About
Autodesk Mudbox is a professional graphics program designed for high poly digital sculpting and texture painting of 3D models. Gives modelers and texture artists the power to create digital 3D objects and 2D sketches as if they were working with clay and paint.
Mudbox is also used to create bump maps, normal maps, replacement maps, etc., directly, creating them from a 3D model. Unlike other programs of this kind, Mudbox has a convenient, intuitive interface and the ability to preset controls using 3D`s Max, Maya, etc. programs.
Features:
Digital Sculpting: Easy-to-use sculpting brushes allow artists to accurately sculpt 3D geometry of any complexity.
3D layers: 3D equivalent of multi-layer 2D images in graphic editors such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, etc., allowing you to simultaneously work with several layers of different detail. This makes it possible to save and return to detail at any level, combine, mix, modify and mask layers.
The user-friendly interface and convenient workspace significantly reduce the time required to master the program and are equally suitable for designers and multimedia artists alike.
Productivity: innovative technologies allow the 3D artist to work quickly and efficiently even with the most complex objects consisting of millions of polygons.
Multi-Resolution: A hierarchical subdivision technology that allows artists to produce high-poly models with a large polygon count.
Texture baking: transfers elements of an object's appearance (diffuse color, direct lighting, GI, etc.) into textures and automatically maps them onto the object's surface. It is widely used in the gaming industry, allowing you to bake not only the diffuse color of an object, but also displacement maps (which add relief to the object). Mudbox allows you to export high-resolution textures (up to 8000 pixels) and save 8, 16, and 32-bit maps.
Selective symmetry provides the ability to maintain individual symmetry for each layer.
Masking allows you to edit layers without disturbing the geometry of the masked layer. Acts like an eraser with the ability to restore deleted areas of a layer.
The layer manager allows you to duplicate layers, move a layer higher or lower, group and merge all selected layers into one layer, change the strength of the layer, etc.
3D brushes: Mudbox has a large set of sculpting brushes with which you can model smooth convex and depressed surfaces, wrinkles, flat surfaces, smoothing, sharpening, etc. Using Falloff curves you can change the sharpness of the brush, making it more round or pointed. Stamps brushes allow you to leave raised or depressed impressions on any surface, imitating reptile skin, rocky surfaces, plaster and much more. Using Stencils brushes, you can easily model irregularities from any loaded image, interactively change its scale, rotate and move it around the workspace. Description taken from cwer.ru.
Curved Lines: Acting as guides, curved lines give the artist complete control over the stroke being created.
Local polygon integration allows you to increase or decrease the number of polygons in a selected area, with the ability to move from one level to another.
The normal smoothing mode allows the artist to work both with a rough mesh (in this mode, the edges are clearly visible) and with a smooth one, hiding all the irregularities.
Draft Render mode dramatically improves interactive navigation performance for scenes with high mesh density.The quick view mode, thanks to the rapid operation of the 3D visualization engine, provides high-quality display of 3D objects in real time.
Support for triangular and polygonal faces. Unlike other programs, Mudbox allows you to import and modify 3D objects consisting of three-, four
- and polygonal polygons, with the ability to bake textures, preserve the mesh structure and vertex IDs.
Full 3D Cameras: Mudbox gives artists the ability to use multiple 3D cameras in a single scene, plus it supports importing and exporting existing cameras between scenes. Cameras can be locked or converted via keyboard input. With the help of 3D cameras it is possible to move not only around an object, but also inside it. Such cameras allow you to perform any action on an object, regardless of the direction of the distance.
Multi-scene support: 3D artists have the ability to create or import multi-scenes consisting of characters, cameras, lights, textures and materials. Manage each of them individually, selecting, hiding, blocking, multiplying the number of polygons, etc.
Built-in Image Browser with full support for 16 and 32-bit images - allows users to view images, use them as stamps, stencils or as images for 3D cameras.