This feature, introduced in Mudbox 2018 update 2, blends colors before doing gamma correction when texture painting. This type of blending eliminates the dark edges that used to appear where colors intersected, for example, when you painted green over red.
It has been a long while since Autodesk’s Mudbox has had anything of note going for it. What started out as an application that had such promise from former Weta digital artists Tibor Madjar, David Cardwell and Andrew Camenisch in recent years seemed neglected. The latest update to the digital sculpting tool changes that. Dynamic Tessellation lets you sculpt and not have to worry about the resolution of the mesh of that you are working.
What if your Mudbox sculpting tools could tessellate your mesh as you sculpt with them? And what if that tessellation is dynamic, automatically adding tessellation only where and when you need it?
The feature works so that users can just work and not have to have concern for some of the technical aspects of digital sculpting. Dynamic tessellation is brush based, and once it’s on, there is rarely a need to mess with any of the settings. Voxel-based sculpting tools have similar features, such as 3D-Coat’s Live Clay.
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Autodesk Mudbox 3d digital sculpting and texture painting software provides 3D artists with an intuitive toolset for creating highly detailed 3D geometry and textures. Announcing Mudbox 2018.2 Update and introducing Dynamic Tessellation. Learn more: Artist: Sergio Mengual https://www.youtube.com/us.
Adding more resolution is a function of the brushes that you use and your view while sculpting. Previously in Mudbox, you had to figure out how much geometry you needed. You could subdivide, adding more resolution everywhere, or start with a base mesh. Mudbox’s new solution allows you to create incredibly detailed models just by starting with simple primitive like a plane or sphere.
Announcing Mudbox 2018.2 Update and Introducing Dynamic Tessellation. The Mudbox team and I are super proud to announce the release of Mudbox® 2018.2 Update. This is an important and exciting release for us—plenty to talk about here—but before I begin, I suppose an introduction is in order. I’m a Principal Product Designer here at Autodesk, and I’ve spent the past several years focused on improving modeling, sculpting, and UV editing workflows in Maya. In the Mudbox 2018 release, the English, German, French, and Japanese offline Help systems for Windows, Mac, and Linux Operating Systems (OS) are available as ZIP files. To install the Mudbox Help to your computer or to a local network location, click an installer from the supported language and operating system choices in the table below.
Mudbox also adds some other features of note:
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- High-DPI monitor support
- Custom Edge Bleed setting for each Texture Map Extraction operation
- Paint Brush Gamma Correct Blending option for linear color blending
- General workflow improvements; i.e.
- Resize brush size and strength from a zero value by using MMB-drag
- Grab Tool Ctrl to grab surface using the normal direction
- Tooltips have been improved
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