![]() ![]() Nobody would press Pixologic or the Blender devs that hard to implement voxels, or smart materials. Otherwise, they are crying there for years (e.g. They act as if they have ownership over the software, and so 3D Coat constantly gets ("shockingly")critiqued by these people, who want to have each and every feature they see in other apps inside this multipurpose app, in the same amount of versatility or quality. ![]() But those usually scream the loudest there, and IMO, hurt the brand quite a lot, likely being part of preventing it from attracting more professional users. When you start investigating, you see most of this cringe and hurtful or upright unprofessional communication on there (and on YT) is by hobbyists/amateurs (just look at their portfolios, if they have any) that have a big mouth and nothing to back it up. These posts are still there and when you search for help you often find these odd posts like "I will not be silent this time" or the likes, which are super cringe. I saw incredibly hostile, snobbish, un-thankful, weird comments and posts that were super off-putting to me as a new user learning the software, and it can make the software seem unprofessional. One of 3D Coat's biggest problems IMO is the amount of angry noob mob that roams their forums and discord as a user base. I am glad that someone points this out, as I was super fed up with seeing all these generic "UI sucks" comments on even the most recent of their YT videos as the predominant aspect talked about. In my opinion the highest priority (aside from generally improving the capabilities of the software of course) should be to create more easy to follow along tutorials that are actually recent and perhaps promote the software to more content creators. The official tutorials are helpful when you put in some additional effort but for total newcomers they are kind of a nightmare because they are a sometimes a decade old and it can be confusing where everything is. In my opinion the only thing 3DCoat is truly lacking are actually helpful tutorials. UI is not the reason why 3D Coat isn't successful when abominations like Zbrush UI exist and is still considered the best sculpting software. Yes it does have a few things you won't get immediately (like with any software honestly) but most things go smoothly. On every new release i see people commenting on Youtube on how the UI isn't good, i honestly believe its quite the contrary, this is the best UI i have seen so far in any software. If this software now also had rigging capabilities it would be the swiss army knife for 3D modeling imo. The sculpting feels amazing, the topology and UV tools are fantastic and the painting is hands down the best ever for hand painted styles. If I find that it is not working correctly, I delete that alpha or stencil from the palette, open the original file, manipulate that file, save it, and import it into 3D-Coat until it's the way I want it to be.How come this software is so unknown ? This has been the most pleasant experience ive EVER had with any 3D software yet (and ive tried quite a few). ![]() I always do it that way with my alphas and stencils. That way, you avoid making mistakes by changing a file with 4 layers (Color, Height, Spec, Erase), it's much easier to work on your original alpha (texture) with just a single layer. If you want to edit these alphas, I advise you to open the original alpha (texture), make your changes, save to the appropriate extension, and then import Alpha again into 3D-Coat. Remember that if you want a 16-bit alpha (texture) that has logically more quality, convert or save your alphas (texture) in TIF, PNG or EXR format (which are the only extensions currently accepted by 3D-Coat in 16-bit) and then import it into 3D-Coat. 3D-coat will automatically create for you the alpha with all channels. The most practical and easy way to create alpha in 3D-Coat and I always do this is to drag this Alpha (texture) from your Explorer to the Alpha palette. I know it's not what you'd like to hear, but for me it's the best option to deal with in creating alphas or stencils: ![]()
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