3D Coat is a Imaging and Digital Photo application like Easy GIF, Clip Studio, and Movavi Slide from Pilgway. It has a simple and basic user interface, and most importantly, it is free to download. 3D Coat is an efficient software that is recommended by many Windows PC users. 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production. Using the Cloth Tool to create a clothing item. Apologies for the lack of editing and poor audio in this tutorial, I had very little time, so just went for i. 3d coat is specialized in voxel objects and polygonal sculpture. It uses the Pixel technique which stores the information of light, color, material, and depth on the screen. This is quite cheaper than the z brush if the prices are concerned. This is a bit expensive than the 3d coat as it is more complex. 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production. All Reviews: Very Positive (120) - 89% of the 120 user reviews for this software are positive.

3D-Coat is a commercial digital sculpting program from Pilgway designed to create free-form organic and hard surfaced 3D models from scratch, with tools which enable users to sculpt, add polygonal topology (automatically or manually), create UV maps (automatically or manually), texture the resulting models with natural painting tools, and render static images or animated 'turntable' movies.

The program can also be used to modify imported 3D models from a number of commercial 3D software products by means of plugins called Applinks.^[1] Imported models can be converted into voxel objects for further refinement and for adding high resolution detail, complete UV unwrapping and mapping, as well as adding textures for displacement, bump maps, specular and diffuse color maps. A live connection to a chosen external 3D application can be established through the Applink pipeline, allowing for the transfer of model and texture information.

3D-Coat specializes in voxel sculpting and polygonal sculpting using dynamic patch tessellation^[2] technology and polygonal sculpting tools. It includes 'auto-retopology', a proprietary skinning algorithm.^[3] With minimal input from the user, this technology generates an accurate and functional polygonal mesh skin over any voxel sculpture, (composed primarily of quadrangles), which is the standard that is widely used in 3D production studios. Normally, this kind of polygonal topology must be painstakingly produced by hand.^{[citation needed]}

Features[edit]

Texturing and physically based rendering[edit]

• Microvertex, per-pixel or ptex painting approaches
• Realtime physically based rendering viewport with HDRL^[jargon]
• Smart materials with set-up options
• Multiple paint layers, blending modes, layer groups
• Tight interaction with Photoshop
• Texture size up to 16K
• Ambient occlusion and curvature map calculation
• Toolset for painting tasks

Digital sculpting[edit]

Voxel (volumetric) sculpting[edit]

• No topological constraints
• Complex boolean operations, kit bashing workflow

Traditional sculpting[edit]

• Adaptive dynamic tesselation (Live Clay)
• Dozens of sculpting brushes
• Boolean operations with crisp edges
• 3D printing export wizard

Retopology tools[edit]

• Auto-retopology (Autopo) with user-defined edge loops
• Manual retopo tools
• Possibility to import reference mesh for retopologization
• Ability to use current low-poly mesh as retopo mesh
• Retopo groups with color palette for better management
• Advanced baking settings dialog

UV mapping[edit]

3d Coat Vs Zbrush

• Professional toolset for creating and editing UV-sets
• Native global uniform unwrapping algorithm
• Multiple UV-sets support and management
• Support ABF, LSCM,^{[clarification needed]} and planar unwrapping algorithms
• Individual islands tweaking

References[edit]

1. ^Applinks - 3D-Coat.com
2. ^Dynamic Patch Tessellation, Gamedev.net wiki
3. ^Auto-retopology with accurate edgeloops, Youtube.com

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3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model. 3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production.

Features:

• Voxel Sculpting
• Painting With Layers
• UV-Mapping
• Retopology
• Auto-Retopology
• Rendering
• Intuitive Interface
• Good Linking With Photoshop
• 3DConnexion Support
• CUDA Acceleration
• Cross-Platform
• Ptex Support

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3D Coat default file extension associations

.3b.3dcpack.hotkeys

Common file extensions used by 3D Coat

.bmp.dds.jpg.obj.png.psd.stl.tga.tif.tiff

Other file extensions associated with 3D Coat

.dae.exr.fbx.lwo.ply.ptx.wrl

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