3DCoat 4.9 BETA testing thread

[carrots]

8 hours ago, Carlosan said:

@carrots 

Depth pass issue:

 

Depth pass is calculated according to the fog settings.
Now I understand that this is not clear, it is probably better to make it just normalized

[Silas Merlin]

Argh!! Why is rectangle stroke mode removed from Voxel Airbrush tool ? I used that a lot with a stencil

rectangle stroke mode removed from most tools ??? is it coming back ?

Edited October 25, 2019 by lesaint

[Silas Merlin]

there are glitches in the display of the "customize navigation" panel.
the content vanishes completely if you drag it partly outside the viewport.

Also, more annoying, if you click on anything, the panel scrolls back to top.

[AbnRanger]

14 hours ago, lesaint said:

In sculpt room, Along with triangle count at the bottom of the screen, it would be useful to also have vertices count, in order to get an idea of how much information you are going to be storing in your mesh when doing vertex painting.

For example, if you know that you are going to use a 2048x2048 texture in the end, you want your sculpt to have at the very least 4 million vertices.
 

Since they are triangles, you can multiply the number by 3. 10mill polys = 30mill vertices.

[AbnRanger]

13 hours ago, lesaint said:

Sorry if this is too much, unwanted feedback ?


3dc 4.8.06A GL (with sculpt layers activated) doesn't let me paint on my sculpt mesh when a lowpoly is visible in the paint room.
Locking the paint object (low poly) doesn't help.
Only when the paint object is made invisible does 3dc allow painting on the high poly.
 

That's probably by design, I think. Makes sense to me that you would need to hide the low poly so you can see and paint on the high poly sculpt object.

[insignet]

@carrots I'll try to  send a screen shot later, but I'm getting alot of banding on the depth pass. I've raised the samples etc but I can't get a smooth result. Like I say - I'll post an image, just wondered if this was a known issue.

[philnolan3d]

15 hours ago, philnolan3d said:

Yeah I also noticed a lot of the new icons are not clear with what they do and there was no tool tip to explain it.

Something to add to this. The new icon for toggling orthographic on/off, I find it difficult to tell which is which. With the old icon I could look at it and easily see what mode I was in.

[pr1970]

Whilst on the subject of icons, its my pet peeve that whenever you enter some text you get this ugly old school windows text entry pop up. Really ruins the design of the interface imho

 

[AbnRanger]

25 minutes ago, pr1970 said:

Whilst on the subject of icons, its my pet peeve that whenever you enter some text you get this ugly old school windows text entry pop up. Really ruins the design of the interface imho

 

I've never been bothered by it, and I use a bunch of different software. Never even thought anything of it, one way or the other, until you mentioned it. There are much bigger fish to fry, IMO, than text pop-up appearances.

[pr1970]

31 minutes ago, AbnRanger said:

I've never been bothered by it, and I use a bunch of different software. Never even thought anything of it, one way or the other, until you mentioned it. There are much bigger fish to fry, IMO, than text pop-up appearances.

 i work with designers who have commented it whilst i`ve been showing them something, so now it bugs me as well  . it does look a bit unpolished when that pops up. But yes there are bigger fish to fry. Like a  search feature for materials,objects,etc ;-)

[Jamie Norton]

guys, not sure if anyone has noticed this, but in this latest beta has all the lasso tools greyed out when I go to say use the vox hide tool. Anyone else having this issue? 

 

It doesn't happen with the older versions. Thanks all (sorry if someone has already mentioned this, I didn't have time to read through all the pages) 

 

Edited October 25, 2019 by Jamie Norton

[AbnRanger]

52 minutes ago, Jamie Norton said:

guys, not sure if anyone has noticed this, but in this latest beta has all the lasso tools greyed out when I go to say use the vox hide tool. Anyone else having this issue? 

 

It doesn't happen with the older versions. Thanks all (sorry if someone has already mentioned this, I didn't have time to read through all the pages) 

 

Andrew and the team did a boat load of refactoring, so I wouldn't be surprised if that is a bug.

[Thomas P.]

Yeah so first off, I love where this is going. Love the new Icons and general clean-up and bug fixes. However, the biggest issue with this version are the missing "Lasso" tools when using Vox-Hide. I use Vox-Hide with various lasso tools all the time so this currently is a big issue. Nice work otherwise! Btw, I've never used the "Sculpt Layers" so how exactly does this work? Couldn't find anything in the manual about it.

[pr1970]

5 minutes ago, Thomas P. said:

Yeah so first off, I love where this is going. Love the new Icons and general clean-up and bug fixes. However, the biggest issue with this version are the missing "Lasso" tools when using Vox-Hide. I use Vox-Hide with various lasso tools all the time so this currently is a big issue. Nice work otherwise! Btw, I've never used the "Sculpt Layers" so how exactly does this work? Couldn't find anything in the manual about it.

Sculpt layers tutorials here. part 1 & 2. You need to turn them on in the preferences as they are still beta. Very cool feature...

 

[Carlosan]

On 10/23/2019 at 10:28 PM, carrots said:

Thank you, yes, this is a bug, I have not noticed this before.
I will fix it in the next build.

sidenote:

Try this please. Compare when change values using 2 methods.

1 - dragging from 0 to 100

2 - Double click using LMB over the contrast icon switching from 0 to 100

 

DRAGGING 0 to 100

 

 

DOUBLE CLICK 0 to 100