External Brushes/Paint for 3dcoat?

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Hello I was wondering something with 3dcoat. The paint seems very harsh on the object; like there is no subtlety to it even when I change the depth. I don't know if I'm just not used to it.

Also, I was wondering if a person had GIMP or Photoshop, would they be able to use those brushes or textures inside of 3dcoat?

Thanks

[Javis]

Hi there.

1. Are you having trouble with just the depth "hard" look, or the color and spec too? Could you show a screen shot or video to show more on this please.
2. There are two ways you can do this;

• The first: You can project the model or the UV texture directly into just about any program that supports the .PSD file format (though PainterX seems to have trouble with it).
• And the second: 3DC can use the .ABR format directly inside of the application for sculpting and texturing. You can also use your own .PSD files as brushes.

Hope this helps.

[philnolan3d]

.ABR works great for brushes, in fact I normally use the default Photoshop brushes as my default 3DC set.

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Hi there.

1. Are you having trouble with just the depth "hard" look, or the color and spec too? Could you show a screen shot or video to show more on this please.
2. There are two ways you can do this;

• The first: You can project the model or the UV texture directly into just about any program that supports the .PSD file format (though PainterX seems to have trouble with it).
• And the second: 3DC can use the .ABR format directly inside of the application for sculpting and texturing. You can also use your own .PSD files as brushes.

Hope this helps.

I don't want the hard look...I want it to look more natural. I was trying to go for a more realistic human skin tone. Do you know a good way of getting that?

Also, does GIMP integrate with 3dcoat?

[Calabi]

Do you mean its really bright, like sun shining?

If it is, then you need to turn the lighting down, the ambient to 10 and the spotlight to about 40.

[Javis]

I don't want the hard look...I want it to look more natural. I was trying to go for a more realistic human skin tone. Do you know a good way of getting that?

Also, does GIMP integrate with 3dcoat?

As I said, any program that supports the .PSD format should work, the only one I've encountered problems with is PainterX.

Please post a screen shot of your texturing issue.

[Polygoon]

Another thing you can use for a pen (or brush) are obj. files. Great for doing things with a 3D texture, normal maps etc.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by hard, but to get a less shiny like skin I just turn off the specularity.