Overview of Mudbox

In this chapter, I'll introduce Autodesk Mudbox into the pipeline.…Mudbox is a digital sculpting application and is widely used in the game industry.…What we can do is take our reasonably low-res mesh out of 3ds Max, bring it into…Mudbox and subdivide it pretty heavily.…As we can see here, this mesh has a lot of polys.…We're dealing in 77,000 for just this hammer.…What this will let us do is sculpt in all the detail we want and then bake out a normal map.…We can take that normal map, either out of Mudbox here or out of 3ds Max.…

In 3ds Max, we can project or we can simply import the normal map in and apply…it to see how it looks.…I've dented and scratched the head of the hammer here.…Finally, we'll look at how these show up in Unity, does it come across well and…are we getting the results we want on our low poly model.…We want to think of digital sculpting applications as a vital part of our…pipeline for adding detail and realism while not blowing out poly counts.…