Blender Sculpting beginners

Changing controls to industry standards

Blender used different key map controls, if you would like to change it to more industry standard (Like Maya and UE5) follow the steps below.  If you are watching tutorial for blender it may sometimes be better to use blender default controls.

How to switch to Industry Compatible keymap

How to up poly count for sculpting

A low poly mesh does not have enough vertices to create fine shapes. Brushes will look blocky and surface detail will be limited. Increasing the poly count adds more vertices. This allows smoother forms, sharper creases, and finer surface detail such as wrinkles or cracks. Higher density geometry gives more control over the surface. It allows the sculpt to look natural and refined.

Once sculpting is complete, the high poly detail can be baked onto a low poly version for use in games.

There are two ways to do this:

• Dyntopo adds geometry on-the-fly as you brush, creating messy, high-density triangles ideal for quick, freeform sketching.

• Multires divides an existing, clean base mesh into multiple levels, allowing you to switch between low-poly (big shapes) and high-poly (fine details) without destroying the base topology. 

Multi resolution

- In object mode select the model you would like to add more polly to for sculpting

- Click on the drop down in the top left of the screen and select sculpt mode

- On right select modifiers and add multiresolution modifiers

- Select subdivide, each time you press this it will subdivide the mesh

- If you look in wireframe mode you can see the pollys go higher

Step 2

 On right select modifiers and add multiresolution modifiers