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Basic sculpting techniques
In the next steps, youll become familiar with features of the Sculpt Geometry
Tool. With this tool, you use your mouse or stylus to push, pull, or smooth a
surfaces shape without selecting or displaying CVs. After you practice sculpting
the surface, youll erase your practice strokes then begin sculpting Eggheads
features.
To practice sculpting using basic sculpting operations
1 With Egghead selected, select Edit NURBS > Sculpt Geometry Tool >
. In the Tool Settings window, click Reset Tool, and make sure the Sculpt
parameters are displayed.
In the Sculpt Parameters section, there are four operations for sculpting
a surface. Each affects the region of the surface where you drag (stroke)
your mouse or stylus relative to the surface normals:
The Push operation depresses the surface in the region of the stroke.
The Pull operation raises the surface in the region of the stroke.
The Smooth operation diminishes bumps or ridges where you drag.
Smoothing works by averaging the position of all features within the
brush radius with all other nearby features.
The Relax operation paints over bumps to relax most of the out of
place surface features.
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