Post your suggestions for a future build of Mudbox here. Response to new Mudbox 2011 interview posted here: http://area.autodesk.com/gomudbox.

Paint - Transparency map

Groups - For organization, collective visibility, and collective transform

Image Browser - Right mouse click commands on images (delete,cut,copy,send to trash,show in explorer,open with,resize)

Image Browser - Resizing textures directly in Mudbox would be very nice (with additional option to “Make a Copy”, on by default)

Image Browser - Global hue, saturation, and levels offset, that temporarily adjusts image, which can then be used as stencil and stamp. With ability to turn these effects on and off, and bake offset back down to texture.

Image browser - Improve UI, it feels slow to locate textures, add bookmarks etc (breadcrumb bar similar to Windows 7, Option to Show Windows File browser favorites in addition to custom Mudbox favorites)

Image Browser - A method for generating tillable textures (not essential but nice)

Image Browser - Basic crop, and image pixel resizing.

Clone brush - Is extremely slow (not useable in most cases) some optimizations must be possible.

View-port Filters - Anti-Aliasing.

Paint - Re size textures simply by right clicking channel and click re size (user can then input a new value, after which they have more available pixels to paint on).

New Tools - Some intuitive way to generate and develop geometry

interesting list… some great suggestions…
but what for resizing images/textures..? resizing allways ends in quality loss…
why not create a new layer with a higher resolution..?

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oglu 13 July 2010 04:05 AM

interesting list… some great suggestions…
but what for resizing images/textures..? resizing always ends in quality loss…
why not create a new layer with a higher resolution..?

Yeah resizing does lead to quality loss, however in some instances you set up a texture and start painting thinking it’s high enough and at some point you realize you need extra texture space. After resizing the texture the artist could go in and paint the higher resolution detail. So the re-sized texture would simply add duplicate pixels, or find the average colors between pixels. Yeah you could just do this in Photoshop, then bring it back to Mudbox, but keeping it all in Mudbox is much nicer.

some ideas

a feature like 3dsmax viewport canvas, where you can copy and paste on the layer, then move rotate scale as necessary would be super nice.

magic wand selection would be nice.

also something i missed quite a bit, is functions for the entire layer.
such as HSV, B&C, curves!!!! sometimes you just want to quickly change the colour or tonality of the entire layer fast.

effect brushes (look at corel painter for ideas)

.:bugs bug me

Braden99 13 July 2010 06:47 AM

but keeping it all in Mudbox is much nicer.

you can do that…
paint on a 1k layer…
create a new empty 4k layer and collapse the layers…
mudbox will use the higher resolution for the new layer…

@ YiannisK

what does you mean with that..?

a feature like 3dsmax viewport canvas, where you can copy and paste on the layer, then move rotate scale as necessary would be super nice.

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I would like to have a mud brush ! It could create a new objet by adding mud on top of another object. Like painting mud!! It would be great for clothes and props.

Also being able to Array, patern and mirror object would be a great time saver!

Having photoshop type filters in the image browser would also be great !

Warp tool for stencils to stretch textures to fit geometry (see mari they have a couple of nice ones)

Stamp/repeat distance dependent on the surface distance not the camera plane

Optional Display of current level and polycount in HUD

Ability to resize the manipulator for move tool

Group objects visibility lock in the object list

Some multichannel painting might be useful

Ah something i absolutely forgot… and it would be so cool to implement.

Respect smoothing groups coming from the 3D app.

Observe and replicate how meshSmooth in 3dsmax respects and uses smoothing groups to allow you for precise hard surface modelling control when sub-dividing a mesh!!!

this would be a seriously awesome feature for mudbox!

.:bugs bug me

@YiannisK
thanks for the link… i see…
but i can do something similar with stencils in mudbox…
im in a maya pipeline… no max… ;)

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im not interested in max… trust me, max is working against my brain… ;)

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Well friends kindly pay attention

i request Autodesk to deliver their products with such a programming so that their softwares could be run easily in intermediate computer hardware’s. Like if u compare Z-brush its is not much dependent on hi-end graphic cards its Ram and processor based.

If u use drag rectangular stroke in Z-brush on more than 10 millions of polys it will give u an honest displacement but in the case of Mudbox which is no doubt a good true 3d application will definitely ask for some more G.P.U and C.P.U memory which means the high end out put is limitted to only hi define studios and productions and way way away from the reach of Students and a person like me who is an Instructor.

this is a big market opening for Z-brush it could get to millions of homes and the awareness factor will be much more as compare to Mudbox .

How ever if any one of u finds my post is wrong or any thing i wrote in this is not genuine

I GIVE FULL AUTHORITY TO MR.ADMINISTRATOR TO REMOVE MY THREAD

but i my self work only on Mudbox and cant tolerate it to be stay back or behind by any other sculpting Applications.

MAYA My love