Questions tagged [sculpting]
Questions pertaining to Blender's built in sculpting tools and or plugins.
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How to Mirror After Starting Sculpt with MultiRes Modifier
I recently ran into the need to retopologize the body mesh of the character below so I could connect the body to the head (I needed to make the edge loops have the same number of vertices). This is ...
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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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Wacom tablet acting oddly in 2.71
Just putting this out there in case anyone has any ideas.
I have an older Wacom Intous2 and it still works great. I'm on Windows7. On Blender 2.71 and earlier, my Wacom tablet always worked perfectly, ...
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Squish Object Towards Surface
I have a model of a cat of which I want to make a sculpture. For it to stand steadily and not rock on any surface I put it on I want to, in a smooth way, flatten the bottom surfaces to a common level ...
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How to repeat last stroke in Blender's sculpt mode?
Is there in Blender, in Sculpt Mode, something like in the Zbrush function called Repeat last stroke?
This option repeats last sculpt stroke as many times as I ...
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What technique do I use to sculpt a viper snake heat sensing holes?
Hello and sorry in advance if the question is too generic. I'm very new to blender, and struggle to finish one of my very first project. I'm trying to sculpt a blue viper snake head (to be precise the ...
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Why some brushes don't Dyntopo?
Using Blender 2.9, and not sure if this is normal but a couple of brushes don't dyntopo, for example, Smooth and Draw Sharp. It is kind of frustrating since when I need to draw sharp FOR SURE I need ...
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Is there a "Clone Stencil" for Sculpting a Surface from a Target Area Onto a Destination Area?
As you can see in the screenshot there is a rough surface on the left side. My goal is to apply a similar surface to the right side, where the mesh is smooth.
How can this be achieved? Is it possible ...
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Sculpt Mask Color - is it possible to change it?
well simple as this: I need sculpting mask to be another color, because dark-gray tends to mix up with shadows from matcap. (I need to make it like in Mudbox) bright blue.
Thank you.
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Blender equivalent to zbrush's polish-option
i recently followed this zbrush-tutorial on sculpting a character.
https://pixologic.com/zclassroom/lesson/the-eyes-part-2
During this tutorial the tutor made use of the polish-option.
(ca.4:50 i ...
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Sculpting a Normal Map
I am aware that you can sculpt a high-poly mesh in Sculpt Mode, then make a low-poly version of that mesh and then bake normals from the high to the low. I am also aware that you can paint normal maps ...
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Is there a way to setup Brush Strength with the Wacom Touch Ring?
I know that Shift+F will bring up a dynamic brush strength adjuster when I am sculpting, and I could assign that to one of my Wacom tablet's ExpressKeys, but there are only eight ExpressKeys and I ...
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Sculpting linear array settings
In sculpting , I would like to make linear array instead of radial array
What are the settings to sculpting linear array ?
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Are there any key binds to scroll between brushes?
I'm currently setting up a a sculpting preset for my TourBox and Blender, and while I understand the brushes have individual hotkeys I'm moreso looking for a "Next/Previous Brush" button so ...
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How to make the curls in an icecream?
Normally, in tutorials, we can make ice cream in this shape:
However, I want to make curls of this shape:
The curls of the ice cream in the second image are much more detailed and complex than in ...
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How to export very high poly mesh?
So, basically, I sculpted a 23 million poly mesh inside Blender. Everything went smoothly, but now I need to bake normals and displacement maps. I can't do it inside blender, every time I press Bake, ...
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How can i fix these missing vertices?
This is my first time ever using blender, or any other 3D software (aka i have no idea what im doing). im following blender guru's donut tutorial on youtube (part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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sculpting problem with eyelids
I was sculpting a human head and when I made the eyelids I noticed there are some random black lines and circles at random places on the head. I tried smoothing out these lines but that hasn't worked ...
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How would I go about creating a smooth interior to a helmet?
First of all, I am incredibly inexperienced at the blender. I made this helmet, and the exterior looks good. However, the underside is warped because of how I modeled it. It is supposed to be 3d ...
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remeshing in sculpt mode creates a mesh across the gap
I have a single mesh object to which I have assigned armature. Upon a remesh in sculpt mode, an additional mesh is created across the gap which I dont want. Is there some tolerance setting that needs ...
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How to sculpt through/ignore "backface culling?"
I'm basically creating a sort of dug out bunker and everything is going great so far.. However - I've started to sculpt the walls and, due to clipping, I've enabled backface culling so that I don't ...
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3d printing - How to push out internal face so as to reduce infill material
I am attempting to print a head sculpture but discovered that there is too much "wall thickness" which would result in needless internal infill during 3d printing.
I have been using various ...
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Mirror diagonaly in sculpting mode
Im new to blender, and have a question regarding sculpting.
I want tu mirror my sculpting by the x and y axis, but only diagonaly (as in photo).
Right now I can only achieve this with the effect ...
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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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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 do i multiply a a sculpt around its own axis?
I am extremely new to Blender and I'm trying to learn how to freehand sculpt using my tablet. I'm a 2D artist trying out 3D.
I'm trying to make a single sculpt of a face and then rotate it around ...
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What are these Dark Faces on Mesh?
I was in edit mode on a sculpt & ran into an issue where many faces turned dark. Only happens in Sculpting mode. Object, Edit, & Render mode are all fine. It doesn't seem like a normals issue, ...
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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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Graphics tablet
I’ve been trying to sculpt and I realize that I am horrible at it. I am using a mouse to sculpt in blender and I think it would be easier to use a graphics tablet. I have a touch screen 2 in 1 ...
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Why does the subsurf modifier display a "Hide, mask and optimized display disabled" message when sculpting?
When I paint with the mask brush, nothing changes and the mask area is not visible in sculpt mode. I get this message in the modifier panel:
What should I do to fix this issue?
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Sculpting with inflate not working as expected
I'm following the donut tutorial using version 2.83, and have an issue with the inflate tool which doesn't seem to work like I expect from the way Andrew uses it. Take a look at around the 10 minute ...
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How to sculpt mesh while enabling snap to surface?
In Zbrush, apparently there is a feature where user can sculpt with snap to surface enabled.
Are there any same alternatives that I could try on blender? I want to use this technique to retopologize ...
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Mask only the front faces with lasso mask tool in sculpt mode
Is it possible to mask only the front faces in blender 2.82 with the lasso mask tool in sculpt mode without the need to hide all the underlying faces?
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Move brush from zbrush
There is a brush in Zbrush called move. The brush itself moves parts of mesh and is similar to grab brush in blender but not the same.
Is there anything like move brush that I could use in Blender?
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Workflow for using A LOT of reference images at precise angles?
I am going to sculpt a human head based on a model whose image is captured at VERY precise angles for this purpose. I think the angles those images are taken at are increments of 11.25 degrees:
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Blender is undoing my progress for no reason and I don't know why
I'm sorry for all the questions I keep asking here but I don't often use it for what I'm doing...
I'm sculpting a figure right now and I notice blender keeps undoing my progress. And no, I am NOT ...
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Emulate Numpad prevents Selection Modes from working
I'm working in Blender 2.8 on a laptop, so I enabled "emulate numpad" option in settings.
But in this case, the shortcuts for toggling between selection modes (polygon/edge/vert) don't work anymore (...
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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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Why the texture having square edges
I have created 2 alpha brush and when i make a stroke on it. Its giving square shape edge around it. I want the alpha should have a feather or blur so that square edge should not seen. Any suggestion
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Pinning for Sculpt mode
I wanted to try out the MBall feature to make a sword. Now I want to sculpt its blade. For a better orientation, I took a curve. When I sculpt the outer verts, they always slide away from the blade. ...
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Splitting a cylinder into two "branches"
I'm brand new to blender and have been searching for tutorials or help in "branching" a cylinder into two.
I'm working a small tree branch segment - I've started with a cylinder, added some loop cuts,...
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In Sculpt can grab-tool push along normals?
I just found out in ZBrush when sculpting with the grab tool, they can press Alt and it will push along the normals, and wondered if blender could do anything like this?
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Sculpt Brushes Not Accurate
I'm having a strange problem when sculpting a relatively high poly mesh (500K vertices or so). The sculpting brushes seem to work as expected for the most part. However, every-so-often the brushes ...
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Multiresolution Mesh Deform
I'm trying to paint a scales texture onto a cube using sculpt mode but the only way i know is to use the multiresolution modifier and that makes my cube turn into a sphere is there anyway to stop this ...
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Simulate layers/undo in multiresolution sculpting?
For a final detail pass on my models I add a multiresolution modifier and subdivide a few times, and then paint in details with alphas. However it's a destructive workflow since there are no layers, ...
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Is there an 'insert mesh' brush or addon for blender's sculpting workflow?
I've been spending more time sculpting in Blender. I would love to see a brush like Zbrush's insert mesh brush.
The insert mesh in Zbrush draws a primitive of your choosing right on the mesh in the ...
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My mesh looks fine with Dynamic Topology enabled, but has weird artifacts when disabled
The mesh looks like this with dynamic topology enabled.
When I disable dynamic topology and when I'm outside of sculpt mode it looks like this.
I made a mesh using multiple meshes and combining ...
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Why I don't have Undo History in Sculpt Mode?
When working in Sculpt Mode, I don't have an Undo History of my brush strokes when pressing CtrlAltZ. Is this a regular behaviour or a known limitation?
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how does one add accessories to a sculpted mesh?
i am a novice modeler who i looking for some a modeling advice.
here is an image of a creature that i would like to model, (IMAGE BY ALEX CHEN, found on creature spot dot com)
this is my sculpted ...
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Need help with my topology when sculpting and using boolean mod
I used a mesh to cut out a part of my sculpture, but the wound left behind on the topology is ridiculous, I cant use any tools on the wound, or it gets a super rough crazy triangle texture :s
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