Modular Town Design in 3D Coat

Balance big and small shapes with the pose tool and 80/20 proportions, using rectangular selections and reset axes to adjust parts.

Cut out windows and door frames across mesh using the hide tool. Unhide and hide portions of mesh to perform non-destructive edits, then delete hidden polygons to finalize changes.

Use the cut off tool for fast, destructive editing, knowing deletions can’t be easily undone or hidden. Employ it cautiously to avoid leaving hidden voxels in memory.

Use the split tool to divide a building into layers, select and cut parts with a rectangular tool, hide removed sections, and adjust gaps for a natural look.

Isolate and hide layers in 3D Coat by alt-clicking the layer icon and pressing I, then use ghost transparency to view a neutral element.

Explore resampling in the resample menu to adjust density when combining parts in modular town design, observing how lowering density affects the joined geometry.

Design a modular town in 3d coat by building outer wooden shells, testing walls with blob and split tools, and adding vents, windows, and simple interior details.

Use the sphere tool to create cable details at adjustable sizes beyond the 40 limit. Drag cables around the room mesh and use the line brush to build angled structures.

Learn how the brush vox hide tool in 3D Coat lets you paint while hiding voxels, enabling broken wood planks and damaged walls with realistic geometry and deformations.

Explore voxel hide with stencils in 3D Coat to generate complex, grungy patterns and fences, adjust gamma for contrast, and experiment with stencil grids and brushes.

Merge the building into a single object, then split into multiple shaped chunks using the split tool and visible cuts, adjusting density and labeling parts like walls.

Create extra props for the modular town by adding street lights, debris piles, and cables, then reuse and vary with rotation, scale, blob tool, and boolean operations.

Explore practical brushes in 3D Coat, switching between rectangular and triangular tools to paint on normal map, depth, closest, and metal channels with adjustable opacity.

Explore the smart material editor and adjust color, seeing how changes affect the paint and the material itself. Save as new to add this material to the material palette.

Watch a timelapse of cloth texturing in 3d coat for modular town design, detailing blue plastic material, color overlays, rust maps, ambient occlusion tweaks, and multi-layer noise and bleaching techniques.

Use instancing to build the town layout, keeping polygons low and memory usage steady while you scale or rotate objects toward 1 to 2 million triangles.

Use free 3D scans from Excel Pack as human scale references to calibrate your modular town design in 3D Coat, featuring low poly figurines to keep proportions accurate.

Switch to cycles in Blender with alpha 3.3 for faster renders. Tweak lighting, shadows, camera clip, and export a final 4k png render.