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Inflate

Inflate - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Inflate

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- [Instructor] This video is on the Inflate tool. Click on Sculpt, make sure you're under volume to Brushes, to Inflate. And this does as you might think it would do. We're going to zoom in here, I'm going to click with Flow turned on, and see that it is inflating. Also, with a different falloff, it has different effects. This is with the blocky falloff, this is with a more pointy falloff. So you might think, "Hey, this kind of does "what other tools do." Similar also, if you hold down the Control key to do the inverse, it will deflate. So that is a deflate with that falloff, and a deflate with this falloff. But it doesn't act like other tools do. So I'll zoom around to the back here and show you. So let's say we inflate here, and we inflate here. You might think, "Oh, okay, it works like the Draw tool "or something where you're adding in volume." But if you zoom in, and turn on Wireframe mode, by pressing W, you see right here, these are called self-intersections. You see, if we zoom…

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