The details about Mudbox 2011 are out.

http://area.autodesk.com/mudbox2011/features

So what does everyone think of the update?
Whats your favorite new feature?

I personally like the sound of the ability to pose my models and the new color picker looks great.

The Pose feature has me very excited. I’ll be able to do much more in Mudbox and have to rely less on rigging in Maya. All I need to know is...when is it on sale? Gimme!

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this new release is amazing!!!!
i love the paitning in 2d while still in 3d to get all the reflections and stuff.

IMporting weights from MAX!!!! from a rig.. holy cannolliee!!!
thats awesome.

different blendmodes for layers and brushes!!!! i just pippieed!!

multi layer exporting instead of exporting one by one!!! YESSS baby! finally!!!

please give it to me NOW!!!!!

when is it out??

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It’s a stunning release, kudos to the development team.  Thanks for all your hard work!

Pose Tool that is awesome !
Blend modes for paint layers :)
YES! My Request (maybe it wasn’t mine) Mult-Layer PSD File Exchange :)

And turn table support

Although how does Vector Displacement compare with regular displacement ?

What is needed in 2012 is the ability to add clay on top of existing meshes to add geometry to the mesh & UV unfolding :), Mudbox may be behind Zbrush by a little but it can enhance on features and make it better.

Mudbox is actually not “behind” ZBrush, it’s just for different purpose. From the tools developed, Zbrush is intended to be a start-to-finish 2.5/3D concept/illustration/sculpting software, while Mudbox’s main functionality is to provide details (displacement/normal/bump/color/specular etc maps, or blendshape models) for other applications such as Maya,Max and XSI. Let me take an example.. For the huge features Zbrush provide, it still has no way no conveniently extract multi-tile 32 bit displacement maps from the models, compared to Mudbox which has it from the start.

On the Mudbox 2011 note, it seems to be a very solid release, and if all the tools work as intended ( no major crippling bugs), then Many users will start to consider it as their main sculpting/texturing apps, no doubt about it. What I like the most are the improvements on texturing tools, such as better PSD supports, layer blend mode, hue-saturation-contrast adjustments etc. Nicely done Mudbox teams!!

it seems like polygon reduction , hard surface sculpting tools , viewport enhancements (such as navigation cube ) etc will come with sp or with the other releases . also no sign of large file managements .
i wonder the precision of painting brushes . they were rough according to body paint in MB2010 .
nothing is mentioned about widgets or menus . if so we are still hugely dependant on shortcuts that slow down the workflow .
nothing new about selection tools ? selection region tool ?

lets see what demo has

As for stability issues , this recovery file used for promo purposes says a lot of things. sigh…
(image just saved from the Autodesk Mudbox 2011, promo page, sorry for the large image )

If the tools work as intended. This will be the release that has me jump ship from Z-Brush.

Does anyone know if the 4K resolution limit is gone for 2011? This was a deal breaker for me using it.

Thanks in advance.

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double post, sorry :)