3D-Coat 3.1 updates thread

[otsoa]

New curve is great ! Fast posing .

[Tinker]

Fast joint cutter, finally! Fantastic update!

[philnolan3d]

There's a little problem with Extrude for the curves. When in Extrude mode you can click in the curve to add a point between two others and it also display's the gizmo, but then you can't create another point between to others because the gizmo is there if you click another point to get rid of the gizmo it just starts extracting a new curve.

Another weird thing, if using Scale mode the ball (point) changes size, but if you use the gizmo to scale the ball stays the same.

[tree321]

New curve functionality is cool.

When pressing W to move, curves turn to wires.Maybe it could be overridden.

Just noticed you can use mouse buttons to scale and move.That's cool.

[philnolan3d]

Just noticed you can use mouse buttons to scale and move.That's cool.

Hehe that part is actually not a new feature.

[tree321]

Hehe that part is actually not a new feature.

I know I just forgot about it.

[David Walters]

The new curve tool is very nice. I have two requests:

1. Can you change the 'hardness' button into a check box. Currently you have click it once or twice to remove the curvature - this feature just makes more sense as a check box.

2. Please add some form of snapping for the nodes. Either to the current symmetry plane or 2D grid. It's currently very hard to make a single "spine" for a character with symmetry enabled. You can see the issue I have in the neck of otsoa's picture (of course, it may not be intentional here).

Great work though, hope to see another Phil Nolan promo vimeo soon!

edit: fixed spelling of symmetry for a more credible request

[tree321]

Since your working with curves now I thought I would request a function I've been wanting for awhile.I'll put this in feature request as well.

Ability for curves to wrap around an object.

-Create a couple of points and click closed.

-Points are added incrementally around object

-Align points (like the To line feature in paint mode.)

Thank you.

[philnolan3d]

Is there a trick to dragging an image from a web page? I just tried it with Firefox anf IE and my cursor turned to a "no" (circle slash) symbol.

[wailingmonkey]

Is there a trick to dragging an image from a web page? I just tried it with Firefox anf IE and my cursor turned to a "no" (circle slash) symbol.

Same here...perhaps Vista 64 issue? Tried with Firefox 3.0.8, Opera 9.64, and I.E. 7.0.6001. Only Internet Exploder offered a dialog

box for me to 'ok', but it still fails to allow for drag-n-drop. <shrugs>

Nice work on this release, Andrew! Still much to explore before any feedback. (but I wish you could look at the 'Fill' voxel tool for

64-bit, as it seems unresponsive to large-scale filling---for example, 100% does no faster filling than 30% depth values, and also

having persistent settings for 'accurate smoothing' would save remembering to click it every time voxel work is necessary and the

program has been restarted.)

[philnolan3d]

Yes I forgot I did get a dialog box saying something like "this program wants to accept files from the web" or something like that and I clicked OK , but still nothing. That was with IE 8.0.6001

[LJB]

HERE is a Quick Demo of the new functionallity of the curve tool. I will make a more polished version tomorrow.

[EDIT] Give it 5 or so mins to convert.

[3DArtist]

Add my praise for this great release!

I have also not been able to drag an image from FF into 3DC. But it seems to work in IE8.

An option for 3DC to download the images to a specific folder would be nice instead of in a hard to get temporary folder (which also can easily get deleted).

[Klaus Nordby]

Wow, the Curves are really becoming powerful and easy to use now -- many congrats to Andrew for this update! I've always had problems with the Zspheres in ZBrush, as they and the resulting topology often behaved in bizarre, ugly ways -- Andrew's approach to the same basic problem is now quite slick. Of course, there are the forthcoming Zspheres 2 . . . :-)

[Jake_H]

I am continually amazed at the rapid progress of this app. Thumbs up Andrew and co.

And as for the the rest of you on this thread - do you folks ever sleep?