3D-Coat is a commercial

digital sculpting Digital sculpting, also known as sculpt modeling or 3D sculpting, is the use of software that offers tools to push, pull, smooth, grab, pinch or otherwise manipulate a digital object as if it were made of a real-life substance such as clay. Sculp ...

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. Imported models can be converted into

voxel In 3D computer graphics, a voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. As with pixels in a 2D bitmap, voxels themselves do not typically have their position (i.e. coordinates) explicitly encoded with their values. Ins ...

objects for further refinement and for adding high resolution detail, complete UV unwrapping and mapping, as well as adding textures for displacement,

bump map Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calcu ...

s, 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

sculpting and polygonal sculpting using dynamic patch tessellation technology and polygonal sculpting tools. It includes "auto-

retopology Retopology (or retopo) is a step in the 3D modeling process where an object's polygonal mesh is modified or recreated to obtain a cleaner layout while maintaining nearly the same physical shape of the model. Owing to its complexity, retopology is c ...

", a proprietary skinning algorithmAuto-retopology with accurate edgeloops
Youtube.com which generates a polygonal mesh skin over any voxel sculpture, composed primarily of quadrangles.

Features

Texturing and physically based rendering

* Microvertex, per-pixel or ptex painting approaches * Realtime

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viewport with HDRL * Smart materials with set-up options * Multiple paint layers, blending modes, layer groups * Tight interaction with

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* Texture size up to 16K * Ambient occlusion and curvature map calculation * Toolset for painting tasks

Digital sculpting

Voxel (volumetric) sculpting

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

Traditional sculpting

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

Retopology tools

* 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

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settings dialog

UV mapping

* Professional toolset for creating and editing UV-sets * Native global uniform unwrapping algorithm * Multiple UV-sets support and management * Support ABF, LSCM, and planar unwrapping algorithms * Individual islands tweaking

References

External links

3D-Coat website
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