Improving Your Sculpting Experience

To get the best from Sculpt mode, you need to tweak Blender’s settings a bit. The goals are twofold: to ensure that you get the best performance while sculpting and to configure Blender’s 3D Viewport and materials to make it easier to see the effects of your brushstrokes on your model while sculpting.

Optimizing Sculpting Performance

Of course, the best way to improve sculpting performance is to use a powerful computer with a lot of RAM. At minimum, you’ll need 4GB of RAM if you plan on going into the millions of polys, but more certainly won’t hurt. But barring hardware upgrades, here’s how to make the most of what you have.

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