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Scale model(s) with 3d layers

Couldn’t make it work. The problem is simple - i have a subtool with several layers and i want to scale it (mostly because the brush size is too big to work with smallest details).
The thing is - i cannot scale it with layers.
I tried to do it different ways
0. Tried to scale it with all layers disabled - works, but when i tried to interact with layers all the scaling was vanished.

  1. Tried to scale while recording one of the layers - works, but this layers ‘bakes’ all the details from other layers. I still want to be able to adjust layers and enable/disable them.
  2. Tried to do it with all layers disabled (except the one i’m recording) - works, but it ‘rewrites’ all the details from other layers when i enable them. And the order of layers doesn’t seem to mean something.
  3. Tried to do it with one layer in the recording mode and at the lowest subdivision level - doesn’t work since it destroys all the data on highest levels.

I can actually try to scale every layer one by one but in this case the size of each layer will be slightly different. Maybe i should also try to split layers to different subtools, scale them using scale master, and then reproject the details. But projecting isn’t a easy task, especially on high resolution models with a lot of small details.

So i don’t really know. Hope my English doesn’t make your eyes bleed.

I don’t know the answer to your specific question about layers and scaling.

However just in case, I wanted to mention that you can change brush size scale range in Preferences | Draw | Dynamic Brush Scale. Smallest setting is 0.02 which will let you make a very small brush. The default value is 1 so at the lowest setting your brush can be 50 times smaller than the default smallest brush size.

Anyway, hope you get an answer to your question because that would be good to know.

Cheers.