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Tool Settings

Ingo Clemens edited this page Aug 14, 2019 · 1 revision

Size

The size of the brush in world units.

Strength

The strength of the smoothing effect. A value of 1 defines a full averaging with neighbouring weights.

Affect Selected

Smoothes only the selected vertices. When off only unselected vertices are affected.

Ignore Lock

Smooth the weights of influences even if these are locked.

Oversampling

The number of iterations for the smoothing.

Fraction Oversampling

When smoothing with oversampling the strength value is divided by the number of samples.

Flood

Applies the smoothing to the current selection with the strength value. When only the mesh is selected the entire mesh will be considered.

Depth Start

Define at which depth the brush starts to smooth vertices when painting. The default value of 1 means that the foremost visible surface of the mesh is affected. If only the backside of the mesh should be considered in a non-overlapping mesh this value should be set to 2.

Depth

Sets how many overlapping mesh layers are considered for smoothing. If the front and back side of the mesh should be affected with the same brush stroke set this value to 2. If the back side has overlapping geometry because of a posed mesh (i.e. the arm crease opposite of the elbow) a depth of 3 or more might be required. Please note that the larger the depth the more vertices are evaluated. This might affect performance.

Keep Shells Together

Extends the smoothing or selection across a shell boundary by trying to find an equivalent vertex on a neighbouring shell boundary in surface mode. This can help maintain mesh continuity during the deformation.

Tolerance

The maximum distance to find an equivalent vertex on a neighbouring shell boundary in surface mode.

Volume

Enables the volume mode where weights are smoothed based on the vertex distance. Since it's volume based the weights can also spread across shells and nearby surfaces. When off the weights are smoothed based on the connected neighbours in surface mode.

Range

The fraction of the brush size in which neighbouring vertices are considered for smoothing for each vertex in volume mode.

Draw Brush

Displays the brush circle while smoothing.

Brush Color

Sets the brush circle color.

Line Width

Sets the line width of the brush circle.

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