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Mudbox 2013 Cookbook

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Mudbox 2013 Cookbook

Overview of this book

"Mudbox 2013 Cookbook" covers a variety of techniques that can be used to bring your imagination to life. You will be able to create detailed characters and environments like the ones found in games, movies, and on television. Each recipe is one more building block towards digitally sculpting your ideas into reality. "Mudbox 2013 Cookbook" is written in recipes so that you can refer back to it whenever you seek help. The advanced techniques described in this book cover the whole spectrum of Mudbox's capabilities. With this book you will learn the foundational techniques in using Mudbox as well as more advanced ones "Mudbox 2013 Cookbook" will guide the reader step by step through the process of creating brushes, sculpting, 3d painting, lighting assets, extracting normal maps, and many other techniques. If a recipe is too advanced for you then you can visit the suggested recipes listed at the end of the recipe to learn supporting techniques. Supporting images are used for readers who understand things more visually. Each recipe is rated for difficulty so that you can find techniques that line up with your skill level. Once you complete the beginner and intermediate recipes you will be able to move on to the more advanced recipes.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mudbox 2013 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Creating your own Imprint brush for adding presculpted details


This recipe will go through the process of creating a stamp from a damaged wall sculpt that will be used with the Imprint sculpt tool to add details in other projects. By putting this recipe into practice you will dramatically increase the speed of your workflow. As you build up a library of stamps, which you create, you will be able to create much larger assets in a shorter amount of time while still keeping things original, as opposed to using other people's stamps or the default stamps.

Try to limit the use of non original stamps because these will stand out to the trained eye, also known as job recruiters. If you do plan on using a default stamp or someone else's stamp from the Mudbox Community, then I recommend using it as a starting point for creating your own unique stamps.

How to do it...

The following steps will help you to create your own Imprint brush for adding presculpted details:

  1. 1. The first thing you will need is...