About This Software

Easy Texturing & PBR

• Microvertex, Per-pixel or Ptex painting approaches
  
• Realtime Physically Based Rendering viewport with HDRL
  
• Smart Materials with easy set-up options
  
• Multiple paint Layers. Popular blending modes. Layer groups
  
• Tight interaction with Photoshop
  
• Texture size up to 16k
  
• Fast Ambient Occlusion and Curvature map calculation
  
• Rich toolset for all kind of painting tasks, and more...

Digital Sculpting

• No topological constraints. Sculpt as you would with Clay
  
• Complex boolean operations. Fast kit bashing workflow
  
• Adaptive dynamic tesselation (Live Clay)
  
• Dozens of fast and fluid sculpting brushes
  
• Boolean operations with crisp edges
  
• 3D Printing Export Wizard.

Ultimate Retopo Tools

• Auto-retopology (AUTOPO) with user-defined edge loops
  
• Fast and easy-to-use manual Retopo tools
  
• Possibility to import reference mesh for retopologization
  
• Retopo groups with color palette for better management
  
• Advanced baking settings dialog

Fast & Friendly UV Mapping

• Professional toolset for creating and editing UV-sets
  
• Native Global Uniform (GU) unwrapping algorithm
  
• Multiple UV-sets support and management
  
• Support ABF, LSCM, and Planar unwrapping algorithms
  
• Individual islands tweaking
  
• Lastly, it is fast, easy, and fun to use.

3DCoat Amateur version vs. the Professional version

• No commercial usage, but you may earn money from TF2 and DOTA 2 items.
  
• Textures size to export is limited to 2048x2048
  
• Limited to 7 layers

• The ultimate set of 3DCoat tools and features.
  
• Rights to use 3D-Coat commercially.