A lot of the baking will be done in a substance or marmoset based application as well. Now they could send it to 3D coat for retopo, UV and painting (though when that happens its usually stylized, like with Blizzard), in fact 3D Coat is the go to application for hand painted textures. Some of the best digital sculptors, even for game art, work in zbrush for the most part, even with retopo. It means that you may not be used for all tasks, but rather one specialized task, you may be part of the pipeline but not THE PIPELINE itself.
#Mudbox vs 3d coat pro
With regards to being a multipurpose piece of software, that is both a pro and a con. I also agree that 3D coat is better, sculpting wise, than mudbox though if Autodesk prioritizes mudbox again to be the zbrush competitor, 3D Coat could get knocked back a peg.
It doesn't need to be of course, but at this point in time, zbrush is just too far ahead. To call 3D Coat sub-par to zbrush, love it or hate it, is a tad accurate. Naturally I agree with the sentiment regarding Autodesk "throwing in the towel" in part due to 3D Coat. But for now, they've merely shown a pulse by fixing a host of bugs. When Mudbox comes out with 37 new feature and bugfixing builds in a year, then maybe we can talk about it making a comeback. It already does in most other areas (Retopo, UV and Texture Painting). It's a firm 2nd behind ZBrush, and considering that 3D Coat is more of a multi-purpose app, rather than a specialty, it doesn't need to beat ZBrush in sculpting, head to head. I hope Andrew will finally get around to adding Sculpt layers and revamp some of the tools like Pose and the Curves tool, but let's stop pretending 3D Coat sculpting is subpar. 3D Coat has way more brushes and tools just in the Sculpt workspace, than Mudbox, and the brush feel is already on par with Mudbox. Because for them, it wasn't generating enough revenue, and it was facing stiff competition from 3D Coat, and ZBrush was adding more and more modeling tools, which Mudbox still doesn't offer. The biggest one at risk would not be zbrush so much as 3D coat.ģD Coat is already a better sculpting app than Mudbox, by a mile, and that is why AD probably threw in the towel years ago. If Autodesk gets back into the 3D Sculpting game (even with texture painting thrown in), it will change the current dynamic we have now. I hoped 3D coat would be the serious contender but so far its not showing signs of serious competition.
The market is open to competition, but no one has stepped up to the plate to really match Pixologic. Either will give you great value for your dollar really and allow you to do everything you need from beginning to end.I think they also realized there is still no serious competition to Zbrush. Pixologic has shown they are paying attention too with their latest updates, which though not as frequent, are usually major despite being point releases. Now is an especially great time to get involved because he’s working hard on v4, which is going to be the next major release, and is seeking opinions and bug reports from users. Updates are very frequent and Andrew will usually fix a reported bug, or even add a requested feature, when asked. One thing I really love about 3D Coat is how attentive the developer is to artists. It’s impossible to decide which one is better really. Voxels can be a lot of fun and very liberating, very much like real clay in fact, though ZBrush has made decent strides in this area lately too thanks to Dynamesh. Most everything else I prefer 3D Coat for, especially retopology. I like ZBrush for sculpting and rendering, the latter being light years ahead of 3D Coat (though still no where near renderers like V-ray).
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