SculptingģD-Coat has two sculpting modes, Surface Mode and volumetric Voxel Mode. I am enjoying to use 3D-Coat for many kind of modelling tasks now. Seeing the PBR introduced in 4.5 made me to upgrade my licence.

3D-Coat 3 had bugs, and often the UV tools crashed the application it had especially trouble dealing with objects with many pieces. I’m glad to say that the current version is rather stable. I didn’t dare to step into the sculpting room since I was such a big fan of ZBrush since the earlier days and didn’t want to compromise my learned shortcuts. I have been big fan of 3D-Coat since version 3 what caught my attention that time was the ability to unwrap models so easily and per-pixel painting. This scifi pistol concept was completely created in 3D Coat. Heck, it even has a rudimentary cloth simulation and instancing! It is completely possible to finish a complete modelling project without ever having to leave the application. (Only thing ZBrush can do at the moment is a BPR, a Best Preview Render, not PBR, acronym chaos!).ģD-Coat is extremely well featured package. It can do both volumetric and surface based 3D sculpting, re-topology, UV unwrapping, per-pixel texture painting directly on a model (without never having to watch UV seam), baking, PBR in both variants (Metal-Rough & Spec-Gloss), Ptex, and render nice previews of the model with HDRI environment maps. The present version rivals and even surpasses some of the features in ZBrush 4R7, and now after 4.5 update 3D-Coat can do PBR. It has grown to a mature multi-tool that is taken seriously now even by larger production companies. Pilgway’s 3D-Coat has done something quite extraordinary over the last couple of years, it has placed itself in a sweet spot of a market dominated by ZBrush, Mari and earlier, Mudbox.

3D-Coat Review splash screen Introduction to 3D-Coat

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