Effects Mode
Tools
Give the flecks in your sculptures and paintings some movement. Results can be combined with style and coat, and you can also combine effects, so experiment.
Note that effects work better when your flecks are looser, so if what you're seeing is too subtle try increasing looseness in style mode.
With each tool, you can carefully adjust one item at a time using the imp tip, or you can use the volume brush to capture a lot of stuff at once.
After selecting a tool, press and a wireframe shape will appear on your imp tip. Press to make it bigger and to make it smaller.
Now when you use that tool, anything inside the volume brush will be affected. This is great for making expressive changes to large scenes.
For example, if you want to make some parts of a scene move, using the volume brush to sweep throb over it will give you movement in some parts of the scene.
Give the flecks in your sculptures and paintings some movement. Results can be combined with style and coat, and you can also combine effects, so experiment.
Note that effects work better when your flecks are looser, so if what you're seeing is too subtle try increasing looseness in style mode.
With each tool, you can carefully adjust one item at a time using the imp tip, or you can use the volume brush to capture a lot of stuff at once.
After selecting a tool, press and hold on and twist away from A wireframe shape will appear. Twist away from to make it bigger and toward to make it smaller.
Now when you use that tool, anything inside the volume brush will be affected. This is great for making expressive changes to large scenes.
For example, if you want to make some parts of a scene move, using the volume brush to sweep throb over it will give you movement in some parts of the scene.
Undo
Mistakes happen. But you can learn from them. Sometimes you can even embrace them. If you don't want to, however, there's always undo.
Just press over the button and your last action will be undone. Press it again for the action before that. You can undo everything to the start of your session if needs be.
There's also a shortcut for this - just press to undo.
Mistakes happen. But you can learn from them. Sometimes you can even embrace them. If you don't want to, however, there's always undo.
Press on over the button and your last action will be undone. Press it again for the action before that. You can undo everything to the start of your session if needs be.
There's also a shortcut for this - just tilt or twist to the left and press to undo.
Redo
Decided you'd like to embrace that mistake after all? Just press over the button and the action you undid will be redone, as it were. You can redo everything you undo.
There's also a shortcut for this - just press to redo.
Decided you'd like to embrace that mistake after all? Press on over the button and the action you undid will be redone, as it were. You can redo everything you undo.
There's also a shortcut for this - just tilt or twist to the right and press to redo.
Boil
This effect will make your flecks look like they are bubbling away like the surface of boiling water. Select boil, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . If you press to switch to subtract and press and hold again you can slow it down.
This effect will make your flecks look like they are bubbling away like the surface of boiling water. Select boil, hover over a sculpture or painting and hold on
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . To reduce it, tap the top of on the bottom of to change to subtract and use on again.
To apply or remove it quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to apply as before.
The higher the rate, the more boil is applied or removed, and vice versa. You can then instantly apply it at that level to lots of stuff.
Flow
Use this and your flecks will flow like a river. Select flow, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . If you press to switch to subtract and press and hold again you can slow it down.
Use this and your flecks will flow like a river. Select flow, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold on
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . To reduce it, tap the top of on the bottom of to change to subtract and use on again.
To apply or remove it quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to apply as before.
The higher the rate, the more flow is applied or removed, and vice versa. You can then instantly apply it at that level to lots of stuff.
Wave
Use this and your flecks will flutter and sway like grass in the wind. Select wave, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . If you press to switch to subtract and press and hold again you can slow it down.
Use this and your flecks will flutter and sway like grass in the wind. Select wave, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold on
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . To reduce it, tap the top of on the bottom of to change to subtract and use on again.
To apply or remove it quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to apply as before.
The higher the rate, the more wave is applied or removed, and vice versa. You can then instantly apply it at that level to lots of stuff.
Evaporate
Use this and your flecks will soften, blur, and lift away from their origin just like steam. Select evaporate, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . If you press to switch to subtract and press and hold again you can slow it down.
Use this and your flecks will soften, blur, and lift away from their origin just like steam. Select evaporate, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold on
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . To reduce it, tap the top of on the bottom of to change to subtract and use on again.
To apply or remove it quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to apply as before.
The higher the rate, the more evaporate is applied or removed, and vice versa. You can then instantly apply it at that level to lots of stuff.
Throb
Use this and your flecks will throb in and out like a pulse. Select throb, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . If you press to switch to subtract and press and hold again you can slow it down.
Use this and your flecks will throb in and out like a pulse. Select throb, hover over a sculpture or painting and press and hold on
The effect becomes more pronounced as you hold . To reduce it, tap the top of on the bottom of to change to subtract and use on again.
To apply or remove it quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to apply as before.
The higher the rate, the more throb is applied or removed, and vice versa. You can then instantly apply it at that level to lots of stuff.
Revert
When you're finessing a piece of art, undo can be a bit of a blunt instrument. You may not want to completely undo what you've done, but just dial it back a bit.
Revert lets you do that. Select it, hover over the thing you went a bit OTT on, and press (or press and hold) till you're happy.
When you're finessing a piece of art, undo can be a bit of a blunt instrument. You may not want to completely undo what you've done, but just dial it back a bit.
Revert lets you do that. Select it, hover over the thing you went a bit OTT on, and press (or press and hold) on till you're happy.
To revert quickly to the level you want, so you can apply the same setting to lots of objects, you can use rate. It's a bit like adjusting the flow on an airbrush.
Hold on and twist to bring up the rate dial. Keep holding and twist counter-clockwise or clockwise to turn it up or down. Then use on to revert as before.
The higher the rate, the quicker revert will happen and vice versa. You can then instantly revert to the same level on lots of stuff.
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