Autodesk Mudbox 2009

Combining an intuitive user interface with a suite of high-performance, creative tools, Autodesk® Mudbox™ digital sculpting and texture painting software offers 3D modeling professionals the ability to quickly and easily create highly detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets.

Productivity at Your Fingertips
The creativity-enhancing Mudbox feature set is easily accessible to traditional sculptors and to both new and experienced digital artists, enabling users to become productive in hours rather than weeks. Digital sculpting tools mimic the behavior of their real-world counterparts: if you can pinch clay, you can use the tools in Mudbox.

Sculpting Paradigm
With Autodesk Mudbox you can sculpt 3D models quickly and precisely using fast, high-quality brushes and sculpting tools. Choose from an extensive list of intelligently designed default brushes or quickly tailor them for custom behavior and performance. Sculpt symmetrically on asymmetrical 3D models and quickly add high-quality detail with support for mesh displacement.

Multi-resolution Mesh Editing
Subdivide a mesh, when you want, where you want, and to what degree you want: advanced subdivision technology gives you the ultimate in polygon mesh control. Plus, innovative streaming technology helps you work quickly and efficiently on even the largest, most face-intensive 3D models and scenes.

Texture Baking
With its fast, high-quality texture baking capabilities, Autodesk Mudbox 2009 solves one of the most common bottlenecks in game and film production pipelines: baking of normal and displacement maps. Bake high-quality normal and displacement maps between multiple arbitrary meshes: detail can be baked in 8-, 16-, and 32-bit maps.

3D Layers
Store different detail passes, libraries of morph targets, and more on multiple layers using the efficient Mudbox layer workflow. 3D layers can be blended, masked, erased, mirrored, and merged, just like layers in a 2D image-editing package. An intelligent, familiar layer user interface helps you quickly duplicate, merge, flatten, group, and reorder layers.

System Requirements

Software
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Mudbox 2009 software is supported on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional, SP2
• Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business, SP1

The 64-bit version of Autodesk Mudbox 2009 software is supported on the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, SP2
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business, SP1

Mudbox 2009 documentation is compatible with any of the following web browsers:

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or higher
• Mozilla Firefox® 2.0 or higher

Hardware

At a minimum, the 32-bit version of Mudbox 2009 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Intel® Pentium® 4 (or equivalent) processor
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• 650 MB free hard drive space (2 GB recommended)
• Ethernet adapter or wireless Internet card
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card
• Three-button mouse or qualified Wacom® tablet
• DVD-ROM drive

At a minimum, the 64-bit version of Mudbox 2009 software requires a system with the following hardware:

• Intel EM64T, AMD Athlon® 64, or AMD Opteron® processor
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• 650 MB free hard drive space (2 GB recommended)
• Ethernet adapter or wireless Internet card
• Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card
• Three-button mouse or qualified Wacom tablet
• DVD-ROM drive

Notes:

• Latest graphics card drivers are required for proper display.
• Latest Wacom drivers are required for best tablet support. When installing a new Wacom driver, be sure to first uninstall the old driver, restart, and then install the new one according to Wacom instructions. Failure to do so may impact performance of the hardware.

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Autodesk Mudbox 2009