WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.280 So, in this video I'll go over the fundamentals of Blender's Sculpt Mode. 00:05.720 --> 00:08.062 I'll try to keep this video as short as possible 00:08.074 --> 00:11.400 and only talk about the essential Sculpt Mode related features. 00:12.060 --> 00:15.940 A lot more can be found and looked up further on the Blender manual. 00:16.460 --> 00:20.480 If you might have any questions on how a setting in the interface works, you can 00:20.481 --> 00:26.660 always right-click on anything in the interface and click 00:26.661 --> 00:29.660 on Online Manual or hover it with the mouse and press F1. 00:30.060 --> 00:34.580 This will take you directly to the official 00:34.581 --> 00:35.581 documentation of any particular feature in the interface. 00:36.500 --> 00:40.340 These fundamentals I will be talking about might not seem like much, but don't mistake 00:40.341 --> 00:43.460 that for lacking depth for the sculpting workflow. 00:44.200 --> 00:48.920 Most other features, modes and editors are kind of feeding 00:48.921 --> 00:51.600 into the possibilities of Blender as a sculpting tool. 00:51.960 --> 00:57.740 There will also be features that I will be intentionally 00:57.741 --> 00:59.700 leaving out to not make this video too bloated or complex. 01:00.820 --> 01:03.997 Also before we start, I can highly recommend 01:04.009 --> 01:06.980 you to get a pen tablet to really get the 01:06.981 --> 01:10.260 most out of sculpting, drawing and painting in Blender. 01:10.920 --> 01:15.000 There are many settings that relate to pressure sensitivity and sculpting with 01:15.001 --> 01:21.700 pen is generally faster, easier, more comfortable and ergonomic for your hands. 01:22.280 --> 01:25.000 It doesn't need to be a very expensive pen display. 01:25.520 --> 01:28.660 There are many affordable options for tablets on the market. 01:29.180 --> 01:33.280 So if you're not familiar at all with sculpting in digital software, then look 01:33.281 --> 01:35.880 at it more like traditional sculpting with Clay. 01:36.900 --> 01:41.700 Instead of modifying the geometry of your object in edit mode, you are dynamically 01:41.701 --> 01:46.960 adding, removing and moving around the shapes of your object to affect your 01:46.961 --> 01:49.720 surfaces and volumes more freely and dynamically. 01:50.860 --> 01:54.800 To enter sculpt mode in Blender, you can switch the mode in the top left corner 01:54.801 --> 02:00.000 of the 3D viewport or use the pie menu with the shortcut control tab. 02:00.980 --> 02:05.260 This will change the options in the interface 02:05.261 --> 02:06.261 and replace your cursor with a brush circle. 02:06.550 --> 02:12.780 The way you interact with your object in sculpt mode is 02:12.781 --> 02:14.600 generally to left click onto the surface of your object. 02:15.240 --> 02:17.500 By default, you are using the draw brush. 02:17.940 --> 02:21.840 Any vertices within the brush radius are then pushed outwards. 02:22.500 --> 02:26.700 Holding control while doing this will result in the opposite effect. 02:27.040 --> 02:30.480 In this case, pushing the affected vertices inwards. 02:31.740 --> 02:34.640 When holding shift, it will smooth the affected vertices. 02:35.360 --> 02:40.800 Press F to change the scale of your brush and left click to apply the change. 02:42.080 --> 02:45.680 Also press shift F to change the strength of your brush. 02:47.000 --> 02:50.860 All these settings can be seen and changed in the tool 02:50.861 --> 02:53.580 settings in the top bar and the sidebar of your 3D viewport. 02:55.240 --> 02:59.500 If you cannot see these areas of the interface, the way to toggle them is 02:59.501 --> 03:05.560 using the shortcut T for the toolbar, N for the sidebar and looking into the 03:05.561 --> 03:11.060 tab called tool and right mouse button clicking on the 03:11.061 --> 03:13.780 header and enabling tool settings to get the top bar. 03:15.240 --> 03:17.200 It's not called top bar anymore. 03:17.340 --> 03:21.040 It was at some point during the development of Blender 2.8. 03:21.400 --> 03:26.200 So the name kind of stuck with me and it's going to stay there for a while. 03:26.201 --> 03:31.900 You can also toggle these areas while clicking on view and toggling them there. 03:32.980 --> 03:38.240 There might also be a bit of confusion with the difference between tools and brushes. 03:38.620 --> 03:42.860 So to explain the terminology a bit more, the tools you see 03:42.861 --> 03:46.500 in the toolbar each have distinct settings and behaviors. 03:47.080 --> 03:50.700 If you switch between them, you might notice that the options in the top bar 03:50.701 --> 03:54.660 and particularly in the brush settings are different. 03:55.460 --> 04:00.180 A brush in this case is a saved preset for these settings. 04:01.000 --> 04:04.540 You can change the available brush settings freely at any point 04:04.541 --> 04:08.400 and their settings will be saved to the brush you are currently using. 04:09.560 --> 04:13.360 If you want to reset the brush to the default settings at any point, 04:13.660 --> 04:17.760 you can do it in brush and clicking on reset brush. 04:18.820 --> 04:23.800 Or alternatively, you can also press F3 and search for reset brush. 04:25.420 --> 04:29.320 You can also create new brushes at any time in the brush settings. 04:30.140 --> 04:34.620 To delete a brush properly, hold shift and click on the X icon. 04:35.440 --> 04:38.500 After reloading your file, the brush should be gone for good. 04:39.300 --> 04:42.460 But let's actually go through the tools that are at your disposal, 04:43.120 --> 04:46.500 what they are for and what settings they provide. 04:48.480 --> 04:53.140 So one thing you might notice is that the tools in the toolbar are color-coded. 04:53.141 --> 04:59.380 So blue generally stands for simple adding and subtracting of volume. 04:59.980 --> 05:03.820 Red is increasing and decreasing contrast in different ways. 05:04.520 --> 05:10.480 Yellow is for grabbing behavior instead of drawing lines on the surface. 05:11.400 --> 05:14.960 And gray is for tools that affect the model in different ways, 05:15.180 --> 05:17.340 like hiding or masking geometry. 05:18.040 --> 05:20.440 But we'll get into all of these tools in a moment. 05:20.441 --> 05:24.740 The default and topmost is the draw tool. 05:25.300 --> 05:28.080 This one is the simplest one out of the blue selection 05:28.081 --> 05:31.520 with the main effect of adding and subtracting. 05:32.040 --> 05:35.660 The direction that the brush pushes the geometry 05:35.661 --> 05:38.440 in is based on the average normal direction 05:38.441 --> 05:41.220 of all the vertices within your brush radius. 05:41.940 --> 05:46.140 If you don't know what normals are, they are basically the direction 05:46.141 --> 05:50.660 that any vertex, edge or face is facing towards. 05:51.440 --> 05:55.520 To have them visualized, you can enable the normal overlays in edit mode. 05:56.600 --> 05:59.300 The shortcut for the draw tool is X. 06:01.240 --> 06:04.180 The next two tools in the list are Clay and Clay strips, 06:04.500 --> 06:05.700 which are very similar. 06:06.260 --> 06:08.660 Just like draw, they add and subtract, 06:09.120 --> 06:13.620 but have a secondary effect of flattening the affected surfaces. 06:14.320 --> 06:19.180 This makes these brushes great for building shapes and forms early on while sculpting, 06:19.260 --> 06:21.760 since they can easily replace previous strokes 06:21.761 --> 06:26.400 by flattening them out while you add and remove more volume. 06:27.480 --> 06:33.860 The difference between the two is that Clay strips uses a square, sharper profile, 06:34.320 --> 06:38.060 while Clay is very circular and smooth instead. 06:38.061 --> 06:42.420 Clay strips is generally great as a more aggressive 06:42.421 --> 06:46.160 and rougher version of the two to build volumes and shapes. 06:47.140 --> 06:48.880 The Clay tool has the shortcut C, 06:49.000 --> 06:52.280 while the Clay strips brush has no shortcut by default. 06:53.280 --> 06:56.560 The layer tool is also for adding and subtracting, 06:56.640 --> 07:00.140 but has the extra settings to define a maximum height. 07:01.140 --> 07:05.720 This way, you can more precisely add strokes that won't exceed a certain height 07:05.721 --> 07:10.720 and even make the heights persistent for multiple strokes after one another. 07:11.800 --> 07:13.780 This one's shortcut is L. 07:15.180 --> 07:18.500 The inflate tool is the most unique out of the blue ones. 07:19.020 --> 07:23.380 It adds and subtracts based on individual vertex normals 07:23.381 --> 07:27.760 instead of the average of everything that is in your brush radius. 07:28.560 --> 07:33.420 This makes the affected areas essentially inflate and or deflate, 07:33.421 --> 07:37.700 which can be great when sculpting thin and small objects. 07:38.280 --> 07:40.280 The shortcut for this tool is I. 07:41.580 --> 07:45.200 Blob and crease are very similar to each other as well. 07:45.700 --> 07:47.440 In addition to adding and subtracting, 07:47.500 --> 07:52.180 they have the secondary effect of pinching or magnifying, 07:52.740 --> 07:56.580 so essentially pulling the vertices together or apart. 07:57.500 --> 07:59.700 This effect can be made stronger or weaker 07:59.701 --> 08:02.680 in the brush settings by changing the pinch slider. 08:03.480 --> 08:05.900 With all these tools, it's good to keep in mind 08:05.901 --> 08:09.420 that the main effect, like adding and subtracting, 08:09.560 --> 08:11.600 can be inverted by holding Ctrl, 08:12.080 --> 08:14.200 but the secondary effects in the brush settings 08:14.201 --> 08:17.920 like pinching and flattening cannot be inverted. 08:18.540 --> 08:23.580 Crease has the shortcut of Shift C, while Blob has none by default. 08:24.980 --> 08:27.540 The first of the red tools is Smooth. 08:28.080 --> 08:31.680 This one is very straightforward since it has almost no brush options. 08:32.240 --> 08:38.660 It smooths the affected vertices by averaging their position to each other. 08:39.000 --> 08:43.980 Keep in mind that this also results in loss of volume, not just surface detail. 08:44.860 --> 08:47.220 The common way of smoothing is holding Shift, 08:47.800 --> 08:50.820 but the tool also has the shortcut S. 08:52.660 --> 08:57.680 After that comes Flatten, Fill and Scrape, which are also similar to each other. 08:58.020 --> 09:01.660 While the flattening is a secondary effect for the Clay brushes, 09:01.680 --> 09:05.020 in these particular tools, it's the main effect. 09:06.260 --> 09:12.560 What these tools basically do is to push vertices within the brush radius up or down 09:12.561 --> 09:15.900 to meet each other in the middle on an average height. 09:16.740 --> 09:21.620 The fill and scrape tools are similar, but only do this in one direction. 09:21.820 --> 09:25.100 So the scrape brush is always pushing the vertices down, 09:25.740 --> 09:27.980 while the fill brush is always pushing them up. 09:28.700 --> 09:31.237 These brushes can be a more aggressive way 09:31.249 --> 09:36.400 of smoothing large sections of your surfaces or flattening areas completely. 09:37.340 --> 09:40.640 While holding Ctrl, they will do the opposite though, 09:40.660 --> 09:43.335 and essentially enhance the contrast of your 09:43.347 --> 09:46.340 surfaces by pushing away from the average height. 09:47.240 --> 09:51.500 You can also change the plane offset slider in the brush settings 09:51.501 --> 09:55.760 to define the average height where these vertices meet. 09:56.310 --> 09:58.500 So instead of meeting at the middle, 09:58.920 --> 10:02.690 they can be pushed further up and down to meet somewhere else. 10:05.140 --> 10:07.700 Flattening has the shortcut of Shift T, 10:08.020 --> 10:11.380 while Scrape and Fill have none by default. 10:12.340 --> 10:14.220 Pinch is also very familiar. 10:14.960 --> 10:19.880 Instead of only existing as a secondary effect for the crease and blob brushes, 10:20.400 --> 10:22.000 it also has its own tool. 10:22.001 --> 10:26.480 So by default it will pull in or pinch your vertices, 10:27.040 --> 10:31.400 and when holding Ctrl, it will push them apart or magnify. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.180 This tool is using the shortcut P. 10:35.340 --> 10:38.340 Next in the list are the yellow tools, starting with Grab. 10:39.700 --> 10:43.260 With this one you can move vertices within your 10:43.261 --> 10:45.540 radius around by making them follow your mouse. 10:46.660 --> 10:51.500 Holding Ctrl while doing this will not invert the effect with these brushes, 10:51.501 --> 10:56.540 but change the direction to be consistent with the average normal direction, 10:56.740 --> 10:58.860 instead of following the mouse across the screen. 10:59.920 --> 11:02.461 This effect is called Normal Weight and can also 11:02.473 --> 11:04.920 be adjusted as a slider in the brush settings. 11:05.680 --> 11:09.200 The shortcut for the Grab tool is G by default. 11:10.200 --> 11:13.100 Snake Hook is also very familiar to Grab. 11:13.660 --> 11:17.020 The behavior is different in interesting ways though. 11:17.021 --> 11:19.737 Instead of only moving the vertices that are 11:19.749 --> 11:22.600 within your brush at the start of your stroke, 11:23.180 --> 11:26.180 it lets them go and picks up more along the way. 11:26.640 --> 11:29.380 This gives it an almost liquid-like feeling. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.528 With this brush you can also basically pull 11:32.540 --> 11:35.140 out snakes from your object, hence the name. 11:40.090 --> 11:43.122 The two most important options for this tool 11:43.134 --> 11:45.970 are Rake and Pinch in the brush settings. 11:47.090 --> 11:53.070 When increasing Rake, the geometry will follow the rotation of your brush stroke, 11:53.950 --> 11:58.430 while increasing Pinch will avoid the loss of volume during that stroke. 12:00.390 --> 12:04.210 The shortcut for this tool is Shift K by default. 12:05.510 --> 12:10.830 The Thumb and Nudge tools are each very similar to Grab and Snake Hook. 12:11.570 --> 12:15.950 They behave exactly like them, but instead of moving the vertices around 12:15.951 --> 12:18.809 based on the direction that you're looking at the 12:18.821 --> 12:21.690 mesh, it moves them based on the average normals. 12:22.250 --> 12:25.316 This way you can slide vertices along the surface 12:25.328 --> 12:28.030 of your object instead of along the screen. 12:29.750 --> 12:32.210 The last of the red tools is Rotate. 12:32.650 --> 12:37.610 This one essentially twists the affected vertices based 12:37.611 --> 12:39.470 on how long your stroke is and the angle that you take. 12:40.010 --> 12:44.270 It's a bit of an odd brush, but it could be useful at times. 12:45.070 --> 12:48.810 The gray tools at the bottom are pretty simple actually. 12:49.250 --> 12:54.550 We'll start with Mask and skip Simplify for now until we talk about later settings. 12:55.570 --> 13:00.190 What this brush allows you to do is to place a mask on your geometry, 13:00.630 --> 13:02.990 indicated by a dark color. 13:03.850 --> 13:07.630 This mask will not be affected by any other brush. 13:08.810 --> 13:15.330 A mask with the strength of 1 is shielding the affected areas from any changes, 13:15.870 --> 13:19.359 while a mask of half the strength makes the other 13:19.371 --> 13:22.730 brushes affect the surface only half as strong. 13:23.750 --> 13:26.509 This brush can be incredibly helpful for 13:26.521 --> 13:31.230 many things like sculpting overlapping areas or custom patterns. 13:32.450 --> 13:38.810 You can hold Ctrl to unmask areas and hold Shift to smooth the mask. 13:40.030 --> 13:45.210 You can adjust how dark the mask appears in the overlays with the mask slider. 13:46.610 --> 13:51.990 You can even toggle the mask overlay off to make the mask temporarily invisible. 13:52.590 --> 13:56.090 This can also be toggled with the shortcut Ctrl M. 13:56.091 --> 14:02.110 You can invert your mask with Ctrl I and remove it completely with Alt M. 14:04.090 --> 14:07.130 Very similar to the mask tool is the box mask. 14:07.930 --> 14:10.426 If you click and hold on the tool it will 14:10.438 --> 14:13.130 actually reveal the lasso mask tool as well. 14:13.730 --> 14:18.070 These are very similar to the regular box and lasso select in object and edit mode. 14:18.570 --> 14:21.430 At the moment they unfortunately have no additional options, 14:21.450 --> 14:24.290 but they're surely coming for the next Blender release. 14:24.291 --> 14:28.510 You can also access the box masking with the shortcut B 14:28.511 --> 14:33.750 and lasso masking with holding down Ctrl Shift and left mouse click. 14:34.370 --> 14:39.090 It's important to know these types of masking are infinitely deep, 14:39.290 --> 14:42.221 so box masking will also select through your 14:42.233 --> 14:45.510 surfaces and affect the other side of your model. 14:46.930 --> 14:49.470 The last great tool is box hiding, 14:49.850 --> 14:53.210 which can be a quick way of hiding geometry in scope mode. 14:54.110 --> 14:58.570 Hiding geometry is not just invisible but also unaffected by tools. 14:59.290 --> 15:03.310 Any geometry that is hidden in edit mode is also hidden in scope mode. 15:10.010 --> 15:12.551 The last tool in the list is annotate to draw 15:12.563 --> 15:14.890 annotations, just like in any other mode. 15:15.910 --> 15:18.213 To get a bit deeper into the tools I will 15:18.225 --> 15:20.710 also explain the most common brush settings. 15:21.310 --> 15:25.670 This will not be an extensive overview, so again I can recommend to visit the Blender. 15:26.210 --> 15:30.010 if you have any questions in the right mouse button menu 15:30.011 --> 15:33.130 or pressing F1 while hovering over any setting. 15:33.990 --> 15:37.450 All these tool settings can be found in the top bar and the side bar, 15:37.510 --> 15:41.430 as well as the tool settings tab in the properties editor to the right. 15:43.290 --> 15:47.290 Some of the ones that are most exposed are radius and strength, 15:47.570 --> 15:51.390 and they are part of basically every brush in scope mode. 15:51.391 --> 15:54.407 For the most part you will be changing these via 15:54.419 --> 15:57.510 the shortcut F and shift F like mentioned before, 15:58.010 --> 16:01.850 but the sliders can give you an overview on what they are currently set to. 16:02.270 --> 16:06.170 You can also enable the button next to them to enable pressure sensitivity. 16:06.870 --> 16:09.550 This will adjust the setting based on how much 16:09.551 --> 16:12.870 pressure you apply with your pen on the tablet. 16:13.690 --> 16:16.410 This setting is not relevant for mouse users though. 16:17.110 --> 16:20.810 The next most used settings are the ones that are tied to holding control, 16:20.811 --> 16:26.210 namely the direction of your brush or the plus and minus in the tool settings. 16:27.130 --> 16:31.290 Like I mentioned before, this is to invert the main effect of your brush. 16:31.790 --> 16:35.230 Holding control with grab, snake hook, nudge and thumb though. 16:35.850 --> 16:37.990 instead inverts the normal weight. 16:38.750 --> 16:41.470 You also have more advanced settings in the brush dropdown. 16:41.930 --> 16:45.950 Here you can adjust the behavior of your brush in more detailed ways. 16:46.870 --> 16:51.670 A very common brush setting for almost every brush is autosmooth, 16:52.010 --> 16:55.710 which adds a secondary smoothing effect for your brush stroke. 16:56.370 --> 17:00.390 You can enable pressure sensitivity on a lot of these settings as well. 17:00.710 --> 17:05.830 For example, enabling pressure sensitivity on both the strength and autosmooth 17:05.831 --> 17:13.130 has the effect of applying more pressure to add or subtract volume 17:13.131 --> 17:18.530 and applying less pressure to get more of a smoothing effect. 17:19.770 --> 17:24.290 More examples for brush settings are settings like pinch, rake and plane offset, 17:24.510 --> 17:25.870 which we mentioned before. 17:26.810 --> 17:29.350 Another very common one is accumulate, 17:29.690 --> 17:32.670 which removes the strength cap of your brush 17:32.671 --> 17:36.410 and lets you infinitely apply the stroke on your surface. 17:38.530 --> 17:40.910 You can also apply textures to your brushes. 17:41.470 --> 17:44.530 This allows you to use patterns for your brushes 17:44.531 --> 17:48.170 instead of just the usual circular fall off. 17:49.650 --> 17:55.410 For this, you can click on new or select an existing texture from the texture list. 17:56.290 --> 17:58.110 New textures are blank by default. 17:58.210 --> 18:00.510 So to load an image to your texture, 18:00.710 --> 18:03.930 you need to go to the texture tab in the properties editor 18:03.931 --> 18:08.610 and select create or open a new image from the file browser. 18:09.350 --> 18:13.970 Once an image is selected, you can rename the texture for organization's sake. 18:15.270 --> 18:18.970 For textures, you have a variety of options in the tool settings. 18:19.710 --> 18:21.390 You can, for example, change the mapping, 18:21.730 --> 18:25.710 which will change the way the texture is being projected through your brush. 18:26.410 --> 18:28.870 You can also change the angle of your texture 18:28.871 --> 18:33.290 or enable rake to make it follow the rotation of your stroke, 18:33.510 --> 18:35.270 just like with a snake hook brush. 18:37.050 --> 18:41.050 The offset and size of your texture is also freely adjustable below. 18:42.290 --> 18:44.670 For your stroke, you can also change the behavior. 18:45.310 --> 18:47.870 The default stroke method is often space, 18:48.110 --> 18:53.250 which applies the brush strength every time after a certain distance in your stroke. 18:53.990 --> 18:57.930 Increase the spacing and you will get dots that are further apart 18:57.931 --> 19:03.010 and decrease it to get a very smooth but also very strong stroke. 19:03.810 --> 19:09.830 Smooth stroke is also often used and has the shortcut Shift S to toggle it. 19:10.310 --> 19:14.810 The effect this has on the brush is like dragging a paintbrush along a rubber band. 19:15.270 --> 19:20.610 You can change the radius and factor to make the stroke more or less smooth. 19:23.050 --> 19:25.990 The falloff curve settings are relatively simple. 19:26.350 --> 19:29.090 Your sculpting stroke always has a profile. 19:29.710 --> 19:31.950 By default, it's using a smooth curve 19:31.951 --> 19:37.980 that you can see in these settings or by pressing F or Shift F. 19:40.050 --> 19:44.370 You can either manually change the curve to be sharper or rounder 19:44.371 --> 19:49.630 by adding and moving points or even make a completely custom profile. 19:50.190 --> 19:53.950 Points in the curve are added and moved by left clicking 19:53.951 --> 19:59.530 and you can remove them easily by dragging them to the end points of the curve. 20:00.430 --> 20:05.130 You can also just select a preset which will give you the most optimal results. 20:07.850 --> 20:10.570 With the display options, you can change the look 20:10.571 --> 20:12.670 of your brush but not much functionality-wise. 20:13.670 --> 20:17.230 And then further down in the tool settings, we finally get to symmetry. 20:18.070 --> 20:20.441 These options let you mirror or duplicate 20:20.453 --> 20:23.010 your stroke on your object while you sculpt. 20:23.011 --> 20:30.010 The most basic ways to use symmetry is to toggle X, Y and or Z mirror 20:30.011 --> 20:33.310 to mirror your stroke across a certain axis. 20:35.250 --> 20:39.050 These symmetry options will use the origin of the object. 20:39.570 --> 20:44.850 and its rotation as the center axis of where to mirror your strokes from. 20:48.880 --> 20:52.400 You can also lock and tile your stroke in certain axes. 20:55.510 --> 21:01.490 Even radial symmetry is available to repeat strokes multiple times around your object. 21:02.270 --> 21:05.238 Unfortunately, there's no dynamic preview of 21:05.250 --> 21:08.230 these points where it's going to be mirrored 21:08.231 --> 21:12.830 or duplicated, but this is a feature that is coming for the next version of Blender. 21:14.190 --> 21:17.810 Lastly, it's time to talk about adaptive sculpting methods. 21:19.190 --> 21:22.090 You could of course just sculpt on your subdivided cube 21:22.091 --> 21:27.030 but there are better ways of providing you with more resolution to sculpt on. 21:27.570 --> 21:32.210 One of them is dynamic topology, or dyntopo in short. 21:32.710 --> 21:35.690 You can find it towards the end of your tool settings usually. 21:36.390 --> 21:40.810 When enabled, your sculpting brushes will dynamically 21:40.811 --> 21:42.830 tessellate your surfaces to add or remove detail. 21:43.590 --> 21:47.790 This way, you don't really have to worry about running out of geometry to sculpt on 21:47.791 --> 21:50.790 because it will always auto-generate it for you. 21:50.791 --> 21:55.010 You can enable dynamic topology with the shortcut CTRL D. 21:55.130 --> 21:58.710 You might get a warning message when trying to enable dynamic topology, 21:59.010 --> 22:03.050 letting you know that it will not preserve some object data like UVs, 22:03.330 --> 22:05.130 vertex groups, and vertex colors. 22:05.830 --> 22:08.390 Since it constantly remeshes your geometry, 22:09.150 --> 22:12.490 this will delete any of this data that you might have. 22:13.090 --> 22:14.450 So keep that in mind. 22:15.430 --> 22:20.530 Dynamic topology will also not preview any modifiers you might have active. 22:20.790 --> 22:22.990 Within the dynamic topology options, 22:23.330 --> 22:26.810 you can then change a couple of settings and are presented with more options. 22:27.410 --> 22:31.050 One of them is the method of remeshing that is being used. 22:31.670 --> 22:33.870 You can set it to constant detail, 22:34.230 --> 22:39.110 which has a set constant detail level that every new triangle is using. 22:39.710 --> 22:43.310 This way, the resolution will remain consistent across the object. 22:43.750 --> 22:45.890 You can change the resolution value manually 22:45.891 --> 22:50.190 or pick a resolution from the 3D viewport with the picker icon. 22:50.910 --> 22:54.710 The higher the value, the more dense the geometry. 22:55.390 --> 22:59.110 If you change the method to relative detail, on the other hand, 22:59.410 --> 23:03.430 it will base the resolution on how far you zoomed into your model. 23:04.090 --> 23:06.630 The resolution gets renamed to detail size, 23:06.970 --> 23:10.570 and now it relates to the screen size of the triangles. 23:11.250 --> 23:15.430 Set the number to a lower amount of pixels for denser geometry. 23:16.370 --> 23:20.870 The other two methods are used less, but what they do is simple. 23:21.290 --> 23:24.570 Brush detail ties the resolution to the brush 23:24.571 --> 23:26.810 size and how far you zoomed into your model. 23:27.570 --> 23:30.311 And manual detail, on the other hand, doesn't 23:30.323 --> 23:32.770 dynamically remesh by using the brushes, 23:33.050 --> 23:35.710 which leads me to the extra options below. 23:36.510 --> 23:38.850 When using constant or manual detail, 23:39.290 --> 23:43.610 you can flood fill the set resolution to your entire object. 23:43.611 --> 23:47.630 This is the only way to remesh when using manual detail, 23:47.950 --> 23:51.050 but also very useful at times when you're using constant detail. 23:55.720 --> 23:59.840 You can also symmetrize your object by remeshing 23:59.841 --> 24:02.960 one half to copy the other half of your geometry. 24:03.940 --> 24:06.820 Just set a symmetry axis and click the button 24:06.821 --> 24:08.940 to make your model perfectly symmetrical. 24:10.680 --> 24:14.500 The optimize button optimizes the performance of 24:14.501 --> 24:16.420 your viewport should it become particularly slow. 24:17.160 --> 24:20.540 Almost all brushes are using dynamic topology, 24:20.820 --> 24:25.360 but the simplify tool is the one that exclusively reacts to it. 24:26.420 --> 24:30.040 There's also another way of adding more geometry to your object 24:30.041 --> 24:33.840 apart from dynamic topology, and that is multi-resolution. 24:34.400 --> 24:39.300 This is a modifier that can be added in the modifier tab in the properties editor. 24:39.960 --> 24:43.660 This adds an interface to add subdivisions to your object 24:43.661 --> 24:47.060 while being able to sculpt on the individual levels. 24:47.840 --> 24:51.320 You can set different levels of your subdivisions 24:51.321 --> 24:54.080 to be visible in your viewport preview in general, 24:54.600 --> 24:57.040 sculpt mode specifically, and doing rendering. 24:57.740 --> 25:00.680 I can recommend to always leave it at catmul-clk 25:00.681 --> 25:05.640 since simple just adds more geometry without smoothing the result. 25:06.620 --> 25:07.620 And those are the basics. 25:07.960 --> 25:10.820 The rest can be found in the online manual for Blender.