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surface under the brush when you first begin
the stroke will be extended throughout the
whole stroke, producing a nice flat surface.
Scrape Flat
The Scrape Flat brush (see Figure 6-8) creates nice
flat, faceted surfaces in a mesh. It's great for sculpt-
ing jagged rocks and hard, technical surfaces and
for quickly establishing clear planes in organic mod-
els that you can smooth and refine later.
To create this brush, do the following:
3.
Set the brush's Plane Offset to around 0.1 (see
Figure 6-8) to make the brush cut more deeply
into the surface. This setting determines how
deeply the brush affects the surface for positive
values or raises its effects away from the surface
for negative values.
1.
Duplicate the Scrape brush.
2.
Lock the Area Plane of the new brush by clicking
the padlock icon next to its option (as shown
in Figure 6-8). Now, the surface normal of the
Try changing the tool type for this brush to the
Flatten, Fill, or Clay tools, as they work well with
these settings, too.
Crease Lazy
This brush is a variation of the stan-
dard Crease brush. With the Smooth
Stroke setting activated, the Crease
Lazy brush is good for creating long,
smooth creases. To create the Crease
Lazy brush, as shown in Figure 6-9,
follow these steps:
1.
Duplicate the Crease brush and
turn on Smooth Stroke .
2.
For both this and the regular
Crease brush, I like to turn up the
strength of the brush to between
0.6 and full strength and turn the
pinch value down to around 0.1
or 0.2. (I find the default pinch
strength a bit heavy.)
Figure 6-8: The Scrape Flat brush
Figure 6-9: The Crease Lazy brush
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