3DCoat 2024 development thread

[AbnRanger]

1 hour ago, Elemeno said:

guys... ive done two models, a high poly aand a low poly in blender,

i want to paint it in 3d coat

how ever for the life of me i cant manage to bake properly the uv maps work in paint but not retopo, the mesh keeps disappearing

the ui is sooo over complicated to the point where its more work to use this software than it is to use blender or zbrush and zbrush is a mess!

if your mesh is too thin the voxels destroy the mesh

like 90 percent of the ui in this software could be removed and nobody would miss it...

it needs revamping seriously!

nothing is straight forward, i want to import a low poly thats already unwrapped and then bake high poly maps onto it... but it just wont...

would i like to bake-bake textures-bake normal with flat displacemnt-bake normals with rgb,bake normals with unnormal normals... its ridiculous

i just need a baking menu that is simple, my mesh is already on 3d coat , i click bake an a menu comes up, with each material, curvature,AO ,normals etc... i can choose what i want baked , i just locate the high poly , give a texture size and bake... its literally all it needs

theres no proper tutorials.. the menus are confusing .... i should have just stayed using it as a sculpting tool and thats it.

This series does a walkthrough, from Blender (low poly model) to 3DCoat and back to Blender, with Sculpted and texture work done in 3DCoat.

 

[Elemeno]

well ive managed to get it working.... for some unknown reason the low poly mesh was disappearing but if i clicked brush it came back?

would be nice if we could rename the sub menus, backspace would default them but be able to write them out to a more clearer description

[Carlosan]

You can edit the room using this tool:

[Elemeno]

i honestly didnt realise how much you could personalise this software.. i need to book a week off work lol

[Tubor]

 

Does the Curves tool add Path Offset and Auto Blend options (offset in or out by a specified distance, schematics use Illustrator's Path Offset and Path Blend), which should speed up sculpting of hard-surfaced and hard-edged models
Parameters: offset distance, offset blend amount

[Ctc_nick]

Hello!

Congrats to Version 0.28!  I will try fbx export soon. Also I think a good Idea to combine Core-Api with VS because its on the Computer anyway for Unreal, Blender etc.

Thank you!

 

[jimhatama]

artefacts appear after using chisel brush and remeshing or return to voxels

[Elemeno]

35 minutes ago, jimhatama said:

artefacts appear after using chisel brush and remeshing or return to voxels

unfortunately... i get this all the time, this is normally due to the mesh being too thin

[Carlosan]

Dev team is working hard to successfully build 3DCoat under macOS adding USD file format support.

As soon as possible a new upgrade of3DCoat for macOS will be release.

[Thalamophora]

Hello all,

Tested 2022.29 and I can confirm that for me the..

"- Fixed contradiction between custom navigation schemes and rect/lasso/... selection modes."

..does seem to have worked well and I can now fully use my custom (modo/lightwave style) navigation keys.

Thanks 3DCoat Team!

[omniripple]

fixed

Edited June 2, 2022 by omniripple
fixed

[alexn007]

Hi Omniripple,

Sorry to hear your having crashes. I haven't seen this issue on my end. I switched over both my Surface book2 and my Desktop to Win 11 a few months ago, and I have not seen any issues with 3d coat running on it.  Have you made sure you got all the windows updates installed? I know this took a little time for me to finally get it all updated, not sure that's what's happening with you, but thought I might mention it as an FYI.  

Good luck, I hope it starts working for you soon, cause that would absolutely drive me mad.. 

[alexn007]

One other thing to add, which I'm sure you already tried, but I'll mention it anyway, as I find myself doing this from time to time to fix some weirdness I have with 3d coat every now and again.

Uninstall 3dcoat, and make sure to delete all your 3dcoat folders in my documents or rename them... I find deleting them makes me feel better. and then reboot, and then reinstall.  I know it's overkill, but that has actually fixed some issues for me in 3dcoat.  Hope that's helpful!

Good Luck!!!

 

[Metin Seven]

On 5/31/2022 at 1:25 AM, Carlosan said:

Dev team is working hard to successfully build 3DCoat under macOS adding USD file format support.

As soon as possible a new upgrade of3DCoat for macOS will be release.

Good news! I hope Apple Silicon / Metal support will also follow.

[Silas Merlin]

Volumetric painting, 2022.30 :

It is really good that now the paint moves along with move tool and pose tool. This will be very useful.

However, the painting is a very thin layer on the surface of the volume.
I think it would be good to :
-paint much deeper into the voxels.
-when going from surface paint to volumetric painting, to bake the colors all the way to the center of the volume.
-Make new voxels inherit the painting under the brush (for example "Soft clay", or "Build", but I mean every tool)