Differences between wax and bulge?

[antiart]

With modifying the tool properties and falloff, it feels like some of the brushes are the same. I sometimes feel like a moron for not taking advantage of the nuanced differences between bulge, wax, and sculpt. Sometimes the knife acts somewhat similar. Then there is the scrape and smooth tools. They work similarly and but still act differently, but I have no idea how. Autodesk's help manual is a bit brief and vague about sculpt presets. I mean I don't need the mathematical formula, but a bit more detail about the logic behind the presets would be nice. I suppse you can just learn to 'feel' the differences... Do all you people use more than half the sculpting tools?

[Wayne]

Basically those two brushes are all about the differences between centre normals, averaged normals and face/vertex normal.

The wax brush goes in the direction of the center normal, thats to say the normal of the vertex in the center beneath the brush and has a 'limit' that you can use to get some interesting effects.

The bulge brush takes each vertex beneath it and moves each one in its own normals direction. (like a balloon.)

For a proepr explanation buy the wave 1 dvd available on this site that goes into detail about the brushes, their differnces and just about everything else in mudbox.


Wayne...

[antiart]

Thanks Wayne for the clarification. :-)