and you get a perfect 4k HD map not an upscaled pixelated 1k or 2k map. If that would be possible, it would be enough to paint maximal on 4k, but you where always able to export 8k or 16k. What did you think? Edited January 27, 2015 by Malo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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