3DCoat 2024 development thread

[Sorn]

How about an updated Linux build, pretty please? 

[AbnRanger]

On 1/30/2022 at 12:05 PM, Metin Seven said:

Yeah, I hadn't initially mentioned that in my previous post because I'm confused whether the Pose tool line is meant to be Spacebar-dragged, or if Spacebar dragging is purely for working with shapes in the Pose tool's Paint mode?

Anyway, here's the report.

Whenever a user LMB clicks + holds + SPACEBAR, on a Transform Gizmo widget (even in the Retopo/Modeling Room), 3DCoat is supposed to open a parameter box where the user can enter a numeric value to give a precise amount of Rotation, scale or move. In this case, it seems to be a bug

 

[Ctc_nick]

Hi.

-Could you please check .exr files as Displacement in Smart Materials? (no depth) 3dcoat always pick's it from the Quixel zip, and I've to change to jpg.

-It would be cool if new shaders and Smartmaterials land in a newly created folder, lets say 'new' or 'downladed'. They are not easy to find if many materials are in Default.

Thank you so much!

[Drocket]

Hi,

When I launch 2021.96 I get a black screen that has the title bar but no menu, launch dialog with options, workspaces or anything else but a black screen, anyone seen this?

I uninstalled it and reinstalled 2021.96 with the same result of a black screen, reinstalling 2021.95 over the top of 2021.96 works as expected.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Ctc_nick]

10 minutes ago, Drocket said:

Hi,

When I launch 2021.96 I get a black screen that has the title bar but no menu, launch dialog with options, workspaces or anything else but a black screen, anyone seen this?

I uninstalled it and reinstalled 2021.96 with the same result of a black screen, reinstalling 2021.95 over the top of 2021.96 works as expected.

Thanks,

Andrew.

I think they will reupp 96 later again. Its not there right now. 

[poeboi]

Really want to present this idea briefly for an additional method of making selection with pose or freeze tool, possibly even hide tool. Thx in advance for any consideration:

What if, could use the intersection area between geometries to "paint" freeze and pose area, or hide area. 

Here is an illustration to try and show what I mean. I think it could be handy for many situations for "precise" freeze / pose in 3d space. Additionally, maybe soft falloff area could be adjustable via something like volumetric distance in all directions around "source" if that makes sense.

[ThomasJohann]

17 hours ago, Carlosan said:

 

These shaders are really great! Very welcome addition. I highly recommend the full pack from Gumroad .

[philnolan3d]

Those clay shaders look really nice!

[Carlosan]

On 1/30/2022 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Shpagin said:

Look (the build 95 and later) at Edit->Preferences->Beta->Allow volumetric painting.

Silas Merlin: 

it is indeed related. This is really awesome, We can now paint on voxels !

[Silas Merlin]

Beta tool "volumetric painting" is awesome !

Is there a way to transfer colour from vertex painting to voxels ?

Turning from surface to voxels the paint vanishes.
and "bake colour from visible volumes" turns to surface.
Also projector "fill layer with projection" turns to surface.

 

I would like to transfer paint from vertex colour to this volumetric painting method, here is why :
When editing 3d scans, colours are useful to keep track of what area you are working on. for example if you want to restore holes that were not captured by photogrammetry. Vertex colour gives good enough information, but it is much easier to work on voxels.
when you turn to voxels, you have access to more powerful tools, but you lose colour currently.
If we could transfer colour to volumetric painting.... wow !

[Silas Merlin]

"to global space" and "increase resolution" make the paint vanish

[ajz3d]

	0002520: Any attempt to bake textures, results in a crash:

https://3dcoat.com/mantis/view.php?id=2520

Edited February 2, 2022 by ajz3d

[ajz3d]

	0002521: 3D Coat crashes every time on "File->Save As":

https://3dcoat.com/mantis/view.php?id=2521

[AbnRanger]

38 minutes ago, ajz3d said:

	0002521: 3D Coat crashes every time on "File->Save As":

https://3dcoat.com/mantis/view.php?id=2521

Can you test on a simple object from the splash screen? If it does not crash with one of those, then the workfile needs to be sent to support (there is an option from the Help Menu, in case you were not already aware of it), so they can diagnose the crash.

[ajz3d]

Hi @AbnRanger,

Yes, I tested it with different scene content. From default sculpt objects, through some retopo primitives, to default paint objects. The only thing that varies is how long the file chooser is displayed before the program crashes. Sometimes it's about a second, sometimes a fraction of it.

So it doesn't seem to be related to what is currently in the scene, because the crash happens right after 3D Coat displays the file chooser and before it dumps contents of the scene to disk. Even if I invoke "Save As" in an empty scene, right after launching 3D Coat.

It goes like this: file chooser shows up, and a second (or a fraction of a second) later 3D Coat process is gone.

There are some other aspects of the program (all related to file chooser is some way) that are always crashing 3DC. Like selecting some arbitrary directories (like my home path) with file chooser that was invoked by "Choose folder" button in "Edit->Relocate 3DCoat's data". Or "File->Open", which always crashes, like the "File->Save As".

On the other hand, some file chooser calls won't crash the program, like "Select Mesh" from the Import tool of the Sculpt room. Or Import/Export in Retopo Room, "Script->Run Script", "Edit->Preferences->Save/Load/Save Theme". Those guys work OK.

There are probably more of those that work, as well as those that don't, but I don't have time to test them all.

Edited February 2, 2022 by ajz3d