3DCoat 2024 development thread

[Elemeno]

.96 still just black screen

any ideas when its fixed

[Carlosan]

Was fixed after new upgrade. Please download .96 again

[nobackup]

.96  seems to have broken curves?  I cannot extrude a new curve at all.

[Drocket]

9 hours ago, Carlosan said:

Was fixed after new upgrade. Please download .96 again

This is still broken for me, I just uninstalled .96, downloaded it using a different browser, reinstalled and all I see is a black screen.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[AbnRanger]

12 hours ago, ajz3d said:

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.

I tested it on my end, and FILE > SAVE AS works fine. Can you (temporarily) rename your MY DOCUMENTS/3DCOAT-2021 folder > Restart the application and see if that helps? If so, some .xml file probably got corrupted

[The_Mikeman]

On 2/1/2022 at 8:28 PM, 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.

 

11 hours ago, Elemeno said:

.96 still just black screen

any ideas when its fixed

Same here.

I'm just guessing, but it could have to do with the "AMD Polaris chip".

[ajz3d]

 

5 hours ago, AbnRanger said:

I tested it on my end, and FILE > SAVE AS works fine. Can you (temporarily) rename your MY DOCUMENTS/3DCOAT-2021 folder > Restart the application and see if that helps? If so, some .xml file probably got corrupted

Yes, purging 3DC config path helped with "File->Save As" and "File->Open". Thank you, @AbnRanger.

Frankly, I find this odd that a relatively new 3D Coat configuration gets corrupted so easily. I didn't change much in the settings. So the question is why 3D Coat's XML parser keeps corrupting files that it processes? For what it's worth, I updated Mantis report with a recursive diff of XML files from "factory" and corrupted config directories.

Of course, the problem with file chooser is not 100% resolved because selecting an arbitrary path in "Edit->Relocate 3DCoat's data" still crashes 3D Coat in the same manner. But I guess it's a subject for a separate bug report.

Edited February 3, 2022 by ajz3d

[Arvart]

Hello, today I got an extra dangerous issue, Coat completely lost all information from few layers. Luckily this information I found in some autosaves. But it's really scared me.

[Arvart]

Also I got pretty big FPS drops down after some operations with layers like copy layers, deleting layers and other. And same FPS drops I got when I open big file after other big one. Actually not so big files, around 50kk tris at all, usualy my computer render it easy, but now sometimes I just have to restart 3d-Coat after some operations.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Arvart

[Elemeno]

any word on a .96 fix?

[Drocket]

Hi,

I just tried .97 and still get the black screen.

If it helps I am using RX 6600 XT with the latest drivers on Windows 11.

.95 works fine.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Drocket

[Andrew Shpagin]

5 minutes ago, Drocket said:

Hi,

I just tried .97 and still get the black screen.

If it helps I am using RX 6600 XT with the latest drivers on Windows 11.

.95 works fine.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Please send me (andrewshpagin@gmail.com) the Docs/3DCoat2021/log.txt

[Drocket]

47 minutes ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

Please send me (andrewshpagin@gmail.com) the Docs/3DCoat2021/log.txt

Hi Andrew,

I have emailed you the information you requested, let me know if you need further details.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Andrew Shpagin]

25 minutes ago, Drocket said:

Hi Andrew,

I have emailed you the information you requested, let me know if you need further details.

Thanks,

Andrew.

Thanks, now understood, we will fix it asap, very probably, today.

[Silas Merlin]

I see a big problem with having fixed scene scale in preference :

what if you have old projects with different scene scales ?
opening them and saving will break them, yes ?