3D Coat

What do you like best?

I used a blender for a long time. The only thing I lacked in it was sculpturing. He is in it, but it cannot be compared with what I can do in a 3d koat.

Working with voxels gives you the opportunity to make prototypes of meshes of any (and exact including) sizes and shapes, using boolean operations, without any problems.

Great performance margin. Sorry if you find Blender constantly mentioned annoyingly, but there on my hardware, two or three million people were given brakes in sculpting. In the coats in voxels or surfaces, I get tens of millions of polygons without any performance problems.

This program is great for creating various prototypes. In order to make a model from and to, from sculpting to a finished model in a couple of tens to hundreds of thousands of polygons for a game or a movie, it will take effort. Unfortunately, the room of retopology is not perfect, but I think it's still good for its price.

Despite the shortcomings I described, yet at the moment in version .37 I can work at least in voxels to create the basis of my models.

What do you dislike?

Disgusting community in the English-speaking forum. For any criticism of the program or developers you are blocked. No response to error messages. Lack of response to suggestions.

In fact, you are faced with the fact that in this program you are left to your own devices. For the program there is no amount of textbooks or video tutorials as for a zbrash or blender.

I use this program for a year and I constantly encounter the fact that the simplest actions can cause the program to fly dozens of times an hour. Somewhere it stably works, but somewhere an hour does not pass without heaps of fussing where it should not be, in an attempt to circumvent the madness of the developers.

In fact, the sculpture room is the only thing that really succeeded in the program (I use it only in fact), because the retopology cannot even remove peaks due to bugs (in one version you can, in the other not, today it is removed, tomorrow the stars are not in that order they stand in heaven).

Other rooms are stuck in some of their time, not meeting the requirements of reality. The program as if in the tail reaches for advanced products.

The situation is aggravated by the fact that according to rumors, developers can do anything, but for great benefit, the benefit is clearly not in line with how much revenue comes from users buying the program. In the end, I want to say - why pay? ..

As a result, ignoring the mistakes of developers, inadequate community on the official website, can lead to the fact that you will be disappointed with your choice.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I believe that there is only one full room in the program - a sculpture room.

I recommend doing boolean operations in voxels (millions of voxels are required for detailing), and use polygons for final polishing.

Get ready for the bugs. They and this program are inextricably linked.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The program is good for prototyping. Full-scale models in it can be done, but be prepared for instability. In addition, I immediately recommend making some kind of hard-surfer model (as part of your main model) in other programs, since it's not easy to make them (at a reasonable polygon and time).