Mudbox 2.0

doc rob

Got an email from Skymatter today with this tidbit:

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Mudbox 2.0 introduces production-quality texture painting tools with the Chameleon Engine, greater performance, and many more enhancements we look forward to announcing in the coming months. If you have questions, please first visit the updated FAQ page.

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http://mudbox3d.com/faqs.html

Sounds pretty damn awesome to me. Anybody got any more info on 2.0?

Slum

Yeah, I'm excited to check this out. This could very well be the 3d painting app we've all been wanting for many years. There's not enough info to tell, yet though Hopefully they have a demo of 2.0, or at least a video of the painting features.

Joshua Stubbles

http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=216783&an=0&page=0#Post216783

:P He beat ya by a few minutes
MB2.0 sounds cool though, if they do in fact add texturing.

ElysiumGX

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This could very well be the 3d painting app we've all been wanting for many years.

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It IS the 3d painting app we've all been wanting for many years. Considering it was designed, from the start, for the purpose of 3D object sculpting.

Slum

I recently picked up Zbrush3 because I was not pleased with how Mudbox performed on my machine. ZBrush can handle a million polys without stuttering. Mudbox was slow as... a box full of mud.

doc rob

I think performance is the second major focus of the new version, along with the texture painting.

THOUGHT: Often you need to re-topo the low poly and UV before painting textures. Will these features be in Mud 2.0? That seems overly ambitious. I imagine the workflow will still require export, re-topo, and UV in an outside package before coming back to Mud for texturing.

James Edwards

Ely: Well, considering that I'm STILL using Zbrush, almost entirely because I can throw bigger meshes at it AND paint in it right now, I'd say NOT YET. =]

I have high confidence that Skymatter will rock it with 2.0, but I'll leave the absolutes till I see the upgrade with my own eyes.

thomasp

yeah, don't feed the hype and make it sound like the second coming - not again. we will know soon enough how it stacks up.
for now it merely sounds[/b] promising.

verybad

Gahh! I need to see a release date. I was planning on picking up ZB3, but now I wanna see a comparison.

Neox

you'll have to wait for siggraph till you get further informations