The big Blender Sculpt Mode thread (Part 2)

[Birkov]

You are describing us as some kind of lunatics with forks prosecuting the monster

[joseph]

The dogpiling and personal attacks on this forum gets pretty bad sometimes… even this thread has some particularly nasty examples if you scroll through the whole thing. I think an advisement to try and communicate more effectively on this thread is for the best overall

[joeedh (Joe Eagar)]

Honestly I don’t think the BF has the organizational capacity to maintain sculpt mode. I think they should split the various paint modes into separate projects with some sort of plugin API.

[melvi]

Personally I think it would be better if we get something like Uniform in Blender that eliminates the need for baking so no need for multires or dynotopo.

Although I think that isn’t going to happen. I have a feeling that when Uniform sculpting app is fully released, in the next couple of yrs, high poly sculpting might not be a thing anymore.

We already have AI being a thing so maybe we might even get AI assisted sculpting in future that eliminates the need for baking and having millions of polygons?

[Double_G]

Looks like the negativity is already taking over. Good luck @farsthary

[melvi]

I have been asking about Multires here for a long time now so I understand what you are saying.

I am glad to see there is an addition to the sculpt team. That’s great news. It’s my hope that things get better and we get those features. So to the Blender devs, I hope they can do this and I am cheering them on.

[manuDesk]

If only it would work with shape keys

[thinsoldier]

0 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 =

[El_Aleksander (Aleksander)]

joe, i want my DYNOTOPO 300 MILLIONS POLYGON

[MichaelBenDavid (Michael Colina)]

Bruh …

Well yeah more than 1 billion damn it!

[El_Aleksander (Aleksander)]

porque no

[MichaelBenDavid (Michael Colina)]

Bro acuérdate que este en un forum en inglés , xd

[Musashidan (Danny McGrath)]

@melvi

sculpting might not be a thing anymore.

I wonder if the ancient Greeks ever thought the same?
Sculpting will always be a thing. Because people love to sculpt, whether for payment or pleasure.

[melvi]

@Musashidan

I wonder if the ancient Greeks ever thought the same?
Sculpting will always be a thing. Because people love to sculpt, whether for payment or pleasure.

I wasn’t talking about sculpting in general especially in the real world. I specifically said :

@melvi

high poly sculpting might not be a thing anymore.

and by that I mean millions of polys that use to be a requirement especially for smaller details like skin pores, wrinkles e.t.c. I said ‘‘might’’ not will Can’t people speculate anymore

I myself enjoy sculpting and I love making my assets myself.

I was just speculating especially with AI stuff hovering around like the image to 3d models and Gaussian Splatting stuff and how their influence and use might be in the next 5 to 10 years as well as the Uniform sculpting app. That’s why I said that.

Of course, sculpting software is still gonna be around for us in the next 5 or maybe 10 years.

@Huy_Dinh

I highly doubt high poly sculpting might not be a thing. It’s still a thing even if you already have substance/3d coat that can paint in normal for microdetails like skin pores. Multires isn’t just also for baking, it’s invaluable for sculpting character from base mesh - you can make great changes at lower level without affecting details in higher levels, and you preserve UV/topolgy.

I also know this. I sculpt myself. I was just wondering how things would be. I also agree with you that Multires and dynotopo are important. I said I have a feeling. I didn’t say it was a fact.

Someone mentioned to me that some companies are already reaching out to Pablo to look into how they can incorporate the Uniform sculpting app into their pipeline. I don’t know how true that is. If it is, that’s pretty cool.

The app also does full sculpting…I think, the normal sculpting thing is just another cool feature it has.

me :

[joeedh (Joe Eagar)]

Who knows, Pablo Debarro’s new app might get there first

[El_Aleksander (Aleksander)]

pablo hates Dynotopo joe . joe im still waiting my layers

[Musashidan (Danny McGrath)]

@melvi

high poly sculpting might not be a thing anymore.

Ok, well that has been the case for years already. All the way back to when Mari was built for LOTR. Displacement through texturing on a relatively low subdiv level mesh has been a popular workflow for that long. Then along came Surface Mimic and TexturingXYZ.
Same case for the games industry, Substance Painter has been used for similar workflows for many years. So this is nothing new.
However, even though these workflows have been available a long time, a lot of artists still prefer the feedback from sculpting form breakup and tertiary detailing rather than doing it through texturing.

@melvi

Can’t people speculate anymore

Yes, I took you a bit out of context for the sake of the Greek joke, so maybe that was a cheap shot. Apology offered.

[melvi]

@Musashidan

However, even though these workflows have been available a long time, a lot of artists still prefer the feedback from sculpting form breakup and tertiary detailing rather than doing it through texturing.

That’s is very true.

@Musashidan

Yes, I took you a bit out of context for the sake of the Greek joke, so maybe that was a cheap shot. Apology offered.

No need to apologize, mate I appreciate the banter here. It was a joke.
No worries

[Kologe]

@Musashidan

I wonder if the ancient Greeks ever thought the same?

At least I’m pretty sure they considered digital sculpting as a misnomer and a fake, for it doesn’t discriminate between working subtractively (=sculpting) and additively (=plastic arts).

greetings, Kologe

[Metin_Seven]

To stay up to date, I hope Blender will soon invest dev time into a robust SDF toolset, for non-destructive modeling, real-time Booleans with automatic filleting, non-destructive vertex coloring and more goodness.

There’s an SDF Blender add-on on its way, but it will only work in Blender for Windows:

ConjureSDF - smooth, non destructive booleans

[Blender | ConjureSDF demo - SDF modelling] Conjure is currently in closed pre-alpha. Public alpha is planned for early 2024. What is ConjureSDF? Conjure is a Signed Distance Field editor for Blender. Instead of triangles, it uses Signed Distance Functions of primitive shapes together with Boolean operations to create complex objects. It is essentially Blender’s native Metaballs, but on steroids. By raymarching this mathematical representation, a watertight flawless object can be re…

Personally, I’m quite addicted to MagicaCSG:

MagicaCSG ─ Signed Distance Fields editor by the MagicaVoxel dev

Updated January 13, 2023 ─ Added ClayIt to the list of alternative SDF-based tools. An exciting Signed Distance Fields (SDF) editor is being developed by the skilled creator of MagicaVoxel: MagicaCSG (initially named SDF Edit). SDF modeling, also referred to as CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry) is based on 3D math functions, and offers complete modeling freedom without any concerns about topology / mesh structure. There’s real-time blending, real-time Booleans and beveling of forms and …