It's rather unfair (to the developers) to be criticizing a software company for (supposedly) neglecting an area of the application while using an old version, and the areas you are critical of, have since been significantly improved. They are also continually undergoing incremental changes.

You have a Permanent license of which version ? Once logged on the site you can download the license in correspondence with the version you have purchased. And can be installed on the License Panel popup (Load license option)

I try to login from 3DCoat, and it sends me to a webpage where it says I successfully logged in and to return to the software. But in 3DCoat, it just shows "learning" on the top and it has trial all over the textures.  I purchased this license years ago. What happened? Nothing is working.

Im not sure what you mean by the license grom file location. I ran as admin, still no luck

Did you installed the license grom file location ? try running 3DC as administrator

No, it's still having the issue.   

Hi  Is your previous post a solution for this issue ? On 12/19/2018 at 4:16 AM, alexrcreamer said: Figured it out. Had to delete all the options.xml files in the documents folder. 

Hi, I have a permanent license on my account, but in 3DCoat I keep seeing "trial" in the textures.   I have tried reinstalling, I tried logging in via the software when it prompted me (and the website said the software would update but it did not), and I have tried going to Help > Updates Manager, and Help > Uninstall License.   Nothing has worked.   Anyone have any idea what to do here? 

I got the necessary information from the sales@3dcoat team Apparently 2 conditions must be met to be eligible for an upgrade - The last update date of the current license must have been reached - There must also be an update available which i must not have access to for the upgrade button to appear on my license.

those are all new features ... i still have v4.9installed and the ui and ux is exactly the same , dont get me wrong they have added tons of new features and improved workflow and efficiency for some of the tools , but in terms of using the software properly , having a good workflow and using the software for professional reasons ... its harder and takes more time that using others ...  where 3dcoat thrives right now is the retopology tools , its not that 3dcoat has got worst but other softwares are gaining ahead of 3dc , in terms of sculpting ,texturing and modelling , even blender has become my new tool for hand painting textures.  they need to revise the whole workflow , make the software stable and efficient .

There has been a ton of incremental UI/UX work since V4.9 and these are clearly demonstrated on the Youtube channel. It's like none of the UI work done ever gets any appreciation. Nobody said there was going to be a complete overhaul and I honestly don't see the need for one. Why? Because no other 3D application has had one except Blender, and they received big donations from Mega sized corporations/companies. Every other app has only added minor cosmetic changes to the icons, essentially. 3DCoat changed ALL the icons in v 2021 and you say you have seen no changes since V.2? The Activity Bar was added and then recently modified to help minimize the number of panels in the UI. There was a Minimalist mode (toggled via the TAB key) added, so you can work with a very simple UI if you don't like the current UI layout. You can work in a practically bare UI and simply access the panels you want via hotkeys (or button assignments on a Wacom Tablet and/or 3DConnection Device). You have a nice, new Viewport Gizmo similar to what you see in other 3D apps such as Blender. You have Gizmo-Less Transforms like in Blender. You have Workspace tabs or Workspaces hidden away in a list menu...your choice. There are object highlights in the viewport, when a Sculpt Tree layer is selected. There are layer colors, new Layer/Clipping Masks with Thumbnails like in Photoshop...and best of all they are totally compatible with Photoshop's masks. UI Icon color changes have been made highly customizable. You can choose which fonts you want used in the UI. There are 3ds Max style RMB menus in the Modeling/Retopo Workspaces.   Andrew did a LOT of work improving the UI/UX the past few years and it's really disheartening to hear so many critics dismiss all that work as nothing.