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Freedom from UVs: Ptex painting in Mudbox

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Freedom from UVs: Ptex painting in Mudbox

- Laying out UVs can be a very tedious and time consuming process. A different system developed by Disney is Ptex. Ptex is a UV free texture setup that utilizes the geometry to layout, uniform and clean coordinates for painting textures. Mudbox fully supports Ptex as well, of course, as UV layouts. But I wanna take just a moment here in this video to do a quick overview of how you can work with Ptex, and how nice actually it is to quickly get into a nice painting workflow on your 3D object. So here's a quick overview of what Ptex is, so it's UV-free workflow, and it gives you this nice smooth texture layout, it's a very uniform and balanced layout of coordinates for painting. One way to think of this is much like subdivision of a model. The cleaner the geometry of the model, the nicer it's going to subdivide, of course, right? You can get into higher levels of subdivision with nice clean quads, and you get nice balanced uniform quads as you subdivide up, if you have nice clean quads…

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