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49 minutes ago, Sorda said:

Mouse with price like Zbrush.. nice joke! 

It's nowhere near ZBrush in price. About 1/3 the price, actually. SpacePilot is fine, but on an Enterprise model 90% of your hotkeys are right there on the device, so you don't have to stop to lookdown and contort your fingers in strange ways to hit certain keyboard combinations. You can pretty much feel for the relevant button without having to ever look down. For all it does and since it's benefitting you the entire time you are working in 3DCoat and other major 3D apps, it's worth every penny a wacom tablet costs. You can get new one on Ebay for about $300 USD. Roughly the same as I paid for an Intuos Pro Medium Wacom Tablet. No joke.

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55 minutes ago, Sorda said:

I just want pie menu like Blender. Not mouse. 

I just told you a way that you could get pie menu's in the mean time and I explained that the device is something you should consider, REGARDLESS of whether you just want a pie menu or not. Does ZBrush have pie menus? It has pop-up menu's, but IIRC they weren't pie menus. SPACE bar in 3DCoat is a pop-menu. I asked Andrew about pie menus among other UI improvements, but he's working on other things right now, so we'll have to wait and see. You don't have to be so ill all the time. I was just trying to be helpful and you respond in a nasty way. Why?

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I just want pie menu like Blender does not help to understand current needs, and also understand your point of view to generate a constructive discussion about that new feature you asked.

Will be more specific please ?

I personally do not think that pie menus help the navigation of a sculpture program.

I think that will be more helpful undock windows outside main display, lock/unlock windows position and contract/expand it.

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8 minutes ago, Carlosan said:

I think that will be more helpful undock windows outside main display, lock/unlock windows position and contract/expand it.

Yes.  At the very least I'd like to be able to move the toolbar from the left side and maybe be able rearrange things a bit more.  3DC's UI not bad as it is, indeed I kind of like many things about it, but as with everything in life it could be better.

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2 hours ago, Carlosan said:

I just want pie menu like Blender does not help to understand current needs, and also understand your point of view to generate a constructive discussion about that new feature you asked.

Will be more specific please ?

I personally do not think that pie menus help the navigation of a sculpture program.

I think that will be more helpful undock windows outside main display, lock/unlock windows position and contract/expand it.

Personally, I use three to five brushes in surface mode and voxels, rarely more. That is, I do not really need a panel with brushes on the left, and it would be convenient to hide it. It seems as if you can simply assign the keys you need to the hot keys, but personally it would be convenient for me to bring up the menu directly in the cursor, without wasting time moving the cursor somewhere other than the current location. Believe me, using this a dozen times, you will already be uncomfortable without it. The same menu is in Krita, for example.


There are several dozens of different “brushes” in the program (in fact, some of them are tools), some of them are simply outdated or duplicate others with minimal changes (such as a curve or a pipe), so the menu pie allows you to use what you need with minimal useless movements outside the work area.

 

Sorry, it seems that this is some kind of nonsense and I don’t have a mouse, but a cast-iron weight and it’s hard for me to move it two centimeters to the left, but this is absolutely not the case. Such "chips" and make products unique and enjoyable to use. 

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3 hours ago, AbnRanger said:

I just told you a way that you could get pie menu's in the mean time and I explained that the device is something you should consider, REGARDLESS of whether you just want a pie menu or not. Does ZBrush have pie menus? It has pop-up menu's, but IIRC they weren't pie menus. SPACE bar in 3DCoat is a pop-menu. I asked Andrew about pie menus among other UI improvements, but he's working on other things right now, so we'll have to wait and see. You don't have to be so ill all the time. I was just trying to be helpful and you respond in a nasty way. Why?

Because adding a circular menu is much cheaper than buying a mouse that I don’t need and without which I can’t do without problems. Not everyone has an extra 50-100 bucks per mouse, but there are 900 for a zbrash, which costs every dollar.

In the end, why not advise me to buy a game steering wheel to turn the review, or pedals to cancel - to repeat the actions?

I am glad that Andrew answered in this group, but your advice to buy me something there corresponds to what a person can do everything in one program, but they are trying to persuade him to make a sculptor in one program, retopology in another texturing in the third, rendering in the fourth, and post-processing in the fifth.

 

 

With all of this, thanks for meeting with the new device.

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I remember the time when I started learning about CG in General. I had no idea, but I heard of 3dC, ZB, Blender, LightW, Modo etc.. I tried them all out and 3DCoat was by far the most easiest to learn. So Back then I Noticed people requesting optimizations and after a while I started noticing why these requests were made. From a Integration to other software, Improvements in workflows and until this day I have yet to understand why only so few have been fixed or better optimized then others. concerned so much I started asking and requesting too because I cared and still do, but during theses few Years I've noticed very little on behalf of what was requested and what was considered to be of importance to be fixed or improved on. It is as is and most probably will stay that way.

 

What i would expect from 3DCoat in 2019:

A loading bar showing us how much time it is has left to solve what ever it is doing.

Option to have The Canvas Separated from the main Frame  ( Multiple Monitor Support )

Updated Applinks Better integration with other Industry Standard Apps.

(The first Step was taken A texture Library, but who cares there are 20 other PBR Library's out there where the Price is much fairer then the one given. That is bad marketing.. Still good move Next I wish to see it native inside of 3DCOAT. No more 3DCoat_Path,  make a real 3DCoat_Sandbox Work with XMD he did it right. (Like URE4, itch, Unity Hub.. // Auto update. // Login to account over a Hub  ( why is this not a thing yet...)  Control is key)

VR Support. This is not a joke. VR is here to stay and is now docked.

"The first is the last and the last is the first"   Fix them bugs. Don`t introduce new ones and call it Stable.

More Community Social experience. Not just what the Tools do ( It is great that they are shown, but Prove to new People what 3DCoat can really do. Show real time Professional Workflow inside 3DCoat only (YT). Every Company that you can take Seriousy have shown Social Activity's. Why not 3DCoat. Nobody is going to give it to you..

Have better organization. There is no softer way of writing this.

 

thanks for understanding.

 

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10 hours ago, Sorda said:

Because adding a circular menu is much cheaper than buying a mouse that I don’t need and without which I can’t do without problems. Not everyone has an extra 50-100 bucks per mouse, but there are 900 for a zbrash, which costs every dollar.

In the end, why not advise me to buy a game steering wheel to turn the review, or pedals to cancel - to repeat the actions?

I am glad that Andrew answered in this group, but your advice to buy me something there corresponds to what a person can do everything in one program, but they are trying to persuade him to make a sculptor in one program, retopology in another texturing in the third, rendering in the fourth, and post-processing in the fifth.

 

 

With all of this, thanks for meeting with the new device.

No. You asked me if Pie Menus were in the plans. My answer was "I don't know." If you want that changed, send Andrew an e-mail (support@3dcoat.com). Aside from that, I just mentioned one way that it was already available. Don't worry, I won't try to offer you any helpful information, going forward, if you are going to be this abrasive.

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21.12.2018 4.8.29

- Zipping-on-the-fly now optional, turn it on in Preferences->AutoZipScenes. Now it works safely, even huge scenes supported, no contradiction with undo. The problem with undo existed for a long time, now fixed. Generally need to test this feature before serious usage, but IMO it is now stable.

- Freeze state kept during resampling/res+

- Fixed hide tool issues, modifying hidden areas protected whenever possible.

- Fixed problem of scenes export/import where scale=1 and shift is non-zero

- Merge 3B file problem fixed

- autopo call in applinks fixed

- moved Subdivider to the bottom

 - Fixed problems related to measure tool with fixed length + curved mode

- Import raw voxels corrected (import extensions, auto-guess)

Sculpt layers:

- Fixed merge down command

 

PS: Now working over unified brush engine, so not much changes there, mostly urgent stability/usability needs.

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on Linux with Gnome 3.26.2 and Nvidia  410.78 (GTX 980) realtime render is broken. Does not refresh correctly and makes other windows stuck (for example if you play a video in your web browser you don't see the actual progress of the video, but you can hear audio working normally - as soon as you stop realtime preview the "state" catches up).

Tried on Xfce and there it works as it should.

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@Andrew Shpagin...
Problems with the brushes with sensibility and.... :(

In Surface mode , I dont know if this problem is altering something at the curves of " Edit Flatten Curves" of the Clay Brush too... (Presets brushes that I've already created)

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Is it planned to supplement the system of boolean operations with something like a hard ops add-on, like in Blender? The point is to select two meshes (layers in the case of 3d Coat) and connect / subtract them with one click. Thus, it will not be necessary to climb into the layers and monotonously search for the desired mesh. In general, the work will go much faster and more enjoyable. 

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3 hours ago, druh0o said:

It's not necessary already.

 

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I have totally missed this feature. Really much better than selecting layer name. Thanks for pointing this out :)

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So the zipping file option appears to zip large 3b project files correctly this time in 4.8.29 with no corruption. It compressed my 9GB file down to roughly 2GB and upon opening the file all layers had correct information on them with nothing missing.

However, there appears to be a new saving issue with files that were zipped. When I saved the project file again it deleted the zipped version and starts the process over which takes several minuets (like 10 mins). So essentially even if your project was zipped already it repeats the entire zip saving process again which takes several minuets to do. I don't know if that is the intended design but it means if you are done working you can't close the program or go to another project since it takes a long time to create the zip file again. I understand the first time it zips it should take a long time but if it has to take this long for each save it is very time consuming. So for now I think I'm not going to have the auto zip option enabled yet. I did these tests with my 9GB 3b project file btw which has many 2k paint layers and models in the scene. When I finish a project completely I'll then just use 7zip to compress it for archive purposes, having 3D Coat do it for me is just a huge time sink.

In a completely different bug unrelated to the issue above I found when I had a project opened that had several layers in the paint room when I close the project there are empty layers present in a new scene still that cannot be deleted. The program doesn't seem to cleanup up the layers from previous projects. Only way I could refresh it is by re-opening the program after each project.

EDIT: Does the undo key or menu option work for anyone else? When I do ctrl+z or go to the menu option and choose undo nothing happens. 28A I can ctrl+z but in 29 nothing happens. Tried it in both DX64 and GL64 versions.

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