From the course: Hard Surface Sculpting and Retopologizing in Cinema 4D

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Using stencils

Using stencils - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

From the course: Hard Surface Sculpting and Retopologizing in Cinema 4D

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Using stencils

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- The Sculpting brush Stencil function is similar to Stamp, but it's also different. Instead of using the projection of a plane following the cursor, it uses a screen projection to place a bitmap, and use it as sort of a mask to effect the displacement of your brushes. So that's a little hard to understand just from the description, so let's just dig in and see what it actually does. Let's go back to our Content Browser. We're gonna go back into our Sculpting Presets. And unfortunately, the techno presets that we've been using don't really have a Stencil brush, but most of these other more natural type do, so let's just open one of those other brushes, just to see what the settings are by default, and we can put some breaks on the side of our ship just for demonstration purposes. So I'm gonna take a wall_01. And you see right away there's a representation of the bitmap in the viewport, and it's this square in the center. And let's go to, before we forget, let's go to Symmetry and turn…

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