unpaintable patches in 3d coat

achillesian

When I work on really low poly stuff in 3d coat, exported as obj from maya I always seem to end up with little patches I can't paint on. If I make the brush really big I can usually color it, but I can't as soon as the brush is small again for details.

Anyone know how to resolve this?

I've tried microvertex painting and it seems to not have this problem, but it doesn't allow me to paint a texture under 512, and doesn't allow me to paint transparency...

BucketOfNuggets

I've never used it, but are your uv's set out correctly prior to the export?

alvordr

I would ask this question in the 3D Coat forums, but I use it all the time now, since I got 3D Coat in December. Are you painting on this in the Voxel Room or the Paint Room? What was your workflow getting it from Maya to the point where you are painting?

Michael Knubben

I had a bug similar to this:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17715/3dc_brushclipping.gif

It was since fixed during the v4 beta run though, are you running the latest version? If not, report this on mantis, their bug tracker. It's really the best way to get stuff fixed, although if there's an urgent bug you can contact customer support through email.

achillesian

Thanks MightyPea, that looks like exactly the same issue. I guess I just need the newest version.

Michael Knubben

If you haven't upgraded to v$, I'd recommend it. The Paint Room hasn't changed drastically, but there have been some very nice improvements, and I like the new interface.

Jason Young

I've had issues similar to that where it wouldn't paint across all of a face. Triangulating the mesh before export has solved most of them. Though, like MightyPea said, the newest version has fixed a lot of paint room issues.