Marmoset Toolbag 3.02 is Available now!

EarthQuake

Marmoset Toolbag 3 is Available Now

It is with great pleasure we announce Toolbag 3’s official release. Check out our shiny new site to try, buy, and learn about the exciting new features: http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag

Animation, global illumination, and brand new, innovative texture baker headline the new version. A revamped interface, enhanced render quality, new skin shader, ArtStation upload, Unity and Unreal export, and many more features and improvements ensure that Toolbag is ready to tackle any challenge, from concept through production.

Revel

Awesome news Joe! Just wondering is there gonna be some kind of license transfer between stand-alone and steam version?
Cus I dont remember seeing one for TB2..

EarthQuake

Revel said:

Awesome news Joe! Just wondering is there gonna be some kind of license transfer between stand-alone and steam version?
Cus I dont remember seeing one for TB2..

Hey, there will be an upgrade option for Toolbag 2 Steam users, in fact the upgrade discount should automatically be applied to your account in that case.

There is no license transfer system to switch from stand alone to steam or vice versa at this time though.

Spoon

Great news!
Do you know when it will go live on Steam, roughly?

EarthQuake

Spoon said:

Great news!
Do you know when it will go live on Steam, roughly?

Soon hopefully! We're waiting for final approval from Valve. There was a minor snag and we had to re-submit, and what with the Holidays here it's a little delayed. Sorry I can't give you a more accurate ETA at this time.

Justo

I don't know if this is the place to ask Joe, but does TB3 import without problems 16 and 32 bit PNGs, TGAs and TIFFs? I always get confused which importer was/is broken in TB2. 

EarthQuake

Justo said:

I don't know if this is the place to ask Joe, but does TB3 import without problems 16 and 32 bit PNGs, TGAs and TIFFs? I always get confused which importer was/is broken in TB2. 

Hi, 16 and 32 bit works for TIFF and PSD, but not for PNG or TGA.

gestoryscht

To bad, its a bit to expensive for a student like me. I hoped it would be 149$ minus black friday discount or something similar.
Maybe one day

But the trial version is awesome. Great work on this release!

tadpole3159

trying to add the licence upgrade to cart gets me this error
"Error establishing a database connection"

EarthQuake

tadpole3159 said:

trying to add the licence upgrade to cart gets me this error
"Error establishing a database connection"

Hey, we were having some issues with the server. We made some adjustments and it should be working again. Let me know if you're still having problems.

Edit: I spoke too soon. Still having problems, looks like GoDaddy has some issues they're working on resolving.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Indik

Played a bit with new GI - wow, thats amazing! Translucency/sss shader is great too! Haven`t checked animation and baker yet.

MichaelF

Server seems super broken, can't even get on the page right now

dand3d

For Greentooth as my witness I have been trying to upgrade since I woke up this morning =(

Elithenia

I think too many people wanted to get it asap  
I'm having the same issue

lotet

yep, page broken for me as well

EarthQuake

Site should be back up and running again. Let me know if you guy see any more errors or anything like that.

Elithenia

Seems to work just fine now. Got my order through

Klo Works

I purchase marmoset 3 but it still shows me as a trial version !

EarthQuake

Klo Works said:

I purchase marmoset 3 but it still shows me as a trial version !

Hi, sorry about that. we had some issues with the website earlier today that may have caused this. Please send an email to support@marmoset.co with your order details and a description of the problem.

EarthQuake

We're on Steam now too: http://store.steampowered.com//app/550060

Hakon

If I purchase on Steam, is my license transferable to the Stand-Alone copy, or will I always need to run it through Steam?

[EDIT]
Nm, I just seen your response to this question higher up in the forum. Will there ever be an option to get it transferable to stand-alone in the future?

bgarneau

Is there any documentation released yet on the new tools? I'm not seeing  anything in the download

remon

UE4 scene importer problem
I'm unsure where to put the Libs folder from the 4.14 file? The other plugin folders have corresponding folders in Epic Games/ 4.14/ Engine but the Libs does not?

For UE4 import I dont get any light option on the importer. Is this to do with the Libs in the wrong place?

Spoon

If it's any help for anyone, I just bought it without any issues at all.

I will echo, that license transfers in the future would be great. I like having everything in Steam, so formatting etc is easier, but my TB3 is stand-alone.

Revel

Got mine as well without any problem!
Well I guess it's worth mentioning +1 for the license transfer between stand-alone and steam in the future

pes

Any estimate date for macOS version?

tadpole3159

I just managed to buy it, black Fridays over and the internet's working again looking very cool so far guys!

EarthQuake

pes said:

Any estimate date for macOS version?

Sorry not yet, likely some time in 2017 though.

pasha_sevez

Joe, does Marmoset 3 export animation to the viewer? I've been expecting this really bad ))

ajz

pasha_sevez said:

Joe, does Marmoset 3 export animation to the viewer? I've been expecting this really bad ))

That's exactly the question I wanted to ask. It seems that the Viewer doesn't support any of the new features (including animation) that were introduced in TB3. Are there any plans to update it? Animation support in the Viewer is currently the most important feature for me.

EarthQuake

ajz said:

pasha_sevez said:

Joe, does Marmoset 3 export animation to the viewer? I've been expecting this really bad ))

That's exactly the question I wanted to ask. It seems that the Viewer doesn't support any of the new features (including animation) that were introduced in TB3. Are there any plans to update it? Animation support in the Viewer is currently the most important feature for me.

Animation is not supported in Viewer currently, and while we've talked about this somewhat, we don't have any immediate plans to support it. It's something that needs further R&D at this point.

pasha_sevez

Then add my +1 to this feature of the viewer in your todo list ). Sketchfab already implemented this feature, but I prefer the render quality of Marmoset. So I hope we'll get animation support one day.

Sajeet

I really liked the beta but to pricy for me with shitty exchange rate to dollars and no real employement

EarthQuake

Sajeet said:

I really liked the beta but to pricy for me with shitty exchange rate to dollars and no real employement

Hi Sajeet, you might want to check on Steam, we have local pricing there, which may be a bit more friendly in your market.

biotron

Any tips on baking good height maps inside of Marmoset Toolbag 3? 

EarthQuake

biotron said:

Any tips on baking good height maps inside of Marmoset Toolbag 3? 

Adjust the min and max settings, you may need to trial and error this to get them in a good range.

NodrawNT

Hey do you think it will be possible to export the cage as an .obj or .fbx and not just use it in TB3 ? I have an issue with the baked maps when imported into another software (Painter 2), where should I report it ?

Glaivie

I have missed the 20% discount by one day. Will there be any other discount in near future?

EarthQuake

Glaivie said:

I have missed the 20% discount by one day. Will there be any other discount in near future?

It's still 20% off on Steam actually: http://store.steampowered.com/app/550060/

biotron

Any plans to support Catmull-Clark Open SubD? 

Spoon

I just tried baking for the first time, and i'm quite sure there must be something wrong.... This is WAY too fast!  

EarthQuake

Spoon said:

I just tried baking for the first time, and i'm quite sure there must be something wrong.... This is WAY too fast!  

When we first started testing the prototype I had a similar experience, the normal map bakes were essentially instant and I was about to tell @jeffdr that something must be wrong because it didn't do anything. Nope, it had baked the entire map already. It was sort of unsettling, I expected to wait at least a little bit.

biotron

I've managed to get some nice results concerning height maps (I'm working on Subdivsion Surfaces using scalar displacement) and the normal maps bake super fast. The cage offset painting is incredibly useful, too. Great job.

NoRank

I know it's kinda dumb question but is it possible to change the channel in the emissive parameter?
Since I normally pack my emissive mask with other masks, I can't really test it if I don't export it as a separated texture...

Spoon

EarthQuake said:

Spoon said:

I just tried baking for the first time, and i'm quite sure there must be something wrong.... This is WAY too fast!  

When we first started testing the prototype I had a similar experience, the normal map bakes were essentially instant and I was about to tell @jeffdr that something must be wrong because it didn't do anything. Nope, it had baked the entire map already. It was sort of unsettling, I expected to wait at least a little bit.

Exactly, Im used to waiting quite long on the AO especially. Great job, guys!

arsmod

Add me to the list of Mac customers waiting...
Will Mac users be able to also take advantage of the 20% off when its released?

Miguelito

Hi Earthquake. I am having problems with rendering out Transparency and GI. I get weird pixely transparent artifacts. Is this a known issue? Also I think with Local Reflections enabled shadowed areas seem to become transparent

Thx

EarthQuake

Miguelito said:

Hi Earthquake. I am having problems with rendering out Transparency and GI. I get weird pixely transparent artifacts. Is this a known issue? Also I think with Local Reflections enabled shadowed areas seem to become transparent

Thx

Generally, rendering with higher sampling (hit ctrl+p, sampling can be set to 100x and 400x now), will improve noise with both dithered blending and local reflections.

If you can post some images of the problem, and/or send me the scene I'll be able to give a more detailed response. Thanks

RobeOmega

EarthQuake said:

Miguelito said:

Hi Earthquake. I am having problems with rendering out Transparency and GI. I get weird pixely transparent artifacts. Is this a known issue? Also I think with Local Reflections enabled shadowed areas seem to become transparent

Thx

Generally, rendering with higher sampling (hit ctrl+p, sampling can be set to 100x and 400x now), will improve noise with both dithered blending and local reflections.

Thank you! Did not know about this. I just assumed that noise was just part of the results from Marmoset. That got rid of the noise in my renders thanks!

Joseph Silverman

Hey, can you transfer arbitrary maps from high to low in toolbag 3's baker, or just albedo/spec/gloss? Need to transfer ~5 maps to lowpoly unwrap and would be really convenient to do it all in one step.
Relatedly, is there a way to bake bump or normal map detail from highpoly (like, bake a highpoly's normals _including_ a normal map applied to it) or is that too much to hope for?

EarthQuake

Joseph Silverman said:

Hey, can you transfer arbitrary maps from high to low in toolbag 3's baker, or just albedo/spec/gloss? Need to transfer ~5 maps to lowpoly unwrap and would be really convenient to do it all in one step.
Relatedly, is there a way to bake bump or normal map detail from highpoly (like, bake a highpoly's normals _including_ a normal map applied to it) or is that too much to hope for?

You can bake arbitrary maps, load them into the albedo slot and bake an albedo map. Whatever you put in there will get baked. There is a bug with padding for these types of maps ATM but this should get fixed for the next build (coming soon!).

Currently normal maps applied to the highpoly materials don't bake down to the final lowpoly normal map. I'll add that to the suggestion list.