3DCoat 2025 Development

[Gorbatovsky]

6 hours ago, Elemeno said:

any triangles completely breaks the hybrid

With such a topology, a smart hybrid is pointless.
 

 

6 hours ago, Elemeno said:

all the edges disconnect and end up destroying the mesh

In most cases, to create a sculpt mesh that can be worked with, you need to use the Quadro option and apply welding.

[DoubleCatPunch]

Hello!

I previously wrote about this issue, but unfortunately, it still persists in version 2025.08. When using the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse in 3DCoat, there is unstable camera behavior. After launching the program, navigation works correctly, but once a brush is switched, the camera may suddenly snap to the center point between the X, Y, and Z axes and become stuck. The only way to restore control is to restart the program. This bug is intermittent: sometimes everything works fine, and other times the camera freezes right away. Before locking up, the camera often jumps sharply to the center, though it doesn’t always get stuck immediately. The issue has been observed in versions 2024.30 and 2025.01–2025.03, and now confirmed again in 2025.08.
Driver version: 3DxWare 10.9.5.693.

[Elemeno]

40 minutes ago, DoubleCatPunch said:

Hello!

I previously wrote about this issue, but unfortunately, it still persists in version 2025.08. When using the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse in 3DCoat, there is unstable camera behavior. After launching the program, navigation works correctly, but once a brush is switched, the camera may suddenly snap to the center point between the X, Y, and Z axes and become stuck. The only way to restore control is to restart the program. This bug is intermittent: sometimes everything works fine, and other times the camera freezes right away. Before locking up, the camera often jumps sharply to the center, though it doesn’t always get stuck immediately. The issue has been observed in versions 2024.30 and 2025.01–2025.03, and now confirmed again in 2025.08.
Driver version: 3DxWare 10.9.5.693.

do you have multiple screens?

[Elemeno]

not sure if this is a bug or if its the use of the tool

 

 

if its the use of the tool i thought it averaged the normal selected and offset that.

also after i made the offset i used ctrl+z and it crashed , i sent a crash report

Edited June 20, 2025 by Elemeno

[Elemeno]

also in the video you can see when i select that there's a strange cube patterns over the selection

[Elemeno]

 

smart offset next to a right angle or any angle thats above 70 will tear the mesh ,

 

 

even though the smart mesh looks like it have the same amount of topology , it doesnt because smart offset adds extra subds to that affected area , so converting back to sculpt or poly model requires extra time to weld vertices ,add edges etc....

[Elemeno]

wait!

the smart offset tool could have been better implemented using poly modelling , by selecting the affect area you want to manipulate use the tool but add proportional editing so it accounts for any right angles or sharp edges 

would you be able to add that tool to poly modelling? plus this way it wouldnt break the model  or need topology restrictions and converting to sculpt would be one click and not convert to low poly , fix the low poly and then send to sculpt room...

[Gorbatovsky]

13 hours ago, Elemeno said:

if its the use of the tool i thought it averaged the normal selected and offset that.

You can't use the tools Offset and Alignment for this case.

 

This is not solid modeling, unfortunately.

[Gorbatovsky]

9 hours ago, Elemeno said:

the smart offset tool could have been better implemented using poly modelling

I thought about it. We will implement it in 2025.

[Elemeno]

 

crash report sent , but to replicate ;

subd one face to 4 seperate faces , select 3 of those 4 and another larger face and then select the offset tool , crash

[Elemeno]

tried a second time , the crash was perfectly replicated 

[Gorbatovsky]

2 hours ago, Elemeno said:

crash report sent

See please video.
The offset works better in depth.
But still, this case is not good for surface modeling.
It is not a rigid body.
Should be more resistant to crashes.

 

[Elemeno]

5 hours ago, Gorbatovsky said:

See please video.
The offset works better in depth.
But still, this case is not good for surface modeling.
It is not a rigid body.
Should be more resistant to crashes.

 

i noticed when you converted from hybrid to polys that the bevel lost its shape , in theory hybrid should always have pure quads but the poly mesh had triangles in it and at the top?

[Elemeno]

 

 

smart hybrid edge selection disappears when you're not hovering the mesh and on certain areas of the mesh

 

[Elemeno]

 

 

rotating using the transform tool breaks the mesh