Member Chloe99 Posted November 27, 2012 Member Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 I have sculpted many voxel-based sculptures with 3DC. I am using the muscle tool. For some reason, the muscle shape drawn is only about 10% of the brush circle-shape size chosen. Other tools-- clay, smooth, operate with the selected brush size. I assume some setting was inadvertently changed somewhere. I've tried closing and opening other files but, even in those, the muscle drawn is only about 10% of the brush size chosen. Any ideas why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Tony Nemo Posted November 27, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 What brush alpha are you using? The ones with little or no alpha will give the thickest muscles. But then you must know that after "many voxel based sculptures", so I'm stumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted November 27, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 27, 2012 Check that falloff is set to low number so is focal shift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chloe99 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 i "Reset this page to default" (the voxels page), but still the focal shift slider does not appear in the top nav bar. I can't figure out how to display the focal shift slider. On this 3d coat tutorial video I see a slider there: When I click the ~ to bring up the floating panel there is Radius, Falloff, Depth, Opacity & Specularity, but no Focal Shift. I just downloaded and installed the most recent 3DC version and there is still no focal shift slider in the voxels room. I'm afraid somehow the focal shift was changed but I cant access the slider. Any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chloe99 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 this image shows the ratio of the brush size (yellow) to muscle (in blue) created. Perhaps my 3 year-old son plunked some mysterious setting keyboard shortcut in the 30 seconds he got to my machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputable Contributor digman Posted November 28, 2012 Reputable Contributor Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 For the later 3.7 series and the beta 4 series, Focal shift has to be first selected in the preferences menu \ brushing section for it to show up in the top tool panel tool panel. I would test the muscle tool on a default scene from the new menu for voxel mode... Close 3DCoat and reopen for the new scene. Choose one of the voxel spheres Test the muscle tool. If it works correctly then you know it is a problem related to that scene which appears to have a scanned voxel object in it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted November 28, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 That's waht I whould do too, I've the feeling the scale of your scene is the reason it's behaving this way. Or you're using tablet pressure incorrectly (it could even be that you're using the function without an actual tablet in fact). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chloe99 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I started a new file, selected a sphere primitive. Same weird muscle-brush size discrepancy. I changed preferences to add focal to top tool panel. I uninstalled 3DC. The deleted the 3DC folder from Program Files folder. When I reopened 3DC, same thing. I previously customized the UI and my UI customization is still there. Any idea how I can utterly delete everthing related to 3DC so I can reinstall it then this would have to be back to normal, right??? I've wasted hours on this. I'm happy to do anything that would fix it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted November 28, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 In that case just go into C:\Users\Yourusername\Documents\3D-CoatV4 (or 3x depending on what's installed), and delete everything inside, and reinstall again. Also if you're using a tablet, try pressing harder on the tip to see if you get changes in the radius of your strokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chloe99 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 oh, such gratitude. Thank you. Hallelujah, I've heard there was a secret chord... The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted November 28, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 So, what fixed it ? Because, other may bump into the same issue... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chloe99 Posted November 28, 2012 Author Member Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I'm afraid I delete all the program files including In that case just go into C:\Users\Yourusername\Documents\3D-CoatV3, then reinstalled. I'm not using a tablet. There may have been a setting related to that, I don't know. That's one possible fix I didn't track down. but total reinstall did it for me. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted November 28, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Ok, if it happens again, try to look at the radius/depth settings in the top bar and see if they're set to mouse mode not to tablet mode (clicking on the icons switches that). Glad you got it fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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