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http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rms/pubs/SurfaceTreeEG08.html

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How I imagine it: when you start dragging mouse above an area, blender would save the current mesh. Then, while you hold down left key, it would intelligently place increasing count of vertices across surface under the brush, not caring about the original topology at all.

It would produce very messy topology, but that doesn't usually matter when sculpting, as many people use sculpt mode just to create a model for Retopo.

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*Alphas
- Just like in ZBrush, you would be able to position an alpha channeled image over you model and then only paint inside the bounding areas, also with the ability to inverse the alpha channel. This would be highly useful for sculpting fine wrinkles, signatures, creases, folds, etc.

* Switch to Lower Multires Level on Pan/Zoom
- In order to move around your model quickly while sculpting, it would be very useful if Blender changed the level down one step while panning or zooming. This would allow movements around the model to be quick and fluid.

* Fix the Alt-B Function
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that the Alt-B method of hiding geometry on a model in Sculpting mode does merely that; hides it. It is not effective for making your system run faster, only hiding unwanted geometry. This would be VERY useful for those like me with limited resources.

These are just a few things that I personally think would could really improve Blender's sculpting feature.

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Currently when using a texture for a brush, there are the options to drag the image over the mesh, tile it over the screen and paint like a stencil and using it in '3D', which works a treat for procedurals, but not so great (after playing with it and experimenting) for still image texture files.

For example, if we had a bump map texture of a human face as a UV mapped image - we could then assign that texture to the brush/mesh as an overall "stencil/mask" if you will, so that the draw (and other) brushes would paint over it like with Tile and 3D, but affected by the UV map coordinates.

It is straight forward in my head as a feature, but I hope I explained it ok. Not sure how simple that would be to code, but I appreciate such things can be more work for coders than artists realise.

Cheers!

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/656/ http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/678/ This is an extremely useful tool , especially for round or lathed objects, which I've longed for ever since sculpting was implemented in Blender
Here is a practical example right to the point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXHVlQKDuQ
A vase is created and ornamented in ZBrush 3.x.
You can only see one red dot/brush, but in reality the brush is repeated around the model "n" times, to symmetrically affect it, something which is not possible right now in Blender. Same goes for, say, the creation of a tripod, and so on.

I don't think that the implementation of such a feature is technically difficult, besides, Blender coders have worked miracles lately. But this is a VERY useful feature that I would like to have available.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/678/ http://www.blenderstorm.org/qapoll/ideas/item/692/ Perhaps a way could be found to go "in and out" of multires for such editing work, or simply be allowed to delete faces in edit mode, even only at the base (1) level of detail.
I don't know why such a possibility isn't available, I'm sure it's due to technical reasons, and I hope that the mesh structure been worked on for 2.5 will remove such restrictions.
Hope someone comments on whether this is posible or not.
Thanks!

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