You can use any image as a tool for sculpting and texturing in Mudbox by applying it as a stencil. You can quickly create custom stencils based on any image copied to your system clipboard, or using the Paint and Sculpt tools. You can save new stencils to reuse later, add them permanently to your Stencil tray, or use them temporarily to sculpt the detail you want, then discard them.
To create a stencil
- Select Create > Stencil from the main menu.
- In the Create New Stencil window that appears, do any of the following and click OK:
- Set the dimensions (Width and Height) of the stencil you want.
- Turn on Use Image from Clipboard to paste an image you have copied from another program as a stencil. (When pasting an image from the clipboard, the width and height are determined by the dimensions of the pasted image.)
A semi-transparent stencil editing window displays, indicating you are in stencil editing mode.
In stencil editing mode, you can paint and sculpt to create the stencil you want. See Edit a stencil for more information on editing.
- When finished with the stencil, do any of the following:
- To use the stencil immediately, click Done in the stencil editing window (Hotkey: R).
Note that this does not save the stencil, so if you select another stencil, the current stencil is lost. You can, however, select Edit > Stencil again (or press R) to continue editing the stencil.
- To save the stencil, click Save As.
This opens the Save Stencil As window, letting you save the stencil to disk and specify whether you want it added to your Stencil tray.
- To use the stencil immediately, click Done in the stencil editing window (Hotkey: R).