Questions tagged [sculpting]
Questions pertaining to Blender's built in sculpting tools and or plugins.
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Objects messed up when I re-open the file
I'm not an expert in Blender (and sorry for my english), so I'm really having troubles with an issue I'll describe here:
I've modeled a body with every part as a different object.
I want to sculpt it ...
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How to make mayonnaise hang down in blender 2.92
I am creating a 3d birger in blender 2.92 using cycles renderer. I want the mayonnaise in the burger to hang down like real life but I don't know how. Should I try to model or sculpt it? Please help.
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Some sculpting bugs (I think) with 2.92
I've upgraded to 2.92 and have had some issues with the masking tools and the hotkeys in sculpt mode. The masking tools don't always appear, and I often have to clear the mask from the menu as I can't ...
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Switch Object key “D” not working on sculpt mode 2.92
From what I've seen on the tutorial videos, simply pressing the "D" key on an inactive object while on sculpt mode should swap that object to active for scultping.
It does not work for me. I ...
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In sculpt mode, how can an alpha brush texture be projected onto the mesh, instead of being projected from my current view?
I want the brick brush texture to be applied according to the normals of the mesh(red arrows), not from the current view (blue arrows).
Have I missed something obvious? Thanks in advance.
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Blender destroys sculpt whenever saving
I've been working on this sculpt for over two hours now and all I am doing right now is I have disabled DynTopo to move the mouth a bit more inwards. It works like a charm. After that I hit ctrl+S to ...
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Why are my brush strokes in sculpting not smooth but leaves dents
So im having some issues with sculpting and looking for a solution is difficult. Im in sculpting and im trying to make scratches on an axe head. I make strokes but they are not smooth but look more ...
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Green faces in sculpt mode but I don't think I did anything
I was re-making an anvil following blender guru's tutorial(because I applied modifiers in wrong order and screw up without backup) but suddenly I saw gaping holes in my mesh and had a mini-panic and ...
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Creating and moving mask in Sculpt Mode
I'd like to create a mask(in sculpt mode) that would move, up/down with a custom slider. The first problem I have is Blender crashing down after i run this simple script.
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How can I merge this Head and Body models?
I have a Head model extracted from PES 2021 (let's call it head01) and a Daz Studio Genesis 3 avatar. I would like to delete the head on the avatar and change it with the one I have extracted, but the ...
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What is the Most Effective Modelling/Sculpting Method for this Reference?
hope we're all well!
Was in the process of modelling this 2D styled vintage hand cartoon. With this model, I'm up to modelling the palm of the hand, and as you can see in the 2D reference there's a ...
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How to solve weird geometry when sculpting uv sphere? [duplicate]
FYI - I'm pretty new to blender.
I'm playing around with the sculpting tools and was using the grab / inflate brushes on a UV sphere mesh that I had previously used a subsurf modifier on. It gets this ...
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How to sculpt in realtime?
To see each brush stroke I first must switch to Edit mode, then back to Sculpt mode. How can I see a brush stroke in realtime?
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Hiding vertices doesn't work in sculpt mode
I am trying to do some slight model edits via sculpt mode, but only need some parts to be affected. I find it much easier to select and hide the vertices than to use the mask brush in sculpt mode, but ...
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Where is the Symmetrize option under Remesh is located now?
where is the "symmetrize" option that used to be under "Dyntopo" > "Remesh" now? I'm using 2.9, and I couldn't find it
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Sculpting armatured object requires switch to edit mode to see result
Using any brush on the armatured high poly model requires 2xtab (edit mode -> sculpt mode) in order to see the stroke.
The problem is new (could sculpt the high ...
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Sculpting. I started to encounter some lag after subdividing
I've recently started using Blender and I wanted to try some sculpting. After some subdividing, I started to encounter some lag. Anything I do takes about a second or two to show up.
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After changing my voxel size from .03m to 1m, my mesh sculpture disappeared and I don't knowhow to get it back. How do I fix this?
I am relatively new to blender so I'm hoping this will be an easy fix... I was sculpting a samurai mask with my Voxel size at .03m but then I changed it to 1 m and my mesh dissapeared. I tried ...
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Got a weird problem subdividing an object that I want to sculpt and texture
I got this face model that I want to work with and in every way that I've tried to make it high-poly it becoming a mess with a lot of stripes on it but the typology looks right and the problem is that ...
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How do I model animals? [closed]
I just wanted to learn how to model animals in blender and then I started modeling straightforward using a low poly model tutorial, then I tried to make it middle poly and realized I dont really have ...
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Issue with Clay Strips - Subtracting?
I'm new to Blender (using 2.91) and have been playing around with the sculpting. I am having an issue with the clay strips brush. When I use it on the front, it seems to be subtracting from the back....
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Black faces in scultping cant remove them
Here is the image, of what's happening. Before that i pressed shift, then something else, and i don't know how to fix it.
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Issues when changing to Sculpting Mode
So as a lot of people, I am going through Blender Gurus donut videos. I have gotten to the part where we change to sculpting mode. When I change over, the icing on my donut disappears and all I can ...
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Help and Advice in Regards to Smoothing out a Sculpted Model
Recently started teaching myself Blender and 3D modeling. I have a background in Graphic Design, and feel like my real strength is a program like Illustrator where it's easy to draw with geometric ...
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how can I model sculpture parts and exporting them for laser cut without distortion?
I am a blender beginner. I am making metal sculptures by welding laser cutted pieces. normally I am drawing several random shapes and exporting them as dxf/dwg files. I use those random shapes , ...
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how can I separate these 2 fingers?
I managed to sculpt a hand but the ring and middle finger are united half way.. How can I make a distance between them? My .blend file is here:
Here are some pics:
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There are some blue lines in my mesh, and wherever they intersect, vertices are locked. How do i remove it?
I was following the donut tutorial. I applied all the modifiers, and then there were some blue lines in the mesh. In the place where there should be vertices, there is nothing and that is locked in ...
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Sharp and Crisp Detail Lines In Sculpt Mode
I'm in the 3d printing space and I wanted to sculpt detail lines on the surface of an object via sculpting. Whenever I do it, i get the rounded effect rather than the sharp hard crisp lines like on a ...
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Displacement result has sharp edges
I wanted to do a simple test on a cube. I created uvs, added a mlutires modifier, and did some sculpting. Then I baked a displacement map, following Royal Skies tutorial. But it doesn't really ...
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Hide FaceSets Visivility
Is there a way to hide the colours of the facesets we have created without hiding the geometry that belong to them?
A sort of a.... Shift +F in Zbrush Equivalent. A toggle to hide or show the mesh ...
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duplicated stroke
when I stroke in sculpt mode it does a second identical one there's a second dot as well showing me where the identical line
this second line/dot is always on the opposite side of the sculpture does ...
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The brush in sculpt mode isn't sensitive enough
I'm new to Blender and learning how to sculpt, and when I try to use my mouse to sculpt it takes multiple passes with the mouse to making any visible indent when the tutorial I'm following can do it ...
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How can I make this arm accessory?
I want to make some sort of arm accessory/ cover, but I don't know how I should approach it. Here is a reference picture.
All of them are a cylinder sculpted with multiresolution modifier. Here is ...
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Images as planes in Solid View Shading
I was wondering if there is any way to load images as planes in a way that they are visible in solid view to use as a reference.
We know that loading images as planes make them easy to scale so it ...
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Blender 2.92 Beta. Sculpting mode. Tools panel doesnt show brush options
I recently updated to 2.92 Beta to start playing with some of the new options.
Is it there a reason the Tools panel in the properties panel doesn't show the brush properties.
As you can see in the ...
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Sculpt mode smooth doesn't work
I am trying to sculpt the edges of a mesh but smooth option is not working - I can see the brush but it's not changing anything in the mesh. All the other brushes are working. Suprisingly, when I ...
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How can I make parts of my mesh slightly transparent in sculpt/edit mode?
Im sculpting a character model, and there are bits of it that get in the way.
I could hide them completely, but then its easy to lose track of proportions and move things where they shouldn't be.
Is ...
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Transition between planes
I want to create a landscape with multiple planes and sculpting. I want to have a transition between the planes so I don't have a gap or overlap planes.
Could someone please help me?
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Sculpting Not Working Correctly, Only 1 Vertex able to Sculpt
I am at a complete loss and trying to get the most basic of sculpting working. For now I'm just trying to take the basic Cylinder mesh and go to sculpting and draw squiggles onto the side of it so it ...
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Big lag while Sculpting fine details
I've tried sculpting fine details with alpha maps but it always lags so bad. I've used Dynatopo with constant detail for it which works at first, but then the poly count starts rising and everything ...
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Sculpt Tools Stopped working
I was sculpting my object, and all the sudden all my brushes stopped working. When I click the object and move the brush absolutely nothing happens. I was sculpting using dyntopo and symmetry across x ...
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How can I sculpt multiple objects to fit together?
I am attempting to create a model of the prostate as four different objects that can combine together to form the complete prostate. In the end, this model will be 3D printed and will be disassembled ...
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Carving or sculpting model ship decorations
Good evening,
I am fairly new to Blender with the intent to 3D-print my own decorations for a ship model. I have looked at both wood carving and sculpting tutorials, but find it difficult to decide ...
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Icing is getting inside the donut in sculpting mode
So I'm doing my first donut in Blender, but what I've noticed is that a big part of the icing is getting inside the donut in sculpting mode. It's completely normally laying on the donut in layout mode,...
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Vertices seem to be stuck when sculpting
I'm working on a model, and I can move vertices in edit mode just fine but once I go into sculpting there are certain vertices that refuse to budge the way they should.
This is how it looks unedited.
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How to make my sculpting smooth?
I just started blender yesterday and begin sculpting a face. I used dyntopo to add more poly to the mesh, but why is it still pointy? How to smooth it even more? I tried the smooth brush and ...
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Smooth brush destroys my mesh
So i'm sculpting and, sometimes, specially after i made a big change in the surface with any other brush, the smooth brush completely destroys the geometry that was there. This only happens after i've ...
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Where's the sculpt radius?
When I go into sculp mode the radius that defines your brush isn't appearing. I don't know if it's because I turned it off but it makes it hard to sculp without it.
Edit: Never mind it just got ...
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Newbie: how to remove tangled vertices?
Been racking my brain and google trying to figure out how to delete the vertices highlighted without putting a hole in it or messing up the mesh. Any ideas? Thanks
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Shape Keys are not working when dyntopo is used to change the mesh
I was sculpting a shape which also needed to be animated. So I used dyntopo to stretch out a part of the model but the shape key is not working. I unchecked dyntopo and stretched out the mesh but its ...
