Dynamic Sculpting: Brush Shape problems :(

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Hey all,

Just enjoying learning Blender…until now.
I’ve been trying to sculpt an elongated rectangular cube into a snail…personal project. :slight_smile:

However when I do attempt sculpting the brush action is deformed along the long axis of the rectangle’s plane.

That is to say the inflate/deflate brush action on a square plane is…a round bubble/hole. Along the long plane the brush action is stretched out so instead of a round bubble/hole you get a long, squashed football bubble/hole…
Am I missing something or doing something incorrectly?
Here’s a pic of two meshes side by side.

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Same brush, etc but the effects seem to be different based on geometry.
Is this the way it’s supposed to be?
And I tried loop cutting the rectangular one into sections and the effect remains.
I’m using 2.67 r56533

Thanks for looking.

caa

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As for loop cutting, are you subdividing the mesh into equal sized quads, then sculpting? A wireframe view would help understand what is going on here.

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Apply scale on your object in Object mode: select it, press Ctrl+A -> Scale. Non-unit scale is what brings this distortion. And it’s actually in the top list of most common mistakes people make :wink:

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DOH!
As soon as I read your reply the light went on!
Thanks Stan.

caa