So, uh, do we have a time frame on this?

wow think of the possibilities
1. quick concept sketch with unlimited clay modifier
2. re-topo and bake a displacement map
3. detail and refine with mulitres

super

WOW.
That IS AMAZING

Excellent!!!

That would make sculpting a lot more useful than it is now.

Problem: in the video, at 2.52, the topology is just too cluttered, those horrible triangles are so large they become visible and deform the surface in an awful way.

I’m eager to see it in the official Blender.
Keep it up

Topology is better in sculptris because:
1) It automatically relaxes the topology to form the best triangle shapes it can. I don’t know if this modifier does that already, but i hope it will. The relax animation is visible after every stroke, which gives a neat feel to it.
2) Sculptris not only subdivides the edges connected to the vertex you are clicking on. If you click in the middle of the triangle in sculptris, even the surrounding triangles get subdivided to make a smooth transition from Low poly to high poly. The subdivision radius is larger then your brush radius. And the stroke is drawn where you want it. Last time i played with UC, i found out that when clicking in the middle of the triangle, absolutely nothing happens, we get a single subdivision when clicking on a vertex though. That’s why it was very limited when starting from the default cube. That problem does not exist in sculptris.
If we get that “Bigger subdivision radius then your brush, with a smooth transition from low to high poly” thing, we wouldn’t get the “Visible triangles” topology problem as we can see in this video.

What Else i’d like to see, that sculptris doesn’t have:
Smooth brush automatically removing polygons while straighting out the surface. Or any other way that would automatically remove triangles where there is no detail.
There are a lot of spots on sculptris models, where the surface is smooth as a babies behind, but the topololy is very dence at some places, and on some very low poly.
Sculptris has “Polygon removal” and “Smooth” tools seperate, and the polygon removal brush is kind of unresponsive, you had to do multiple clicks which was kind of annoying.

Any responses to that?

This is freakin’ amazing! Every time I turn around there is something in the pipeline that makes Blender more and more capable of handling whatever I throw at it. With the new layout in 2.5 it makes it easier for me to use (feels more natural). With features like this, I can’t see using other programs!

I can’t wait till this is added!

I had to check and make sure today isn’t April Fools…this is awesome.

Awesome work, happy to support.

Now this is nice :D

I’m shocked O.O!!!! For me… the best upgrade I’ve seen!! Is it going to be in 2.5x series?

I must confess as soon as we saw this BN article we went and got scupltris latest version (alpha 5) to compare the two, it’s instinctive, and what we thought was, that whilst Scupltris is phenomenal Farsthary is making superb leaps and bounds to adding this kind of functionality to blender.

Having read Farsthary’s blog over, my appreciation of his [growing] skills and the mammoth task he has taken on is rewarded tenfold by seeing his progress on this feature. Course I’ll hit that little golden icon to help ;0)

@IvantheTerrible

While it’s highly valuable to provide insight on a projects progress and possible directions, there is still a way to give tact when providing a critique. I started reading the main critique on this page and it felt like it was also expected to do ones laundry.

I feel it’s important to at least recognize the level of efforts that have taken place thus far. And I can just imagine the level of effort it could take to get the code clean on this type of modifier.

My own 2-cents is that while I might not feel like this the appropriate channel for a full on dissecting-critique,
*a thought-out critique should always be embraced no matter the time or the place*.

For the progressive nature to what else can be pushed, never sleeps.

@Drew

I personally do not think that Freemind`s reply was negative at all, it was rather positive and real. Positive feedback does not mean cheering and clapping. There is no “feedback” when someone hurrays and claps, that is just an easy thing to do.

Freemind took his time and gave the longest(and the most proper reply in my view) reply to this topic, look at other weak replies please. He did not say that this implementation sucks, he did not mean that the developer is a jackass. He said things that are important for “sculpting” improvement in Blender. I think that his reply was the most positive and encouraging reply from a possible user.

I am a designer and while positive feedback and cheers are nice
I rather value those who tell me where I can improve.
I am pretty sure Freemind thinks the same way.

Of course would have a sentence with thank you for the work
have sounded nice.

But Freemind did not say his work sucks but just listed as I did
where it needs adjustment. And I am sure F is a mature person
who will see that as constructive and fact based observation.

But that might be the difference between professionals and hobbyists.

This would be GENIUS as a modifier :D -*turns on effect* *turns off effect* :D *do duplicate modifyer* *collapse* :D *alter influence on object* :D

so modular, so non-destructive :D

“Your comment and some other people`s comments are true road blockers to the real progress.”

Yes, I can feel the Earth’s orbit coming to a halt.

What’s the point of progress if you don’t enjoy the process? What’s wrong with stopping everything, and letting something be awesome for just one moment?

This isn’t even Farsthary’s blog. He might not even read this for another week.
I come to Blendernation for the news and to share thoughts about some the exciting tools and outputs that are constantly being developed and tested. It’s one of the few places where I can simply exclaim, and I don’t have to explain why, because yuse-all use the same interface as I.

My initial post was submitted, not after reading any critique, but from after reading a response to a response, based off a critiques initial request to “any response?”.

It’s the jumping on a compliment or lack there of, It’s about lumping everybody who has something nice to say; into some happy-glad hand camp, and dismissing one as an unfocused 3D user; that we are not capable of much else. Words like fanboy and the like can only be applied after a certain heavy consistency.

I may only say how something is awesome one day, while the next, something might be more in my field of experience and I might have something of insight to contribute.

“donate him and keep the cheers and hurrays to your donation text message”
I see it as the complete opposite, at least via this channel of blendernation.
Give and give as much observed praise as possible, it is free after all, and I find being specific enough can help cement a concept or push an element that otherwise would sit on the back burner. …And if you want somebody to actually do some work for you, then pay or help out.

I’m going to be done with this now. My only argument is that compliments (and yes, critiques as well)are valid motivators in this field; they can expose marks of progress, and squashing them is ridiculous and alienates people from saying what they want if it has to explained or justified.

I’m just someguy with an internet connection and an opinion, yet I use blender everyday of the month. I just get tired of all the bashing over a little excitement.

(Farsthary, if you read this, I didn’t mean to get into this on a page linked to your work, the topic came up and I couldn’t get past the notion that one should have to think before giving praise.
thanks, for all your trials of patience being sharpened with this project)