[3DCoat] Painting on multiple UV'ed meshes (and possibly multiple maps?)

Spudnik

Is it possible to load in multiple UV'ed meshes into 3DCoat for per-pixel painting? I have a model consisting of multiple penetrating meshes for efficiency that share one texture map. What I'd like to do is load them all into 3DCoat separately and then be able to quickly switch between isolating one of them for painting or having them all visible (like for example in Zbrush when polypainting multiple subtools).

Additionally, is it possible to do the same thing but with meshes that _don't_ share a texture map? I'd imagine I'd have to assign different textures to different meshes inside of 3DCoat somehow...

I feel like this (at least the first part) should be extremely easy and I'm just overlooking the big red button that allows me to do it... halp!

huffer

Hmm, just import everything, then isolate what you need with the hide tool by double clicking on subobjects. I'm not sure about multiple textures, but 3d coat can read multiple uv channels, maybe that can be helpful

oglu

yes its possible...
its working a little bit different than in mudbox or mari but its possible...

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4UsDbtiPg[/ame]

Spudnik

Thanks for the input so far. When I import two different objects that share a UVmap/texture, they come in as two different sub-objects (which I want), but also using two different surface materials (which I don't want). And I can't seem to be able to merge two Surface Materials...