mudbox tips

Rhinokey

now that mudbox is out, (i purchased mine over the weekend!)
i was wanting to start a thread for people to post tips and techniques for it, i really havent used it enough to develope any,, but looking foreward to stealing yours!

rooster

I prefer where possible to draw in where I want sharp edges with bulge or soft and build up each side to roughly flat, then use flatten/smooth either side, and then accentuate the edge with pinch. Just doing it with pinch I find leaves too many polys bunched up at the sharp edges and loses potential detail elsewhere. Maybe I'm not using pinch correctly?

Joao Sapiro

i just use pinch really at the end , since it pulls to many polygons i try to use mid level detail to bring out the forms, and in the last level might pinch something

Entity

Don't forget the most important tip ever, always use each subdivision to the fullest!

Renaud Galand

Ok, I found this @ work and it's working pretty well for me.

\\edit : pwnd by scratch tool

Joao Sapiro

ahaha amazing thanks !

Rhinokey

yeah that makes sense cause you are then painting the crease. theres also another brush i think that would work with the normal stencil.. scratch maybe? i'm not sure,

Steve Schulze

Yeah, scratch just alters the very surface without really bulging out or pushing in. Its handy for wrinkles and the like as well as stencils.

Ruz

hmm i can't get it to work properly. I import my quad model in which is fine and dandy, then when i subdivide, it looks like its no longer quads.
lots of crazy patterns like when you subdivide a tri mesh in max

poopinmymouth

That's because you have a version of mudbox that doesn't like Quads (like one of the beta versions). You either need the final version, or you need to make sure your mesh is 100% quads. Easiest way is to just pop on a tesselate modifier with 0% tension, set to quads.

Joshua Stubbles

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That's because you have a version of mudbox that doesn't like triangles

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Fixed

doc rob

Renaud Galand, I'd bet that the reason your stencil is bumping up the surface is because it's primarily white. Just adjust the levels in photoshop so that it's closer to 50% grey.

Ruz

cheers for that poop. I still prefer z brush though.
I am one of the few who actually likes the crazy interface

Vitor

Make that two Ruz. Intuitive UIs are for the noobs bah...

Pedro Amorim

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Make that two Ruz. Intuitive UIs are for the noobs bah...

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Psyk0

Intuitive UIs are for impatient people like me XD.

thomasp

for pure sculpting it's definitive the preferrable app. but atm i find it a bit too crashhappy and slow. nice that we are able to configure even the navigation freely. not so nice that the hotkey dialog is a pain to use.

Rhinokey

you guys can please take the zbrsuh v/s mudbox conversations to another thread perhaps?