am not looking directly at it. I swear this is a problem with 2.79b because I’ve never experienced this before and I know I’ve done this before.
The mesh is subdivided and a plane with no modifications. I can move my own everywhere and nothing sculpt, unless I tilt the view enough.
Also the geometry that is created when I tilt the view, if I go back to looking straight at the plane, I can sculpt wherever my pen touches where I created geometry from the tilted view.
My scale is 1 1 1, rot and loc are both 0. I only have a multires on it. There is no reason this should be happening and I’m sure this didn’t happen before 2.79b.
“It doesn’t work” is not enough information to troubleshoot why it doesn’t work for you. Also a photo taken with a phone/camera is not a screenshot, and a screenshot is not a substitute for an example .blend.
It’s plenty of information. Add plane, go into ortho 7 to top down, subdivide (dyntopo, multires, and applied subdivision all have the same effect), go to draw brush in sculpt mode and it exhibits the behavior outlined above. We aren’t talking a need for a blend file here.
Front faces on and off makes no difference, feather makes no difference, all mirroring and tiling is off, there is no setting that fixes this behavior and I swear it wasn’t happening before 2.79b.
Changing clipping distance doesn’t make a difference either and I don’t see the importance in uploading a blend file that is a default plane subdivided and sculpted on.
Btw, this is simple subdiv not catmull as I want it square.
I don’t have anyway to upload the blend anyways, but if you know a way I’ll do it.
Here’s the file. Sorry, I’ve wasted all day trying to figure out what’s wrong and it’s really got me stressed.I don’t know if it’s from a add-on I have or why something simple like sculpting on a flat plane should be giving me issues.
If I use 2 to tilt down it’ll sculpt, or if I manipulate the view downwards with my pen it’ll sculpt. But looking straight at it, it won’t. But when I do change the view and sculpt, if I go back to looking straight at it, it’ll only add geometry if it is going to touch my previous strokes.
I was still looking at it. The change in units and unit scale also adjusts the clipping values. Switching to default units it reveals that clipping values are 0.1 and 200 000. Default clipping values are 0.1 and 1000.
Don’t know the technical details but being in ortho doesn’t free up from Z buffer boundaries. It has come up in another occasion. If there are differences in the resolution accuracy compared to perspective, or how it affects sculpting specifically, that I don’t know.
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If sculpting uses z buffer for getting the depth information, it would make sense, but that’s just my speculation