Contributor artman Posted July 31, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Here is my Hardsurface brush....its a simple brush,but it took me many months to perfect it. Problem is there was always some noise when turning corners or jumps when strokes overlap at some points... Previously,I made much more "complex" looking HS brushes than this one using "sharp" old style options but there was always some cleanup,smoothing ect... needed afterward to correct the small imperfections.... and I didn't want any of that. This one,altough less intricate than my previous attempts, does not require any cleanup and is very fast and smooth to use. Try it on 200k sphere at first for best results. Here how to install: 1)Load Hardsurface.psd in Strips tab 2)Load artman's HardSurface in Presets tab (you can make it pop from Windows>Popups menu) 3)In "extrusions direction" roll out menu at the top of screen select Initial Vertex Normal (Very important) (you will have to reselect that mode each time you restart 3DC and use that brush) artman's HardSurface brush.zip It's a non-additive brush made for greebling,you can overlap and bridge strokes seamlessly so of course,since its based on initial topology such a brush can only exist in Surface mode,where polycount is fixed. It you want to reset initial vertex state to do a secondary greebling pass just switch to any LC brush then reselect the Preset, it will reset initial vertex state to include your previous greebling pass. Alternatively,you can also use Resample or switch back to voxel then back to SF mode. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member J0linar Posted July 31, 2012 Member Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 thats rly nice ty i might take a look @ this, maybe we can get some hard surface tech brush sets done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DavidF Posted August 1, 2012 Member Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 thanks, i'm gonna give it a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted August 5, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 And this one should be called layers (like in zbrush). Why aren't you in the dev to help point to where the brush should be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor artman Posted August 5, 2012 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 5, 2012 I like "absolute"...since it is based on the absolute state of your mesh when entering SF mode...its not that bad of a name. Of course there is already voxlayer tool and voxtree volumes are also called...layers...so that makes a lot of layerthing... Please try it and post a pic here ...I want to see what kind of greeble you can get with your crazy rig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member jcue Posted August 11, 2012 Member Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 Wow...this brush is great and so is the other preset you posted. I'm no 3d expert but I know what I like and what feels best to me. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member chingchong Posted August 20, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 i get a lot of crashes when using your presets. e.g. if i switch between the tools (move and clay) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted August 21, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Interesting, crashes or freezes ? I'm trying to solve a freeze problem I'm having with Andrew, could be good to report those crashes (if you can) to help narrow the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor artman Posted August 21, 2012 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 i get a lot of crashes when using your presets. e.g. if i switch between the tools (move and clay) Yeah it is a known issue,I and BeatKitano are also having those...this is why Im not making any tutorial with those presets yet. Andrew is working on it but he is not able to reproduce.. :(They work fine on his side.. I think it would be interesting to see what we have in common that he doesn't have...that would maybe point in a good direction.. What is your config? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member chingchong Posted August 21, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 actually it is more like a (loading) freeze, because sometimes, when im patient it will work again till it freeze another time , its like a big lag. happens randomly with both versions ( cuda) do you mean the system specs, with config, artman? btw i have to test latest version, if problem persists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor artman Posted August 21, 2012 Author Contributor Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 actually it is more like a (loading) freeze, because sometimes, when im patient it will work again till it freeze another time , its like a big lag. happens randomly with both versions ( cuda) do you mean the system specs, with config, artman? btw i have to test latest version, if problem persists no need to test, problem persist in latest version yes,I mean systems specs...os,graphic card ect... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted August 22, 2012 Contributor Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 CHinchong: what you're describing is exactly what I'm experiencing. I'm kind of relieved actually because I thought it was related to some software installed on my machine causing problems Since this is not a particular case, we can expect to finaly get to the bottom of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member chingchong Posted August 23, 2012 Advanced Member Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 my specs are: AMD AThlon II X4 640 3GHz 4GB RAM 64bit Win7 Prof Service Pack 1 Geforce GTX 460 (Driver 8.17.12.9573 from 09.02.2012) version of 3DC 3.7.16A, CUDA, 64 bit, DX, GL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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