3d-brush App

[jbshorty]

WOW!!! Andrew you are doing some amazing work! The new "Picture Along Spline" looks perfect...

jonah

[Thomas]

Picture along a spline remeber me the new Max 2009 feature : spline deformer for UVs, even if it should be different in 3D brush.

[AndrewShpagin]

I am glad to tell that 2.09 is released. There was more then month since previous update, so it is like double update
The list of features:
1) Merging new objects is possible now! You can add new sub objects like eyes on your WIP.
2) 3D-Coat SDK released.
3) Different uv-sets are placed on different textures, it allows you to use display memory more efficiently and get better quality.
4) LWO import improved - support of multiple UV-sets placed on different textres. Some LWO import bugs was fixed.
5) Vector displacement import/export via exr files.
6) It is possible to tweak uv-set in View texture mode. You can do it using RMB in wireframe mode.
7) Now you can edit not only in 3D, but in UV-plane! It is really complex change. Almost all tools support work in 2D and 3D. Just open View->View/edit/tweak textures and uv-sets and see how it works.

8) Seamless painting in uv-plane. It is easy now to use 3D-Coat to create seampless textures and paint bump. Just go to File->Import image plane

9) You can choose resolution of every uv-set during import and change it any time. Also, you can change resolution of mesh separately for every uv-set.
10) Additional view mode for texture in UV - layout: shaded model

11) Now you can group several materials (surfaces) into single uv-set
12) Select and move now supports symmetry.
13) Gradient select in sculpt mode works better with symmetry and works much better now.
14) Image picker has got navigation controls to scale/move/fit image

15) Wacom pen has got better support: opacity jitter is add for pen and every jitter can depend on pressure if you want. Some wacom - related bugs was fixed.

16) New option in fill tool using gradient - filling with opacity fading

17) ... and filling with spherical gradient

18) New menu item - View->Browse to understand the structure of 3DC folders better

19) Move along motion in pen settings now works with symmetry
20) New nice preview of pens and smart hints

21) it is possible to edit/export/import pens as 16 bit tiffs with 7 cannels - RGBA, Depth, Specular, Erase mask
22) small icons over materials to indicate what layers are in material (depth/color/specular)
23) Soft stroke mode improved much. It can be activated by ALT + S
24) Pen depth can be picked using key 'G'
26) You can copy color/depth/specular/freeze mask separately using topological copy tool
27) Smudge/collapse/expand tool on paint level
Welcome to downloads!

[Frenchy Pilou]

You are some prolific

[carrozza]

Congratulations Andrew! Your creature is growing well and getting more appealing at every (fast) release. Bravo!

[AndrewShpagin]

2.09(2) with french translation released!
Very great thanks to Frenchy Pilou for really huge work!
It was the first success of using online translation system.
The link is there:
www.3d-coat.com/files/3d-Coat-2092-en.exe
Also, several bugfixes and instability issues was fixed there. Thank to all who have sent bugreports!

[Locki]

Hi Andrew, could you write in the features section (or tell us) what 3D and 2D formats 3D-Coat is able to import or export, please ? I heard it was able to import/export OBJ and LWO files. Is it true ? is there any other format ?

Your app is becoming really attractive now that it has been compiled on both Win and Mac

[Frenchy Pilou]

Image only for Locki

[Locki]

Thx, I'm wearing very dark sunglasses today

[Wася]

When I looked at it for a first time, how much was it? $20? $30? Can't remember, but it was fair price.
Now it costs $120, and it is still fair price.

The website is still half-assed - when I tried to fill the form in Russian my name was rejected, because it's wrong (my real name! it's wrong!! ), and special offer link points to nowhere. However...

[AndrewShpagin]

oh, excuse, I will tell to webmaster about "wrong" name.

The special offer was disabled because there was no sales from CIS countries until 26 of august (our first customer from Russia). But there are very many customers from USA, Japan, GB, Canada, ... So special offer was forgotten and then disabled (without actual requests).

But link was broken - it was really bad... fixed.

[Wася]

Ok, it's good that you've fix it. My heart will not broken because of this $30, but the whole thing including the dead link leaves bad impression.

And I never overrated the law-abiding of Russian software users, but to be the only one of the whole country ... (updated) - the whole CIS?

[AndrewShpagin]

Congratulations to be a first CIS customer! I was happy when I have seen that sale report! I have even told to my coworker to translate whole russian text in Russian.xml. Btw, it is sooo difficult to find russian translation of CG words

[Wася]

that's why I use programs including yours in English

[jbshorty]

Originally Posted by Wася

Ok, it's good that you've fix it. My heart will not broken because of this $30, but the whole thing including the dead link leaves bad impression.

And I never overrated the law-abiding of Russian software users, but to be the only one of the whole country ... (updated) - the whole CIS?

Wacr "The Chosen One"...

[Wася]

Actually it makes me sad. So we have people who can do things, but we have no domestic market for them at all. And it's not like 3d-coat is unknown here - I found 18 news reports at render dot ru - popular Russian CG resource.
I can understand when people do not buy Maya here - local "partners" sell it at $15000 (US price is $5000), but that's only about $100! And 3D artists are not that poor here - they do not harvest cloth and food from garbage cans. That sucks.

[bwtr]

I just had a few seconds PLAY with the 3D Coat Version3 Alpha/Beta!

And I have MoI as well----ohhhhh!--what fun!

Brian