What button are you pressing along with snake hook to push back snout. I cant seem to do it properly and whenever I turn on dyntopo it get's even more confusing. thank you in advance
Yeah I've gotten confused along the way but what has helped me to get this far in the course is that I watch a little bit and try to practice that for a couple of minutes or hours depending on how much i get into what I'm doing. I also got advise that taking 5 minutes break for every 30-1hr of watching the course helps learn and remember what he's teaching. but now i'm stuck fixing the snout
Hi wwildex999 and jjonmutivito - I'll do my best help!
What button are you pressing along with snake hook to push back snout
I'm not pushing any additional buttons along with the snakehook, but maybe I'm misunderstanding the question...I use the F hotkey before making strokes with the snakehook brush to adjust the size of the brush. Note that for pulling the snout around I use a large brush size. Whenever this brush is small it can get unwieldy.
whenever I turn on dyntopo it get's even more confusing
Same here. My snake hook just makes a mess of everything when I try to do the same here, just flattening everything
I'm guessing what's confusing, but is it perhaps the auto-generation of new topology that's throwing you off? If your snakehook brush simplifies the geometry too much, you'll need to decrease your detail size. Hopefully you watched and understood the video dedicated to dynamic topology earlier in the course?
If you could describe the specifics of the confusion and the mess that the brush makes, I'm happy to clarify!
@theluthier I was pressing additional buttons with snake hook but once I stopped pressing control it worked. I'm still trying to figure out how dynamic topology. What is the main difference between Remesh and Dynamic topology and Lastly what course would be ideal to go to from the fundamentals of digital sculpting
Remesh is a static operation that globally generates new topology across your entire sculpture when the button is clicked.
Dynamic Topology generates new topology only under your brush as you sculpt.
Personally I don't like the global, static nature of remesh. I find that dynamic topology gives the user much more specific control.
As for follow-up courses, I would recommend these:
*Note that they're recorded with pre-2.8 Blender but the concepts are still entirely relevant.
Yeah I think the thing which threw me off quite a lot was the quick switching of brush size during that part of the video. Things would just move differently, twist in ways I didn't expect, and sometimes leave ugly dents that I couldn't correct. I couldn't see what I did differently from you.
I will give this part another go this weekend at a slower speed, and create a new specific question if I end up hitting a problem. Sorry for jumping into this question :)
@theluthier can I follow those courses with blender 2.8 or I need 2.7 versions to understand and simply things, lastly I’ve gotten so used to 2.8 and I have never used previous versions, how hard would it be if I used 2.8 for the courses ?
wwildex999 I appreciate you willing to give it another go. If you get hung up again, I'm happy to help sort things out. It kinda sounds like your snake hook brush was too sensitive. Generally I like to use that brush at a softer strength, broader brush. But yes, if you run into specific issues don't hesitate to ask!
jjonmutivito I definitely think you can follow 2.7 courses with 2.8, especially sculpting since the core functionality is the same (minus multires). Multires is coming back to 2.8 soon but I know it's used sometimes in those courses I linked earlier.
Generally speaking you won't be able to follow step-by-step in a "press this button here, that button there" way because the UI is significantly different between 2.7 and 2.8. BUT since you've established a foundation with 2.8 and you know where the buttons are, when a 2.7 course says "enable dyntopo" you know where that button is in 2.8 already. The important thing to focus on is workflow and concept / theory of the courses rather than specific buttons.
Honestly though, it's likely that you will run into confusion along the way. But it's very possible to learn from older courses. We have members do it all the time. When this happens don't hesitate to ask questions along the way!