3D Coat Node graph editor 101 

I agree with you. I love working with node graphs but only when they allow me to build both simple and complex material, just feels natural, but it becomes a blocker when the setup is not clear and limited by available nodes and not much in the area of documentation. I still struggle to create meaningful node-based materials, so I've kind of stopped using them until they evolve further. I really hope they improve it, and I would like to work in nodes for the smart materials as well, and not just the surface materials. Anyway, that's pretty much my 2 cents. I do love how the developers do push on some of the really cool cutting-edge tools, like volumetric painting (would love to take advantage of more complex usages of nodes in this area as well), and the whole factures system.

@@industrytuts5272 I agree with you - I can just try to imagine yours frustration while trying to solve this riddle without ANY DOCUMENTATION on 3d COat's site, and without proper tutorial, not to mention while great amount of features is buggy. I don't share enthusiasm for 3d Coat any more - My biggest problem with 3d Coat is that they developers are stubborn and really don't care about user needs or suggestions. I've wrote them few times, last mail 3y ago in which I begged them to incorporate some basic changes to UI for voxel sculpting, in order to make whole procedure more user friendly > basically to incorporate some features of box Cutter addon for blender. They were not interested - cause they were focused on other things then- after 2y they finally did this partially - BUT only after majority of artists migrated to blender...

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Thanks Eric! Yeah, I found that out later on as well. 😃👍