Reshape Tools

 

 

Reshape > Sculpt
Interactively paint surface deformations directly onto a selected object. To use a Wacom Intuos Tablet with PiXELS:3D you will need to have the "Wacom Tablet" control panel version 4.2.0 or later in the "Control Panels" folder of the System folder of the startup disk of your Macintosh. Other tablets may work, but they have not been tested by Pixels. The Wacom tablet is particularly useful with the PiXELS:3D "Sculpt" tool. Note that you must have the Studio version of PiXELS:3D to use the Sculpt tool. If you have the Standard version, the Sculpt tool will not appear in the tool palette. When you select the Reshape>Sculpt tool, you will see the "Sculpt Options" dialog box. Along the right side of the dialog are a series of check boxes that control how the pen affects the Sculpt tool. The sliders for "Size", "Softness", and "Pressure" set the maximum values for each of those parameters when using the tablet. In other words they set the sensitivity of the pen for those parameters. When the "Angle" checkbox is checked, the angle of the pen modifies the base angle selected in the radio buttons to the left: "Screen" or "Normal". If "Screen" is selected the base angle is perpendicular to the screen. If "Normal" is selected the base angle is perpendicular to the object surface.

To use the Sculpt tool:

´ Position the cursor over a selected object in the Camera view
´ Depress the mouse switch (by depressing the pen or holding down the pen button, depending on how you've set up the "Wacom tablet" control panel).
´ Move the pen around the area you want to affect. The Sculpt tool doesn't do anything when it is not moving.

When you are interacting with the Sculpt tool, the selected object is drawn at a lower resolution to allow more responsive interaction. After each use of the Sculpt tool the object is redrawn at full resolution. If "Push" or "Pull" is selected at the bottom of the Sculpt Options dialog, you can turn the pen over and use the eraser to perform the opposite action. The same is true for the "Wrap In" and "Wrap Out" options. These allow you to use the pen to selectively control the Wrap tool described above.