Hi everyone, I’ve been using 3DCoat for a while mainly in the Paint Room for texturing game assets, but I’ve recently run into a problem that I can’t quite figure out. Whenever I work on a higher-poly model (around 1–2 million tris), I start noticing a noticeable delay when using brushes. It’s not just a small lag — the stroke appears slightly after I move the pen, and sometimes it feels like the pressure response is also a bit inconsistent. What’s strange is that it doesn’t happen all the time. On some projects everything runs smoothly, but on others (even with similar texture resolution and brush settings), the lag shows up almost immediately. Things I’ve already tried: Lowering texture resolution (4K → 2K) Switching between different brush alphas Checking GPU usage (seems normal, nothing maxed out) Turning off other heavy layers in the scene I’m using a Wacom tablet, and I initially thought it might be driver-related, but it works fine in other software (ZBrush, Photoshop, etc.), so I’m not sure it’s the tablet. Has anyone experienced something similar in the Paint Room? Could it be related to mesh density, caching, or some hidden performance setting in 3DCoat that I’m missing? Any tips or insights would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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This happened to me, too, and I haven't been able to tell what caused it. However, when I renamed the MY DOCUMENTS/3DCOAT directory and then opened 3DCoat 2026, it created a fresh new one and that seemed to fix the problem. Of course I have to copy the custom contents of that older one, such as Smart Materials, Shaders, Stencils, Presets and such, but for now, that fixed the missing brushes problem. 

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Paint room layer mask not working on the Beta it seems

Yep, it is and that's why it is a bit weird in use, because it packs more than one functionality - it's duplicating Add Detail functionality which can be assigned to CTRL+SHIFT action. I think, it would be more reasonable if Auto-Subdivide functionality was based on Details level only.

Ok, so pretty much old Live clay brushes.

I am referring to the General Depth value in the toolbar. You can adjust it with your brush by RMB clicking and dragging downward until the profile is flat and you can see the Depth value in the Toolbar is at 0.

It still is relative to the brush size, but higher detail values will generate more polygons within the same brush radius.

Hey, is there any good way to setup 3dconnexion devices to properly work in 3D-Coat? I find the overall experience to be broken for years now. 3D-Coat default setup is unusable, 3dconnexion doesn't work in ortho view at all. With 4.9 api it kinda works, but very inconsistent. When setup in ortho view, it works fine, but in perspective view all the movements are too rapid... When I set it up in perspective view, then it becomes too slow in ortho view.

It really depends on the model you working with. With enough "polygons", you might not need the Auto-Subdivide option or you'll need to go into negative Details level to avoid huge resolution increase. Auto-Subdivide is a bit tricky and there won't be one universal setting for all sculpt objects, you'll need to adjust it constantly.

What DEPTH value are you talking, something in Tool option panel?

yeah, I think I saw that option, could be "Details Level"?   it was set to "1" but changing it to "0.01" does not seem to have an effect. tesselation still way too dense. Only thing I´ve found was to make the brush larger. cheers

There is also an option in that Subdivide section to adjust the level of subdivsion. I made my own TESSELATION brush in the Custom Section by enabling the Subdivision and setting the DEPTH value to 0. That way it does not push or pull vertices. It creates new ones on the fly.

Ok, I don't know what is going on, but a lot off my brush presets are broken out of nowhere... both in 2025.17 and 2026.1 Tool option panel doesn't show up for many presets and the presets itself behaves way different. When I try to choose some presets, 3DC just switch to different tool. Tried to remove all presets and load them from 3dcpack, but that doesn't change a thing. Don't know if that have something to do with 2026.1 version or the newest 2026 beta, but something is seriously messed up. Oh, and why the hell I have constant info abou Several UV sets share the same name when I'm using models without UV maps? Texture - Mesh & Texture resolution doesn't do a thing. EDIT: Seems like some changes(brush engine?) was made in 2026 and it overwrites/modifies older 3DC installations. After purging all the versions and reinstalling 2025.17, all brushes are working fine. It would be nice if new versions wasn't srewing up older versions...

ah ! by adjusting the brush size

Wow, awesome !!! Thanks again for your very helpful support Is there a way to adjust, how dense the tesselation will be "drawn" to the object? Right now it is super dense

Live clay does not exist anymore. In 3DCoat 2026, the classic "Live Clay" feature is officially retired, having been replaced by a much more powerful dynamic brush system by Rygaard. The software now handles dynamic tessellation and local subdivision seamlessly within its Surface sculpting mode. Only in some brushes (in surface mode) you will find some settings belonging to Live  Clay such as the Snake Clay brush. Below I show you the steps on how you can activate the local subdivision option for the new brush system:

hello, I am trying to put just kind of subdivision/tesselation in some areas of on object (the large tris need to be more tesselated) See image below: Most videos and google came up with solutions that I can not comprehend: Google suggests a methode, which does not work: there is no such option "Autosubdivide" in my Tool Options: then there is a video on YT: this guy uses "Live clay"- which does not exist anymore?! So how can I just tesselate without actually sculpting in 3D Coat 2025.17 ? cheers  

It's a bit of a hack, but you could try doing a screen capture of 3d coat.  Then using projection painting, reapply the image back on top of your sculpts.