Reputable Contributor digman Posted March 21, 2008 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted March 21, 2008 Hello All I'm working on finding the time to put together a beginner's tutorial in PDF format. I'm asking the community what would be some good areas(Basic understanding, etc) to cover for newcommers. If you are new to 3D world or 3D painting, let me know what was the hardest to understand and learn about 3D-Coat.Thanks in advance. I will be using "Wink" a free but good screen capturing program. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Shpagin Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Very cool! Very glad to hear! Special thanks for the link to the program. It is exactly what we need to make tutorials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor bwtr Posted March 23, 2008 Contributor Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Very cool! Very glad to hear!Special thanks for the link to the program. It is exactly what we need to make tutorials. A free version of Camtasia3 is(was) available. An ideal tool to learn. and make top notch tutorial screen capture/voice over, for those interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chuckpie Posted March 24, 2008 Member Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hello All I'm working on finding the time to put together a beginner's tutorial in PDF format. I'm asking the community what would be some good areas(Basic understanding, etc) to cover for newcommers. If you are new to 3D world or 3D painting, let me know what was the hardest to understand and learn about 3D-Coat.Thanks in advance. I will be using "Wink" a free but good screen capturing program. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ The ideal tutorial would show how each tool is used including a sample or two of an object with the tool applied. Some good sample layouts can be viewed at VTC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member SonK Posted March 27, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hello All I'm working on finding the time to put together a beginner's tutorial in PDF format. I'm asking the community what would be some good areas(Basic understanding, etc) to cover for newcommers. If you are new to 3D world or 3D painting, let me know what was the hardest to understand and learn about 3D-Coat.Thanks in advance. I will be using "Wink" a free but good screen capturing program. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ I would like to see someone approach hair textureing with alpha channel in 3D Coat? Maybe hair like that is not possible, but its important for game artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member stoltoguzzi Posted October 13, 2008 Member Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 I would like to see someone approach hair textureing with alpha channel in 3D Coat? Maybe hair like that is not possible, but its important for game artist. is this beginner tutorial available for download somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member falcon76 Posted October 13, 2008 Member Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 is this beginner tutorial available for download somewhere? Have you already done all of them? http://www.3d-coat.com/video_tutorial.html You can find some other tut on youtube, but the ones above are pretty useful. Ciao luca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ErinN Posted April 27, 2009 Member Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Are there any tutorials for voxel sculpting? I downloaded a bunch and none of them seem to cover voxels. Whenever I import an obj model and then press the voxel sculpting button, the model disappears and I'm left with a very large red transparent plane. I'm new to the alpha, so I'm obviously missing something. I've spent a couple of hours going through the forum and looking at the basic tutorials so I thought that I would ask, to speed things up. I'll gladly contribute some 3dcoat videos on youtube to help others if someone will just get me started. Best, Erin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member lc8b105 Posted April 27, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Are there any tutorials for voxel sculpting? I downloaded a bunch and none of them seem to cover voxels. Whenever I import an obj model and then press the voxel sculpting button, the model disappears and I'm left with a very large red transparent plane. I'm new to the alpha, so I'm obviously missing something. I've spent a couple of hours going through the forum and looking at the basic tutorials so I thought that I would ask, to speed things up. I'll gladly contribute some 3dcoat videos on youtube to help others if someone will just get me started.Best, Erin. Hi Erin, you need to use "Merge"-"Select object" to import a model to voxel mode, as show in the picture below: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ErinN Posted April 27, 2009 Member Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 Hi Erin, you need to use "Merge"-"Select object" to import a model to voxel mode, as show in the picture below: Thanks lc8b105, What's the next step though? If I deactivate the "Merge" button, the model disappears. I also cannot rotate around the model, it just flies off and I'm rotating on a pivot that is placed somewhere near the camera I think. Shouldn't the viewports rotate around the origin by default? Also, is there an equivalent key in 3dcoat that does the same as the "f" key in Maya, so that you can center the viewports on the origin again? Best, Erin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted April 27, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 27, 2009 after you've selected the object you want to 'merge', just hit the 'enter' key on your keyboard (depending on number of polygons in your imported mesh, it may take a second and you'll see something 'below' your grey-ish merge tool that's your mesh as a voxel object) to reset the camera see pic below (don't think it's hotkey-able yet, but may be wrong) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ErinN Posted April 28, 2009 Member Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 after you've selected the object you want to 'merge', just hit the 'enter' key on yourkeyboard (depending on number of polygons in your imported mesh, it may take a second and you'll see something 'below' your grey-ish merge tool that's your mesh as a voxel object) to reset the camera see pic below (don't think it's hotkey-able yet, but may be wrong) Hi wailingmonkey, Thanks for the information about the merge "enter" key steps, but I'm still not having any luck. Maybe something's not setup properly. The camera controls were helpful though. I feel like an idiot, how did you guys figure this stuff out? I'll look through the forums again tomorrow to see if I can find any type of step by step guide for voxel sculpting. Best, Erin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wailingmonkey Posted April 28, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Hi ErinN, I've included a .zip (of an .avi movie) that shows merge in action. You'll see where I select the mesh (hitting 'Open' button offscreen, sorry), hover my mouse (with arrow cursor) over the imported geometry, hit 'enter' key, the cursor changes to pen with alpha (so you know you've just made your model a voxel object), and then move the 'merge' tool off from the new voxel object. Hope it's clear (and I've found sometimes there's a bug that doesn't show your geometry the first time it's selected and 'opened', so you just have to go back into the dialog and re-select it). merge.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ErinN Posted April 28, 2009 Member Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Hi ErinN,I've included a .zip (of an .avi movie) that shows merge in action. You'll see where I select the mesh (hitting 'Open' button offscreen, sorry), hover my mouse (with arrow cursor) over the imported geometry, hit 'enter' key, the cursor changes to pen with alpha (so you know you've just made your model a voxel object), and then move the 'merge' tool off from the new voxel object. Hope it's clear (and I've found sometimes there's a bug that doesn't show your geometry the first time it's selected and 'opened', so you just have to go back into the dialog and re-select it). Hi wailingmonkey, Thank you very much for this, I really appreciate it! I'll unzip it and take a look. Hopefully this will do the trick. I can barely wait to try sculpting with voxels! Best, Erin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member kenmo Posted May 8, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Hi wailingmonkey,Thank you very much for this, I really appreciate it! I'll unzip it and take a look. Hopefully this will do the trick. I can barely wait to try sculpting with voxels! Best, Erin. If the video does not have audio, I lose interest in it quite quickly.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Digital777 Posted June 11, 2009 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 11, 2009 I wish more of the videos had audio also, it's sometimes hard to follow when you see the mouse just clicking and drawing etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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