WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:05.280 So, in this video I'll go over the fundamentals of Blender's Sculpt Mode. 2 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.460 I'll try to keep this video as short as possible and only talk about the essential 3 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:11.940 Sculpt Mode related features. 4 00:00:11.940 --> 00:00:16.540 A lot more can be found and looked up further on the Blender manual. 5 00:00:16.540 --> 00:00:21.020 If you might have any questions on how a setting in the interface works, you can always right 6 00:00:21.020 --> 00:00:26.100 click on anything in the interface and click on Online Manual. 7 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.180 Or hover over it with the mouse and press F1. 8 00:00:30.180 --> 00:00:34.460 This will take you directly to the official documentation of any particular feature in 9 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:36.540 the interface. 10 00:00:36.540 --> 00:00:40.220 These fundamentals I will be talking about might not seem like much but don't mistake 11 00:00:40.220 --> 00:00:44.340 that for lacking depth for the sculpting workflow. 12 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:49.400 Most of the features, modes and editors are kind of feeding into the possibilities of 13 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:52.180 Blender as a sculpting tool. 14 00:00:52.180 --> 00:00:57.540 There will also be features that I will be intentionally leaving out to not make this 15 00:00:57.540 --> 00:01:00.220 video too bloated or complex. 16 00:01:00.220 --> 00:01:06.700 Also, before we start, I can highly recommend you to get a pen tablet to really get the 17 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:10.980 most out of sculpting, drawing and painting in Blender. 18 00:01:10.980 --> 00:01:16.820 There are many settings that relate to pressure sensitivity and sculpting with a pen is generally 19 00:01:16.820 --> 00:01:22.300 faster, easier, more comfortable and ergonomic for your hands. 20 00:01:22.300 --> 00:01:25.540 It doesn't need to be a very expensive pen display. 21 00:01:25.540 --> 00:01:29.200 There are many affordable options for tablets on the market. 22 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.540 So if you're not familiar at all with sculpting in digital software, then look at it more 23 00:01:33.540 --> 00:01:36.980 like traditional sculpting with clay. 24 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:42.820 Instead of modifying the geometry of your object in edit mode, you are dynamically adding, 25 00:01:42.820 --> 00:01:47.820 moving and moving around the shapes of your object to affect your surfaces and volumes 26 00:01:47.820 --> 00:01:50.740 more freely and dynamically. 27 00:01:50.740 --> 00:01:55.500 To enter sculpt mode in Blender, you can switch the mode in the top left corner of the 3D 28 00:01:55.500 --> 00:02:01.060 viewport or use the pie menu with the shortcut Ctrl-Tab. 29 00:02:01.060 --> 00:02:06.780 This will change the options in the interface and replace your cursor with a brush circle. 30 00:02:06.780 --> 00:02:13.000 The way you interact with your object in sculpt mode is generally to left click onto 31 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.000 the surface of your object. 32 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.900 By default you are using the draw brush. 33 00:02:17.900 --> 00:02:22.580 Any vertices within the brush radius are then pushed outwards. 34 00:02:22.580 --> 00:02:28.160 Holding Ctrl while doing this will result in the opposite effect, in this case pushing 35 00:02:28.160 --> 00:02:31.700 the affected vertices inwards. 36 00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:35.780 When holding Shift, it will smooth the affected vertices. 37 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:42.100 Press F to change the scale of your brush and left click to apply the change. 38 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:46.960 Also press Shift-F to change the strength of your brush. 39 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.700 All these settings can be seen and changed in the tool settings in the top bar and the 40 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:55.320 sidebar of your 3D viewport. 41 00:02:55.320 --> 00:03:00.380 If you cannot see these areas of the interface, the way to toggle them is by using the shortcut 42 00:03:00.380 --> 00:03:08.540 T for the toolbar, N for the sidebar and looking into the tab called tool and right 43 00:03:08.540 --> 00:03:15.260 mouse button clicking on the header and enabling tool settings to get the top bar. 44 00:03:15.260 --> 00:03:20.300 It's not called top bar anymore, it was at some point during the development of Blender 45 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:26.540 2.8 so the name kind of stuck with me and it's going to stay there for a while. 46 00:03:26.540 --> 00:03:32.940 You can also toggle these areas while clicking on view and toggling them there. 47 00:03:32.940 --> 00:03:38.680 There might also be a bit of confusion with the difference between tools and brushes. 48 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:43.980 So to explain the terminology a bit more, the tools you see in the toolbar each have 49 00:03:43.980 --> 00:03:47.260 distinct settings and behaviors. 50 00:03:47.260 --> 00:03:52.020 If you switch between them you might notice that the options in the top bar and particularly 51 00:03:52.020 --> 00:03:55.540 in the brush settings are different. 52 00:03:55.540 --> 00:04:01.260 A brush in this case is a saved preset for these settings. 53 00:04:01.260 --> 00:04:05.580 You can change the available brush settings freely at any point and their settings will 54 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:09.620 be saved to the brush you are currently using. 55 00:04:09.620 --> 00:04:15.500 If you want to reset the brush to the default settings at any point you can do it in brush 56 00:04:15.500 --> 00:04:18.780 and clicking on reset brush. 57 00:04:18.780 --> 00:04:25.860 Or alternatively you can also press F3 and search for reset brush. 58 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:30.020 You can also create new brushes at any time in the brush settings. 59 00:04:30.020 --> 00:04:35.540 To delete a brush properly hold shift and click on the X icon. 60 00:04:35.540 --> 00:04:39.300 After reloading your file the brush should be gone for good. 61 00:04:39.300 --> 00:04:44.900 But let's actually go through the tools that are at your disposal, what they are for and 62 00:04:44.900 --> 00:04:48.520 what settings they provide. 63 00:04:48.520 --> 00:04:53.760 So one thing you might notice is that the tools in the toolbar are color coded. 64 00:04:53.760 --> 00:05:00.040 So blue generally stands for simple adding and subtracting of volume. 65 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:04.640 Red is increasing and decreasing contrast in different ways. 66 00:05:04.640 --> 00:05:11.320 Yellow is for grabbing behavior instead of drawing lines on the surface. 67 00:05:11.320 --> 00:05:18.000 And gray is for tools that affect the model in different ways like hiding or masking geometry. 68 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:20.920 But we'll get into all of these tools in a moment. 69 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:25.320 The default and top most is the draw tool. 70 00:05:25.320 --> 00:05:30.480 This one is the simplest one out of the blue selection with the main effect of adding and 71 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:31.960 subtracting. 72 00:05:31.960 --> 00:05:38.640 The direction that the brush pushes the geometry in is based on the average normal direction 73 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:42.020 of all the vertices within your brush radius. 74 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:48.120 If you don't know what normals are, they are basically the direction that any vertex, edge 75 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:51.400 or face is facing towards. 76 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:56.480 To have them visualized you can enable the normal overlays in edit mode. 77 00:05:56.480 --> 00:06:01.180 The shortcut for the draw tool is X. 78 00:06:01.180 --> 00:06:06.360 The next two tools in the list are clay and clay strips which are very similar. 79 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:12.200 Just like draw they add and subtract but have a secondary effect of flattening the 80 00:06:12.200 --> 00:06:14.580 affected surfaces. 81 00:06:14.580 --> 00:06:19.060 This makes these brushes great for building shapes and forms early on while sculpting 82 00:06:19.060 --> 00:06:25.540 since they can easily replace previous strokes by flattening them out while you add and remove 83 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:27.440 more volume. 84 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:34.280 The difference between the two is that clay strips uses a square sharper profile while 85 00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:38.800 clay is very circular and smooth instead. 86 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:45.220 Clay strips is generally great as a more aggressive and worth a version of the two to build volumes 87 00:06:45.220 --> 00:06:47.020 and shapes. 88 00:06:47.020 --> 00:06:53.240 The clay tool has the shortcut C while the clay strips brush has no shortcut by default. 89 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:59.320 The layer tool is also for adding and subtracting but has the extra settings to define a maximum 90 00:06:59.320 --> 00:07:01.140 height. 91 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:06.440 This way you can more precisely add strokes that won't exceed a certain height and even 92 00:07:06.440 --> 00:07:11.780 make the heights persistent for multiple strokes after one another. 93 00:07:11.780 --> 00:07:15.220 This one's shortcut is L. 94 00:07:15.220 --> 00:07:19.040 The inflate tool is the most unique out of the blue ones. 95 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:26.040 It adds and subtracts based on individual vertex normals instead of the average of everything 96 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.620 that is in your brush radius. 97 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:34.760 This makes the affected areas essentially inflate and de-or deflate which can be great 98 00:07:34.760 --> 00:07:38.200 when sculpting thin and small objects. 99 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:41.420 The shortcut for this tool is I. 100 00:07:41.420 --> 00:07:45.680 Blob and crease are very similar to each other as well. 101 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:52.680 In addition to adding and subtracting they have the secondary effect of pinching or magnifying. 102 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:57.580 So essentially pulling the vertices together or apart. 103 00:07:57.580 --> 00:08:04.000 This effect can be made stronger or weaker in the brush settings by changing the pinch slider. 104 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:08.580 With all these tools it's good to keep in mind that the main effect like adding and 105 00:08:08.580 --> 00:08:14.380 subtracting can be inverted by holding control but the secondary effects in the brush settings 106 00:08:14.380 --> 00:08:18.580 like pinching and flattening cannot be inverted. 107 00:08:18.580 --> 00:08:25.020 Crease has the shortcut of shift C while blob has none by default. 108 00:08:25.020 --> 00:08:28.180 The first of the red tools is smooth. 109 00:08:28.180 --> 00:08:32.540 This one is very straightforward since it has almost no brush options. 110 00:08:32.540 --> 00:08:39.020 It smooths the affected vertices by averaging their position to each other. 111 00:08:39.020 --> 00:08:44.800 Keep in mind that this also results in loss of volume not just surface detail. 112 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:52.820 The common way of smoothing is holding shift but the tool also has the shortcut S. 113 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:58.080 After that comes flatten, fill and scrape which are also similar to each other. 114 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.620 While the flattening is a secondary effect for the clay brushes in these particular tools 115 00:09:03.620 --> 00:09:06.220 it's the main effect. 116 00:09:06.220 --> 00:09:13.020 What these tools basically do is to push vertices within the brush radius up or down to meet 117 00:09:13.020 --> 00:09:16.680 each other in the middle on an average height. 118 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:21.860 The fill and scrape tools are similar but only do this in one direction. 119 00:09:21.880 --> 00:09:26.920 So the scrape brush is always pushing the vertices down while the fill brush is always 120 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:28.940 pushing them up. 121 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:34.220 These brushes can be a more aggressive way of smoothing large sections of your surfaces 122 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:37.320 or flattening areas completely. 123 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:42.720 While holding control they will do the opposite though and essentially enhance the contrast 124 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:47.240 of your surfaces by pushing away from the average height. 125 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:53.680 You can also change the plane offset slider in the brush settings to define the average 126 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:56.540 height where these vertices meet. 127 00:09:56.540 --> 00:10:02.840 So instead of meeting at the middle they can be pushed further up and down to meet somewhere else. 128 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:12.180 Flattening has the shortcut of shift T while scrape and fill have none by default. 129 00:10:12.180 --> 00:10:15.140 Pinch is also very familiar. 130 00:10:15.140 --> 00:10:21.140 Instead of only existing as a secondary effect for the crease and blob brushes it also has 131 00:10:21.140 --> 00:10:22.440 its own tool. 132 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:28.820 So by default it will pull in or pinch your vertices and when holding control it will 133 00:10:28.820 --> 00:10:32.020 push them apart or magnify. 134 00:10:32.020 --> 00:10:35.500 This tool is using the shortcut P. 135 00:10:35.500 --> 00:10:39.740 Next in the list are the yellow tools starting with grab. 136 00:10:39.740 --> 00:10:44.800 With this one you can move vertices within your radius around by making them follow your 137 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:46.780 mouse. 138 00:10:46.780 --> 00:10:52.620 Holding control while doing this will not invert the effect with these brushes but change 139 00:10:52.620 --> 00:10:57.500 the direction to be consistent with the average normal direction instead of following the 140 00:10:57.500 --> 00:10:59.860 mouse across the screen. 141 00:10:59.860 --> 00:11:04.200 This effect is called normal weight and can also be adjusted as a slider in the brush 142 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:05.580 settings. 143 00:11:05.580 --> 00:11:09.980 The shortcut for the grab tool is G by default. 144 00:11:09.980 --> 00:11:13.600 Snake hook is also very familiar to grab. 145 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:17.540 The behavior is different in interesting ways though. 146 00:11:17.540 --> 00:11:22.860 Instead of only moving the vertices that are within your brush at the start of your stroke 147 00:11:22.860 --> 00:11:26.660 it lets them go and picks up more along the way. 148 00:11:26.660 --> 00:11:30.000 This gives it an almost liquid like feeling. 149 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.300 With this brush you can also basically pull out snakes from your object. 150 00:11:34.300 --> 00:11:40.040 Hence the name. 151 00:11:40.040 --> 00:11:47.720 The two most important options for this tool are rake and pinch in the brush settings. 152 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:54.360 When increasing rake the geometry will follow the rotation of your brush stroke while increasing 153 00:11:54.360 --> 00:12:00.260 pinch will avoid the loss of volume during that stroke. 154 00:12:00.280 --> 00:12:05.440 The shortcut for this tool is shift K by default. 155 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.640 The thumb and nudge tools are each very similar to grab and snake hook. 156 00:12:11.640 --> 00:12:16.560 They behave exactly like them but instead of moving the vertices around based on the 157 00:12:16.560 --> 00:12:22.240 direction that you are looking at the mesh it moves them based on the average normals. 158 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:27.280 This way you can slide vertices along the surface of your object instead of along the 159 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:29.740 screen. 160 00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:32.680 The last of the red tools is rotate. 161 00:12:32.680 --> 00:12:38.280 This one essentially twists the affected vertices based on how long your stroke is and the 162 00:12:38.280 --> 00:12:40.080 angle that you take. 163 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:45.260 It's a bit of an odd brush but it could be useful at times. 164 00:12:45.260 --> 00:12:49.160 The gray tools at the bottom are pretty simple actually. 165 00:12:49.160 --> 00:12:55.600 We'll start with mask and skip simplify for now until we talk about later settings. 166 00:12:55.620 --> 00:13:02.240 What this brush allows you to do is to place a mask on your geometry indicated by a dark 167 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:03.900 color. 168 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:09.340 This mask will not be affected by any other brush. 169 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:16.300 A mask with the strength of 1 is shielding the affected areas from any changes while 170 00:13:16.300 --> 00:13:23.740 a mask of half the strength makes the other brushes affect the surface only half as strong. 171 00:13:23.760 --> 00:13:29.920 This brush can be incredibly helpful for many things like sculpting, overlapping areas or 172 00:13:29.920 --> 00:13:33.040 custom patterns. 173 00:13:33.040 --> 00:13:39.960 You can hold control to unmask areas and hold shift to smooth the mask. 174 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:46.600 You can adjust how dark the mask appears in the overlays with the mask slider. 175 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:52.600 You can even toggle the mask overlay off to make the mask temporarily invisible. 176 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:56.620 This can also be toggled with the shortcut control M. 177 00:13:56.620 --> 00:14:04.200 You can invert your mask with control I and remove it completely with alt M. 178 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:08.020 Very similar to the mask tool is the box mask. 179 00:14:08.020 --> 00:14:13.780 If you click and hold on the tool it will actually reveal the lasso mask tool as well. 180 00:14:13.780 --> 00:14:18.620 These are very similar to the regular box and lasso select in object and edit mode. 181 00:14:18.640 --> 00:14:23.080 At the moment they unfortunately have no additional options but they are surely coming for the 182 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:24.860 next blender release. 183 00:14:24.860 --> 00:14:30.340 You can also access the box masking with the shortcut B and lasso masking with holding 184 00:14:30.340 --> 00:14:34.440 down control shift and left mouse click. 185 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:41.160 It's important to know these types of masking are infinitely deep so box masking will also 186 00:14:41.160 --> 00:14:46.960 select through your surfaces and affect the other side of your model. 187 00:14:46.980 --> 00:14:54.380 The last great tool is box hiding which can be a quick way of hiding geometry in scope mode. 188 00:14:54.380 --> 00:14:59.340 Hiding geometry is not just invisible but also unaffected by tools. 189 00:14:59.340 --> 00:15:04.340 Any geometry that is hidden in edit mode is also hidden in scope mode. 190 00:15:09.980 --> 00:15:15.900 The last tool in the list is annotate to draw annotations just like in any other mode. 191 00:15:15.900 --> 00:15:21.440 To get a bit deeper into the tools I will also explain the most common brush settings. 192 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:25.480 This will not be an extensive overview so again I can recommend to visit the blender 193 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:32.200 manual if you have any questions in the right mouse button menu or pressing F1 while hovering 194 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:33.960 over any setting. 195 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:38.480 All these tool settings can be found in the top bar and the side bar as well as the tool 196 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:43.360 settings tab in the properties editor to the right. 197 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:48.220 Some of the ones that are the most exposed are radius and strength and they are part 198 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:52.060 of basically every brush in scope mode. 199 00:15:52.060 --> 00:15:56.940 For the most part you will be changing these via the shortcut F and shift F like mentioned 200 00:15:56.940 --> 00:16:02.240 before but the sliders can give you an overview on what they are currently set to. 201 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.940 You can also enable the button next to them to enable pressure sensitivity. 202 00:16:06.940 --> 00:16:12.220 This will adjust the setting based on how much pressure you apply with your pen on the 203 00:16:12.220 --> 00:16:13.660 tablet. 204 00:16:13.660 --> 00:16:17.100 This setting is not relevant for mouse users though. 205 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:22.280 The next most used settings are the ones that are tied to holding control namely the direction 206 00:16:22.280 --> 00:16:27.180 of your brush or the plus and minus in the tool settings. 207 00:16:27.180 --> 00:16:31.920 Like I mentioned before this is to invert the main effect of your brush. 208 00:16:31.920 --> 00:16:37.600 Holding control with grab, snake hook, nudge and thumb though instead inverts the normal 209 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:38.760 weight. 210 00:16:38.760 --> 00:16:41.980 You also have more advanced settings in the brush drop down. 211 00:16:41.980 --> 00:16:47.120 Here you can adjust the behavior of your brush in more detailed ways. 212 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:53.380 A very common brush setting for almost every brush is auto smooth which adds a secondary 213 00:16:53.380 --> 00:16:56.360 smoothing effect for your brush stroke. 214 00:16:56.360 --> 00:17:00.740 You can enable pressure sensitivity on a lot of these settings as well. 215 00:17:00.740 --> 00:17:06.360 For example enabling pressure sensitivity on both the strength and auto smooth has the 216 00:17:06.360 --> 00:17:16.040 effect of applying more pressure to add or subtract volume and applying less pressure 217 00:17:16.040 --> 00:17:19.760 to get more of a smoothing effect. 218 00:17:19.760 --> 00:17:24.600 More examples for brush settings are settings like pinch, rake and plane offset which we 219 00:17:24.600 --> 00:17:26.980 mentioned before. 220 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:33.080 Another very common one is accumulate which removes the strength cap of your brush and 221 00:17:33.080 --> 00:17:38.540 lets you infinitely apply the stroke on your surface. 222 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:41.720 You can also apply textures to your brushes. 223 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:49.660 This allows you to use patterns for your brushes instead of just the usual circular fall off. 224 00:17:49.660 --> 00:17:56.260 For this you can click on new or select an existing texture from the texture list. 225 00:17:56.260 --> 00:18:01.280 New textures are blank by default so to load an image to your texture you need to go to 226 00:18:01.280 --> 00:18:07.740 the texture tab in the properties editor and select create or open a new image from 227 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:09.780 the file browser. 228 00:18:09.780 --> 00:18:15.180 Once an image is selected you can rename the texture for organizations sake. 229 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:19.620 For textures you have a variety of options in the tool settings. 230 00:18:19.620 --> 00:18:24.740 You can for example change the mapping which will change the way the texture is being projected 231 00:18:24.740 --> 00:18:26.400 through your brush. 232 00:18:26.420 --> 00:18:32.380 You can also change the angle of your texture or enable rake to make it follow the rotation 233 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:37.500 of your stroke just like with a snake hook brush. 234 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:42.260 The offset and size of your texture is also freely adjustable below. 235 00:18:42.260 --> 00:18:45.220 For your stroke you can also change the behavior. 236 00:18:45.220 --> 00:18:50.900 The default stroke method is often space which applies the brush strength every time after 237 00:18:50.900 --> 00:18:54.140 a certain distance in your stroke. 238 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:59.700 Increase the spacing and you will get dots that are further apart and decrease it to 239 00:18:59.700 --> 00:19:04.160 get a very smooth but also very strong stroke. 240 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:10.240 Smooth stroke is also often used and has the shortcut shift s to toggle it. 241 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:15.280 The effect this has on the brush is like dragging a paintbrush along a rubber band. 242 00:19:15.280 --> 00:19:23.000 You can change the radius and factor to make the stroke more or less smooth. 243 00:19:23.000 --> 00:19:26.380 The falloff curve settings are relatively simple. 244 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:29.760 Your sculpting stroke always has a profile. 245 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:36.380 By default it's using a smooth curve that you can see in these settings or by pressing 246 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:40.060 F or shift F. 247 00:19:40.060 --> 00:19:45.500 You can either manually change the curve to be sharper or rounder by adding and moving 248 00:19:45.500 --> 00:19:50.420 points or even make a completely custom profile. 249 00:19:50.420 --> 00:19:56.540 Points in the curve are added and moved by left clicking and you can remove them easily 250 00:19:56.540 --> 00:20:00.920 by dragging them to the endpoints of the curve. 251 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:07.860 You can also just select a preset which will give you the most optimal results. 252 00:20:07.860 --> 00:20:13.680 With the display options you can change the look of your brush but not much functionality-wise. 253 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:18.120 And then further down in the tool settings we finally get to symmetry. 254 00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:23.660 These options let you mirror or duplicate your stroke on your object while you sculpt. 255 00:20:23.660 --> 00:20:30.920 The most basic ways to use symmetry is to toggle X, Y and or Z mirror to mirror your 256 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:35.260 stroke across a certain axis. 257 00:20:35.260 --> 00:20:41.460 These symmetry options will use the origin of the object and its rotation as the center 258 00:20:41.460 --> 00:20:44.660 axis of where to mirror your strokes from. 259 00:20:48.840 --> 00:20:56.040 You can also lock and tile your stroke in certain axes. 260 00:20:56.040 --> 00:21:02.080 Even radial symmetry is available to repeat strokes multiple times around your object. 261 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:08.080 Unfortunately there is no dynamic preview of these points where it's going to be mirrored 262 00:21:08.080 --> 00:21:14.320 or duplicated but this is a feature that is coming for the next version of Blender. 263 00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:19.180 Lastly it's time to talk about adaptive sculpting methods. 264 00:21:19.180 --> 00:21:24.120 You could of course just sculpt on your subdivided cube but there are better ways of providing 265 00:21:24.120 --> 00:21:27.600 you with more resolution to sculpt on. 266 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:32.680 One of them is dynamic topology or dientopo in short. 267 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.400 You can find it towards the end of your tool settings usually. 268 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:42.320 When enabled your sculpting brushes will dynamically tessellate your surfaces to add or remove 269 00:21:42.320 --> 00:21:43.620 detail. 270 00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:48.140 This way you don't really have to worry about running out of geometry to sculpt on because 271 00:21:48.140 --> 00:21:51.140 it will always auto generate it for you. 272 00:21:51.140 --> 00:21:56.700 You can enable dynamic topology with a shortcut Ctrl D. You might get a warning message when 273 00:21:56.700 --> 00:22:01.620 trying to enable dynamic topology letting you know that it will not preserve some object 274 00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:05.820 data like UVs, vertex groups and vertex colors. 275 00:22:05.820 --> 00:22:11.660 Since it constantly remeshes your geometry this will delete any of this data that you 276 00:22:11.660 --> 00:22:15.540 might have so keep that in mind. 277 00:22:15.540 --> 00:22:21.380 Dynamic topology will also not preview any modifiers you might have active. 278 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:25.540 Within the dynamic topology options you can then change a couple of settings and are presented 279 00:22:25.540 --> 00:22:27.420 with more options. 280 00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:31.660 One of them is the method of remeshing that is being used. 281 00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:37.540 You can set it to constant detail which has a set constant detail level that every new 282 00:22:37.540 --> 00:22:39.780 triangle is using. 283 00:22:39.780 --> 00:22:43.740 This way the resolution will remain consistent across the object. 284 00:22:43.740 --> 00:22:48.900 You can change the resolution value manually or pick a resolution from the 3D viewport 285 00:22:48.900 --> 00:22:51.400 with the picker icon. 286 00:22:51.400 --> 00:22:55.420 The higher the value the more dense the geometry. 287 00:22:55.420 --> 00:23:00.620 If you change the method to relative detail on the other hand it will base the resolution 288 00:23:00.620 --> 00:23:04.100 on how far you zoomed into your model. 289 00:23:04.100 --> 00:23:09.620 The resolution gets renamed to detail size and now it relates to the screen size of 290 00:23:09.620 --> 00:23:11.340 the triangles. 291 00:23:11.340 --> 00:23:16.620 Set the number to a lower amount of pixels for denser geometry. 292 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:21.360 The other two methods are used less but what they do is simple. 293 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:27.340 Brush detail ties the resolution to the brush size and how far you zoomed into your model 294 00:23:27.340 --> 00:23:33.700 and manual detail on the other hand doesn't dynamically remesh by using the brushes which 295 00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:36.540 leads me to the extra options below. 296 00:23:36.540 --> 00:23:42.900 When using constant or manual detail you can flood fill the set resolution to your entire 297 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:44.200 object. 298 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.260 This is the only way to remesh when using manual detail but also very useful at times 299 00:23:49.260 --> 00:23:55.660 when you're using constant detail. 300 00:23:55.660 --> 00:24:03.660 You can also symmetrize your object by remeshing one half to copy the other half of your geometry. 301 00:24:04.060 --> 00:24:10.700 Just set a symmetry axis and click the button to make your model perfectly symmetrical. 302 00:24:10.700 --> 00:24:16.020 The optimize button optimizes the performance of your viewport should it become particularly 303 00:24:16.020 --> 00:24:17.300 slow. 304 00:24:17.300 --> 00:24:24.180 Almost all brushes are using dynamic topology but the simplified tool is the one that exclusively 305 00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:26.460 reacts to it. 306 00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:31.820 There's also another way of adding more geometry to your object apart from dynamic topology 307 00:24:32.060 --> 00:24:34.440 and that is multi-resolution. 308 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:39.940 This is a modifier that can be added in the modifier tab in the properties editor. 309 00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:45.300 This adds an interface to add subdivisions to your object while being able to sculpt 310 00:24:45.300 --> 00:24:47.780 on the individual levels. 311 00:24:47.780 --> 00:24:53.380 You can set different levels of your subdivisions to be visible in your viewport preview in 312 00:24:53.380 --> 00:24:57.620 general, sculpt mode specifically and during rendering. 313 00:24:57.660 --> 00:25:03.860 I can recommend to always leave it at cut more clock since simple just adds more geometry 314 00:25:03.860 --> 00:25:06.620 without smoothing the result. 315 00:25:06.620 --> 00:25:10.820 And those are the basics, the rest can be found in the online manual for Blender.