3DCoat 2024 development thread

[Drocket]

1 hour ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

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

Thanks Andrew, I will keep an eye open for the next build and let you know how I get on.

Andrew.

[Andrew Shpagin]

6 hours ago, Silas Merlin said:

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 ?

If you open an older project, the project's scale will be used. Only the new scene uses the fixed scale.

[jimhatama]

.97 

 

assigned hotkey to Unfreeze not working

[jimhatama]

On 2/4/2022 at 12:00 AM, Arvart said:

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.

I have also experienced some layers and even file corruption. I dont know whats causing it, I suspect freezeing operations or volume painting

[Andrew Shpagin]

If you have any scene (3B) where some info lost, please send to andrewshpagin@gmail.com

[Drocket]

On 2/4/2022 at 8:24 AM, Andrew Shpagin said:

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

Hi Andrew,

I have installed .98 and it now launches, however I am now seeing a message at the bottom of the screen "The program data was changed, it is impossible to function correctly, please reinstall.".

I deleted the Docs/3DCoat-2021 folder and reinstalled but still get the same message, I have attached an image for you.

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Andrew Shpagin]

32 minutes ago, Drocket said:

Hi Andrew,

I have installed .98 and it now launches, however I am now seeing a message at the bottom of the screen "The program data was changed, it is impossible to function correctly, please reinstall.".

I deleted the Docs/3DCoat-2021 folder and reinstalled but still get the same message, I have attached an image for you.

Thanks,

Andrew.

I will correct it asap, but now to avoid problems, delete python.dll and python39.dll in installation folder

[Drocket]

37 minutes ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

I will correct it asap, but now to avoid problems, delete python.dll and python39.dll in installation folder

Hi Andrew,

Deleting both python.dll and python39.dll stops the message appearing.

Andrew.

[Carlosan]

 

[Drocket]

Hi Andrew,

I have installed .99 and it now works as expected without the error message appearing

Thanks,

Andrew.

[Silas Merlin]

Thank you for storing retopo island colors !
What does this do ? thre is no tooltip for this
could the viewport NOT be grayed out when you do this ?

what is the last item in the changelog "fixed the "tiring problem when you bake PBR shaders from sculpt>paint" ?

Could there please be an option in preferences to disable the "graying out of the background to concentrate the attention on the dialog" ?

 

 

[Andrew Shpagin]

5 hours ago, Silas Merlin said:

Thank you for storing retopo island colors !
What does this do ? thre is no tooltip for this
could the viewport NOT be grayed out when you do this ?

what is the last item in the changelog "fixed the "tiring problem when you bake PBR shaders from sculpt>paint" ?

Could there please be an option in preferences to disable the "graying out of the background to concentrate the attention on the dialog" ?

 

 

This is saturation randomizing. Ok, will not grey for pickers.

Tiring - if you bake shaders to texture cubemapping there was strange lines on the baked color texture. Now it is fixed.

[Metin Seven]

Cool news about the first 2022 version, thanks! What's the best procedure to install it when you've already got 3DC 2021 installed? Deinstall 2021 and install 2022?

[Carlosan]

I renamed docs folder and install. Everything works fine

[Yousung]

I think it would be nice to add a new language to the wiki manual, but can you break this into a separate page?

I'm using a translator to view it, but the two languages are mixed and it doesn't work properly...

[Carlosan]

Was a contributor mistake.

We are working on new multilingual manual

[Metin Seven]

4 hours ago, Carlosan said:

I renamed docs folder and install. Everything works fine

It works here too, thanks! 

[Just a user]

I see hard focus on fixing bugs, i want to thank you for that. it is the most important thing by my opinion.

Great work guys thank you 

[Silas Merlin]

- Grey out under modal dialogs is optional (Prefs->Theme), it does not shades the BG under color pickers.

Thank you so much ! This was going to be the second most annoying thing for me in 3d-Coat (nothing can beat the annoyance of the right click menu in retopo room).

[Ctc_nick]

Hi. I would like to share my experiences with smartmaterials shortly. Exr files work fine for Depth Painting! But you have to set the 'locked depth' something like a hundred times bigger to work. If I compare in my case the depth.jpg with depth.exr, I have to set the 'locked depth' of the jpg to 0.5, whereas the exr file has to be set around 50 to get a compareable result. (The result btw. is less noise which is very good, so it works!) 

One funny thing is, when you press the unlock button, the preview to the right shows correct displacement, and when you press lock, it flips to the wrong side again. 

It would be nice if the exr file preview would work. But I mentioned that already. 

When you Import Materials, you have to create and select the folder before to get it in the right place.

Thank you. 02. is great so far!

[Ctc_nick]

Hitting CANCEL in every Dialogue in 3dCoat takes much more time compared to hitting SAVE or OK. Why?

Greetings!

Edited February 9, 2022 by Ctc_nick
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[wilson66]

So, I can update to 3D Coat version 2022.02 using the versions manager, but I can't actually use it or purchase an upgrade yet for that version (I have 2021). Is that right?

[Drocket]

1 hour ago, wilson66 said:

So, I can update to 3D Coat version 2022.02 using the versions manager, but I can't actually use it or purchase an upgrade yet for that version (I have 2021). Is that right?

Unless I have misunderstood your question, version 2022.02 should use the 2021 license you purchased.

Andrew.

[wilson66]

18 minutes ago, Drocket said:

Unless I have misunderstood your question, version 2022.02 should use the 2021 license you purchased.

Andrew.

Yes, thanks, it works now. I was trying the wrong password to log in... :/

[Drocket]

53 minutes ago, wilson66 said:

Yes, thanks, it works now. I was trying the wrong password to log in... :/

Ha, I have done the same thing in the past, glad you got it working

Andrew.

[jcontanaya]

Hello.

Is it possible you update the community license? It is expired.

[Elemeno]

for ease and speed can we have an option where scaling,extrusions or anything uses a slider ... could we make it so the mouse movement is the slider... positive movement outwards and negative movements inwards

[Yousung]

[ Modeling/Retopo Room issue ]

- For the Inset tool, the changed value is applied even if you click Cancel.

It starts working normally again on the same mesh.
I don't know the cause...

- Edge - Collapse is still not centered.

 

[ Modeling/Retopo Room improvement request ]

When using 'Mesh - Sculpt Mesh & Unlink Sculpt Mesh', can you add an option so that it is applied only to the desired polygroup, not the entire polygroup?

In particular, in the case of 'Unlink Sculpt Mesh', it creates unnecessary SculptTrees every time and makes it complicated.

Edited February 10, 2022 by Yousung

[Yousung]

Sorry for not writing all at once...

[ Modeling/Retopo Room issue ]

 

- If you lower the Scale value to make it flat on a specific axis of the Transform (there is no Align function...), the polygon moves very unstable.

[Metin Seven]

In 3DC 2022.03, brush and strength control using RMB doesn't seem to work when using the Blob tool. Can anyone confirm?

Or is this maybe related to the Blob tool not using regular brush stroke types?

Edited February 10, 2022 by Metin Seven