Advanced Member ghib Posted July 26, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 26, 2015 I just used the magic wand tool in 3DCoat on my current model which has a Mask layer that contains a multi-coloured texture with all my component parts. Firstly, the tool is VERY VERY slow; literally the program froze for about a minute and a half while attempting the operation. I have a model with 7 Materials applied each at 4096x4096. Unfreezing takes just as long to perform. It's a far from ideal situation and I've discovered that sending all layers to Photoshop and doing a mask selection and filling a layer with flat colour is a far quicker operation. Anyone else experiencing this or had problems with the Magic Wand tool in 3DCoat? I'm not sure if it even has a contiguous/non-contiguous setting. Any help/advice appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted July 31, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 No one else uses this tool it seems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted July 31, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Can't say that I ever have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted August 1, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Shame really, as it's extremely useful. Especially now that we can do more in 3dCoat with the PBTexturing I spend longer in the program than I ever have as it's more 'on-target' for Unreal Engine 4. This lack of decent magic wand speed is really the only thing that is slowing me down as I tend to make a multi-coloured Mask layer that I colour pick from to work on the fly in Photoshop. I like to keep my layers to a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 I use it sometimes, but it's really slow, so tend not to use it much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 0001983: Magic Wand Tool - Currently unusable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted August 1, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thanks for adding carlosan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Mighty Pea Posted September 11, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 11, 2015 Just to add my 2 cents: I use it, but not often as it's so slow at higher resolutions. But I definitely have use for it! It's odd too - the Fill tool (which with colour tolerance must operate the same way?) is not as slow, and unfreezing *is* slow, so I suspect it's the freezing operation itself that's slowing things down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member #000wizard Posted September 3, 2022 Member Report Share Posted September 3, 2022 Textura 2021-2022, Magic Wand and Freeze are still extremely slow. Always seconds of lag, no matter the file size. I hope this will get looked at someday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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