Environment Artists; do any of you use 3d coat?

Zepic

Let's talk 3D coat for environments.
Can you make tiling textures relatively easy?
Can you build modular objects relatively easily? What about hardsurface modeling?
What about painting textures? Does it have UV mapping features that are environment friendly?
These are just a few questions I have, please, by all means share your pros and cons of the program.

tristamus

I use it strictly for retopologizing. It is excellent. However, I've also heard incredible things concerning it's painting tools. As for modeling, hard surface, etc, I know nothing concerning doing that within 3DCoat.

Scruples

3dcoat is great for tiling textures, reasons being
- 3dcoat supports spec maps and layers with blending modes
-This > [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jzGdn8sNGU"]3dcoat tiled sculpting demonstration - YouTube[/ame]
-Interoperability with Photoshop, exports .psd with layers and blending modes intact.

Zepic

Tha'nks for the replies.
Has anybody here tried the voxel sculpting? Can you get the same fidelity like ZBrush?

Justin Meisse

3D-Coat has a trial, give it a try, it's pretty great.

Zepic

Justin Meisse wrote: »

3D-Coat has a trial, give it a try, it's pretty great.

Thanks, I didn't even know that.

Another question, if anyone can answer... How would you go about getting a hipoly model baked down to a low poly? In ZBRush you can use decimation master; export it to your 3d app of choice for baking. However, seeing how 3d coat is voxel based, does it have something similar? Does it convert the voxels to polys when exporting out? I'm just trying to wrap my head around its workflow.

BeatKitano

You can use voxels or traditional polys in 3dcoat, depending ion how you import (or convert in the software).

Basicaly you can import obj and choose to voxelize or not, and then decimate on export.
Just like zbrush.

Zepic

BeatKitano wrote: »

You can use voxels or traditional polys in 3dcoat, depending ion how you import (or convert in the software).

Basicaly you can import obj and choose to voxelize or not, and then decimate on export.
Just like zbrush.

Nice; how's the quality of the decimation? Is it comparable to ZBRush?

Zepic

Here's some interesting news, you can buy 3D coat on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/100980/