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Controlling Brush options

Controlling Brush options - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Controlling Brush options

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- [Voiceover] In addition to the paint options that we saw to control the size and strength of the brush, there are also so called brush options, and that can let you control the actual shape of the brush, let's take a look. I'll go to the push pull brush, give myself an offset of let's say 10, and then just drag a little stroke over there, that's the default brush shape. Let's change that up so that we can get sharper peaks to our mountains. Go to Paint Options, and within there you will find Brush Options. That opens a window which is labelled Painter Options and this is kind of an old school window from an earlier iteration of 3ds Max, and we can't actually save what's in this window unfortunately. There is a toolbar that allows us to store these options for the Paint tool, but it does not work with the Freeform tools. It's a bit of an issue, we cannot actually save what we do in this window, it just gets stored with the scene, and we cannot make presets for it. But regardless of…

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