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Clay<\/a>:<\/strong> Surface Clay lets you quickly and fluidly apply mass to your voxel sculpture. The difference between this tool and the Carve brush is that it will also simultaneously smooth the surface after you\u2019ve brushed it, giving it an authentic clay look. These extrusion methods settings are unique to the following three tools:
Flatten the surface and extrude using alpha and stencil. Edit brush parameters to set up the brush parameters in correspondence with your needs. You may duplicate the brush with RMB and create your brush preset.
Clay Fast:<\/strong> This is similar to the clay brush but works faster because there is no post-relaxing of the surface.
Draw:<\/strong> The Draw tool is great for quickly adding spontaneous detail, is great for sculpting horns, or anything else like that very quickly. It is similar to the Airbrush tool, but it only operates on the surface of a volumetric object.
The draw tool is great for quickly sculpting horns or anything else like that. It is very much like the airbrush tool. However, it only operates on the surface of a volumetric object. Use LMB to raise the area beneath the cursor. CTRL+LMB indents the surface, and SHIFT+LMB smooths the geometry.
Flatten:<\/strong> It flattens the area underneath your brush based on brush size and intensity.
This mode flattens the surface beneath the cursor by raising or lowering points to a common plane based on brush size and intensity.
Height and angle are averaged from the point directly beneath the center of the cursor, and the effect is expanded to fill the entire cursor area.
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Flat Polish<\/strong>: the Smoothing Degree within the Flat Polish tool controls the aggression and intensity of the local polishing effect, while the general Smoothing parameter (typically accessed by holding the Shift key) applies a broader, standard smoothing algorithm across the geometry. <\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/3dcoat.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/flat_polish-1.jpg?wsr\")
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Chisel:<\/strong> Similar to the Flatten tool, but its effect is less extreme, and as you stroke along the object with your brush, it will \u201cchisel\u201d away at the surface.
It works like a scrape but dives into the surface slightly. It is very handy for creating sharp edges. Use CTRL for inverse action.
Lute:<\/strong> This tool allows you to fill cavities as if you are working with the lute. Start to fill with lower pressure and end up with a bigger one to get accurate results. Combine this tool with smoothing to get the perfect result.
Fill:<\/strong> Surface Fill is a great way to fill in small voids, cavities, and gaps in your objects. It is especially effective in very high settings.
Use CTRL to invert the action – to eliminate \u201cembossing\u201d.
Buildup:<\/strong> Similar to the \u201cBuild\u201d tool in the Voxel Room.
It behaves like the \u201cClay\u201d tool but builds the surface up without limits (not only one layer as with clay).
Extrude surface:<\/strong> Expands all vertices outward, uniformly, to a given radius along the surface under your brush, based on your pen Size, Depth, and Extrude direction settings. At the top left of the interface are the Extrude Direction Settings. This allows for user-definable extrusions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/3dcoat.com\/documentation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/extrudedirections.jpeg\")
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Average normal, View direction, Along axis (X, Y or Z), Vertex normal & Initial vertex normal.
Change spacing to add alpha brushes along strokes.<\/p>\n\n\n
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