Paint Spikes and Non-Painted Areas in Mudbox

acealmighty13

I'm learning to use Mudbox 2011 and I have run into a situation while I'm painting the model in which the color I use to cover a particular area will spike in any direction and paint more than what I've wanted. Or I can't paint a small area for some strange reason. I do not have any areas covered with Freeze. It's as if the paint is following a vertex or polygon and stretches out to fill the area in. My mesh is sitting at 12 million+ polygons right now and I haven't the slightest clue.



The blue and purple areas, I had no issues with. This area in between and similar, have had all kinds of issues with this spiking. Does this have anything to do with the sculpting tools I used in this area? Or didn't use?

oglu

could i see the uvs... could be a unfold problem...

it has no effect in mudbox if you paint on a that dens mesh... mudbox internally only uses a 100k mesh to do the painting unless you incease the option in the prefs... its Face Count for Speed optimization in the paint prefs...

acealmighty13

Here are the UVs. I could see how it is possible for the layout to be a problem but the area in question are the four small strips. That's the only area this is occurring.

McGreed

Don't know how it actually is, but you might need to relax the UV, I cannot see any of the 'sides' of the brown strips.

acealmighty13

I'll try and relax the UV's. The original set turned out horrible and this was my attempt to get the square checkers I needed for the textures to appear as they should. I might have to unwrap them in a different way for the relax effect to work the way it should.