3dcoat Perfect Panels

making panels in 3dcoat by creating a retopo mesh of strips that gets turned into a voxel lattice work which then gets subtracted from a main mesh. then some minor smoothing is done. then converted to mesh mesh cleaned and decimated.
the idea here is to make something that doesnt have the usual artifacts from drawing panels with a brush or forces you to cut your mesh up when with alot of panels that wouldnt work. i also wanted a more consistent result.
the good part of doing this was i could re do it when i wanted since it was made from two meshes that got boolean-ed. coats retopo room was essential with its tool set which is very robust. the mesh import tool in sculpt was also important.
if someone has a better way im all ears.

[@Vexod14]

Interesting !
You can also do this in the pain room using either the blend or max modes for the depth when using your brush or paint just color then lock layer opacity and fill out depth only. I personally prefer doing such details in texture part of the process because that way I can still restart from scratch and make another pannel variant to make a completely different skin

[@marsmotion]

thats a great way to approach it also. maybe even superior and less work, unless your going to say sub painter or marmoset etc. but yea agree great point

[@strangeapprentice]

great info you got there! Trying this out! Thank you for sharing

[@marsmotion]

glad you found something useful from it

[@ThreeDCreate]

Thanks for sharing your process with creating panel cuts!

[@suizenjiful]

なるほど。こういうやり方があるのか。動画を作ってくれてありがとう

[@marsmotion]

to do what exactly? please restate your question?

[@suizenjiful]

@@marsmotion It's a very clear explanation, so I wrote to thank you for making the video.
I hope you can understand what I mean because I don't speak English.

[@takerefuge3d]

Nice Tutorial - recently recorded a tutorial on panels in plasticity and blender not too long ago and ended up doing it 5 times because of the OBS audio bug! maybe that is why this was recommended to me :D, any way Subbed! never used 3d coat looks like a program I wanna try out!

[@marsmotion]

yeah man that sucked...lol...nothing like talking to yourself twice! coat is fun def try it. save often tho and save incrementally and wait till your sure its really saved. the one feature ive asked for is let me know when the thing is done saving my file and if it saves successfully. i like feedback cuz im paranoid about such things

[@yuxia644]

Wow that's a beautiful clean surface you've made. I've always had hard time polishing curvy or flat hard surface in 3dcoat. For a while I even thought I should just let go of it and focus more on concept. Would you consider sharing your experience making beautiful surface with 3dcoat? And Thx for the trick.

[@marsmotion]

so my init surface was a simple sub-d model i brought into coat for detailing...from blender...so im cheating there. if i was to do this in coat id make a sculpt shape thats kind of the right thing then go and retopo it into a nice thing i could subdivide in surf mode in coat and or reimport into sculpt from retopo then subdivide and smooth from there. use of poly room can do same as blender as well...just pers pref here. from smooth sculpt details start low res and slowly move up in res as you go. then you can get smoother details shapes even in sculpt.