Member Kev914 Posted July 10, 2015 Member Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 I was hiding some faces so I could paint some areas different than the others when all of the sudden the move tool moves the model around so quickly that it flies off the screen with just a little mouse movement. The rotate tool doesn't really rotate much at all. The cursor kind of trembles when the mouse is over the icons at the top of the screen. I can rotate and scale and move with the cursor in the workspace OK, except that the move tool seems to move the object really fast with just a small mouse movement. Did I accidentally click on something and cause this behavior? I tried shutting down 3DCoat and restarting, but it still does the same. I also shut down and restarted my machine but that didn't correct things either. Maybe it is something with my project. I'll try opening a different project. Any ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kev914 Posted July 10, 2015 Author Member Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 It could be something in the project I was working on. When this starting happening, I saved this project as a new file. I opened the earlier version and the tools seem to be working OK. But if I go back to my more recent scene, the tools act a little strange. The cursor really quivers over the zoom tool and it doesn't really scale at all. I have to use the short cuts in the workspace to zoom and the move tool reacts too sensitively. I move just a little and I lose my model. I have to change the camera to find it again. Is there any was to reset things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hi Will you please check this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kev914 Posted July 10, 2015 Author Member Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Hi I opened the scene today and it seems to be working again. I'm not seeing that SCULPT item. I have VOWELS and then RENDER. I'm in the paint room. My object is a clothing item from Daz Studio 4.8. I exported the clothing from DS as an object and then brought it into 3d Coat. I selected paint on a UV mapped object (not sure if that's exactly the right wording). The only thing I remember changing was the size of the texture map from 1024 to 2048. Not sure if this had anything to do with the issue, but yesterday when I started having the problem, I had the cursor but about 3 inches away there was this colored dot off to the right. It moved in sync with the cursor. I wondered what it was. Wasn't sure if it was always there and I just never noticed or if I had turned something on somehow. I don't see it right now. If you loose your model off screen, is there a key or tool to recenter it? Not sure if what I am doing is the best way to accomplish what I want. I have some clothing. I want to separate the trim from the body of the clothing. I wanted to paint them differently. I was hiding the polygons for the body so that all I could see was the trim. I was going to freeze it when I hade all the parts I didn't want hidden (make a mask). The reason I didn't just paint on the trim was becasue I couldn't get the sharp edge that I could if I could mask the polygons I wanted. Maybe I can just freeze by polygon? Anyway, I can't find the SCULPT item. I clicked through all the rooms and I don't see it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 There was some youtube tutos about https://www.youtube.com/user/Fugazi3D/videos and Daz studio thread opened http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/49964/ hope it help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor TimmyZDesign Posted July 11, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Anyway, I can't find the SCULPT item. I clicked through all the rooms and I don't see it.Sounds like you are using an older version of 3D-Coat. The "Voxels" room was renamed to "Sculpt" quite a while ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Kev914 Posted July 12, 2015 Author Member Report Share Posted July 12, 2015 Thanks for your replies. The links look useful. I think I figured out why my move, scale, rotate tools act crazy some times and where my model goes when it flies off the screen. I think I ended up inside the model somehow. My model disappear on a new project that I had started and I was nearly done. I moved the mouse and the model disappeared. I closed and reopened the program, but it was still gone. I moved the mouse and I guess I moved it in the right direction because suddenly the model appeared and it was huge and I was inside it. So here are a few questions.... In one project, I took the model into Lightwave and created material groups. That changed the UV mapping, but I reloaded the original map. I hadn't changed the model other than to add material groups. I brought it into 3d Coat and I was able to paint everything just fine. I exported the model. But when I looked the maps that got created, every material group had a separate map. I suppose I could still use them. It would just be more work. Does this always happen? Should I have done something else rather than material groups? In a second attempt, using the same but original model. I hid the 3 pieces of trim. I saved each piece the hid file for each piece so I could recall it. Then I had to recall each one and apply a freeze and then invert so I could paint on each piece of trim. So is there better approach than what I did? Also, I figured out why I didn't have the latest version of the program. (I remembered downloading and installing it.) But when I ran the program I saw that it was 4.1. I was just about to re-install and then I noticed....there was a second group of icons for 4.5 under the first set. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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