Learn What Smart Materials Can Do and How to Create Your Own in 3D Coat.

3d Coat is a one-stop powerhouse for sculpting, texture painting, retopology, and UV editing. It’s texture painting abilities include what 3DC calls Smart Materials. A new tutorial from PolyToots covers working with the materials and includes what they are, how they work and how you can create your own.

The physically -based shart shaders involve so much more than the Viewport in 3D-Coat. The materials house parameters that let you quickly get realistic materials with physically accurate results. The tutorial walks through creating materials for a treasure chest asset that makes good use of the unique material attributes in 3DC.