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They should stop all development on this software and produce nothing but tutorial videos on how to best use it for a while, pretty sure their userbase would increase tenfold if they took that approach. Or failing that hire someone to do it for them. There's tutorials on their youtube channel, but none of it seems to be in any sort of logical order that makes sense for a beginner, or the videos are 10+ years old on different versions.... its a shame, seems like the software has serious potential from what I've seen of it.
Exactly, please hire someone like Michael Pavlovich to do "the introduction to 3d Coat 2023".
This! Every time I sit down to learn it, I end up frustrated. I've got the latest version of 3d coat on my computer and I'm still going back to Blender to sculpt.
I think its partially due to the fact that the software UI is absolutely shit and impossible to even explain. None of it makes any sense. UI/UX is nothing pilgway have even heard of. When you pick up a tool you've no idea if its going to eat a huge chunk out of your object, or do nothing. I find myself with the depth set to 0.01 % and its too much, and the next tool does next to nothing at 100%. Not to mention the appaling mess of paint objects and layers and all that bullshit. Its a sloppy mess of bullshit. Notice how the video does all the uv mapping and texturing with only one material. Want a model with many materials? Good fucking luck.
Great software. I hope there will be more tutorials for it in the future, since I think more people would use it and adopt it if there was was more logistical support in form of tutorials for it.
They need to VASTLY improve their documentation and tackle different examples like Hard Surface modeling techniques and different type of objects. Cover as many variables as possible. I really love this program, I only recently started using it. May God Bless them!
I swear by 3D Coat, I use it along with Plasticity and Blender. It complements them perfectly for 3D Resin printing and game assets.
The retopology is a strong reason to give it a shot. I'm also impressed by the VDM sampling tool. As far as I know in Zbrush you have to create the detail from scratch on a flat plane so any kind of unique bit you made on a character can't be "reused".
The one main reason it's not that popular is the tutorials. And even when there's a good tutorial, it's often of some previous version and it's going to take you a long frustrating time finding where the button the tutorial mentioned is, either the button is not there anymore or switched to some other location. There's also a lack of clear explanations as to how to get from one part of the workflow to the next. Even something as simple as importing a mesh you're working on into it is confusing because there are options to import meshes into it but the videos don't talk plainly about which particular method is ideal for whatever function you're going to use 3dcoat for.
worst part about it is theres an acute lack of good tutorials
Yeah , thats so true , 😢😢😢 , although it seems to be a professional software
Not true. Tons of 3D tutorials on 3D-Coat here on CZcams.
There's great videos on artstation
@@zetsology Yeah from like four major UI overhauls ago...
3DCoat just need to improve it's poly modeling tools then it will see more uses. Then it will become a full package. It's Polygon modeling tool is still in infancy.
Great! I didn't know to much of 3D Coat and this video shows really cool piece of software it is. It definitely needs more recognition.
The first time i heard of 3D Coat was by a friend who was working at Ubi soft in Montréal, it was arround 2006... He told me that those thing was a potential Zbrush Killer since the smart retopoly was better the stuff run also on Linux and now have a bridge to Blender and it also have PBR texture painting engine feature that can be a serious contender for Substance painter ...
I bought 3D coat in 2017 and I have been using it ever since I love it!!
I've used thus for years maiy to bridge from Blender for fast UV's. The retopo tools are amazing. If you can workout the procedure to auto retopo. Hand retopo is dead easy though.
I tried to use it as a sculpting tool. As for the UI - it is fine, at least much better than one from Zbrush imho. Unfortunately Coat often acts upredictably, you pretty often get the unexpected result, especially when in Voxel mode, plus i do not understand the brush system in Voxel mode - many extra brushes you do not know how to use, but in fact you may get without them as well. It is REALLY hard to use the reference image. Also i could not get the same scale after importing objects from Blender, no matter via brige or not - the imported object is much smaller, than the original. Arrays are complicated, and do not even try to bend something using Bend tool... When in mirror mode the pivot sometimes becomes a pain, you want to change the placement of pivot point, but do not understand, why it makes no effect. When you do the retopology, you do not see the retopo object in other rooms (whyyyyyy???? I know it is possible but why it is not by default??? Fortunately i dont need much retopo work in my flow) And so on. In fact only thing i could do pretty well was texturing - and yes 3DCoat is really good in it, especially in hand painting.
3DCoat lead programmer promised to make a Scale master for this
Regarding the Scale issue, there is a simple fix for this.
If you're sending models from Blender to 3DCoat using the App-Link add-on or by some other means just understand this.
Blender uses Centi-meters by Default and 3DCoat and most other 3D software uses meters.
Now here's the weird thing in my testing even if I set Blender to use meters by default ... and sent the objects from Blender to 3DCoat and exported the final textured model as a .fbx the scale was still off. I have a suspicion that blender or App-link add-on is the culprit.
There is an easy fix though.
When you export the fully textured model from 3DCoat as a .fbx file to you're target rendering platform.
You can apply a transform, so to correct for the scale issue ... multiply the scale by 100.
1m == 100cm
That's all you need to do to fix the scaling issues.
@@rehmanarshad1848 thanks :-) Yes I ended by using fbx too, it keeps size. Still there are many other small bugs that pop up unexpectedly, and this stops me from sculpting in Coat. For exemple very strange process of importing objects, I mean the very beginning, when you already imported an object but for some reason decided to do ctrl z too many times ~ I just loose the imported object. This is weird.
I've used 3DCoat for awhile and its very powerful but man it needs more tutorials and examples for the workflow in it. Its not super hard to use but the scattered info is what makes it hard to get into. The dev team needs to rework their video manual or maybe hire an artist that is more familiar with the software to show how to use it more fluidly.
Proud 3D-Coat user since version 1.0 in 2010.
I tried 3dcoat ages ago on steam, but it didn't support my spacemouse, and trying to use it just made the camera allignment go nuts, so i never went back. I will say though that Coat has some of the best dynamic uving tools i've seen outside of a dedicated uving package like rizumuv (which i have). And while the sculpting does look impressive, Blender uses the same voxel tech under the hood, and while Coat isn't subscription based like zbrush now is (which is why i'm stopping using that), £325 (380 euros) is still a big chunk of cash to drop. And yes, the interface is very much overwhelming for new users.
since a time I'm thought about 3d coat as a texture painter.but seems like it's a huge software.
It is my favorite for doing retopo.
Thank you for sharing this!!
defintly going to give it a try, even if i just use the retopology it will save shit loads of time.
You have to know the full history to understand the mystery. I first tried 3DC around 15 years ago(this was also the era of Mudbox by Sky matter Weta team) when it was in beta. The dev made an error back then that I don't think he ever recovered from. He demanded through his EULA that users of his software adhere to his old testament beliefs and not use his software to create 'graven images) This turned potential users off in droves. It spread like wildfire through the 3D community and 3DC was essentially boycotted. He never came back from it. No studios of famous artists adopted his software, which means no decent work or tutorials were being created, which means no new users were attracted. And even though the program has improved continually it never really recovered from this early set back. And if you look on the EULA today you will still find elements of his old testament beliefs, yet toned down a bit.
@@stanislavchernyshuk6559 Yes, it's not there as a legal demand, but they still have a section on their website asking people not to use the software to create images that would 'provoke wizardry or witchcraft'.
@@stanislavchernyshuk6559 Yes, as I said in the last post, not legally binding. Still, my point still stands, people don't like being lectured to by on the rules of a religion they don't adhere to. If everyone kept their religious beliefs to themselves the world would be a much happier place.
Hmm 5:04 seems like someone isn't listening to the lectures
Please start making tutorials as well!
3D Coat is over $400 and, even though it says 'it's a one time purchase and It's ours forever' the updates are not free after the first year ($50 per update for the second year and and $90 per update for the third!). How often it's updated (and so you pay) is not mentioned. Considering Blender is free I can see why this software has not gained traction in the amateur market.
blender isn't free if you want it to not actually suck (needs a lot of add ons to be half decent.) And tossing $50 their way., every couple of years to help fund development really isn't asking a lot of someone.... IDK how people expect these companies to continue to provide what they do with zero financial backing.
@@anab0lic If you can create add-on, you don't need to pay anything. It only depend on your skill. Blender is free. If you buy the add-on from some developer for your convenience, it is only your choice. LOL
@@TheOne11111 yeah but how many artists are also programers that can create their own add ons? Not many.
$50 for annual upgrade sounds very reasonable to me,after what Maxon had done to Zbrush perpetual upgrade fee
@@anab0lic I think saying vanilla Blender sucks out of the box is a little tough? It's $50 for updates for the first year and then $90 after that - As far as backing goes - Software has always managed to finance itself in the past - it's only recently the subscription model has taken root don't you think?
this is a great program, especially for drawing, but it has very few clear lessons. This is especially true for small details and problems, import, export settings, etc. For 3d coat, it is worth writing a large sequential playlist for all functions so that more people use it.
Please check the Documentation, and there is a Training Tutorials chapter with many playlists
The promama seems spectacular at first glance but to learn how to use it it will give you a lot of headaches as well as a lot of bugs.
It's an amazing piece of software, and you can pay monthly until you pay off the full amount and it's yours forever
3d coat is awesome i prefer 3d coat for sculpting then zbrush then again zbrush autoretopo sometimes is better depends on situation.3d coat is great also for retopo work manually is just out the box one the best ones.Also takes advantage of Ptex painting which is simply superb.
Having previously owned the software, I can confirm it's pretty good, however I personally found the biggest drawback to it is NURBS and hard surface modelling with millimetre level accuracy. It can do hard surface, but it will just be "to look good enough". The other issue is Rigging. There's no way to rig up a character you have finished retopology on.
Sculpting it's very nice, however even Blender can do a lot of this now days, and Blender lets you do it on hard surface.. Both Blender and 3dCoad are GPU accelerated which trumps the utter waste bin ready, over-hyped ZBrush.
Personally, I just find 3dCoat asks a lot of money for a very small aspect of the creation journey for anything other than static "painted clay models"
Considering tools like Blender let you apply live sculpted detail onto a hard surfaced structure that is millimetre perfect, perhaps the real issue is that it's difficult to really appreciate the reason anyone would want to add more complexity to their creation workflow.. like 3D Coat needs to better market why they think it's worth the added cost and complexity.
Sold, gonna give it a go!
all this time i thought 3d coat was explicitly texturing. never knew it was this versatile
I love so much 3DCoat.
What resources or courses do You know where que van starting learning using 3d coat??
Please check the Documentation, and there is a Training Tutorials chapter with many playlists
Jama use it, one of the best in the industry this says it all, I love it amazing software :)
iam very interest, to make a high poly to low poly with this seems to be easy. and i want to see tutorials of this program.
With a student ID card, it looks like you can buy for 5 euro. But they might mean rent for 5 euro /month. (the web page was a little confusing)
How much does it cost in American currency I can't find the amount you only have it in foreign currency.
I love 3D Coat, but I found that it lacks in the ability to create fast block-outs when compared to software like Blender, but you can always just import a block-out and go from there.
The REAL issues I have with 3D Coat is how it handles painting over UV seams and how it destroys the continuity of anything you're trying to paint over on the seams most of the time. Also, the smooth tools in the paint workspace are annoying to work with on seams as well because when they reach a UV border, they attempt to blend the active color with an non-existent BLACK color rather than simply using a 100% transparent color or using the color on the other side of the seam to blend. It's still LEAGES better than any other software I can afford for texture painting, but I find that I have to export most textures(sometimes this also includes things like normal maps too) to other software like Clip Studio when I get to finalizing textures on seams to ensure that the seam transition is smooth.
cant make fast blockouts? Honestly thats one of its greatest strengths.
Its stability was the only issue for me.
Crashey af. When pilgway fixes 3dcoats instability, then Ill take another look at it.
i think the UI is the thing holding it back at this point. i gave it a try, and it's clearly powerful, but it's not exactly intuitive
It's been said over and over again by many people. There needs to be more tutorials. I will admit that the manual is really nice though.
3dcoat seems to utilized mouse over pen tablet. For sculpting, it would be better to have more control access from keyboard shortcut. The brush size and intensity graph from right mouse button is a bit hard to press on the tablet pen. I almost never use the button on the pen because it is not the easiest button to click.
Is there other way to turn on "Masking" function beside the freeze brush button?
You can set keyboard shortcuts for any tool. Freeze is just another word for masking.
WOW so cool 🥰
Huzzah. Kick rocks ZBrush.
I think the price alone makes the software less known.
Only cool for Retopology and auto uv wrap.
I tried this software, is really good indeed but is not really beautiful UI or very organized, they really need to address this issue
i just checked their website and they don't take US currency just euros. Is their a way i can pay another way instead of using european currency?
The original price is in Euros, but during the purchase, when you press the Checkout button, it is automatically converted to the local currency: dollars, pounds, yen, etc. So you will see prices in dollars if you are in the US, and will pay in dollars.
Tell your sponsor to fix the d*mn website, it's impossible to login existing account, register new one or reset password? The FB and Google+ logins already are depricated. The website is truelly unusable....
It don't get love because you try the demo and we'll lol 😂
Pilgway need to do the following to make 3D Coat more popular.
1. Lower the price.
2. Make TONS of tutorials.
Without doing that, BLENDER will remain ahead of 3D Coat in terms of popularity.
There is no doubt that 3dcoat is a very good tool, but it has too many features to know what to use.
Plasticity is CAD software, but the UI is simple and can be learned by artists with little learning cost.
If 3Dcoat could be improved to be a little easier to understand and simpler in its UI, it would be the strongest software to use.
The only thing I hate about this program is the menus
I kind of agree. Would be great if it allow customization for each button distance,size, etc...
I'd be happy to use 3D Coat but I already pirate Substance so no point.
confusing UI interface
still better organized than zbrush
You do a lot of talking and screen shots but not much demos
5 mins ago, damn im early
Why is noone use it if its so sick
tons of industry professionals do like diablo IV, star wars games, league of legends, world of warcraft, etc. just not a lot of hobbyists use it for a lack of tutorials and good marketing on their end
20 thousand users bought a license in 10 years.
I bought 3dCoat some years ago and have tried getting into it a handful of times. Amazing features, absolute garbage UX/UI
Blender is the best because it is free 😂
Blender killed LightWave3D
(Still for sell, but you don’t hear bout it now a days)
It's janky asf
Cool software from Ukraine.