Mudbox Tessellation
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its live... woho... its so much fun to work like that...
https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/thebuzz/announcing-mudbox-20182-update-and-introducing-dynamic-tessellation/
and a lot of bugfixes...
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/file_downloads/Mudbox2018.2-Readme.htm
https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/thebuzz/announcing-mudbox-20182-update-and-introducing-dynamic-tessellation/
and a lot of bugfixes...
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/sites/default/files/file_downloads/Mudbox2018.2-Readme.htm
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For those interested in trying it for free, Blender has it too with the "Dyntopo" option in sculpt mode and it is a huuuuge time saver. It is especially valuable at the rough blockout stage, because unlike dynamesh this allows to have rough parts and refined parts at the same time - no need to subdivide everything, and everything remains lightweight and not blobby/mushy.
Ironically enough this actually ties back to the workflow paradigm of Mudbox 1.07 (pre-Autodesk), relying heavily on gradual local subdivision as opposed to subdividing everything at once. Different implementation here but same great concept. Very cool.
its ideal for concept sculpting... or modifying scandata...
Giving a quick look over the release notes though I didn't see any way to punch holes through meshs or an optional way to merge intersecting faces?
However, like pointed up earlier, I think it's really sad that a free to use general focused software like Blender had a similar feature years before it has been implemented in Mudbox, an actual sculpting focused software...-_-
The only reason why I'd use Mb is probably because of it's very simple and user friendly interface...Zbrush feels a bit too cluttered and wonky for me...
i use a lot maya modeling tools on those tessellation meshes and do further work in mudbox...
there are no booleans in mudbox for now...
to reiterate what polyhertz said can we not combine meshes like dynamesh allows? I take it that comes under no boolean tools then.
the new tesselation feature is also interesting for cleaning up and modifying scandata...
scanned objects are a big thing in feature film enviroments...
at the moment it does whipe out the uvs but with some tricks you can get tham back later in maya...
there are a lot of new posiblities now with mud... specially in concept sculpting...
Second Autodesk was hinting at adding these features to Maya, I suppose it was easier to add them to Mudbox.
Third, alot of long standing Mudbox users including myself dropped subscription because Autodesk didn't give a timeline, they didn't inform us of nothing a few years ago. It would be nice if those whom dropped out within the past 2-3 years could if they desired get back on subscription for a discount; and tell those who desire to come back to subscription, hint at what Autodesk plans are for Mudbox; not as many had to suffer with empty releases in the past.
As far as I am concerned I am willing to be pleasantly surprised, but not willing to give them any $ in advance. I stopped regularly updating Mudbox at version 2012 because bugs kept creeping in across releases, and some features even got removed at some point. And last time I checked (version 2017 or so ?) the overall performance took a nose dive - so, thanks but no thanks.
2012 still runs fine, and I now use it exclusively for ... faces. Everything else I now do mostly directly in Blender, with a little bit of Zbrush.
Keeping a close eye on this new release for sure - let's see what they can do.
https://80.lv/articles/autodesk-decides-to-reinvest-in-mudbox/
It's baking tools are still a slow sluggish nightmare.
It kicks zBrush's ass at painting materials but it doesn't support PBR materials or the workflow.
It doesn't come close to Substance Painter for materials, layers, masking, generators and particle painting.
There is a lot of ground to cover to make up for where the industry is at now, but not so far that they can't bring it up to spec. A lot of that viewport and rendering work could translate back into Maya and Max so it's not a waste, they both desperately need it.
Their pricing model probably can't compete with zBrush. No one can compete with "rich dude is willing to sell at a loss to be the industry leader". Still, I bought Mudbox v1 and zBrush v1.2. Two guesses which one still gives me access to the latest version without charging me anything. I feel guilty for keeping zBrush current, but paying to be a Mudbox beta tester again, no thanks.
blender has similar thing, it's great, but slow as dick.
Hmmm, not quite.
I hadn't heard about that until just now. As one of the original beta testers of Sculptris, and a big proponent of the app before the Pixologic buyout, I'm really glad to see its technology finally get revived like this (even if it's just a mode in ZBrush now).
But yea, not a good day for Autodesk.
Now that Sculptris is implemented into zbrush, that feature doesnt feel so hero anymore.
if you need a clean topo for animation or a game res mesh you need todo a retopo...
and that is nothing special... there are enough good tools for retopo out there...
here a vid i did to show how such a workflow could look like... with half automated retopo..
i see the missing . is now in your avatar...
i have a annual subscription but have 2018.2 update sitting and catching dust mainly beacause i havent had to time to redo all my hotkeys, brushes, stamps, stencils, etc. basically re-create my whole user profile from scratch. also what Pior said.
i dont see any way to transfer my old profile to new mudbox. i would think autodesk would spend more time on something like preset/profile manager to have this sorted. we only been asking for more than a decade. if there is a way to do this please let me know, other wise I will wait for an update that is worth the trouble.
it does also work for cleaning scandata...
you could try to copy over the hotkey save files... but there is no realy clean way todo that...
i would update only for the bugfixes... they invested a lot in stability...