There is a res indicator of sorts - the black bounding box. When it's full of clay you can't res that layer up any more without cropping.
Every time you res up, you're quadrupling (afaik) the memory footprint of your layer so if you have a gig worth of clay in your layer and you hit res-up you're going to jump to 4 gig, then 16, then 64.
It's the kind of thing you'll get a feel for the more you use Medium. I know what res I'm working at just by the feel of the clay. I need to res up when it starts getting too runny.
It's not possible to res down right now but the devs were showing off that feature in the livestream on thursday so hopefully it should be included in the next update which is expected any time.
Every time you res up, you're quadrupling (afaik) the memory footprint of your layer so if you have a gig worth of clay in your layer and you hit res-up you're going to jump to 4 gig, then 16, then 64.
It's the kind of thing you'll get a feel for the more you use Medium. I know what res I'm working at just by the feel of the clay. I need to res up when it starts getting too runny.
It's not possible to res down right now but the devs were showing off that feature in the livestream on thursday so hopefully it should be included in the next update which is expected any time.
Aye, I'm pants wi maths you're probably right. I went from 7 gig to 28 last week at one point but I forgot to account for system allocation so it might well have been
@DreamShaper The only indicator I could think that would make sense would be %filled. 1-2-3-4 wouldn't actually mean anything in medium. It's not how it works.
@Dreamshaper The bounding box is the key. The bounding box actually is the indicator you're talking about it just isn't a number because Medium resolution is analogue. I'm guessing you're talking about when you hit the resolution button but all that does is doubles the mass you already have and it's a really rough way to get detail if you ask me.
Look at it this way, if you were to shrink one of stamps down as small as you could and still spit clay, you'd call that res level 1 and (because it uses so few voxels) you could probably bang the res button a dozen or more times before it would be maxed. So your res indicator would read 12, right? However if you scaled the stamp up as big as it can go and blasted that down, you'd still be at level one but you'd be lucky to make it to level 4 before you'd maxed out the layer. Both sculpts would be around the exact same shape, size and volume at this point but one would be l4 and the other l12. So the resolution level you're talking about wouldn't tell you anything other than a counter of how many times you'd pressed the button.
When I'm starting a new sculpt or adding a new layer, I'll almost always shrink the bounds box down by hand to whatever resolution I want to start working at, depending on the sculpt. Would that be level 1, regardless of how hires I'd made it or would it maybe be 3.459 or 6.234?
Voxel counter would be awesome! I tend to run windows task manager in the background if I'm working on something big. If in doubt I can lift the rift off and have a look at the ram graph to see how much breathing space I have but having something in medium would save me the trouble.
Look at it this way, if you were to shrink one of stamps down as small as you could and still spit clay, you'd call that res level 1 and (because it uses so few voxels) you could probably bang the res button a dozen or more times before it would be maxed. So your res indicator would read 12, right? However if you scaled the stamp up as big as it can go and blasted that down, you'd still be at level one but you'd be lucky to make it to level 4 before you'd maxed out the layer. Both sculpts would be around the exact same shape, size and volume at this point but one would be l4 and the other l12. So the resolution level you're talking about wouldn't tell you anything other than a counter of how many times you'd pressed the button.
When I'm starting a new sculpt or adding a new layer, I'll almost always shrink the bounds box down by hand to whatever resolution I want to start working at, depending on the sculpt. Would that be level 1, regardless of how hires I'd made it or would it maybe be 3.459 or 6.234?
Voxel counter would be awesome! I tend to run windows task manager in the background if I'm working on something big. If in doubt I can lift the rift off and have a look at the ram graph to see how much breathing space I have but having something in medium would save me the trouble.