/r/3dcoat

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/r/3dcoat

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UI scaling on 16" laptop

Sweet lord the UI scaling on high DPI laptop monitors is apparently non-existent, unlike on my desktop, whic is completely fine. Methinks how it works needs updating. Fiddling with the Theme > Font is maddening. Good program, just going to use it as desktop only.

0 Comments
2024/11/28
23:12 UTC

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3dcoat vs 3dcoat textura

Just a quick question what is the difference between the two? do they just rip off the 3dcoat painting capability and make it a standalone version?

2 Comments
2024/11/26
04:17 UTC

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Star Wars Podracer game re-designed Track, a personal project i did in my free time, hopefully some game developers will see this and make it REAL. More in my portfolio

0 Comments
2024/11/24
03:36 UTC

7

The UI

The Programm itself is awesome, and works nice, but holy moly is the UI shit, i cannot even simple export a retopo mesh.

3 Comments
2024/11/14
20:15 UTC

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Disable Uv view 3D coat textura?

https://preview.redd.it/wx5hh28c0q0e1.png?width=1915&format=png&auto=webp&s=bc0799102b7ab99f2c6daa28a5dbfa4835557d9d

So, I just click, ctrl + left click on the layer painting, and it shows uv like in the picture, anyone know how to disable the uv view?

0 Comments
2024/11/13
19:31 UTC

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Is 3d coat used professionally for sculpting?

Hi everyone, I've been sculpting in blender for a few months now but I start to see its limits. Now I have two options, 3D coat or Zbrush. Zbrush price is going crazy, 55€/month is not sustainable. My question is, using 3d coat for sculpting, will bring me any far in this industry? Or it will be a waste of money and time? I mean, will someone hire me if I use 3D coat and Substance painter as a character artist? Thank you in advance

12 Comments
2024/11/13
11:05 UTC

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How to take a 3d Model from Plasticity and UV map and convert to a Game Ready Model in 3DCoat

0 Comments
2024/10/27
18:02 UTC

1

Horrible Lag only when painting????

Hi im new to 3d coat and was aiming to use it mainly for handpainting textures but when in boot it up my FPS drop from around 120 to 17-25 (this is what 3DCoat shows in the bottom left corner).

My specs,

AMD Ryzen 7 2700 eight-core processor - 3.20 GHz

16.0 GB OF RAM

Nvidia Quadro P1000

im using the 2024.26 vertion of 3D coat

/// edit

i have already updated to 24.28 and still have the same issues
i have all my drivers updated adn still nothing :/

0 Comments
2024/10/21
04:41 UTC

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How does Riot make the textures for the eyes/mouths on these models and animate them?

Hey there, I’m learning 3D modeling and I’m trying to make something similar to the above image. I’m pretty new to all this and I’m not done with my own model yet but I’m curious as to how they did this. There is a base model and then on top of it there is a one sided eye/mouth texture. The characters sometimes blink or the mouth changes shape. How is this done? I know Riot uses 3DCoat for texturing so I figured I’d ask here. If someone knows the process and can give me a list of what they do I’d love to hear it! I’m eager to get to the texturing part because I love to paint and that’s what I have the most experience with.

7 Comments
2024/10/17
08:51 UTC

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i need help xd

hello people, hope you're doing well!

i just wanted to know how to delete a vertex on poly modelling because i tried googling and checking 3dcoat learning videos and couldnt find an answer, thanks for your time and attention!

https://preview.redd.it/bx00hze8q1vd1.png?width=1082&format=png&auto=webp&s=21378f33893d549ab72e1b94a44b822c67b8ac03

4 Comments
2024/10/16
04:30 UTC

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Render uncompressed video

Is there any way to change the compression settings or render a video uncompressed?

1 Comment
2024/10/14
16:23 UTC

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Freeform Primitives

I'm trying to follow the "Alien Leech" tutorial and get odd results when using sculpt tools after applying the freeform cube in part 2. Small modifications create holes. I think it is because the latest version has a "thickness" setting. I have tried thickness 0 (which creates no voxels) and 1000 (which blows the geometry out).

Is there a way to have it create a completely solid voxel mass when applied? Or a different way to use control cages to shape a primitive?

2 Comments
2024/10/07
15:27 UTC

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Sequential hotkeys?

I'm wondering if it's possible to set sequential, rather than simultaneous hotkeys in 3d Coat. I'm thinking particularly of the system in ZBrush for brushes, where for the standard brush, you hit B (for brush) S (for all the brushes that begin with S) and then T (for that specific brush). I ask only because I have a lousy memory for simultaneous hotkeys like CTRL+SHIFT+ D or whatever, and that seems the only way to get enough permutations to cover all the brushes on offer in 3d Coat.

3 Comments
2024/10/05
20:19 UTC

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Substance Painter vs 3D Coat

I have decided to pick up Blender again and while getting a grip on what is happening in the 3D world, I have come across 2 options for texturing. Substance Painter which has been around for a while and 3D Coat - which has also apparently been around for a while. 3D Coat has pretty impressive texturing/panting capabilities as well. From what I have read:
Substance Painter:

  • Industry standard
  • Very powerful and more feature rich than 3D Coat (but no by much, at least with the latest 2024 3D Coat release)
  • Cheaper than 3D Coat (if I do a 1 time buy off Steam - and it often goes on sale). 3D Coat:
  • Integrated with Blender already. Just export to 3D Coat, do your work and move it back - no exporting needed
  • Comes with other great tools - better Sculpting than Blender, excellent retopo tools, great at unwrapping,
  • [CON] - not many good tutorials
  • [CON] - It's pretty pricey - almost 550 dollars Canadian (guess where I'm from!!)

Does anyone use both? I want to use Blender for the hard surface modeling. The tools and add-ons it has are second to none IMO. But it would be nice to take the finished mesh and move it to 3D Coat to - retopolagize (or however you spell it) and paint it. From there, save it so I can put if up for sale etc.

Has anyone tried both (with Blender)? Does anyone use the workflow I just mentioned?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Robb

11 Comments
2024/09/30
13:40 UTC

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Best way to avoid seams when a hand painting textures

I'm in the process of making a kit of environment assets, including a pile of different walls. So straight walls, corners, ramps, etc. What would be the best way to hand paint those such that they seamlessly blend together when placed next to each other.

Ideally I wouldn't want to mirror them, and even if I did the side of one wall piece wouldn't necessarily match the side of another wall piece.

I genuinely don't know where to start for something like this.

4 Comments
2024/09/27
03:28 UTC

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Having fun in 3D Coat

4 Comments
2024/09/26
05:43 UTC

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applink not working

i have 3dcoat textura and i can't seem to get the applink working i downloaded the 5.0 version it doesn't give me any errors it js doesn't work it doesn't send the model to the software are there any solutions?

0 Comments
2024/09/13
11:36 UTC

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Cannot figure out the simplest tasks

Can someone please tell me how to select, duplicate, and move an object in 3D Coat? I've been trying for half an hour, and I just can't figure it out. This software is so complicated, and the lack of tutorials isn’t helping either

6 Comments
2024/09/12
19:11 UTC

2

where is the material library?

i tried to find the website but couldn't find it the only one if ound says error

5 Comments
2024/09/11
12:48 UTC

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Is it not possible to paint directly on the 2D viewport?

I have 3DCoat Textura and usually use it for low poly model painting (like 256x256 or 512x512). The issue is, some faces aren't fully covered by a given pixel, so they become impossible to paint in the 3D view. This much, makes sense - the 3D view is trying to calculate where it can paint on the geometry.

But in the 2D view, I also can't paint over those spots. The expected behavior I'd have would be to be able to paint anywhere I like in the 2D viewport.

At the moment I am really stuck because if I can't get a decent workaround for this I'll have to find another tool. My current and non-satisfactory workaround is to bring it into photoshop afterwards and plug the holes but this is not a good answer to the problem. I expect my 3D painting app to let me successfully 3D paint, not leave stray pixels all over the place.

5 Comments
2024/09/03
01:48 UTC

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I do not know how to make a sweep from the back

0 Comments
2024/08/15
10:31 UTC

1

3D coat website down?

Been trying to install on new computer but site is non responsive. Anyone else having issues? Site maintenance perhaps?

4 Comments
2024/08/08
15:18 UTC

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Help! my PBR Material Preview Window not showing up. 3dcoat trial v2024.25

i just started using 3dcoat trial v2024.25. when i try to learn painting with demo model. i cant see the pbr material preview window. and i already research using this official video https://youtu.be/kkUGC7A4DhU?list=PLlQ3JITh9bXOcshH7ALiXsMJlP4hrZjd4 . from that video it straigh show the preview window when pick pbr material. but mine not showing.

pbr material preview missing

0 Comments
2024/08/08
04:27 UTC

13

3DCoat is on sale now

Maybe someone else waited for a sale, now is the time

14 Comments
2024/08/04
16:11 UTC

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Washed out colors on texture export

I am creating a handpainted scene with unlit diffuse/albedo only. I want to add it to sketchfab, but the colors that export are washes out in comparision to how I see it in the viewport in 3D coat Textura. I noticed when I was swapping between 3D Coat and Photoshop that the colors seemed more washed out in Photoshop already. It doesn't seem to have to do with sketchfab as when I inspect the texture files, they seem washed out already after export. I tried different settings for the export via "Export Objects and Textures", but no luck.

Could it be that my viewport settings are wrong? Or can anyone suggest export settings? I haven't changed any settings, the viewport gamma is set to standard 1,1,1.

If anyone has suggestions that would I would be grateful!

4 Comments
2024/08/04
15:06 UTC

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make relief from photo

Hi all, just curious if anyone has recommendations for using 3D Coat and maybe add-ons to make height map from a shaded photo, so I can take a picture of a relief carving and reproduce it for 3D printing...

2 Comments
2024/08/03
17:58 UTC

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How does 3DCoat Textura compare to Substance Painter?

Anyone tried both and could give some rundown?

I'm leaning towards Textura (because fuck Adobe), but it looks like there is not a lot of learning (or any tbh) content on it available.

On a side note, how feature complete is Textura vs the full 3DCoat? Is it just texturing and baking?

1 Comment
2024/08/02
14:17 UTC

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