Sculptron 1.0 - Alpha 2 is out!

[linograndiotoy]

Dear all,

We are excited to bring you a new release of Sculptron!

As with all experimental builds, please do not use this for production purposes. We can't guarantee that scenes saved with this version will be compatible in future releases, and we anticipate there being several maintenance releases.

Link to the previous Sculptron Alpha Preview Release:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73278

We've been collecting user's feedback about Sculptron, implementing feature requests and improving the UI experience!

What's new:

UI/Workflow

The UI has been deeply reworked in both design and functionality. Colors are more aligned to Octane Standalone, the timeline has been totally reorganized and we have esperimental brush icons (thanks Luca Giarrettino for providing them) that will be replaced soon by animated ones.

It's now also possible to navigate using the mouse only (or the pen) without using any keyboard key, simply dragging on an empty area of the screen.
We've introduced Interpolation Modes for Keyframes (Linear, Stepped, Curve). Interpolation can be changed using the Timeline menu (Right Mouse button anywhere on the Timeline) or the Buttons in the Timeline Window.

Sculpting/Playback speed.

Both sculpting and playback speed have been vastly improved, offering now a 1000% increment in performances (yes, about 10 times faster than it was in previous alpha).
Brush Tools feedback has also been corrected and tweaked, so to offer a more natural feel.

New Wireframe/Grid mode.

Wireframe can now be activated for the OpenGL preview and it offers several options, available in the Preferences window.
Grid also offers controllable options like Color and Opacity.

New ToonShading MatCap.

We've added a nice Toon Matcap to the already very extended list of available ones.

We're currently working on the Sculptron Item Animation system and Alembic Import/Export.

Shortcuts list:

Navigation

• Alt+ Left Mouse button drag = Rotate View
  Alt+ Middle Mouse button drag = Pan View
  Alt+ Right Mouse button drag = Zoom View
  Alt+ Left Mouse button drag on a keyframe = duplicate keyframe
  CTRL = invert brush function when available
  SHIFT = Smooth Brush
  CTRL when using Grab = Constraint along normal
  f = Fit World
  SHIFT+f = Fit Selected

It's now also possible to navigate using the mouse only (or the pen) without using any keyboard key:

• Left Mouse/Pen button drag in an empty area = Rotate View
  Middle Mouse/Pen button drag in an empty area = Pan View
  Right Mouse/Pen button drag in an empty area = Zoom View

Timeline:

• Left Arrow Key = Previous Frame
  Next Arrow Key = Next Frame
  Shift+Left Arrow Key = Previous Keyframe
  Shift+Next Arrow Key = Next Keyframe
  Home = Go to First Frame
  End = Go to Last Frame
  CTRL+Left Mouse Button on the timeline = Create New key
  BackSpace = Restore Key/s
  Delete = Delete Key/s

Sculptron Features

• Sculpt-Animate any number of 3D meshes using several kind of brushes and procedural textures
  Import OBJs for Sculpt-Animation
  Import animated caches (MDD only for now, Alembic will follow) and sculpt-animate it
  Use multiple animated sculpting layers per Object
  Import Mesh as Frame
  Convert the mesh in a SDF/VDB volume with additional Procedural Noise
  Export any frame as OBJ
  Export animation as MDD cache (Alembic will be available soon) and OpenVDB

Sculptron Future Features Roadmap (not in this order!):

• Local Space Deformations
  Alembic Import Export with Camera support
  Available Brushes are going to be expanded in both number and functionalities
  Support for mesh sequence with different number of points/polygons (replacement animation)
  Multiple meshes merge for export as OpenVDB
  Wrinkle Tool
  Alpha Brushes
  Polygon Masking
  Interpolation Mode for Keyframes (Linear, Stepped, Bezier, Hermite)
  Presets for Procedural Textures
  Statistics (Number of Polygons)
  Topological Grab
  3D Perspective Reference
  OpenSubdivision
  Displacement Maps
  Dynamic Meshes Sculpting
  Item Transformations (Position/Rotation/Scale)
  Animated Deformers with Animated Falloffs
  Heat Maps
  Compress/Stress calculation
  Weight Map Painting
  Bone Deformation
  Graph Editor
  Orthogonal Views
  Volume Channels Painting
  Octane Render integration

Known Issues

• "Solo" option for Layer is not working yet
  Undo is limited to local keyframe sculpting editing right now
  Volumetric Noise shows a slice effect that is also exported in OpenVDB (SDF Noise works fine)
  Radius Pressure can freeze Sculptron on some systems (leave it uncheked)
  It's alpha software, expect some crashes!

Watch the Sculptron 1.0 Alpha Presentation Video:

Sculptron 1.0 Alpha Video

Download the free, limited time beta 1 version of Sculptron:

Sculptron 1.0 alpha 2 Download

[gilles83]

Dear,

That's really really cool for the alpha 2.
Actually I was deeply hoping for the alembic support.
It's not supported yet, can you advise me how to export MDD caches ( ideally with 3dsmax or maya ) or a third program ? I found nothing.

[NemesisCGI]

Can't import mdd files. Nothing happens...

[linograndiotoy]

You're right!
On it. Thanks!

[NemesisCGI]

I'm guessing there is no beta testing before hand.

[linograndiotoy]

I'm guessing there is no beta testing before hand.

There is, we just linked a previous version by mistake. That bug was fixed already.

This is the link to the installer with MDD options working correctly (I've updated the link in the main post as well):

Sculptron 1.0 alpha 2 Download

[eyeonestudio]

Can't Run Sculptron

See - Windows Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application

Faulting application name: Sculptron.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5ee63af8
Faulting module name: ucrtbase.dll, version: 10.0.18362.815, time stamp: 0x32a6df9a
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x000000000006db9e
Faulting process id: 0xca8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d65d22cab37875
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\OTOY\Sculptron\Sculptron.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\ucrtbase.dll
Report Id: 3eb4e11d-529d-491e-bc7d-a7fd4d3a2d60
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[AlexSudnikov]

Looking good , although it's still hard to navigate withough snapping to ortho views ( like when you hold Shift and orbit around model in ZBrush ). Still wonder what's the main purpose of the software , i mean it's all is pretty much done in ZBrush ( except for animation and volumetrics though ). Or are you going to add some integration with Octane ?

[bafly]

crashes on launch. (win-10 64bit 12gb Radeon RX570 8GB)

Code: Select all

Assigning non-constant to: const highp float
ERROR: error(#273) 1 compilation errors. No code generated

Assertion GL::Shader::compile( { vert, frag } ) failed in ..\..\VdbPreview.cpp on line 22

[linograndiotoy]

Looking good , although it's still hard to navigate withough snapping to ortho views ( like when you hold Shift and orbit around model in ZBrush ). Still wonder what's the main purpose of the software , i mean it's all is pretty much done in ZBrush ( except for animation and volumetrics though ). Or are you going to add some integration with Octane ?

You should be able to select ortho views using your numeric pad. 1 for front view, CTRL+1 for back view,3 for right view, CTRL+3 for left view, 7 for top view and CTRL+7 for bottom view.

Sculptron is absolutely not a replacement for ZBrush or any similar dedicated sculpting software.

It's about animation, especially cache animation editing using sculpting tools.