Hi  At export, try selecting another preset as Unreal 4 Hope this help

Hello, I created a tight-fitting suit in 3DCoat, going through the full workflow from sculpting and retopology to painting in the Painting Room, and then exported the model as an OBJ. After importing the model and textures into KeyShot, I noticed some issues. The model itself and most of the textures look fine, but when I checked the normal map, I found that normal errors appear along some UV seams. No matter how carefully I check, I can’t find any problems with the normals inside 3DCoat. So I opened the exported normal map in Adobe Photoshop for inspection and discovered that, along the UV seams, some normals in the texture are actually inverted. What’s interesting is that the incorrect normals only occur in the areas where I manually painted the normal map. The normals generated through baking appear completely correct. Could this issue be caused by something I did incorrectly during the normal painting process? And what would be the recommended way to fix or avoid this problem?

Hello everyone. I just came back from doing photogrammetry in Petra and Wadi Rum and I'm starting a tutorial series about my workflow. 3D Coat is in the centre of the whole production and an absolute necessity. If you are interested then check out my YouTube channel and feel free to comment with tips and tricks if you see anything that could be done better, I always want to learn more. The video below is an overview of what I'm planning to do. I hope you like it.  

Yea, maybe that's it. I THINK I had my brain screwed on backwards that day. I had Opacity, iirc, set to 100 % LOL 

I run into things like this every so often, but it is usually because I forgot to do something on my "Pre-Flight Checklist" of sorts. It may be that I was trying to paint on a layer that is hidden or locked, or that one or more of the channels (color, depth, glossiness) wasn't enabled. In this case, I think it is because your OPACITY is set way too low for you to notice when some paint has been applied. At 13% Opacity, you are probably not going to see much, if any paint, laid down...because it would be very faint.

You already have PolyGroup functionality in the Sculpt Workspace, via the Pose (Advanced Transform) tool using selections you make with it. You have different modes of selection and when you have created a Pose/PolyGroup selection, you can store it to a Paint Layer. If you have a FREEZE selection made to an object and switch to the Pose tool, 3DCoat will read that Freeze Mask as a Pose selection. It works in reverse, too. If you have a Pose selection made (in Surface mode only) and suddenly step out of the tool, you will see the Pose selection as a Freeze Mask. I agree on the customized (numbers/segments) on the Pose tool lattices and Freeform Primitives. I've been wishing for that for years.

but this wouldnt actually change the mesh shape? this is displacement which cutting holes or have overlaps like shirt collars cant do , i suppose seam tearing would be an issue too ...  i know you guys work hard but cant we just get a traditional sculpting techniques .. because you cant manipulate the mesh proerly like you could quads , remeshing , poly modelling and refining , youre just reinventing the wheel but not as efficient its a wheel with 10 sides so it skips the road..

Try Bandicam, it is free

Is there a way to do this from within 3DCoat?  I don't normally do or make video's.  

pen radius is 0.014 ?

Please record video.

Yup, that's my work flow.  NADA happens.  

@Richard A.Hello! Please watch the video and tell me what I'm doing wrong. Запись экрана 2026-02-23 103905.mp4    

Hiya, This should be a no brainer but every time life gets in the way I come back after a few months to start a new project and can not get the brush to lay down color.  I can get it to fill with no issue but selecting the brush, texture or no texture, selecting color, making sure the correct UV is selected (this is a UDIM set, human figure) and then make sure I have symmetry set up on the X and start painting.  Nada.  Is there some mysterious hidden lock system in place that is preventing me from actually getting this to work?  It's all quite maddening after a while.  I less technical approach is to have this made a little easier for us old newbies and novices.  I'm sure folks that use this program every day have no issues but this old newbie is constantly feeling like he needs to go back to school just to try to paint a simple skin tone or fix a seam.  Feels very unfriendly to me.   Help please Thank you! 

Welcome ! Thanks for your request. If you like to add more, it is better to add feature request to this subforum https://3dcoat.com/forum/index.php?/forum/14-feature-requests/

Can we request features  for 2026 here?  Anyway here is some of my simple request. Transform tool should have like CTRL+Drag fuction to may a copy of an object. Some kind of polygroup like Zbrush. Where you can save polygroups and like you can easily hide and isolate selections. This will be amazing where working on fingers, etc.    Thanks! 

Hello is it possible for us to get two new settings for Live booleans 1 being live split like below: I would also like live union to have merging with proper smooth gradient falloff for merging objects together like SDF