The big Blender Sculpt Mode thread (Part 1)

[Metin_Seven]

@Musashidan

In ZBrush, Dynamesh is the old workflow, while Sculptris Pro (comparable with Dyntopo) is the new workflow.

This is not the case at all. They are very much used for different workflows. As with everything in ZB, there a many, many ways and workflows to get to the same place. The most beautiful thing about ZB is that all the tools are so brilliantly designed that everything works so well together. This is why we see endless workflow innovations from users year after year.

You’re right, Sculptris Pro is an addition to Dynamesh, not a replacement, I didn’t formulate it the right way. But still, Dynamesh has been around for ages, while Sculptris Pro has been relatively recently introduced as a new way of sculpting with total freedom in ZBrush. And Sculptris Pro does have some advantages compared to Dynamesh:

• It doesn’t clog small openings, holes and other details.
• You don’t have to frequently reapply it to get rid of polygon stretching.
• It doesn’t smooth out the whole model a little each time you remesh.
• It gives you total, localized control of polygon detail.

The same goes for Blender Dyntopo. Even with the arrival of the OpenVDB Remesher, Dyntopo is still my preferred sculpting method. Right now there are two things I still really miss from ZBrush:

• An auto-retopologizer that is at least as competent as the brilliant ZRemesher. But that will arrive soon for Blender in the shape of QuadRemesher.
• The Remesh By Union tool from ZBrush, allowing you to get rid of all self-intersections in a mesh without the need to use a remesher like Dynamesh or OpenVDB.