Member Mix Mash Posted September 18, 2009 Member Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 Hi, I just bought 3dcoat a few days ago and there are two things I need to ask. 1) I'm running the directx version of 3dcoat on my laptop (3gig ram, Windows Vista, 512 gig vid card, etc...) and whenever I use the program, my system runs at full speed like it's going crazy. Is it supposed to do that? No other programs do that to my laptop unless I have a really heavy workload. In general, I have no problem with my other programs, just 3dcoat. 2) I was trying to smooth out a voxel model the other day but I kept getting a 'ring' artifact around the edges of the brush even when I went for maximum edge smoothness. What do I do to make sure that the smoothing works properly like in Zbrush. Thanks and I appreciate any feedback. Cheers, Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Ghostdog Posted September 18, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 Hi Paul, I use 3DC on a 2yr old laptop dualcore 1.86 2GB & 512mb, and an i7 920 with 8GB. I use CPU process-meters on both systems to see what is going on. A LOT of things occur on one core only. (on both PCs) I'm not sure exactly what you mean by system going crazy, but if you see 100% CPU activity then yes a lot functions will do this, but if just say painting or light sculpting then no it shouldn't. I can't give much advice but a process-monitor utility that can stay on top helped me learn what is going on. Sometimes things of course can crash and leave the system at 100% activity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member kay_Eva Posted September 18, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 take a screenshot of the smoothing problem and we'll try to help ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Mix Mash Posted September 20, 2009 Author Member Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 take a screenshot of the smoothing problem and we'll try to help ya That's OK. I just make sure I don't set my smoothing too high and pick a decent alpha and it ends up fine. I'm still messing around with the program and finding its ups and downs. I won't be using it to make any heavy sculpting but I will need to figure out some basic stuff to get what I need. Anyway, thanks for your offers of help, though. Cheers, Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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