3DCoat 2024 development thread

[Andrew Shpagin]

1 hour ago, Tubor said:

The test file has been sent to your Email, please check

This is what I got:

settings:

Symmetry enabled as in the scene

[Carlosan]

Thanks Andrew

Testing your settings, this step is time consuming.

[Silas Merlin]

Could 3d-Coat please remember the colours you choose for retopo islands ?
the new colours are so pastel, it is very hard on the eyes compared to the saturated colours of 4.9 which were very nice.

there is a cool button to choose your own colours, but they get reset every time you close 3d-Coat and reopen.

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Also, it is very annoying that each time you install a new version of 3d-Coat, the tool options panel is undocked from where you had it.

[Tubor]

11 hours ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

This is what I got:

settings:

Symmetry enabled as in the scene

Yes, when you set a small number of polygonal faces, it can be solved, but the time is much longer than before. When the number of polygons increases dozens of times, it still crashes or the program does not respond.

[Andrew Shpagin]

7 hours ago, Silas Merlin said:

Could 3d-Coat please remember the colours you choose for retopo islands ?
the new colours are so pastel, it is very hard on the eyes compared to the saturated colours of 4.9 which were very nice.

there is a cool button to choose your own colours, but they get reset every time you close 3d-Coat and reopen.

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Also, it is very annoying that each time you install a new version of 3d-Coat, the tool options panel is undocked from where you had it.

Are you installing via updater or complete installer?

[Andrew Shpagin]

4 hours ago, Tubor said:

Yes, when you set a small number of polygonal faces, it can be solved, but the time is much longer than before. When the number of polygons increases dozens of times, it still crashes or the program does not respond.

Please show the settings and try 70.

[sprayer]

1 hour ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

Please show the settings and try 70.

Still crashing to me for fool model what i provided above

[Silas Merlin]

2 hours ago, Andrew Shpagin said:

Are you installing via updater or complete installer?

It depends :
I use installer when it works.
other times like for .69 it just says "preparing" and does not install. in that case I use installer from this thread.

Always Tool options panel appears undocked at start up.

[Tubor]

1 hour ago, sprayer said:

Still crashing to me for fool model what i provided above

The result of retopology is not very satisfactory, the gap is very different from the ideal

[sprayer]

@Tubor I don't know with hardsurface option it crashing on this model, without hardsurface checkbox it works sometime

[Carlosan]

Test 2: Surface mode + cut off

Trying to avoid waviness to get perfect topology for baking a good and uniform texel density for pixels.

[poeboi]

Open question to devs! if you have not thought about it much or care to engage with it right now that's understandable

Was wondering if you have made any thought about 3DCoat in context of technologies like USD,
https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/release/index.html 
or Nvidia Omniverse https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-omniverse-developer-resource-center

Something like "Send to omniverse" could be pretty cool, or getting things from Omniverse via USD

[milhouzz]

hi, i just got the latest updates (70) and I find switching tools really slow compare to before. for exemple from sphere tool to cut tool it takes 2 seconds.

thanks

[cookepuss]

Update 70 seems to either takes an inordinately long time or flat out hangs with very simple AUTOPO - using defaults. "Creating approximate parametrisation" and "Rounding singular points" just sits there forever on even the simplest 60 second doodle. Seriously. Just doodle on a sphere for a few seconds and try to AUTOPO it. Not doable. The problem is less pronounced with symmetry turned off, but still VERY much an issue. AUTOPO feels nigh unusable in update 70.

My system is no slouch either. Win11. 64GB RAM. 18.5TB HDD. GeForce 1080ti 11GB.

Didn't have this problem, even on Win11, on older releases.

[Grimmy]

V .70

When rendering a turntable mp4 video the video is not saved. (At least its not saved to the location it prompted me to save it to)

When clicking 'Texture of the environment Map' in the top right of the viewport a blank popup is shown.. (ie no environment maps)