Painting in Autodesk Mudbox 2009

While doing some sculpting in Maya I transferred one mesh to Mudbox because I wanted to test out painting textures straight on the the model, then bringing the texture into Maya.

It was really easy to paint onto the model with my Wacome tablet. You can import texture files as you would in Photoshop to uses them as stencils the paint on the texture. You can use normal brushes and imported brushes used in Photoshop to use within Mudbox.

Once I tested this out on a model I had to get the texture from Mudbox to Maya. This was a case of just exporting the texture file. Prior to this you need to un wrap the UV's in Maya first! Once this was done you can use this texture like you would normally. There only needed a few tweaks to get rid of any seams, but apart from that this process was really easy and good to use.