SJM > Sculptris UI (Proposal)

**holyenigma74** · 08-11-12

imho Blender's box modeling is better than Wings3D, hands down.

I have custom keymaps and have my navigation similar to Maya..
and i have a little bit different Navigation style for sculpting/painting with tablet
(since you can just switch between them in the preferences)

NumPad really is nice to have for Blender.. pretty much a must have.. IMHO.

**trggff** · 08-12-12

I keep on thinking that Sculptris interface is far easiest to handle that Blender one even in his new versions, a version of sculptris whith good retopo and better conection whith a external renderer would still beat blender till dust...weell is what i think

**michalis** · 08-12-12

Yeah, blender is not a good application. And not that easy as sculptris.
Of course it's not. It's a massive app not just a sculpting tool. It takes years to master such apps. However, if sculpting, retopo, texturing and rendering is all you ask, then it may be easier than to jump like crazy from one app to the other. Let's not forget, it's a free app, a cross platform app, a 64 bit app.

So, completely off the topic, my first doodles using dynamic topology of blender sculpting. Similar to sculptris but with much more potential on it. It produces actually lower poly count meshes than sculptris. How nice to sculpt under a GI raytracing environment using far superior procedural shaders than zbrush... having a fine box modeling in hand... excellent retopology and UV tools...

Modo implemented sculpting tools as well, C4D too...
Sculptris development team has to do something, and do it fast.

**CaptainNemo** · 08-14-12

Wow ...
Lovely sculpts dear michalis, real masterpieces ...

and about Sculptris development team ,... let them rest in peace.

**justadeletedguy** · 08-14-12

I've been trying and trying to get Blender Cycles use GPU, but the only one that works is the old, Clay Render one. No textures, No Materials for ATI/AMD cards .... Mine should be supported, but it just wont work .... Cpu works, but it's sssssslllllllllloooooooooooowwwww! .. 5 min for 5 passes .... ArG!!

**michalis** · 08-14-12

One for sure.
Blender doesn't sucks.
It could be impossible for me to sculpt these if it sucks. Right?
Cycles supports CUDA only for GPU rendering. No ATI's for the moment, sorry.
Just saying, right now I bought a good ATI, replacing my old nvidia.
It's time for good OGL support you see. Cycles runs as a thunder under my two xeon 16 threads. At 2/3 of the fastest nVidias which is a reasonably good speed and CPU rendering has some serious advantages. Just for the record the above renders are 300 passes in 1 min. (~1600x1200 px)

Thanks for the nice comments CaptainNemo.
You're right, I'm afraid so. Now we have the best ever zbrush build and I'm happy.
But, involved on this blender dyna topology project... I start thinking otherwise. Lot of fun. How much different from the one year ago involvement in the sculptris beta testing...

**trggff** · 08-16-12

WOW

(and this time i dont mean world of warcraft) michalis you have reached the Master level (or even the fuking boss level) surpasing the evidence of the xculpting the quality of the materials whith the green rust on the bronze is F*kixng good

**trggff** · 08-16-12

michalis i have downloaded a Dynamic retopology build of blender...but it dont seems to work...i mean...dont seem to do DYNAMIC only normal sculpt...the option is, and i enable it...but i cant see any change...things keep on look very blocky as ever in blender sculpt. changing to wireframe view dont show any subdibision...i'm doing something wrong on installation?

**michalis** · 08-16-12

Thanks for comments trggff
This isn't the appropriate forum for such questions
However, under the T panel (on the left), enable dynamic topology. All these under sculpting mode of course.
And please, visit the blenderartists.org forum / blender and CG discussion / the dynamic topology branch is here, discussion, for more questions.

**trggff** · 08-17-12

I have tried it again and tried other buildings...and my experience is that...DONT WORK

...i'm sure that there would be a way of making it work , but dont expect as this point to download something that you can use easily

**michalis** · 08-17-12

Look at your PMs

**Geta-Ve** · 08-18-12

Damn... This thread is super depressing. I started out reading through it thinking, Holy ****, these UI mock ups are insane! I absolutely loved how you approached some of the tools and palettes. And then I saw your response stating that Pixologic had declined the makeover.

Entirely depressing. While I have moved on to ZBrush these days, I still have a spot in my heart for Sculptris. For me it is simply a FUN application to use.

I would absolutely love to see SJM tackle a ZBrush UI overhaul, because, honestly, that program is just a mess right now. Sure it has all the functionality you could want (and more), but navigating its UI is an absolute pain in the ass. The naming conventions are all over the place, including abbreviations for some tools and not others, the help popups are vague at best, and the tool distribution is scattered.

If it is any consolation, SJM I really loved your mock ups. I really felt they had merit and warranted more than a passing glance from Pixologic (this is assuming they really didn't pay attention, which I could be entirely wrong).

Cheers... I guess.

**SeanJM** · 08-19-12