Questions tagged [sculpting]

Questions pertaining to Blender's built in sculpting tools and or plugins.

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Veikk 1560 (Wacom Cintiq alternative) compatibility issues

Hello dear Blender users! I'm an avid Blender user myself, and I've been looking for an option to sculpt faster than with my mouse (LOL, to be fair, I'm pretty decent at it anyway but it's veeeeryyyy ...
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Model doesn't appear in Solid Sculpt mode

I am a blender newbie here trying to sculpt this model but it doesn't show in Solid mode and also can't do anything in other shading mode . What am I doing wrong ?
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Extrude pattern from modeled mesh

I have been trying multiple methods to extrude motifs from a figure. The end result should look like raised skin off the model. I've tried modeling it on as well as using different modifiers but can't ...
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How to remove these line shading artifacts?

How do I remove these ugly shading lines? I have tried selecting the loop and using inset. I have tried subdivision surface. I have tried edge split modifier. Nothing works. Any help is appreciated.
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Remove parts of object, which are inside of another object

I want to remove the inside parts to retopo this model (made in nomad) properly: The hair wrapping around the body is also inside the body: I want to remove the parts of the hair inside the body. ...
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There is weird artifact inside my model its not letting me sculpt properly!

I made a rat head model from a quad mesh. Then I downloaded an fbx model and deleted its rig armature, resized it and put the rat head on the models head, and booled them together. I sculped the whole ...
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How can I relocate the Transform tool in Sculpt mode (Blender2.81)?

I tried to relocate the position of this tool but the same time my mesh (its unmasked part exactly) was also transformed. Well If i mask out the whole object I can manipulate the tool's position, ...
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Same sculpting curve on multiple brushes?

I've looked around the internet, but couldn't find anything about this.. Is there any way to use the same sculpting curve for multiple brushes? I'd like to first draw sharp along a curve to make a ...
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creating bas relief from 2d vector curves

I am trying to create bas relief type models from curves created from an svg. I filled then extruded the curve, now I want sculpt and/or bevel the parts using the curves as a guide. For example, for ...
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sculpt tool is stuck to z axis

I have a student working on a sculpt and i'm not sure how they locked the tool to the z axis I can't unlock it or change it's axis to anything else
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How can make more yellow point for sculpting

I am a newbie to Blender. I try to make the figure of the body. I follow all instruction from this video youtube tutorial. (slow down 0.25 to follow).After finish basic figure turn to the part of ...
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sculpting mirror is not topological

Is there possibility to mirror based on topology? Now After Moving the mesh with Armature, sculpting mirror option works in local coordinates without taking the account modified mesh. May be there an ...
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What is happening with my sculpt tools/viewport?

I have just finished sculpting the body of my model and moved on to do the hands separately. I joined the objects, remeshed, and checked the normals of the final object. I have cleared masks and ...
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How can I smooth these lumps and bumps, to match with that of the surrounding surface?

I am trying to get rid of these creases, lumps and bumps so the result is a continuous smooth surface. I have looked at so many different ways to smooth and flatten, but so far this is the best I ...
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Remesh breaks the surface of object

I've just started to learn Blender by following a tutorial on youtube. My problem is that when I remesh this object, the surface breaks. I don't know what causes this since I'm following the tutorial ...
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I could use some help finding the scripting tab

Hello I am just starting out with blender. I am taking the animation class on bloop one of the lessons calls for using the scripting tab to find rigify I think its called. My problem is I can't find ...
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Why is this area is shaded a darker color in sculpt mode under the layout tab but regular in the sculpt mode tab?

Why is this area is shaded a darker color in sculpt mode under the layout tab but regular in the sculpt mode tab? Not sure why this is happening. Its fine with the rest of my objects. Are the faces ...
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Lag in Sculpt Mode

I struggle with lag while sculpting. I am beginner in blender. I created an anvil (from Blender Guru tutorial) it has over 883,200 faces. When I navigate, everything is fine. I only have lag when I ...
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Is there a way to smooth a mesh without it flattening?

When sculpting a mesh in Blender, the mesh looks all lumpy. I try to use the smoothing tool to smooth out the lumps but it flattens that part of the mesh. Is there a way to smooth a mesh out yet keep ...
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Custom alpha brush

I've created this custom brush and my goal is to have a fairly deep cut in the middle, preferably below geometry where I'm sculpting and have the two lines on either side sticking out but only a ...
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Is there a way to move the sculpt tools (grab tool for example) away or towards the user?

I am sculpting some features and I want to make some precise sculpting moves. With the grab tool, I would like to grab a part of the mesh and move it "away" from me, without any lateral movement of ...
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How do I fill/fit an object into the empty space of another (eg the center filling of a cookie)

I'm not actually looking for an answer to help me currently (at least I don't think). Ive managed to move past this step with an acceptable result, but as a beginner, I suspect that there are much ...
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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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How do I have two perspective views for sculpting?

I am learning to sculpt in Blender and I ran into an annoying problem. The problem is that when I move the mouse, the tool moved in parallel to the screen. I was hoping that quad view would solve the ...
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Sculpt mode remesh settings

I have ran into a problem when sculpting. While sculpting I would hit the "Shift R" buttons to bring up a grid to see what size of remeshing I would do before I would "Ctrl R". Now ...
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Help creating a texture for cookie - not sure how to improve texture bump with my simple texture node tree

I am trying to recreate this cookie: but I am stuck on how to create this crumbly/cracking like texture. I am using the Voronoi Texture -> Bump, which I think gives me a good starting point in ...
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How to configure how much my cursor need to move to blender start computing a brushstroke? (brush deadzone) [closed]

While sculpting i find weird sometimes the distance my cursor has to move, from the moment i touch my tablet with my pen, to start seeing the vertices being affected by my brush, so i was wondering if ...
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Matcaps not showing up

I was working on sculpting and wanted to apply a matcap, however when I go and turn on matcaps nothing shows up. I am in blender render and just updated, is there any setting that could be causing ...
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Sculpting not working

I haven't found any solutions to this after searching everywhere. The sculpting just doesn't happen. The brush is showing. But when I try to sculpt, nothing is happening (I have selected the mesh and ...
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Can't access sculpting tools when in workspace - 2.93

I'm just starting to learn Blender 2.93, but I can't seem to access the Sculpt workspace. When I click on it, none of the sculpting tools appear. When I open up a file where I was sculpting rather ...
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Blender sculpting

How can I remove this ring, which makes editing symmetrical along this ring?
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How can I get rid of these dents in my mesh?

I tried sculpting over these dents then smoothening them out but it didn't work it would just appear again, how can I get rid of them?
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Sculpting/Remesh/Hardware Question

This is kind of a broad and long question; sorry about that. So I'm new to Blender and have been having a blast learning it. I really want to take it seriously and get better at it. I've been ...
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Cloth Filter with Collisions

Today I tried out the Cloth Filter in Blender 2.9 while in sculpt mode. I was hoping the filter would collide with other objects as they would with the cloth settings under the physics tab, but so far ...
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Sculpting: What happened to the auto masking options in the Options?

While watching this sculpting tutorial, I came across a problem at 5:46, which is that there are no automasking options under the options tab. Where were these options moved to?
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The Active Tool Tab in the Properites Editor is Entirely Empty

I was doing some sculpting and went to change some of the settings on the tool I was using, but the Active Tool tab was entirely empty. I don't know what could have caused this and I couldn't find ...
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I can't find brushes in .blend files

New blenderer here, I have 2.9.1 and have downloaded https://blendswap.com/blend/20195, a free set of rock brushes. When I append the .blend file, it does not contain a brushes folder (it does have ...
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Blender 2.83, was sculpting and suddenly my smoothing brush stopped working

I have no idea what happened, but when I try a stroke, a red line appears which hadn't appeared before and I'm still new to 2.8 so i have no idea what brush settings could have caused this. This only ...
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Modeling Problem (Persian Helmet)

I want to model a Helmet, and I am attaching a photo so you can see what it looks like. I wanted to know what method you would use to model if you were in my place? And the second question, is it ...
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How do you sculpt without messing up geometry?

I feel like I must be doing something fundamentally wrong in blender. Every time I sculpt I seem to create geometry where faces overlap/edges inside of faces. unintentionally. I can even be very ...
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Darker Object in Sculpt Mode

The object i'd want to sculpt becomes darker only in Sculpt Mode and i can't interact with it. What can i do? I was doing something with Subdivision Surface and after deleting the Modifier the problem ...
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How to model this type of edges in chocolate's packshots

I need to model this inside of a chocolate usually seen in packshots. I started with block modelling then started sculpting it. I easily sculpted the liquid chocolate in between wafers. But was not ...
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Sculpt tools not working

I have just opened a new file from scratch, made a sphere and gone into sculpt mode, but none of the tools work except for the yellow ones like grab. activating dynatopo doesn't change the issue I ...
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Close areas sticking each other after the remesh

guys when ı use remesh close areas sticking each other. How can ı fix this?
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My sculpting tool is not changing my model but I can transform (grab, snake hook, etc.)

brand new to blender here. Recently started following some tutorials to learn how to sculpt and model in blender. After one video, I decided to run off on my own and try to mess around a bit. Ran in ...
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face grab not working as expected?

Hey there I'm new to blender and am simply trying to grab a face on my object and move it down, thus lowering the rest of the objects faces as well, its hard to explain but here are a couple pictures, ...
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How do you shrinkwrap part of a mesh to another mesh with a smooth falloff?

In ZBrush, there is an option called Project All which basically works as a shrinkwrap modifier and projects the low poly to high poly to get the details In order to do that in blender, the way I know ...
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How can I get a multi-colored object in the solid viewport display like in this Joey Carlino Tutorial?

I'm very new to Blender and I stumbled upon this tutorial Faces are EASY with this trick - Blender tutorial by Joey Carlino. It's a very good tutorial and he explains everything well (I watched it ...
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Problem using the "mask slice to new object" tool

I'm using Blender 3.1.2. I'm trying to separate the hands from the rest of the body: But when I press "mask slice to new object", this happens: Does anyone know why this is happening or ...
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question on displacement and sculpt

hi so what i did as in this tutorial was to add a displacement modifier to have a slightly uneven surface and then go to the sculpt mode to add details. first thing is that after I supplied the ...

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