Hi, I’ve just begun my journey in Mudbox so forgive me if this is a common question or easily solved problem. Here’s what happens…
So I made a separate mesh for both the hair and the base for my model to stand on and as I sculpted I noticed a general dullness about my strokes despite being at a higher sub-division, I didn’t pay much attention and moved on to grabbing and pulling. That’s when the dullness went away like a layer being erased in the exact shape of my pull stroke (see image)… Please help as it is very annoying to work around this and I want to get the project done sooner than later.

Thanks for reading.
-Chris

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Not really sure what’s going on, but it looks like something to do with the image based light. I’d try turning that off and see what it looks like.

Turning off image-based lighting did not help. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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Perhaps I didn’t understand what you’re talking about. Could you explain it again? What do you mean by dullness? Are you talking about the lighting or the way the sculpting is working?

Oh do you mean that pattern? Have you used a stencil in the scene? It might be one of those.

You can hide stencils with Q I think, although I’m not sure if you can sculpt with them hidden. You can also make them more or less transparent. Check the stencil tab and see if one is enabled.

Yes if you can record a video I’m sure that would help.

Yeah that’s quite odd. Looks like it’s a redraw issue. Possibly something to do with the image based lighting, or the material on the object. Or both. I’d start simple. Get rid of the fancy lights. Take it back to one default directional light (there’s a preset that matches the default lighting). And apply a standard mudbox material with no textuers. See what that looks like.

If it still does it with the default light and material setup it’s probably a graphics driver issue. So have a look and see if there’s a more up to date one.