3D-Coat News
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
3D-Brush v.2.06 now out!
1) Preview in fill tool. The new realtime preview in fill tool.
2) Fill the material of objec. Now you can fill the material of object with the fill pattern.
3) Fill the sub-object. You can fill the sub-object with the fill pattern.
4) Gradient filling. You can use gradient filling in fill tool in much more intuitive way.
5) Cavity painting mode.
6) Hew/saturation/lightness dialog now works with preview, the action can be limited by object/material
7) Grids and snap to grid.
8) Environment mapping. The model could be viewed with environment mapping
9) Curves tool. The spacing in curves tool has become more correct, so that points are placed uniformly over the closed curve:
10) New arrows. Several new arrows types in curve tool:
11) Manual updated.
12) Many minor bugs fixed.
Visit topic on forum for details.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
3D-Brush 2.05 has been released!
The list of new features:
1) Adaptive geometry: now geometry will be additionaly automatically subdivided during edit process in dependence
of details to get well displaced surface. It is very new and algoritmically very complex feature.
2) You can import big meshes now, up to 700 K. Many optimisatons was done to make it possible.
3) Initial subdivision. You can alter level of initial subdivision during mesh import. Now you can specify mid-poly mesh resolution.
4) New measure tool, you can measure distance in most common units - meters, inches, yards, miles, etc. Also the coordinate of picked point is printed in the right bottom corner.
5) Custom material mapping. New method of custom material mapping in custom fill pattern - mapping over existing uv-set. It allows to paing clothes in more easy way.
6) Masks are implemented. The mask is modulator for pen depth and transparency. The mask and materials could be moved and rotated independently using new navigation controls.
7) Masks and materials could be rotated discretely on 45 degrees using SHIFT.
8) Many stability improvements.
9) New interface style. Interface looks now more clear and sharp.
10) jpg export is correct now.
Curves changes:
11) Square forms. Some curve points could be marked as sharp. So you can make square forms in easy way.
12) Whole curve could be moved/scaled/rotated using new navigation controls.
13) Curve can be closed.
13) Arrows. You can draw arrows in easy way.
14) New curve drawing mode - spacing mode. Points will be set along curve with some spacing and jittering. It allows to make new effects with cirves.
15) Curves will be drawn correctly, even if knot points are far from each other and surface between them is curved much.
Layers changes:
16) Layers masking (linking) is implemented. One layer can mask another layer in non-destructive way.
17) Freeze. You can freeze the transparent or painted area of the layer. In this way you can use layer's transparency to paint selectively on another layers. It is like CTRL+click on layer in Photoshop. You can use CTRL+click on layer in 3DB now.
Visit topic on forum for details.
To download 3d-brush 2.05 visit Download page.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
3D-Brush 2.04 has been released!
1) Texture baking tool - possibility to project current mesh on another one with completely different topology and get textures of normals, color and specular.
2) Importing normalmap. It does not displaces a geometry, but creates a new layer with corresponding blending. It allows you to add details on already existing normalmap.
3) Smooth stroke - it allows you to make smooth and accurate strokes.
4) Camera/materials shortcuts.
5) Lock absolute depth. Possibility to lock absolute depth independently on radius using lock icon in top panel
6) Lock screen radius of the pen. Possibility to lock screen radius of the pen.
7) Redo. Redo is done
8) Layers menu. Layers menu is reorganised, it is much more convenient now
9) Undo. Undo works now for merge up/down, merge visible, delete layer
10) Presets window. Presets window works well with folders, it switches pen/strip/material folder if need.
11) Filter for drawing. Additional filter for drawing - pen pressure can depend on layer displacement.
12) Filters. Several filters - smooth/sharpen layer, adjust hew/saturation/lightness of the layer.
13) New user manual. New user manual, pdf and chm formats
14) Add entire folder with pens
15) Navigation with pen. Navigation with pen is improved, you can pan using LMB+RMB
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Price for January
The price is valid for a period lasting until the 31th of January.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
3D-Brush 2.03 has been released!
25.12.07 - Theme: release of 3D-Brush 2.03
The list of new features:
1) 3D-Brush now supports 3D-Mouse! This device could be used not only to navigate, but also to vary radius/ depth/ opacity/ rotation/ focal shift/ specular.
2) FBX import was done. It is important because it stores properly the smoothing groups.
3) Draw with multiple random pens - use CTRL to select several pens.
4) Presets window. The new important feature - presets window. You can store there full state of pen shape/ radius/ depth/ strip shape/ material/ filler/ color/ smooth and restore that settings any time by one click. It can speed up work much.
5) Export low-poly meshes with original positions of vertices. It is mostly important for users who use Auto-mapping.
6) Pen sensitivity slider in options.
7) The new navigation bar is implemented, it can be useful for those peoples who use pen.
8) New user manual!
9) Stability improvements.
10) New pens. Several new pens.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Festive price for Christmas!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Release of 3D-Brush 2.02
3D-Brush 2.02 has been released!
The list of changes (in comparison with 2.01):
1) Unwrapping tool. New unwrapping tool, now it is wery easy to create uv-set for the model.
2) Topological symmetry is implemented. You should define two symmetrical faces to define this symmetry. After that you can flip layers with symmetry or copy the layer to the opposite side.
3) LWO files can be used like brushes.
4) 5 types of color pickers are implemented - all of them are movable and resizable.
5) Stability improvements, many bug fixes.
6) Focal shift slider implemented.
7) Flipping sliders on top panel (Focal depth & smooth degree are also there now).
8) Storing last folders.
9) Custom fill patterns. Now you can make your own custom fill patterns in Fill tool. They will be applied with cube mapping with soft edges. It allows to make seamless cube mapping.
10) Cube mapping improved (in materials menu): preview during texture moving is now very convinient, cube mapping becomes seamless.
11) Clone tool and Sculpt tool now uses alpha even if it is not round.
12) Window position. 3DB stores window position.
13) Drawing performance improved.
14) Hue variation is add to color change tool.
15) Picking top layer. You can pick top layer by pressing 'H'.
16) Navigation with pen improved (it was difficult to navigate with pen).