Blender + 3D Coat SUPER FAST TEXTURE WORKFLOW 

wow never thouoght of it like that!? substance painter and z brush alternative! insane!

some things that helped me with coats eccentricities was getting help on their discord server, posting on their forums and tons of you tube vids. i think once you know where some of the land mines are you can work around them. i keep telling them to really step up their QA dept. i think though the software is much easier to use than zb or others. thats why i kept pushing in to use it despite its quirks. heres my coat playlist... ru-vid.com/group/PLTws_PUJ0rh7UilUzES43A-CwtnwHmZly

@@marsmotion My workflow currently is blender and 3d coat, i do my modelling and part of my sculpting in blender and i use coat for destruction sculpting and painting and sometime uv and retopo.

Hmm, strange. I'll have to look into it. I textured a simple box for the shelf under the skull in the thumbnail image, and I think the edge detect worked fine without any bevel iirc.

@@MotionApprentice I dont do subdivision surface. Using subdivision the PBR shader does work. But really stacks up the polycount. Edit Using a cylinder it works. Using a cube theres issues.

For low poly and hardsurface modeling, you should first do the UV in Blender, then send it to 3dcoat. The auto unwrap in 3dcoat will give you weird results sometime, also the curvature will be wrong calculated.

@@janvollgod7221 I always unwrap in Blender. If you use Meshmachine to remove a bevel change the bevel and import into 3dcoat faces just disappear. Yet in 3dcoat uv section the faces are present. Kitops has a tool to do the worn edge and hits it every time. I like the things 3dcoat has in painting and texturing but until I find out why these things happen I wont upgrade.

i had this only when i exported something without applying the modifier.

Did you ever figure that out? and is 3D coat better than Substance? if you've used substance

@@EmvyBeats I actually haven't decided yet. lol. I like them both.

Mine will go over, but I still get the pop-up saying that the 3DC2Blender folder isn't linked properly.

Good question, I was just wondering the same thing.

if you need features like Substance, you can buy 3dcoat textura, it's relative cheap €95, actually and you get everything you need for doing things like in the video above. The 3dcoat package is not comparable to substance, because 3dcoat can do much more than substance. If you like the interface you can nearly do the full pipeline in 3dcoat. Sculpting, poly modeling, UV's, PBR and Vertex painting. Of course worth to mention is that 3dcoat has one of the best UV and Retopo module on the market. Many bought 3dcoat only for this. If you are used to adobe products, then i guess you will be easier with substance. I think its a matter of taste and workflow. 3dcoat is very fast in a lot of thing, but idiotic slow and complicated in other things. But the development is very tight with the users, so bugs often disappear hours after they were found. The Package is very mighty and you can do great stuff, but like i said, you must get used to this cluttered interface and the "betaish" look and feel. If you use blender, then 3dcoat or Textura may be the better companion than substance. Especially when you go over 4k textures, and it optimally fills all Blender weaknesses, like the pathetic UV Editor they still have in 3.x.

I have substance suite and i drop painter for 3d coat, i don't use painter anymore since 3d coat is way superior to it. I am a game dev and 20 years veteran 3d artist so i tried them all.

@@petertremblay3725 why is 3d coat superior?

@@KriegLives Intuitive, fast, amazing set of painting tools and great pbr functionalities!

Thanks man! Yeah 3D Coat is super underrated. I also love Fluent Materializer for quicker simpler stuff.

It didn't work for me until I played around and followed a few guides on the 3DC community site. I still get the pop-up message though.