2.55 Sculpting blobs

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Hi

I’m having problem with the blob tool using the official 2.55 build.
You know how the icon for the blob tool is? The one with blobs in
close proximity to each other? I want to do that, but the default settings
for that tool seems to be wrong. All I want to do is to click and drag out some blobs,
so I know it should be anchored, but other than that I can’t get it to work :frowning:
Blobs next to other blobs adds on to the those blobs, instead of intersecting.
Anybody got blob tool working in a predictable way?
I know you can make this work cuz I have succeeded once before
but I have forgotten how, and no matter what I do, I can’t make it work again.

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bumpety bump

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sorry never heard this term blobs before
do you mean metaballs?

salutations

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Thanks for taking your time Ricky :slight_smile:
I’m talking about the blob tool in sculpt mode, I want to make something like the icon for that same tool.
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7132
I want to be able to just drag them out using anchor as stroke method. The default is space which I don’t think is appropriate for that tool.
Don’t know if you’re supposed to be able to make it work that way, but I’m pretty sure you are since I’ve succeeded before.
I’ve managed to get something similar to what I want using dot as stroke method, but still not the best implementation IMO.

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this looks to me like metaballs

just add one then just add another one then move it il will cling to the surface of the other ball if close to it
should work fine!

salutations

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It works for me in anchored mode, couldn’t get the same result as the brush preview though :confused:

blobs1.png900×665 206 KB

I’ve tried with a GSOC sculpting branch, and a build of trunk I did myself.

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can you load up sample file for this

i assume here that you use the sculpt tool to get it done so smooth!

is it possible to do in 2.55
if not which built did you use for this ?

Thanks