I paint dead people...

[othornton]

A LW Zombie I've been painting with 3D-Coat. Images are just screen-capped from 3DC and comped into one image.

Cheers,

-Oliver

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[Mitja]

You paint dead people, and see dead people...
...like in a famous movie!
Anyway, scary result!

[GregMalick]

eeeshhhk!

Sufficiently grotesque.
congratulations.

[othornton]

Thanks guys! The only problem with a model like this is when to stop painting. 3DC just makes it way to easy to carve in veins, wrinkles, gore, etc.

-Oliver

[creativecontrol]

I'm quite interested in 3DC. How well does it work with LW, is import/export easy and reliable?

How do you like the program otherwise?

[othornton]

Honestly, it's the closest thing to a love-child of Photoshop and ZBrush out there. If I had any complaints about 3DC it would be that the developer, Andrew Shpagin, adds features faster than I can get a handle on them. For the price there's nothing better for quickly texturing models, especially if you work with displacement or normal maps. It even handles AO calculation, 2d & 3d painting, seamless texture painting, Layer masking, Tablet support, UV-Mapping, Vector Displacement, and the current Beta release marks the addition of retopoligization tools (say that ten times fast).

Download the Demo. Be pleasantly surprised. Don't be dissauded by any intial lack of graphical power compared to ZB, the exported displacements, normals, and textures are much higher quality than can be viewed in 3DC itself. This is an issue I've addressed with Andrew recently, and he has quietly suggested this could change soon and he is generally not prone to exaggeration.

I'll post some renders as soon as I'm done tweaking my nodes.

[creativecontrol]

That's very encouraging to hear. I will give it a try. Mainly I just need a good 3D texture painter, I don't need scupting and displacement so much.

One more thing. Is it stable?

[iojabba]

I tried the demo, and it is just way too cool. I'm not even sure what I will use it for yet, but for $120 I don't think I can pass it up.

[othornton]

One more thing. Is it stable?

Very, but the resources the program uses rise with the detail of your model. A lot of people have reported being able to use 3D-Coat on machines with fairly meager performance with no noticable problems. I was running into some memory limits, mainly because I use so many layers and paint at 4096x4096, but since upgrading to Vista64 and 8GB RAM the performance has become so smooth that I have to push it pretty hard before I notice any real lag.

I should also mention that this program plays better with LWO files than any other 3rd party app I've used. The only import issues I've had usually turned out to be problems with my own UVs; i.e. user error.

[Surrealist.]

Great to hear. Thanks for all the info. Oh and nice job. :)