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Create levels of detail objects with Multires

Create levels of detail objects with Multires - Blender Tutorial

From the course: Blender: Tips, Tricks and Techniques

Create levels of detail objects with Multires

- Let's talk about the multires modifier. It's had a few controversial changes in Blender 283 but it's still just as powerful. In fact, I think it's even more powerful. Now, the reason you'd want to use a multiresolution modifier is to allow you to have multiple levels of detail. So let's go ahead and turn that on. And we're going to zoom into this little cube right here. We're just going to click on subdivide a few times. I'm going to go all the way up to four. If your computer can't go up to four, that's okay. Go up to three. Nonetheless, you can see that our cube is now nice and smoothed around. Now in previous versions of Blender, there used to be a little sculpt button right here, and you can toggle which level of detail you want it to sculpt on. But that created a lot of issues that in Blender 283 were finally patched. So now you can only sculpt on the highest level of detail and all of your changes will permeate…

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