

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. In this first video volume of 12 volumes 3D Instructor Adam Gibson introduces the 3D student to the powerful texturing tools of 3D Coat 2021. It includes "auto-retopology", a proprietary skinning algorithm.

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.ģD-Coat specializes in voxel sculpting and polygonal sculpting using dynamic patch tessellation technology and polygonal sculpting tools. 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. The advantage of this method is that it preserves all. The actual raytracing of the displaced surface is done in texture space, and the result is mapped back into 3D space. The displaced surface is rendered as a warped height-field based on that texture map. The resulting displacement map was al- Most perfecto, but had a few Little. 2D Displacement Bases the displacement on a texture map that is known in advance. 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. Voxel sculpting, retopologa and texturing happened in 3d-Coat, so there. 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.
