3DCoat content installation migration

[nguyenhh]

I need help/guides on how to install 3D coats contents such as: brush, shader, material... I have downloaded them but cannot figure out how to import/install them.

 

Many thanks in advance

Best Regards

nguyenhh

[Carlosan]

Hello !

- File

- Import extension

[nguyenhh]

Got it

Thanks

[co3Darts]

On 4.7.19 and on the latest build 4.7.24, I'm not able to install the extensions properly from the community resources.  I see a tab in the paint room that shows e.g. "Bricks" under Smart Materials tab but there are no shaders in there after a restart.  Just X "close" and +"New".

This is the same for the shaders in the Voxel sculpt room.

Is there a way to manually install the 3dpack contents to the appropriate location?

Best Regards,

Jason

[Carlosan]

Is a compressed file. You can uncompressed it using 7-zip (as example)

[co3Darts]

I see that it's a zip file now.   However I'm still not able to load it into the various menus, aargh.  Thanks for the reply though.

[co3Darts]

[Carlosan]

Because you need to copy the folder to user documents folders location -patterns-

C:\Users\username\Documents\3D-CoatV___

[co3Darts]

File>Browse>Smart Materials

Indicates 3D coat is looking in it's install folder here: C:\Program Files\3D-Coat-V4.7.19\patterns

However the installer places them in my docs folder (Hate my docs)  Not sure if I should leave this alone or try to get 3Dcoat to not look at install folder but repoint it to my docs..?

[co3Darts]

Look at first screen shot,  the "bricks" are in fact in the documents folder already.  So are some of the other resources, yet 3Dcoat doesn't see them.  I try to manually load them by going to the Smart Material>Bricks>tab and select add to existing but it's not reading the xml, instead it's just bringing in the associated bitmaps flat into that folder.  I can't pick the xml file either from that menu, only the bitmaps.

[co3Darts]

[Carlosan]

If you found materials at 3DC website

http://3dcoat.com/download/#3

That are legacy materials for version 3. Are not compatible with version 4.7.x

[co3Darts]

Well that would at last explain it.  Thanks but it doesn't say anything about version compatibility does it?  Is there a location for some of these that are compatible with v4?

[Carlosan]

Yes, you can search this subforum

http://3dcoat.com/forum/index.php?/forum/31-3d-coat-exchange-library/

Many users like to share their materials.

Hope it help

[Carlosan]

Take note if you upload to version 4.7.24

For improvements in PBR shaders many materials are no longer compatible.

You need to Convert materials pre 4.5

- And to use Migration Master command

[co3Darts]

I presume a simple compatible with statement under the Resources page of 3Dcoat would be a huge time saver.  Or probably remove most of these as I'm guessing v3 was quite a while ago.  Thanks for your help!  I'll look at the forum page you've suggested.

Best,

Jason Brummett